Executed military leaders

Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi was a Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his overthrow by Libyan rebel forces in 2011 during the First Libyan Civil War. He came to power through a bloodless military coup, first becoming Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977, Secretary General of the General People's Congress from 1977 to 1979, and then the Brotherly Leader of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1979 to 2011. Initially ideologically committed to Arab nationalism and Arab socialism, Gaddafi later ruled according to his own Third International Theory.

Japanese general and politician (1884–1948)

German field marshal (1882–1946)

Russian admiral and military leader of the White movement (1874-1920)

prime minister of Romania during World War II, executed for war crimes (1882–1946)

German general and convicted war criminal (1890–1946)

German chancellor (1882-1934)

Austrian SS official, a major perpetrator of the Holocaust and convicted war criminal (1903-1946)

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1893—1937)

French general (born 1769–1815)

German admiral, head of military intelligence service (1887–1945)

Russian lieutenant general (1901–1946)

Japanese general and war criminal (1885–1946)

German field marshal (1881–1944)

German general (1880–1944)

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1883-1939)

Iraqi politician and military commander (1941–2010)

Italian General (1866-1944)

German general (1888–1944)

German lieutenant general in the Waffen-SS (1906–1945)

German general (1886–1944)

Yugoslav general (1893-1946)

Russian Tsarist general of Baltic German descent (1854-1918)

President of Federal Republic of Central America (1830-1839)

Austrian Air Force commander and German general (1885–1947)

German general (1888–1945)

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1890–1950)

Nobleman

Leader of the Hasmonean dynasty from 161 to 143 BCE

German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator (1907–1951)

Song dynasty general, killed by royal decree from the Emperor Gaozong of Song (1103–1142)

English general, admiral, and politician (1504-1553)

German general (1887–1945)

Soviet general

soldier and former military head of state of Ghana (1931-1979)

German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator, convicted war criminal (1894–1951)

Japanese general (1878–1948)

brother of English queen Jane Seymour (1508–1549)

Japanese general (1887–1946)

Japanese general (1885-1948)

Hungarian military officer (1883–1947)

Carthaginian military commander in 1st Punic War

Iraqi Mukhabarat leader (1951-2007)

Croatian soldier and politician (1878–1947)

German general (1886–1944)

Japanese general (1883–1948)

German general (1891–1945)

South Korean military officer (1926-1980)

Polish-Russian-German SS-Brigadeführer (1899-1944)

1st Earl of Strafford, English earl and politician (1593–1641)

Soviet general (1900–1941)

German general and resistance fighter (1886–1944)

Soviet lieutenant general, former officer of the Russian Imperial Army, Hero of the Soviet Union (1880–1945)

Polish general and war hero (1826-1864)

Belarusian-Polish general

Cuban general (1930-1989)

Czechoslovak general and politician (1890-1942)

German SS general, SD member, Einsatzgruppe B chief and convicted war criminal (1905–1951)

Royal Navy officer, shot for failure in combat (1704-1757)

German general (1901–1947)