List of people who were beheaded

The following is a list of notable people who were beheaded, arranged alphabetically by country or region and with date of decapitation. Special sections on "Religious figures" and "Fictional characters" are also appended.

These individuals may have lost their heads either accidentally or intentionally (as a form of execution or posthumously).

Salome and the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, by Titian
The Beheading of Saint Paul. Painting by Enrique Simonet in 1887

Australia

Austria

Brazil

Canada

China

Chile

Denmark

England

For English beheadings after 1707, see § Great Britain.
The heads of famous English traitors were customarily spiked on London Bridge
Piers Gaveston at the feet of the Earl of Warwick, 1312
Execution of Hugh Despenser the younger, 1326
The execution of Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset at Tewkesbury, 1471
Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, 1587
Raleigh just before being beheaded in 1618– an illustration from c. 1860
This contemporary German print depicts Charles I's decapitation in 1649.
Execution of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth by Jack Ketch on Tower Hill, 15 July 1685 (O.S), in a popular print.

European New World colonies

Blackbeard's severed head hanging from Maynard's bowsprit
Execution of Diego de Almagro

British North America

Panama

Haiti

Brazil

Mexico

Bolivia

Peru

Finland

France

Ancien Régime

French Revolution

Note: some estimates place the number of persons executed by the guillotine, particularly during the Reign of Terror (1793–1794), at 40,000.

The execution of Robespierre

French First Republic

Restoration

French Republic

Georgia

Germany

Pre-20th century

Execution of Pirates in Hamburg, 1573

Weimar Republic

Nazi Germany

Jeremiah Brandreth's head, 1817

Great Britain

For beheadings before the Union of 1707, see § England, § Scotland, and § Wales.

Hungary

India

Indonesia

Iraq

Ancient Mesopotamia

Caliphate

Modern

Ireland

Italy

The Execution of Marino Faliero, Eugène Delacroix, 1827.

Ancient Rome

Medieval Italy

Later Italy

Giovanni Battista Bugatti, executioner of the Papal States between 1796 and 1865, carried out 516 executions

Japan

Head of Kim Okgyun, 1894

Home islands

Sergeant Siffleet's execution at Aitape, 1943

Japanese-occupied territories (20th century)

Korea

Netherlands/Belgium

Beheading of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt

Ottoman Empire

Pakistan

Raja Dahir (712) – executed on command of Muhammad bin Qasim after Dahir's empire was defeated.
Daniel Pearl (2002) – American journalist killed by terrorists

Palestine

Papua New Guinea

Philippines

Poland

Romania

Russia

Saudi Arabia

Scotland

For Scottish beheadings after 1707, see § Great Britain.
The Scottish Maiden on display at the Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

South Africa

Spain

Sri Lanka

Sweden

Execution of Anna Månsdotter. The executioner Dalman stands to the far left, hiding his axe behind his back.

Syria

Switzerland

Execution of Greifensee garrison

United States

For beheadings before 1776, see § European New World colonies.

Vietnam

Execution of Pierre Dumoulin-Borie

Wales

For Welsh beheadings after 1707, see § Great Britain.

Religious figures

Biblical figures

Judith Beheading Holofernes (Caravaggio)

Catholic saints

The martyrdom of Saints Cosmas and Damian by Fra Angelico (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
The martyrdom of St Nicasius

Greek mythology

Sikh

Fictional characters

See also

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