Deaths by beating in Europe

Hungarian physician, early pioneer of antiseptic procedures (1818–1865)

Christian saint and martyr (256–288)

Holy Roman Emperor from 1209 to 1218

Soviet marshal (1889–1938)

Polish Catholic priest, martyr, blessed (1947–1984)

French actress (1962–2003)

Hungarian literary scholar and writer (1901–1945)

Croatian war criminal; Ustaše official who headed the system of concentration camps in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during much of World War II (1913-1969)

Macedonian revolutionary (1897–1934)

unsolved triple murder in Finland in 1960

Polish Jesuit, saint of the Catholic Church

Serbian mathematician (1907–1993)

Ukrainian footballer (1959–2017)

German boxer (1907-1943)

16th century Russian tsarevich

German actor (1926–1990)

Estonian communist and writer (1884-1937)

Italian journalist and politician (1882-1926)

Yugoslav actor, beating victim (1966-1993)

German murder victim (1860-1923)

Soviet film actor (1949-1985)

Medieval bog body found in Sweden

Greek MP (1912-1963)

3rd-century saint of the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church

Serbian murder victim

Belarusian artist killed during protests in Belarus (2020) by supporters of Alexander Lukashenko

Austrian writer, songwriter and librettist (1883-1942)

Italian Catholic priest (1912–1946)

Ustaše war crime during World War II

French saint

Greek LGBT activist

2021 murder

Albanian political activist (1899-1944)

Hungarian football player (1965–2002)

three bog bodies found in the Borremose peat bog in Himmerland, Denmark

Polish writer (1964–1983)

Polish actor (1927-1977)

Russian journalist (1959-2000)

Murder of French and German Consuls at Salonika

murdered spammer (1969-2005)

Olympius (died 410/411) was a minister of the Western Roman Empire, in the court of the emperor Honorius (reigned 393–423). Olympius orchestrated the fall and execution of the capable general Stilicho, who had effectively been ruling the Western Roman Empire as regent of Honorius for over twelve years.

Latvian draughts player (1942–1976)

German manager, who was killed in a fight (1959-2009)

Russian journalist (1943–2017)

French writer (1892-1944)

February 2026 death in France

2013 incident in Paris

Czech scientist (1876–1942)

Russian dissident/father/prisoner executed in 2022

French chess player (1958-1995)

actor (1949-2001)

English Quaker, mystic, writer, religious dissenter

Dutch Jewish art collector, murdered in the Holocaust (1886-1944)

Polish Roman Catholic saint (1908–1942)

Dutch criminal (1898-1941)

Estonian athletics competitor (1964-1998)