Leaders that caused the Most Deaths

Can you name these leaders, who during their reigns, directly or indirectly caused the deaths of at least 500k people?

Parties of people are counted separately and so are families.

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# of Deaths	Region	Time Period	Answer
65,000,000	China, Bactria, Central Asia, Turkestan	1206-1228	Genghis Khan
42,672,000	Soviet Union, Finland, Mongolia, Eastern Europe	1922-1953	Josef Stalin
34,244,583	China	1923-1976	Mao Zedong
~30,000,000	East Asia, Bengal, Oceania, Southeast Asia,	1937-1945	Hirohito
28,000,000	Persia, Turkey, India, Central Asia	1370-1405	Timur / Tamerlane
~25,000,000	China, Central Asia, Middle East, Pakistan	1264-1294	Kublai Khan
20,000,000	China	1850-1864	Hong Xiuquan
18,564,944	German-Occupied Europe	1934-1945	Adolf Hitler
10,511,124	China, Taiwan	1928-1946	Chiang Kai-Shek
6,244,998	Congo Free State	1885-1908	Leopold II
3,400,000	Cambodia	1975-1979	Pol Pot
3,390,697	Russia	1917-1922	Vladimir Lenin
3,047,000	Armenia, Assyria, Greece, Rumelia	1913-1919	Sultan Mehmed
2,500,000	Madagascar, East Africa	1829-1842	Ranavalona I
1,639,936	Sudan, South Sudan	1989-2019	Omar al-Bashir
1,100,000	Indonesia	1965-1998	Suharto
~1,055,000	Rwanda	1994	Théoneste Bagosora
~800,000	Vietnam, Laos	1954-1969	Ho Chi Minh
670,820	Ethiopia	1977-1987	Mengistu Haile Mariam
632,456	Iraq	1979-2003	Saddam Hussein
~500,000	Italy, Balkans, Libya, Ethiopia, Greece	1922-1944	Benito Mussolini

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May 14, 2023

Very cool quiz! :)

Should have gotten Timur though :|

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