State-by-State death tolls: Louisiana 896, Mississippi 220, Florida 14, Alabama 2, Georgia 2, Tennessee 1.

State-by-State death tolls: Louisiana 1, 577, Mississippi 238, Florida 14, Alabama 2, Georgia 2, Tennessee 1, Kentucky 1.

* Petroleum Marketing Surveys-Section 507 of Part A of Title V of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 broadly directs EIA to collect information on the pricing, supply, and distribution of petroleum products by product category at the wholesale and retail levels, on a State-by-State basis, which was collected as of September 1, 1981, by the Energy Information Administration.

A wide range of death tolls has been suggested, from as many as 60 million suggested by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to as few as 700, 000 by Soviet news sources.

Among the points of contention are whether the victims of massacres such as the Račak massacre and Srebrenica massacre were unarmed civilians or armed resistance fighters, whether death and rape tolls were inflated, and whether prison camps such as Sremska Mitrovica camp were sites of mass war crimes.

Below is a list of the deadliest floods worldwide, showing events with death tolls at or above 100, 000 individuals.

These famines cause widespread malnutrition and impoverishment ; The famine in Ethiopia in the 1980s had an immense death toll, although Asian famines of the 20th century have also produced extensive death tolls.

Japanese ultra-nationalists have strongly disputed such death tolls, with some stating that only several hundred civilians were killed during the massacre.

:" No man is an Island, intire of it selfe ; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine ; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were ; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde ; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls ; It tolls for thee.

Irving went on to assert that the " ship " was due for rough sailing because recently the Soviet government had allowed historians access to " the index cards of all the people who passed through the gates of Auschwitz ", and claimed that this would lead to " a lot of people are not claiming to be Auschwitz survivors anymore " ( Irving's statement about the index cards was incorrect ; what the Soviet government had made available in 1990 were the death books of Auschwitz, recording the weekly death tolls ).

He planned to reinstate the death penalty, stagger highway tolls to improve traffic flow, and limit road work to night hours.

Other reported death tolls from the 24-year occupation range from 60, 000 to 200, 000.

The first of these reports gives death tolls at the mine, the school and the three villages which together total 2, 287.

Knowing features Nicolas Cage as a teacher who discovers a set of numbers that are actually the dates, death tolls and locations of disaster events both in the past and the future, while 2012, based on the supposed doomsday prediction by the Mayans, sees various disasters bring the world to an end.

The Koshi is known as the Sorrow of Bihar for contributing disproportionately to India's death tolls in flooding, which exceed those of all countries except Bangladesh.

The bombing of Dresden and the even more severe one of Tokyo by incendiary devices resulted in death tolls comparable to or exceeding those of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

In August 1942, the Allies began deciphering death tolls transmitted from the camps, Niederhagen had reported 21 deaths for that month.

It is widely believed that the government seriously under-reported death tolls: Lu Baoguo, a Xinhua reporter in Xinyang, told Yang Jisheng of why he never reported on his experience:

For example, he rarely acknowledges the mistakes he made in predicting material shortages, massive death tolls from starvation ( up to one billion in Age of Affluence ) or regarding the collapse of specific countries.

The event has since become known as the " Telavåg tragedy ", and is sometimes compared to similar World War II atrocities, such as the Lidice massacre, with higher death tolls.

On 18 February 65 Maoists are reported to have been killed, though this conflicts with other reported death tolls of 35 and 48.

Since then, however, there has been a violent conflict in Darfur that has resulted in death tolls between 200, 000 and 400, 000.

The smallpox epidemics are believed to have resulted in the largest death tolls among Native Americans, surpassing any wars and far exceeding the mortality from the Black Death.

Constant lowering of tolls meant that the carriage of some bulky, non-perishable, and non-vital goods by water was still feasible on some inland waterways – but the death knell for commercial carrying on the narrow canals was sounded in the winter of 1962 – 1963, when a long hard frost kept goods icebound on the canals for three months.

Uneasy tensions and a long, grueling war have left the human colonists and Anouks with massive death tolls, and fights occasionally still break out between the two.

* Opprobrium ( band ), American death metal band from Louisiana originally known as Incubus

* 1973 – Mark Essex fatally shoots 10 people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.

In Kennedy v. Louisiana, 554 U. S. 407 ( 2008 ), the Court extended the reasoning of Coker by ruling that the death penalty was excessive for child rape " where the victim ’ s life was not taken.

* August 20 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery, whose purpose is to explore the Louisiana Purchase, suffers its only death when Sergeant Charles Floyd dies, apparently from acute appendicitis.

" Captain White's Company B, " Louisiana Tigers ", of Major Wheats's First Special Battalion, were not at Gettysburg, having been disbanded after Wheat's death at Gaines Mill in 1862.

It tells the story of an Italian-American widow in Louisiana who has allowed herself to withdraw from the world after her husband's death, and expects her daughter to do the same.

Blanchette settled there in 1769 under the authority of the Spanish governor of Upper Louisiana, and served as its civil and military leader until his death in 1793.

Among the political Seviers were Louisiana State Senator Andrew L. Sevier, who served from 1932 until his death in 1962, and State Representative Henry Clay " Happy " Sevier, Sr., whose tenure extended from 1932 to 1952.

Long's statewide public health programs dramatically reduced the death rate in Louisiana and provided free immunizations to nearly 70 percent of the population.

For several decades after his death, Long's personal political style inspired imitation among Louisiana politicians who borrowed his colorful speaking style, vicious verbal attacks on opponents, and promises of social programs.

Sue Eakin, Louisiana historian and former publisher of the Bunkie Record, resided in Bunkie for most of her life until her death in 2009 at the age of ninety.

Pinkie C. Wilkerson, an African American Democrat, represented Gibsland in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1992 until her death in an automobile accident in 2000.

* Claybrook Cottingham, president of Mount Lebanon University from 1905 – 1906 ; president of Louisiana College from 1910 – 1941, and president of Louisiana Tech University from 1941 until his death in 1949, lived in Mount Lebanon from 1902-1906.

* Roy McArthur " Hoppy " Hopkins ( born 1943 ) served as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1988 until his death in office in 2006.

Rufus D. Hayes, the first Louisiana insurance commissioner was an East Baton Rouge Parish district attorney and judge who resided in Baker at the time of his death in 2002.

* Pinkie C. Wilkerson, African American member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Lincoln, Bienville, and Union parishes from 1992 until her death in a six-vehicle accident in Bossier City in 2000.

* Claybrook Cottingham, president of Louisiana College from 1910 – 1941, and Louisiana Tech president from 1941 until his death in 1949

Andrew Leonard Sevier, Sr. ( 1894 – 1962 ) was a member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1932 until his death in 1962.

From 1949 until his death in 1981, New Roads was the home of Emmitt Douglas, who served as president of the Louisiana NAACP from 1966-1981.

* Robert H. Snyder ( died 1906 ), state representative and Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1904 until his death.

It remained under his ownership till his death in 1992 when Louisiana State Newspaper purchased the Kaplan Herald from his estate.

Gleason, a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Webster Parish from 1952 until his death in 1959, graduated in 1918 from Cotton Valley High School.

Thompson of Doyline was a former president of the Webster Parish School Board who was elected without opposition to succeed James Bolin in the Louisiana House from 1944 until his death in office in 1951.