Deaths by live burial

early Christian martyr and saint

Prince of Wallachia

Prince of Wallachia

Castulus (died 286) is venerated as a martyr and saint. According to tradition, he was the chamberlain (or officer, valet) of Emperor Diocletian and the husband of Irene of Rome.

a series of mass executions carried out by Nazi German forces, during the Second World War, near the village of Palmiry, northwest of Warsaw.

daughter of Orchamus in Greek mythology

Chinese lieutenant general

1966–76 massacre in China during the Cultural Revolution

1986 Iranian offensive in the Iran–Iraq War

Chinese writer

6th-century Christian saint

Vietnamese politician (1885-1945)

Saint Edistus () (also known as Aristus, Orestes, Horestes) is venerated as a martyr and saint by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. His legend states that he was martyred on the Via Laurentina and his passio places his martyrdom during the reign of Nero, on October 12, 60 AD.

daughter of Tragasus in Greek mythology

mass extrajudicial killing of Rohingya Muslims in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar

igala princess

British model (1944-1972)

incident on 28 June 1950 in which the Korean People's Army killed approximately 700–900 people (doctors, nurses, inpatient civilians, wounded soldiers) at the Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul

1942 Nazi operation in Latvia

Albanian catholic priest

Greek Orthodox saint and bishop

nine-year-old American girl murdered in 2005

1980 during the Islamic uprising in Syria