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The deadliest hurricane on record, the Great Hurricane of 1780, killed over 27,000 people in the Caribbean.

The deadliest tropical cyclone in the world (generic word for hurricanes, typhoons, or similar storms) was the Bhola Cyclone of 1970 which struck Bangladesh with a death toll estimated at 300,000 to 500,000.

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