diff --git a/include/pybind11/pybind11.h b/include/pybind11/pybind11.h
index b4aab51a7c..af8e730d3f 100644
--- a/include/pybind11/pybind11.h
+++ b/include/pybind11/pybind11.h
@@ -12,29 +12,19 @@
 
 #if defined(__INTEL_COMPILER)
 #  pragma warning push
-#  pragma warning disable 68    // integer conversion resulted in a change of sign
-#  pragma warning disable 186   // pointless comparison of unsigned integer with zero
 #  pragma warning disable 878   // incompatible exception specifications
-#  pragma warning disable 1334  // the "template" keyword used for syntactic disambiguation may only be used within a template
-#  pragma warning disable 1682  // implicit conversion of a 64-bit integral type to a smaller integral type (potential portability problem)
-#  pragma warning disable 1786  // function "strdup" was declared deprecated
-#  pragma warning disable 1875  // offsetof applied to non-POD (Plain Old Data) types is nonstandard
 #  pragma warning disable 2196  // warning #2196: routine is both "inline" and "noinline"
 #elif defined(_MSC_VER)
 #  pragma warning(push)
 #  pragma warning(disable: 4100) // warning C4100: Unreferenced formal parameter
 #  pragma warning(disable: 4127) // warning C4127: Conditional expression is constant
-#  pragma warning(disable: 4512) // warning C4512: Assignment operator was implicitly defined as deleted
 #  pragma warning(disable: 4800) // warning C4800: 'int': forcing value to bool 'true' or 'false' (performance warning)
 #  pragma warning(disable: 4996) // warning C4996: The POSIX name for this item is deprecated. Instead, use the ISO C and C++ conformant name
-#  pragma warning(disable: 4702) // warning C4702: unreachable code
 #  pragma warning(disable: 4522) // warning C4522: multiple assignment operators specified
 #  pragma warning(disable: 4505) // warning C4505: 'PySlice_GetIndicesEx': unreferenced local function has been removed (PyPy only)
 #elif defined(__GNUG__) && !defined(__clang__)
 #  pragma GCC diagnostic push
 #  pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wunused-but-set-parameter"
-#  pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wunused-but-set-variable"
-#  pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wmissing-field-initializers"
 #  pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wattributes"
 #  if __GNUC__ >= 7
 #    pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wnoexcept-type"