- Ethiopia’s last emperor, Haile Selassie, was buried in an unmarked grave after his overthrow. His remains were found in 1992 under a toilet in the Imperial Palace
- The corpse of the Philippines’ authoritarian former President Ferdinand Marcos lies in a refrigerated mausoleum while his family campaign for a state funeral
- The Romanovs – the family of Russian TsarNicolas II – were shot dead and buried in a forest pit by the Bolsheviks after the October 1917 revolution. In 1998, the remains were reburied at St Petersburg cathedral
- Chile’s former leader Augusto Pinochet was given a military funeral in 2006 but then cremated as his family did not want a grave or memorial to become a focal point for protest – thousands died or disappeared during his 17-year-rule
