The following is a list of heads of state and government who died at a young age.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1945)
- Benito Mussolini (1945)
- Adolf Hitler (1945)
- Joseph Goebbels (1945)
- John Curtin (1945)
- Juan Antonio Ríos (1946)
- Ramon Magsaysay (1957)
- S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1959)
- Ngo Dinh Diem (1963)
- John F. Kennedy (1963)
- Vazgen Sargsyan (1999)
- Laurent-Désiré Kabila (2001)
- Zoran Đinđić (2003)
- Boris Trajkovski (2004)
- Zurab Zhvania (2005)
- Lech Kaczyński (2010)
- Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (2010)
- Hugo Chávez (2013)
- Alexander Zakharchenko (2018)
- Trần Đại Quang (2018)
- Pierre Nkurunziza (2020)
- Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini (2020)
- Hamed Bakayoko (2021)
- John Magufuli (2021)
- Jovenel Moïse (2021)
- Bujar Nishani (2022)
- Antoni Martí (2023)
- Ebrahim Raisi (2024)