I went cherry picking on this impressive site and it appears that we guilty Americans need to build several more memorial museums. The totals for China and Russia/Soviet Union are incredible, what sorrow and loss. Some figures are war related, most are not.
- India and China famines pre-1900, hundreds of millions
- Ireland 1846–1851 1 million famine
- China 1907 25 million famine
- Russia 1921-1922 5 million famine
- China 1928-1930 3 million famine
- China 1931 3 million+ flood
- Ukraine 1932-1933 8 million+ Soviet Union Holomodor famine
- China 1936 5 million famine
- China 1942-1943 3 million drought
- Soviet Union 1941-1945 14 million Nazi Germany Hunger Plan famine
- Soviet Union 1941-1945 3.3 million+ POWs Nazi Germany (out of ~5.7 million, 57%) 2.8 million in 6 months
- Soviet Union 1941-1945 9 million+ Russia and East European countries
- China 1958-1961 45 million+ starved and killed
- Bengal 1943 2 million+ caused by Great Britan using Bataan, Singapore orders famine
- Vietnam 1945 2 million+ Japan
- Cambodia 1975-1979 2.5 million
- Rwanda 1994 1 million Tutsi killed by Hutu
Mister White has a refreshing set of information and opinions in his site, such as the most under-rated events.