The following people died by suicide. This includes suicides effected under duress and excludes deaths by accident or misadventure. People who might or might not have died by their own hand, or whose intention to die is in dispute, but who are widely believed to have deliberately killed themselves, may be listed under "possible suicides".

Confirmed suicides

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Salvador Allende (1970) (cropped & edited)

* Chris Acland (1996), English drummer for the band Lush, hanging *

Art Acord Arthemus Ward "Art" Acord (April 17, 1890 – January 4, 1931) was an American silent film actor and rodeo champion. After his film career ended in 1929, Acord worked in rodeo road shows and as a miner in Mexico. Early life and career Acord ...

(1931), American actor and rodeo champion, ingestion of poison *

Manuel Acuña Manuel Acuña Navarro (27 August 1849 – 6 December 1873) was a 19th-century Mexican writer. He focused on poetry but also wrote some novels and plays. He committed suicide at age 24. It is not certain why he killed himself, but it is thought tha ...

(1873), Mexican poet, ingestion of potassium cyanide * George Washington Adams (1829), American politician, lawyer, and eldest son of

John Quincy Adams John Quincy Adams (; July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the sixth president of the United States, from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the eighth United States ...

, drowning in Long Island Sound *

Marian Hooper Adams Marian "Clover" Hooper Adams (September 13, 1843 – December 6, 1885) was an American socialite, active society hostess, arbiter of Washington, DC, and an accomplished amateur photographer. Clover, who has been cited as the inspiration for w ...

(1885), American socialite and photographer, potassium cyanide *

Phillip Adams Phillip Adams, Philip Adams, or Phil Adams may refer to: Sports * Phillip Adams (American football) (1988–2021), American football cornerback * Phillip Adams (sport shooter) (born 1945), Australian pistol shooter * Phil Adams (cricketer) (born 1 ...

(2021), American football player, gunshot * Robert Adams Jr. (1906), Congressman from Pennsylvania, gunshot * Stanley Adams (1977), American actor and screenwriter, gunshot wound. *

Stephanie Adams Stephanie Adams (July 24, 1970 – May 18, 2018) was an American model and author. She was ''Playboy'' Playmate of the Month for November 1992. On May 18, 2018, Adams killed herself and her seven-year-old son in a murder-suicide. Accordi ...

(2018), American former glamour model, known as the November 1992 ''Playboy'' Playmate, jump from a 25th floor window after having murdered her 7-year-old son Vincent by pushing him out first *

Stuart Adamson William Stuart Adamson (11 April 1958 – 16 December 2001) was a Scottish rock guitarist and singer. Adamson began his career in the late 1970s as a founding member and performer with the punk rock band Skids. After leaving Skids in 1981, he ...

(2001), Scottish guitarist and singer for

Big Country Big Country are a Scottish rock band formed in Dunfermline, Fife, in 1981. The height of the band's popularity was in the early to mid 1980s, although it has retained a cult following for many years since. The band's music incorporated Scott ...

and Skids, hanging after alcohol ingestion * Adrastus (c. 550s BC), exiled son of

Gordias Gordias ( grc, Γορδίας, ''Gordías''; also Γόρδιος, ''Górdios'', "Gordius") was the name of at least two members of the royal house of Phrygia. The best-known Gordias was reputedly the founder of the Phrygian capital city Gordium, ...

, king of Phrygia * Vibulenus Agrippa (36 AD), Roman

equestrian The word equestrian is a reference to equestrianism, or horseback riding, derived from Latin ' and ', "horse". Horseback riding (or Riding in British English) Examples of this are: * Equestrian sports *Equestrian order, one of the upper classes i ...

, poison * Ahn Jae-hwan (2008), South Korean actor,

carbon monoxide poisoning Carbon monoxide poisoning typically occurs from breathing in carbon monoxide (CO) at excessive levels. Symptoms are often described as " flu-like" and commonly include headache, dizziness, weakness, vomiting, chest pain, and confusion. Large ...

* Aizong of Jin (1234), Chinese emperor of the Jin dynasty * Chantal Akerman (2015), Belgian film director *

Sergey Akhromeyev Sergey Fyodorovich Akhromeyev (russian: Серге́й Фёдорович Ахроме́ев; May 5, 1923 – August 24, 1991) was a Soviet military figure, Hero of the Soviet Union (1982) and Marshal of the Soviet Union (1983). When he was ...

(1991), Marshal of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

, hanging * Stephen Akinmurele (1999), British suspected serial killer, hanging *

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , art name , was a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan. He is regarded as the "father of the Japanese short story", and Japan's premier literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, is named after him. He committed suicide at the age of ...

(1927), Japanese writer, overdose of

barbital Barbital (or barbitone), marketed under the brand names Veronal for the pure acid and Medinal for the sodium salt, was the first commercially available barbiturate. It was used as a sleeping aid (hypnotic) from 1903 until the mid-1950s. The chemic ...

Marwan al-Shehhi Marwan Yousef Mohamed Rashid Lekrab al-Shehhi ( ar, مروان يوسف محمد رشيد لكراب الشحي, , also transliterated as Alshehhi; 9 May 1978 – 11 September 2001) was an Emirati al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist who served a ...

(2001), United Arab Emirates member of Al-Qaeda and one of the 9/11 hijackers,

plane crash An aviation accident is defined by the Convention on International Civil Aviation Annex 13 as an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place from the time any person boards the aircraft with the ''intention of fl ...

United Airlines Flight 175 United Airlines Flight 175 was a domestic passenger flight that was hijacked by five al-Qaeda terrorists on September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks. The flight's scheduled plan was from Logan International Airport, in Boston, ...

."Names of hijackers"
'' St. Petersburg Times''. September 15, 2001 *

Alcetas Alcetas ( Greek Ἀλκέτας; died 320 BC), was the brother of Perdiccas and the son of Orontes from Orestis. He is first mentioned as one of Alexander the Great's generals in his Indian expedition. On the death of Alexander, Alcetas was a ...

(320 BC), Hellenic general of

Alexander the Great Alexander III of Macedon ( grc, Ἀλέξανδρος, Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He succeeded his father Philip II to ...

* Leelah Alcorn (2014), American transgender teenager, walked in front of a truck * Leandro Alem (1896), Argentine politician, founder of the ''Radical Civic Union'', gunshot to the head *

Alexander Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...

(220 BC),

Seleucid The Seleucid Empire (; grc, Βασιλεία τῶν Σελευκιδῶν, ''Basileía tōn Seleukidōn'') was a Greek state in West Asia that existed during the Hellenistic period from 312 BC to 63 BC. The Seleucid Empire was founded by the ...

satrap of

Persis Persis ( grc-gre, , ''Persís''), better known in English as Persia ( Old Persian: 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿, ''Parsa''; fa, پارس, ''Pârs''), or Persia proper, is the Fars region, located to the southwest of modern-day Iran, now a province. T ...

.Polybius, ''Histories''
"Defeat and Death of Molon"
Perseus Digital Library,

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...

. Retrieved September 1, 2018. * Ross Alexander (1937), American actor, gunshot to the head *

Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya Ekaterina Dmitriyevna Alexandrovskaya (russian: Екатери́на Дми́триевна Алекса́ндровская; 1January 200018July 2020) was a Russian-Australian pair skater. With her skating partner, Harley Windsor, she was th ...

(2020), Russian-Australian ice skater, jumped from window of her apartment * Ghazaleh Alizadeh (1996), Iranian poet and writer, hanging *

Gia Allemand Gia Marie Allemand (December 20, 1983 – August 14, 2013) was an American actress, model, and reality television contestant. She was known for appearing in ''Maxim'' and competing on two ABC reality shows '' The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love'' ...

(2013), American actress and model, hanging *

Salvador Allende Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (, , ; 26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean physician and socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile from 3 November 1970 until his death on 11 September 1973. He was the fir ...

(1973), 28th president of Chile,

gunshot A gunshot is a single discharge of a gun, typically a man-portable firearm, producing a visible flash, a powerful and loud shockwave and often chemical gunshot residue. The term can also refer to a ballistic wound caused by such a discharg ...

* Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1932), wife of

Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretar ...

, gunshot *

Jeff Alm Jeffrey Lawrence Alm (March 31, 1968 – December 14, 1993) was an American football defensive tackle for the Houston Oilers of the National Football League (NFL). He played four seasons with the Oilers until his suicide in 1993. Alm played co ...

(1993), American football player, gunshot *

Jason Altom Jason Altom (6 October 1971 – 15 August 1998) was an American PhD student working in the research group of Nobel laureate Elias James Corey at Harvard University. He killed himself by taking potassium cyanide in 1998, citing in his suicide note ...

(1998), American Ph.D. student, potassium cyanide *

August Ames August Ames (born Mercedes Grabowski; 23 August 1994 – 5 December 2017) was a Canadian pornographic actress. She appeared in more than 100 films, including a non-pornographic film in 2016, and was nominated for several AVN Awards. In 2017, at ...

(2017), Canadian pornographic actress, hanging * Jean Améry (1978), Austrian writer, overdose of sleeping pills * Amphicrates of Athens (86 BC), Greek sophist and rhetorician, starved himself *

Korechika Anami was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II who was War Minister during the surrender of Japan. Early life and career Anami was born in Taketa city in Ōita Prefecture, where his father was a senior bureaucrat in the Home M ...

(1945), Japanese War Minister, stabbed himself as part of ritual seppuku disembowelment *

Adna Anderson General Adna Anderson (July 25, 1827 – May 15, 1889) was chief engineer of the Northern Pacific Railroad from 1880 to 1888. He first worked in railways in 1847, and worked his way up through various railways, leading to being an assistant engin ...

(1889), General, U.S. Military Railroads during the

American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states ...

, railroad civil engineer/manager, gunshot * Forrest Howard Anderson (1989), Governor of Montana, gunshot * Mary A. Anderson (1996), unidentified woman using an alias, cyanide poisoning *

Keith Andes Keith Andes (born John Charles Andes, July 12, 1920 – November 11, 2005) was an American film, radio, musical theater, stage and television actor. Early life The son of Mr. and Mrs. William G. Andes, Andes was born in Ocean City, New Jersey ...

(2005), American actor, asphyxiation * Andragathius (388 AD), Roman general and Magister equitum who assassinated emperor

Gratian Gratian (; la, Gratianus; 18 April 359 – 25 August 383) was emperor of the Western Roman Empire from 367 to 383. The eldest son of Valentinian I, Gratian accompanied his father on several campaigns along the Rhine and Danube frontiers and w ...

, drowned in the sea * Andromachus (364 BC).

Eleia Elis () or Eleia ( el, Ήλιδα, Ilida, grc-att, Ἦλις, Ēlis ; Elean: , ethnonym: ) is an ancient district in Greece that corresponds to the modern regional unit of Elis. Elis is in southern Greece on the Peloponnese, bounded on th ...

n cavalry general *

Roger Angleton Doris Elizabeth Angleton ('' née'' McGown; (also Beck) April 11, 1951 – April 16, 1997) was an American socialite and murder victim. Her husband, Robert Angleton, had been accused of planning the crime. His brother, Roger Nicholas Angleton, ...

(1998), American murderer, cut himself over 50 times with a razor * Publius Rufus Anteius (67 AD), Roman politician, drank poison and cut his veins *

Mark Antony Marcus Antonius (14 January 1 August 30 BC), commonly known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman politician and general who played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic from a constitutional republic into the au ...

(30 BC), Roman politician and general, stabbed with sword. * Kei Aoyama (2011), Japanese manga artist, hanging *

Marcus Gavius Apicius Marcus Gavius Apicius is believed to have been a Roman gourmet and lover of luxury, who lived sometime in the 1st century AD, during the reign of Tiberius. The Roman cookbook ''Apicius'' is often attributed to him, though it is impossible to prov ...

(before 40 AD), Roman socialite, gourmet and man of great wealth, poison *

Marshall Applewhite Marshall Herff Applewhite Jr. (May 17, 1931 – March 26, 1997), also known as Do, among other names, was an American cult leader who founded what became known as the Heaven's Gate cult group and organized their mass suicide in 1997 ...

(1997), American leader of the Heaven's Gate religious cult, poisoned himself as part of the cult's mass suicide that year * Araki Yukio (1945), Japanese

kamikaze , officially , were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who flew suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, intending t ...

pilot * Arbogast (394 AD), Roman general *

Diane Arbus Diane Arbus (; née Nemerov; March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971
" The New York ...

(1971), American photographer, overdosed on pills and slashed wrists * Archias of Cyprus (between 158 and 154 BC), Ptolemaic governor of

Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is ge ...

, hanging *

Reinaldo Arenas Reinaldo Arenas (July 16, 1943 – December 7, 1990) was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright known as a vocal critic of Fidel Castro, the Cuban Revolution, and the Cuban government. His memoir of the Cuban dissident movement and of being a ...

(1990), Cuban-American artist and writer, drug and alcohol overdose *

José María Arguedas José María Arguedas Altamirano (18 January 1911 – 2 December 1969) was a Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist. Arguedas was an author of Spanish descent, fluent in the Native Quechua language, gained by living in two Quechua househ ...

(1969), Peruvian novelist and poet, gunshot *

Pedro Armendáriz Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings (May 9, 1912 – June 18, 1963) was a Mexican film actor who made films in both Mexico and the United States. With Dolores del Río and María Félix, he was one of the best-known Latin American movie stars ...

(1963), Mexican actor, gunshot * Edwin Armstrong (1954), American inventor of FM radio, jumped from a 13th floor window *

Arria Arria (also Arria Major) was a woman in ancient Rome. Her husband, Caecina Paetus, was ordered by the emperor Claudius to commit suicide for his part in a rebellion but was not capable of forcing himself to do so. Arria wrenched the dagger from ...

(42 AD), Roman wife of Caecina Paetus an alleged conspirator against Emperor Claudius, stabbed herself. Pliny the Younger (AD 97/107)
"Book 3: 16. To Nepos"
''Letters''. Translated by J.B. Firth. (1900). Attalus. Retrieved September 1, 2018. *

Sei Ashina , known professionally as , was a Japanese actress. Career She was born Igarashi Aya, and assumed the stage name Sei Ashina. Prior to her acting career, Ashina was a model. She made her acting debut in the 2002 Tokyo Broadcasting System Televisi ...

(2020) Japanese actress *

Ottilie Assing Ottilie Davida Assing (11 February 1819 – 21 August 1884) was a 19th-century German-American feminist, freethinker, and abolitionist. Early life and education Born in Hamburg, she was the eldest daughter of poet Rosa Maria Varnhagen, raised ...

(1884), German writer, journalist, feminist and

abolitionist Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery. In Western Europe and the Americas, abolitionism was a historic movement that sought to end the Atlantic slave trade and liberate the enslaved people. The British ...

, swallowing potassium cyanide * John Atchison (2007), American federal prosecutor and alleged child sex offender, hanging *

Mohamed Atta Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta ( ; ar, محمد محمد الأمير عوض السيد عطا ; September 1, 1968 – September 11, 2001) was an Egyptian hijacker and the ringleader of the September 11 attacks in 2001 in which f ...

(2001), Egyptian member of Al-Qaeda, and leader of the 9/11 hijackers, plane crash of

American Airlines Flight 11 American Airlines Flight 11 was a domestic passenger flight that was hijacked by five al-Qaeda terrorists on September 11, 2001 as part of the September 11 attacks. Lead hijacker Mohamed Atta deliberately crashed the plane into the North Towe ...

. * Pekka-Eric Auvinen (2007), Finnish Jokela High School shooter, gunshot to head *

Avicii Tim Bergling (; 8 September 1989 – 20 April 2018), known professionally as Avicii (, ), was a Swedish DJ, remixer and music producer. At the age of 16, Bergling began posting his remixes on electronic music forums, which led to his first re ...

(2018), Swedish DJ and music producer, self-inflicted cuts resulting in blood loss *

Mike Awesome Michael Lee Alfonso (January 24, 1965 – February 17, 2007) was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his appearances with the American professional wrestling promotions Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Championship Wrestl ...

(2007), American professional wrestler, hanging *

Marion Aye Marion Aye (April 5, 1903 – July 21, 1951) was an American actress of screen and stage who starred in several films during the 1920s, mostly comedies. She was sometimes credited as Maryon Aye. Early life Born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughte ...

(1951), American actress, ingestion of bi-chloride of mercury tablets *

May Ayim May Ayim (3 May 1960 in Hamburg – 9 August 1996 in Berlin) is the pen name of May Opitz (born Sylvia Andler); she was an Afro-German poet, educator, and activist. The child of a German student and Ghanaian medical student, she was adopted by a w ...

(1996), German author, jumped from 13th floor of a Berlin building *

Albert Ayler Albert Ayler (; July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer. After early experience playing R&B and bebop, Ayler began recording music during the free jazz era of the 1960s. Howev ...

(1970), American jazz saxophonist, jumped into New York City's East River

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Andreas Baader Berndt Andreas Baader (6 May 1943 – 18 October 1977) was one of the first leaders of the West German left-wing militant organization Red Army Faction (RAF), also commonly known as ''the Baader-Meinhof Group''. Life Andreas Baader was born i ...

(1977), German

RAF The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and ...

terrorist Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...

, gunshot. *

Nikki Bacharach Angeline Dickinson (née Brown; born September 30, 1931) is an American actress. She began her career on television, appearing in many anthology series during the 1950s, before gaining her breakthrough role in ''Gun the Man Down'' (1956) wit ...

(2007), American daughter of Burt Bacharach and

Angie Dickinson Angeline Dickinson (née Brown; born September 30, 1931) is an American actress. She began her career on television, appearing in many anthology series during the 1950s, before gaining her breakthrough role in ''Gun the Man Down'' (1956) wit ...

, suffocation using plastic bag and helium * Josef Bachmann (1970), German anti-communist, who made an assassination attempt on the German student movement-leader

Rudi Dutschke Alfred Willi Rudolf "Rudi" Dutschke (; 7 March 1940 – 24 December 1979) was a German sociologist and political activist who, until severely injured by an assassin in 1968, was a leading charismatic figure within the West German Socialist Stu ...

, asphyxiation with plastic bag *

Faith Bacon Faith Bacon (born Frances Yvonne Bacon; July 19, 1910 – September 26, 1956) was an American burlesque dancer and actress. During the height of her career, she was billed as "America's Most Beautiful Dancer". Personal life Bacon was ...

(1956), American burlesque dancer and actress, jumped from hotel window *

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ( ar, أبو بكر البغدادي, ʾAbū Bakr al-Baḡdādī; born Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali Muhammad al-Badri al-Samarrai ( ar, إبراهيم عواد إبراهيم علي محمد البدري السامرائي, ʾIb ...

(2019), Iraqi-born Islamic terrorist and leader of the

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant An Islamic state is a state that has a form of government based on Islamic law (sharia). As a term, it has been used to describe various historical polities and theories of governance in the Islamic world. As a translation of the Arabic term ...

, detonation of a

suicide vest Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Mental disorders (including depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, anxiety disorders), physical disorders (such as chronic fatigue syndrome), and subs ...

Bai Qi Bai Qi (; – 257 BC), also known as Gongsun Qi (), was a Chinese military general of the Qin state during the Warring States period. Born in Mei (present-day Mei County, Shaanxi), Bai Qi served as the commander of the Qin army for more than 3 ...

(257 BC), Chinese general and commander of the

Qin Qin may refer to: Dynasties and states * Qin (state) (秦), a major state during the Zhou Dynasty of ancient China * Qin dynasty (秦), founded by the Qin state in 221 BC and ended in 206 BC * Daqin (大秦), ancient Chinese name for the Roman Emp ...

army, cut his throat with a sword *

David Bairstow David Leslie Bairstow (1 September 1951 – 5 January 1998) was an English cricketer, who played for Yorkshire and England as a wicket-keeper. He also played football for his hometown club Bradford City. He is the father of England internation ...

(1998), English cricketer, hanging * James Robert Baker (1997), American writer, asphyxiation *

Mark Balelo ''Storage Wars'' (stylized as ''STORAGE WAR$'') is an American reality television competition series that airs on A&E (TV channel), A&E. It initially aired for 12 seasons, from December 1, 2010, to January 30, 2019. A 13th season premiered in ...

(2013), American cast member on the reality TV series '' Storage Wars'', carbon monoxide asphyxiation *

Joe Ball Joseph Douglas Ball (January 7, 1896 – September 24, 1938) was an American murderer and suspected serial killer, sometimes referred to as the "Alligator Man", the "Butcher of Elmendorf" and the "Bluebeard of South Texas". He is known to have ...

(1938), American serial killer, gunshot *

José Manuel Balmaceda José Manuel Emiliano Balmaceda Fernández (; July 19, 1840 – September 19, 1891) served as the 10th President of Chile from September 18, 1886, to August 29, 1891. Balmaceda was part of the Castilian-Basque aristocracy in Chile. While he was ...

(1891), President of Chile, gunshot *

Lou Bandy Lodewijk Ferdinand Dieben (19 April 1890, in The Hague – 24 June 1959, in Zandvoort), better known under his pseudonym Lou Bandy, was a Dutch singer and conferencier who was one of the most popular artists in the Netherlands, between both worl ...

(1959), Dutch singer and comedian *

Pratyusha Banerjee Pratyusha Banerjee (10 August 1991– 1 April 2016) was an Indian television actress. She had appeared in numerous television and reality shows. Banerjee first gained recognition in 2010 in the television show '' Balika Vadhu''. This was her f ...

(2016), Indian actress, hanging *

Somen Banerjee Somen "Steve" Banerjee ( bn, সোমেন বন্দোপাধ্যায়; October 8, 1946 – October 23, 1994) was an Indian entrepreneur, and the founder of Chippendales. Biography Somen Banerjee was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), I ...

(1994), Indian American entrepreneur, co-founder of

Chippendales Chippendales is a touring dance troupe best known for its male striptease performances and for its dancers' distinctive upper body costume of a bow tie, collar, and shirt cuffs worn on an otherwise bare torso. Established in 1979, Chippenda ...

and convicted criminal, hanging * Bantcho Bantchevsky (1988),

Bulgarian American Bulgarian Americans ( bg, Американски българи) are Americans of Bulgarian descent. For the 2000 United States Census, 55,489 Americans indicated Bulgarian as their first ancestry, while 92,841 persons declared to have Bulgaria ...

singer, jump from New York

Metropolitan Opera The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, currently situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The company is oper ...

balcony *

Herculine Barbin Herculine Adélaïde Barbin, later known as Abel Barbin (November 8, 1838 – February 1868), was a French intersex person who was assigned female at birth and raised in a convent, but was later reclassified as male by a court of law, after an affa ...

(1868), French

intersex Intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical bin ...

memoirist, gas * Erich Bärenfänger (1945), German general *

Robert Hayward Barlow Robert Hayward Barlow (May 18, 1918 – January 1 or 2, 1951Joshi & Schultz (2007): p. xx.) was an American author, avant-garde poet, anthropologist and historian of early Mexico, and expert in the Nahuatl language. He was a correspondent and f ...

(1951), American writer and anthropologist,

barbiturate overdose Barbiturate overdose is poisoning due to excessive doses of barbiturates. Symptoms typically include difficulty thinking, poor coordination, decreased level of consciousness, and a decreased effort to breathe (respiratory depression). Complicati ...

* Boris Barnet (1965), Russian film director, hanging * Uwe Barschel (1987), German politician, ingested five sleeping potions * Mark O. Barton (1999), American spree killer, gunshot *

Ralph Barton Ralph Waldo Emerson Barton (August 14, 1891 – May 19, 1931) was a popular American cartoonist and caricaturist of actors and other celebrities. His work was in heavy demand through the 1920s and has been considered to epitomize the era, but hi ...

(1931), American artist, gunshot * Johanna Bassani (2020), Austrian combined Nordic skier and ski jumper * Pierre Batcheff (1932), French actor, overdose of

Simone Battle Simone Sherise Battle (June 17, 1989 – September 5, 2014) was an American singer. She was a finalist on ''The X Factor'' in 2011 and a member of the girl group G.R.L. from 2012 until her death in 2014. The group was best known for thei ...

(2014), American pop singer and member of the band

G.R.L. G.R.L. was an American girl group formed by Robin Antin. The group consists of members Lauren Bennett, Natasha Slayton, and Emmalyn Estrada. The original line-up consisted of Bennett, Slayton, Estrada, Paula van Oppen, and Simone Battle. The ...

, hanging * Herb Baumeister (1996), American serial killer, gunshot * J. Clifford Baxter (2002), American

Enron Corporation Enron Corporation was an American energy, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas. It was founded by Kenneth Lay in 1985 as a merger between Lay's Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth, both relatively small regional companies. B ...

executive, gunshot * Amelie "Melli" Beese (1925), German pioneer aviator, gunshot *

Ari Behn Ari Mikael Behn (; , or ; 30 September 1972 – 25 December 2019) was a Norwegian author, playwright, and visual artist. Known as Mikael Bjørshol until 1996, Behn achieved early literary success with his 1999 short story collection ''Trist so ...

(2019), Norwegian author and painter *

Jovan Belcher Jovan Henry Allen Belcher (July 24, 1987 – December 1, 2012) was an American football linebacker who played his entire career with the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He grew up in West Babylon, New York and was a sta ...

(2012),

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

player, gunshot, murder-suicide *

Peter Bellamy Peter Franklyn Bellamy (8 September 1944 – 24 September 1991) was an English folk singer. He was a founding member of The Young Tradition and also had a long solo career, recording numerous albums and touring folk clubs and concert halls. He ...

(1991), English folk musician and member of the band The Young Tradition *

Helena Belmonte Helena may refer to: People *Helena (given name), a given name (including a list of people and characters with the name) *Katri Helena (born 1945), Finnish singer *Helena, mother of Constantine I Places Greece * Helena (island) Guyana * H ...

(2014), Filipina model, jumped off building * Malik Bendjelloul (2014), Swedish documentary filmmaker, jumped in front of moving train *

Brenda Benet Brenda Benet (born Brenda Ann Nelson; August 14, 1945 – April 7, 1982) was an American actress. She is best known for her roles on the soap operas ''The Young Marrieds'' (1965–1965) and ''Days of Our Lives'' (1979–1982). She was also fea ...

(1982), American television and film actress, gunshot *

Walter Benjamin Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (; ; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. An eclectic thinker, combining elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, and Jewish ...

(1940), German-Jewish literary critic and culture theorist, morphine overdose * Jill Bennett (1990), English actress,

secobarbital Secobarbital (as the sodium salt, originally marketed by Eli Lilly and Company for the treatment of insomnia, and subsequently by other companies as described below, under the brand name Seconal) is a short-acting barbiturate derivative drug that ...

overdose *

Chester Bennington Chester Charles Bennington (March 20, 1976 – July 20, 2017) was an American singer and songwriter who was best known as the lead vocalist of rock band Linkin Park. He was also the lead vocalist of the bands Grey Daze, Dead by Sunrise, ...

(2017), American lead singer of Linkin Park, hanging * Louis Bennison (1929), American actor, gunshot *

Chris Benoit Christopher Michael Benoit (; May 21, 1967 – June 24, 2007) was a Canadian professional wrestler. He worked for various pro-wrestling promotions during his 22-year career including most notably the World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestlin ...

(2007), Canadian professional wrestler, hanging *

Pierre Bérégovoy Pierre Eugène Bérégovoy (; 23 December 1925 – 1 May 1993) was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France under President François Mitterrand from 2 April 1992 to 29 March 1993. He was a member of the Socialist Party and ...

(1993), French politician and

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister i ...

(1992–93), gunshot *

Mary Kay Bergman Mary Kay Bergman (June 5, 1961 – November 11, 1999), also credited as Shannen Cassidy, was an American voice actress and voice-over teacher. She was the lead female voice actress on '' South Park'' from the show's 1997 debut until her death. Th ...

(1999), American

voice actress Voice acting is the art of performing voice-overs to present a character or provide information to an audience. Performers are called voice actors/actresses, voice artists, dubbing artists, voice talent, voice-over artists, or voice-over talent ...

, gunshot * Marty Bergen (1900), American baseball player, cut throat with a razor after killing his family with an ax * David Berman (2019), American musician and poet, hanging *

John Berryman John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in th ...

(1972), American poet, jumped off the Washington Avenue Bridge in

Minneapolis Minneapolis () is the largest city in Minnesota, United States, and the county seat of Hennepin County. The city is abundant in water, with thirteen lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks and waterfalls. Minneapolis has its origins ...

, Minnesota *

Bruno Bettelheim Bruno Bettelheim (August 28, 1903 – March 13, 1990) was an Austrian-born psychologist, scholar, public intellectual and writer who spent most of his academic and clinical career in the United States. An early writer on autism, Bettelheim's wor ...

(1990). Austrian-born U.S. psychologist and writer, asphyxiation with plastic bag * Paul Bhattacharjee (2013), British actor, jumped from a clifftop * Brian Bianchini (2004), American model, hanging *

Steve Bing Stephen Leo Bing (March 31, 1965 – June 22, 2020) was an American businessman, philanthropist, film producer, and screenwriter. He was the founder of Shangri-La Entertainment, an organization with interests in property, construction, entertai ...

(2020), American businessman and film producer, jumped from 27th floor of apartment building * Bob Birch (2012), American musician, gunshot * David Birnie (2005), Australian serial killer and rapist, hanging *

Jens Bjørneboe Jens Ingvald Bjørneboe (9 October 1920 – 9 May 1976) was a Norwegian writer whose work spanned a number of literary formats. He was also a painter and a Waldorf school teacher. Bjørneboe was a harsh and eloquent critic of Norwegian society a ...

(1976), Norwegian novelist, hanging * Eli M. Black (1975), CEO of United Fruit Co., jumped out of a building *

Junius Blaesus Quintus Junius Blaesus (died AD 31) was a Roman ''novus homo'' ("new man," that is, the first member of his family to gain entrance to the Roman nobility) who lived during the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius. He was the maternal uncle of Lucius Ae ...

(31 AD), Roman consul, general and governor of

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

, fell on a sword * Jeremy Blake (2007), American artist, drowning *

Clara Blandick Clara Blandick (born Clara Blanchard Dickey; June 4, 1876 – April 15, 1962) was an American character, film, stage and theater actress. She played Aunt Em in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's '' The Wizard of Oz'' (1939). As a character actress, sh ...

(1962), American stage and screen actress *

Erica Blasberg Erica Paige Blasberg (July 14, 1984 – May 9, 2010) was an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour. She attended the University of Arizona, and was the country's number 1 ranked college player as a freshman. She won the 2004 Lac ...

(2010), American golfer, asphyxia caused prescription overdose * Miguel Blesa (2017), Spanish banker and businessman, involved in various corruption scandals, gunshot to chest *

Vasily Blokhin Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin (russian: Васи́лий Миха́йлович Блохи́н; 7 January 1895 – 3 February 1955) was a Soviet and Russian major general who served as the chief executioner of the NKVD under the administration ...

(1955), Soviet general and

NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. ...

executioner * Adele Blood (1936), American actress, gunshot * Clara Bloodgood (1907), American

Broadway Broadway may refer to: Theatre * Broadway Theatre (disambiguation) * Broadway theatre, theatrical productions in professional theatres near Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, U.S. ** Broadway (Manhattan), the street **Broadway Theatre (53rd Stree ...

actress, gunshot *

Gaius Blossius Gaius Blossius (; 2nd century BC) was, according to Plutarch, a philosopher and student of the Stoic philosopher Antipater of Tarsus, from the city of Cumae in Campania, Italy, who (along with the Greek rhetorician, Diophanes) instigated Roman ...

(c. 129 BC), Roman philosopher and adviser to

Tiberius Gracchus Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus ( 163 – 133 BC) was a Roman politician best known for his agrarian reform law entailing the transfer of land from the Roman state and wealthy landowners to poorer citizens. He had also served in the Roma ...

and

Eumenes III Eumenes III (; grc-gre, Εὐμένης Γʹ; originally named Aristonicus; in Greek Aristonikos Ἀριστόνικος) was a pretender to the throne of Pergamon. He led the against the Pergamene regime and found success early on, seizing vari ...

Isabella Blow Isabella "Issie" Blow (nee Delves Broughton; 19 November 1958 – 7 May 2007) was an English magazine editor. As the muse of hat designer Philip Treacy, she is credited with discovering the models Stella Tennant and Sophie Dahl as well as pr ...

(2007), English magazine editor, and muse to fashion designer Alexander McQueen, poisoning *

Ludwig Boltzmann Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (; 20 February 1844 – 5 September 1906) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher. His greatest achievements were the development of statistical mechanics, and the statistical explanation of the second law of ther ...

(1906), Austrian physicist, known for thermodynamics and atomic theory, hanging * Bonosus (280 AD),

Roman usurper Roman usurpers were individuals or groups of individuals who obtained or tried to obtain power by force and without legitimate legal authority. Usurpation was endemic during the Roman imperial era, especially from the crisis of the third cent ...

, hanging * Eduardo Bonvallet (2015), Chilean World Cup footballer and pundit, hanging *

Jeremy Michael Boorda Jeremy Michael Boorda (November 26, 1939 – May 16, 1996) was a United States Navy admiral who served as the 25th Chief of Naval Operations. Boorda is notable as the first person to have risen from the enlisted ranks to become Chief of Naval Ope ...

(1996), US Chief of Naval Operations, gunshot to the chest *

Éric Borel Éric Borel (; 11 December 1978 – 24 September 1995) was a French high school student and spree killer who, at the age of 16, murdered his family in Solliès-Pont in the arrondissement of Toulon on 23 September 1995, and afterwards shot dea ...

(1995), French high school student and spree killer, gunshot *

Adrian Borland Adrian Kelvin Borland (6 December 1957 – 26 April 1999) was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer, best known as the frontman of post-punk band the Sound. Following a substantial musical career spanning numerous group ...

(1999), English singer-songwriter ( The Outsiders, The Sound), jumped in front of a moving train * Martin Bormann (1945), German head of the Nazi Party Chancellery, cyanide poisoning. *

Jean-Louis Bory Jean-Louis Bory (25 June 1919 – 11/12 June 1979) was a French writer, journalist, and film critic. Life Jean-Louis Bory was born on 25 June 1919 in Méréville, Essonne. The son of a pharmacist and a teacher, he came from a family of teache ...

(1979), French writer, gunshot to the chest *

Yevgenia Bosch Yevgenia Bogdanovna; russian: Го́тлибовна) Bosch; russian: Евге́ния Богда́новна Бош; german: Jewgenija Bogdanowna Bosch (née Meisch ; – 5 January 1925) was a Ukrainian Bolshevik revolutionary, politician, ...

(1925), Soviet

Bolshevik The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...

revolutionary and politician, gunshot * Novak Bošković (2019), Serbian handball player, gunshot * Dmitry Bosov (2020), Russian businessman and billionaire, gunshot *

Mohamed Bouazizi Tarek el-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi ( ar, طارق الطيب محمد البوعزيزي, Ṭāriq aṭ-Ṭayib Muḥammad al-Būʿazīzī; 29 March 1984 – 4 January 2011) was a street vendor who set himself on fire on 17 December 2010 in Sidi Bou ...

(2011), Tunisian street vendor,

self-immolation The term self-immolation broadly refers to acts of altruistic suicide, otherwise the giving up of one's body in an act of sacrifice. However, it most often refers specifically to autocremation, the act of sacrificing oneself by setting oneself ...

* Boudica (61 AD), Queen of the

Iceni The Iceni ( , ) or Eceni were a Brittonic tribe of eastern Britain during the Iron Age and early Roman era. Their territory included present-day Norfolk and parts of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, and bordered the area of the Corieltauvi to the we ...

, poison *

Georges Ernest Boulanger Georges Ernest Jean-Marie Boulanger (29 April 1837 – 30 September 1891), nicknamed Général Revanche ("General Revenge"), was a French general and politician. An enormously popular public figure during the second decade of the Third Repub ...

(1891), French general and politician, gunshot * Dallen Bounds (1999), American serial killer, gunshot * Anthony Bourdain (2018), American chef, author, and television personality, hanging *

Tommy Boyce Sidney Thomas "Tommy" Boyce (September 29, 1939 – November 23, 1994) and Bobby Hart (born Robert Luke Harshman; February 18, 1939) were a prolific American duo of singer-songwriters. In addition to three top-40 hits as artists, the duo is ...

(1994), American songwriter, gunshot *

Karin Boye Karin Maria Boye (; 26 October 1900 – 24 April 1941) was a Swedish poet and novelist. In Sweden she is acclaimed as a poet, but internationally she is best known for the dystopian science fiction novel '' Kallocain'' (1940). Career Boye wa ...

(1941), Swedish writer *

Charles Boyer Charles Boyer (; 28 August 1899 – 26 August 1978) was a French-American actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. After receiving an education in drama, Boyer started on the stage, but he found his success in American fi ...

(1978), French actor, secobarbital overdose *

Jonathan Brandis Jonathan Gregory Brandis (April 13, 1976 – November 12, 2003) was an American actor. Beginning his career as a child model, Brandis moved on to acting in commercials and subsequently won television and film roles. Brandis made his acting debut ...

(2003), American actor, hanging *

Cheyenne Brando Tarita Cheyenne Brando (20 February 1970 – 16 April 1995) was a French fashion model. She was the daughter of actor Marlon Brando by his third wife Tarita Teriipaia, an actress from French Polynesia whom he met while filming ''Mutiny on ...

(1995), Tahitian model/actress, hanging *

Charlie Brandt Carl Eric "Charlie" Brandt (February 23, 1957 – September 13, 2004) was an American serial killer who murdered at least four female victims; one in Indiana and three others in Florida. Growing up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Brandt shot his par ...

(2004), American serial killer, hanging *

Mike Brant Mike Brant (born Moshe Michael Brand, he, משה מיכאל ברנד, 1 February 1947 – 25 April 1975) was an Israeli singer and songwriter who achieved fame after moving to France. His most successful hit was "Laisse-moi t'aimer" ("Let Me Lov ...

(1975), Israeli pop star jumped from his Paris apartment building * Robert Eugene Brashers (1999), American serial killer, gunshot *

Eva Braun Eva Anna Paula Hitler (; 6 February 1912 – 30 April 1945) was a German photographer who was the longtime companion and briefly the wife of Adolf Hitler. Braun met Hitler in Munich when she was a 17-year-old assistant and model for his ...

(1945), German wife of Adolf Hitler, cyanide poisoning * Richard Brautigan (1984), American writer, gunshot *

Brennus Brennus or Brennos is the name of two Gaulish chieftains, famous in ancient history: * Brennus, chieftain of the Senones, a Gallic tribe originating from the modern areas of France known as Seine-et-Marne, Loiret, and Yonne; in 387 BC, in t ...

(279 BC), Gallic tribal leader and general, stabbed himself * James E. Brewton (1967), American painter and printmaker, gunshot * Lilya Brik (1978), Russian author and socialite, overdose of sleeping pills * Molly Brodak (2020), American poet, writer, and baker *

Herman Brood Hermanus "Herman" Brood (; 5 November 1946 – 11 July 2001) was a Dutch musician, painter, actor and poet. As a musician he achieved artistic and commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s, and was called "the greatest and only Dutch rock 'n' ...

(2001), Dutch rock musician and painter, jumped from hotel roof * Joseph Brooks (2011), American screenwriter, director, producer, and composer, asphyxiation * May Brookyn (1894), British stage actress, overdose of carbolic acid * John Munro Bruce (1901), Australian businessman, father of Prime Minister S. M. Bruce * Jürgen Brümmer (2014), German Olympic gymnast, jumped from the Koersch Viaduct after suffocating his son *

Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Marcus Junius Brutus (; ; 85 BC – 23 October 42 BC), often referred to simply as Brutus, was a Roman politician, orator, and the most famous of the assassins of Julius Caesar. After being adopted by a relative, he used the name Quintus Serv ...

(42 BC),

Roman Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...

politician and conspirator to assassinate Julius Caesar, ran into his sword *

Roy Buchanan Leroy "Roy" Buchanan (September 23, 1939 – August 14, 1988) was an American guitarist and blues musician. A pioneer of the Telecaster sound, Buchanan worked as a sideman and as a solo artist, with two gold albums early in his career and two lat ...

(1988), American guitarist and blues musician, hanging * David Buckel (2018), American

LGBT rights Rights affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT) people vary greatly by country or jurisdiction—encompassing everything from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the death penalty for homosexuality. Notably, ...

lawyer and

environmental activist The environmental movement (sometimes referred to as the ecology movement), also including conservation and green politics, is a diverse philosophical, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues. Environmentalists advo ...

in Prospect Park,

Brooklyn Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...

* Randy Budd (2016), American businessman whose wife, Sharon, was critically injured and disfigured by rocks thrown at their car from an overpass, gunshot *

Eustace Budgell Eustace Budgell (19 August 1686 – 4 May 1737) was an English writer and politician. Life and Death Born in St Thomas near Exeter, he was the son of Gilbert Budgell, D.D. by his first wife Mary, only daughter of Bishop William Gulston of Bri ...

(1737), English writer and politician, drowning in the

Thames The River Thames ( ), known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London. At , it is the longest river entirely in England and the second-longest in the United Kingdom, after the R ...

Brad Bufanda Brad Bufanda (born Fred Joseph Bufanda III; May 4, 1983 – November 1, 2017) was an American actor. He was known for his recurring role as Felix Toombs in the television series ''Veronica Mars'', as well as his self-made Internet videos. Caree ...

(2017), American actor, jumped from building *

Dale Buggins Dale Charles Buggins (1961–1981) was an Australian stunt motorcyclist who had built a national and international reputation by the age of 20. At 17, Buggins broke a world record previously held by American stuntman Evel Knievel when he jumped ...

(1981), Australian stunt motorcyclist, gunshot *

Wilhelm Burgdorf Wilhelm Emanuel Burgdorf (15 February 1895 – 2 May 1945) was a German general during World War II, who served as a commander and staff officer in the German Army. In October 1944, Burgdorf assumed the role of the chief of the Army Personnel O ...

(1945), German general, Chief of the ''

Heerespersonalamt __NOTOC__The Army Personnel Office (''Heeres Personal Amt'', ''Heerespersonalamt'' or ''Heeres Personalamt'') was a German military agency formed in 1920 and charged with the personnel matters of all officers and cadets of the army of the Reichswehr ...

'' and Chief Adjutant to

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...

, gunshot. * Dan Burros (1965), Jewish American neo-Nazi activist and member of the Ku Klux Klan, gunshot to the head * August Anheuser Busch Sr. (1934), American CEO of

Anheuser-Busch Anheuser-Busch Companies, LLC is an American brewing company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Since 2008, it has been wholly owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV ( AB InBev), now the world's largest brewing company, which owns multiple ...

, gunshot *

Germán Busch Víctor Germán Busch Becerra (23 March 1903 – 23 August 1939) was a Bolivian military officer and statesman who served as the 36th president of Bolivia from 1937 to 1939. Prior to his presidency, he served as the Chief of the General Staff ...

(1939), Bolivian military officer and 41st and 43rd

President of Bolivia The president of Bolivia ( es, Presidente de Bolivia), officially known as the president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia ( es, Presidente del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia), is head of state and head of government of Bolivia and the ca ...

, gunshot * Zvonko Bušić (2013), Croatian hijacker responsible for hijacking TWA Flight 355 in 1976, gunshot

C

* Cai Lun (121 AD), Chinese

eunuch A eunuch ( ) is a male who has been castrated. Throughout history, castration often served a specific social function. The earliest records for intentional castration to produce eunuchs are from the Sumerian city of Lagash in the 2nd millenni ...

court official, imperial adviser, inventor of

paper Paper is a thin sheet material produced by mechanically or chemically processing cellulose fibres derived from wood, rags, grasses or other vegetable sources in water, draining the water through fine mesh leaving the fibre evenly distrib ...

and the modern papermaking process, poison *

Calanus ''Calanus'' is a genus of marine copepod in the family Calanidae (Order Calanoida). The genus was split in 1974, with some species being placed in a new genus, '' Neocalanus''. The following species are recognised: *'' Calanus aculeatus'' ...

(323 BC), Indian

gymnosophist Gymnosophists ( grc, γυμνοσοφισταί, ''gymnosophistaí'', i.e. "naked philosophers" or "naked wise men" (from Greek γυμνός ''gymnós'' "naked" and σοφία ''sophía'' "wisdom")) is the name given by the Greeks to certain anc ...

and companion of

, self-immolation * Novius Calavius (314 BC),

Campania (man), it, Campana (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 = , demographics_type1 = , demographics1_footnotes = , demographics1_title1 = , demographics1_info1 = , demog ...

n nobleman, leader of an anti-Roman insurrection.Livy, ''From the Founding of the City'
IX.26
Wikisource. Retrieved August 8, 2018. * Ovius Calavius (314 BC),

n nobleman, leader of an anti-Roman insurrection. *

Lucius Arruntius Camillus Scribonianus Lucius Arruntius Camillus Scribonianus was a Roman senator, who was active during the reign of Tiberius. He was consul in AD 32. Ten years later, he revolted against the emperor Claudius, but was swiftly defeated.''PIR'', vol. I, p. 145. Family Bo ...

(42 AD), Roman politician, consul and rebel against Emperor Claudius *

Donald Cammell Donald Seton Cammell (17 January 1934 – 24 April 1996) was a Scottish painter, screenwriter, and film director. He has a cult reputation largely due to his debut film '' Performance'', which he wrote the screenplay for and co-directed ...

(1996), Scottish film director, gunshot *

Homaro Cantu Homaro "Omar" Cantu Jr. (September 23, 1976 – April 14, 2015) was an American chef and inventor known for his use of molecular gastronomy. As a child, Cantu was fascinated with science and engineering. While working in a fast food restaurant, he ...

(2015), American chef, hanging * Capital Steez (2012), American hip-hop artist, jumped off the rooftop of the Cinematic Music Group headquarters in

Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...

* Capucine (1990), French actress and model, jumped from an eighth-floor apartment *

George Caragonne George Caragonne (September 16, 1965 – July 20, 1995) was an American comic book writer and editor, most notable for being co-founder of ''Penthouse Comix'' magazine. He died by suicide on July 20, 1995, by jumping off the 45th floor of the inte ...

(1995), American comic book writer, jumped from the 45th floor of the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Manhattan *

Wallace Carothers Wallace Hume Carothers (; April 27, 1896 – April 29, 1937) was an American chemist, inventor and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, who was credited with the invention of nylon. Carothers was a group leader at the DuPont Experimen ...

(1937), American inventor of

nylon Nylon is a generic designation for a family of synthetic polymers composed of polyamides ( repeating units linked by amide links).The polyamides may be aliphatic or semi-aromatic. Nylon is a silk-like thermoplastic, generally made from pe ...

, cyanide poisoning *

Dora Carrington Dora de Houghton Carrington (29 March 1893 – 11 March 1932), known generally as Carrington, was an English painter and decorative artist, remembered in part for her association with members of the Bloomsbury Group, especially the writer Lytton ...

(1932), English artist, gunshot * Kevin Carter (1994), South African photojournalist, carbon monoxide poisoning * Tim Carter (2008), English footballer, hanging * Justina Casagli (1841), Swedish opera singer, jumped out a window *

Finn M. W. Caspersen Finn Michael Westby Caspersen Sr. (October 27, 1941 – September 7, 2009) was an American financier and philanthropist. A graduate of the Peddie School, Brown University and Harvard Law School, he was chairman and chief executive of ...

(2009), American financier and philanthropist, gunshot *

Gaius Cassius Longinus Gaius Cassius Longinus (c. 86 BC – 3 October 42 BC) was a Roman senator and general best known as a leading instigator of the plot to assassinate Julius Caesar on 15 March 44 BC. He was the brother-in-law of Brutus, another leader of the co ...

(42 BC), Roman politician, general and conspirator to assassinate Julius Caesar, fell on his sword *

Camilo Castelo Branco Camilo Castelo Branco, 1st Viscount of Correia Botelho (; 16 March 1825 – 1 June 1890), was a prolific Portuguese writer of the 19th century, having produced over 260 books (mainly novels, plays and essays). His writing is considered original i ...

(1890), Portuguese novelist *

Ariel Castro Between 2002 and 2004, Ariel Castro kidnapped Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Georgina "Gina" DeJesus from the streets of Cleveland, Ohio and later held them captive in his home of 2207 Seymour Avenue in the city's Tremont neighborhood. All ...

(2013), Puerto Rican-American kidnapper, rapist and murderer, hanging * Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart (2018), Cuban nuclear physicist, son of Fidel Castro * Kelly Catlin (2019), American cycling champion *

Cato the Younger Marcus Porcius Cato "Uticensis" ("of Utica"; ; 95 BC – April 46 BC), also known as Cato the Younger ( la, Cato Minor), was an influential conservative Roman senator during the late Republic. His conservative principles were focused on the ...

(46 BC), Roman statesman and politician, stabbed with sword * Paul Celan (1970), Romanian poet, drowning in the Seine *

Censorinus Censorinus was a Roman grammarian and miscellaneous writer from the 3rd century AD. Biography He was the author of a lost work ''De Accentibus'' and of an extant treatise ''De Die Natali'', written in 238, and dedicated to his patron Quintus ...

(53 BC), Roman

cavalryman Historically, cavalry (from the French word ''cavalerie'', itself derived from "cheval" meaning "horse") are soldiers or warriors who fight mounted on horseback. Cavalry were the most mobile of the combat arms, operating as light cavalry in ...

and friend of Publius Licinius Crassus, ordered shieldbearer to stab him.Plutarch (2nd century CE). ''The Life of Crassus'
''The Parallel Lives'', Chapter 26
Loeb Classical Library edition (1916), University of Chicago. Retrieved February 21, 2019. *

Champignon ''Agaricus bisporus'' is an edible basidiomycete mushroom native to grasslands in Eurasia and North America. It has two color states while immature – white and brown – both of which have various names, with additional names for the mature ...

(2013), Brazilian musician, bassist for Charlie Brown Jr., gunshot * Joseph Newton Chandler III (2002), formerly unidentified identity thief, gunshot * Pierre Chanal (2003), French serial killer, cut femoral artery *

Iris Chang Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968November 9, 2004) was a Chinese American journalist, author of historical books and political activist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, ''The Rape of Nanking'', and ...

(2004), American historian and author of '' The Rape of Nanking'', gunshot to head *

Charmion Laverie Vallee ''née'' Cooper (July 18, 1875 – February 6, 1949), best known by her stage name Charmion, was an American vaudeville trapeze artist and strongwoman whose well-publicized suggestive performance was captured on film in 190 ...

(30 BC), servant and advisor of Cleopatra. Plutarch. "Life of Antony." WikiSource. Retrieved August 8, 2018. *

Richard Chase Richard Trenton Chase (May 23, 1950 – December 26, 1980) was an American serial killer, cannibal, and necrophile who killed six people in the span of a month in 1977 and 1978 in Sacramento, California. He was nicknamed The Vampire of Sac ...

(1980), American serial killer, anti-depressant overdose * Gilles Châtelet (1999), French philosopher and mathematician *

Thomas Chatterton Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752 – 24 August 1770) was an English poet whose precocious talents ended in suicide at age 17. He was an influence on Romantic artists of the period such as Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge. Altho ...

(1770), English poet and

forger Forgery is a white-collar crime that generally refers to the false making or material alteration of a legal instrument with the specific intent to defraud anyone (other than themself). Tampering with a certain legal instrument may be forbidd ...

, arsenic poisoning * Gu Cheng (1993), Chinese poet, hanging * Danny Chen (2011), Chinese-American

U.S. Army The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution.Article II, section 2, cl ...

Private, gunshot *

Vic Chesnutt James Victor Chesnutt (November 12, 1964 – December 25, 2009) was an American singer-songwriter from Athens, Georgia. His first album, ''Little'', was released in 1990. His commercial breakthrough came in 1996 with the release of '' Sweet ...

(2009), American singer-songwriter, muscle relaxant overdose *

Leslie Cheung Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing (12 September 1956 – 1 April 2003) was a Hong Kong singer and actor. Throughout a 26-year career from 1977 until his death, Cheung released over 40 music albums and acted in 56 films. He was one of the most prominent ...

(2003), Hong Kong singer and actor, leapt from the 24th floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel *

Chimalpopoca Chimalpopoca ( nci-IPA, Chīmalpopōca, t͡ʃiːmaɬpoˈpoːka for "smoking shield," ) or Chīmalpopōcatzin (1397–1427) was the third Emperor of Tenochtitlan (1417–1427). Biography Chimalpopoca was born to the Emperor Huitzilihuitl and ...

(1428),

Emperor An emperor (from la, imperator, via fro, empereor) is a monarch, and usually the sovereignty, sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife (empress consort), ...

Tenochtitlan , ; es, Tenochtitlan also known as Mexico-Tenochtitlan, ; es, México-Tenochtitlan was a large Mexican in what is now the historic center of Mexico City. The exact date of the founding of the city is unclear. The date 13 March 1325 was ...

, hanging * V. J. Chitra (2020), Indian actress, hanging *

Seung-Hui Cho Seung-Hui Cho (, properly Cho Seung-hui; January 18, 1984 – April 16, 2007) was a Korean-born mass murderer responsible for the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007. Cho killed 32 people and wounded 17 others with two semi-automatic pistols on Apr ...

(2007), American university student who perpetrated the

Virginia Tech shooting The Virginia Tech shooting was a spree shooting that occurred on April 16, 2007, comprising two attacks on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. Seung-Hui Cho, an u ...

, gunshot *

Choi Jin-sil Choi Jin-Sil (December 24, 1968 – October 2, 2008) was a South Korean actress. She was considered one of the best actresses in South Korea, nicknamed "The Nation's Actress". She played leading roles in 18 films and 20 television dramas, appea ...

(2008), South Korean actress, hanging *

Choi Jin-young Choi Jin-young (; November 17, 1970 – March 29, 2010) was a South Korean actor and singer. Career Choi made his debut as a television commercial model in 1987 and began his acting career three years later. He rose to stardom in 1993 with ...

(2010), South Korean actor and singer, hanging *

Chongzhen Chongzhen () (5 February 1628 – 25 April 1644) was the era name of the Chongzhen Emperor, the last emperor of the Ming dynasty of China. Chongzhen was also the Ming dynasty's final era name. Comparison table Other eras contemporaneous with ...

(1644), Chinese emperor of the

Ming dynasty The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last orthodox dynasty of China ruled by the Han peo ...

* David Christie (1997), French singer *

Brian Christopher Brian Christopher Lawler (January 10, 1972 – July 29, 2018) was an American professional wrestler. He is best remembered for his career in the World Wrestling Federation (now WWE), where he performed as "Too Sexy" Brian Christopher and Grand ...

(2018), American professional wrestler, hanging *

Christine Chubbuck Christine "Chris" Chubbuck (August 24, 1944 – July 15, 1974) was an American television news reporter who worked for stations WTOG and WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida. She was the first person to die by suicide on a live television broadcas ...

(1974), American television reporter, gunshot * Chung Doo-un (2019), South Korean politician *

Diana Churchill Diana Spencer-Churchill (11 July 1909 – 20 October 1963) was the eldest daughter of British statesman Sir Winston Churchill and Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill. Personal life Diana Churchill was born at 33 Eccleston ...

(1963), Eldest daughter of British Prime Minister

Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from ...

, barbiturate overdose * Frank Churchill (1942), American film composer, gunshot *

Bob Carlos Clarke Robert Carlos Clarke (24 June 1950 – 25 March 2006) was a British-Irish photographer who made erotic images of women as well as documentary, portrait and commercial photography. Carlos Clarke produced six books during his career: ''The ...

(2006), Irish photographer, jumped in front of a train *

Jeremiah Clarke Jeremiah Clarke (c. 1674 – 1 December 1707) was an English baroque composer and organist, best known for his ''Trumpet Voluntary,'' a popular piece often played at wedding ceremonies or commencement ceremonies. Biography The exact date of Cla ...

(1707), English baroque composer and organist, gunshot * Paul Clayton (1967) American folksinger and folklorist, electrocution * Tyler Clementi (2010),

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

student, jumped off the

George Washington Bridge The George Washington Bridge is a double-decked suspension bridge spanning the Hudson River, connecting Fort Lee, New Jersey, with Manhattan in New York City. The bridge is named after George Washington, the first president of the United S ...

* Robert George Clements (1947), Irish physician and suspected murderer, morphine overdose *

Cleomenes I Cleomenes I (; Greek Κλεομένης; died c. 490 BC) was Agiad King of Sparta from c. 524 to c. 490 BC. One of the most important Spartan kings, Cleomenes was instrumental in organising the Greek resistance against the Persian Empire of Dariu ...

(c. 489 BC), King of

Sparta Sparta ( Doric Greek: Σπάρτα, ''Spártā''; Attic Greek: Σπάρτη, ''Spártē'') was a prominent city-state in Laconia, in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (, ), while the name Sparta referre ...

, slashed himself from shins to belly *

Cleomenes III Cleomenes III ( grc, Κλεομένης) was one of the two kings of Sparta from 235 to 222 BC. He was a member of the Agiad dynasty and succeeded his father, Leonidas II. He is known for his attempts to reform the Spartan state. From 229 to ...

(219 BC), King of Sparta * Cleombrotus of Ambracia (after 399 BC), Greek philosopher, acquaintance of

Socrates Socrates (; ; –399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no te ...

and

Plato Plato ( ; grc-gre, Πλάτων ; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution ...

* Cleopatra (30 BC), Queen of Egypt, inducing an asp to bite her. * Kurt Cobain (1994), American singer/songwriter, and frontman of the band

Nirvana ( , , ; sa, निर्वाण} ''nirvāṇa'' ; Pali: ''nibbāna''; Prakrit: ''ṇivvāṇa''; literally, "blown out", as in an oil lampRichard Gombrich, ''Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benāres to Modern Colombo.' ...

* Jack Cole (1958), American cartoonist known as the creator of

Plastic Man Plastic Man (Patrick "Eel" O'Brian) is a superhero first appearing in ''Police Comics'' #1, originally published by Quality Comics and later acquired by DC Comics. Created by cartoonist Jack Cole (artist), Jack Cole, Plastic Man was one of the fi ...

, gunshot to the head with a rifle *

Ray Combs Raymond Neil Combs Jr. (April 3, 1956 – June 2, 1996) was an American actor, comedian and game show host. Combs began his professional career in the late 1970s. His popularity on the stand-up circuit led to him being signed as the second host o ...

(1996), American comedian, actor, and television game show host, hanging * Camila María Concepción (2020), American screenwriter and transgender rights activist * Louis Conradt (2006) assistant district attorney from Texas, gunshot *

Adolfo Constanzo Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo (November 1, 1962 – May 6, 1989) was an American serial killer, drug dealer and alleged cult leader who led an infamous drug-trafficking and occult gang in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, that was dubbed the Narcosat ...

(1989), American serial killer, drug dealer,

warlock A warlock is a male practitioner of witchcraft. Etymology and terminology The most commonly accepted etymology derives '' warlock'' from the Old English '' wǣrloga'', which meant "breaker of oaths" or "deceiver" and was given special applicati ...

and cult leader, ordered a follower to shoot him *

Tarka Cordell Tarka Clay Cordell-Lavarack (28 July 1966 – 28 April 2008) was an English musician, writer, record producer, and model. The son of record producer Denny Cordell, Cordell was born in Westminster, Greater London, and was educated at Harrow School ...

(2008) British musician, hanging *

Don Cornelius Donald Cortez Cornelius (September 27, 1936 – February 1, 2012) was an American television show host and producer widely known as the creator of the nationally syndicated dance and music show ''Soul Train'', which he hosted from 1971 until 1993 ...

(2012), American television producer, best known as the creator and host of '' Soul Train'', gunshot *

Chris Cornell Christopher John Cornell (né Boyle; July 20, 1964 – May 18, 2017) was an American singer and musician best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and primary lyricist and songwriter for the rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave ...

(2017), American musician, singer/songwriter, and member of the bands

Soundgarden Soundgarden was an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1984 by singer and drummer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil (both of whom are the only members to appear in every incarnation of the band), and bassist Hiro Yama ...

and

Audioslave Audioslave was an American rock supergroup formed in Glendale, California, in 2001. The four-piece band consisted of Soundgarden's lead singer and rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell with Rage Against the Machine members Tom Morello (lead guitar) ...

, hanging after a performance *

Tony Costa Antone Charles "Tony" Costa (August 2, 1944 – May 12, 1974) was an American serial killer and carpenter who achieved notoriety for committing serial murders in and around the Massachusetts town of Truro in 1969. Early life and crimes ...

(1974), American serial killer, hanging * John Coughlin (2019), American figure skater, hanging * Hart Crane (1932), American poet, jumped off ship *

Darby Crash Jan Paul Beahm (better known by his stage name Darby Crash, formerly Bobby Pyn; September 26, 1958 – December 7, 1980) was an American punk rock vocalist who, along with longtime friend Pat Smear (born Georg Ruthenberg), co-founded the punk ro ...

(1980), American singer ( Germs), heroin overdose * Publius Licinius Crassus (53 BC), Roman general, ordered shieldbearer to stab him * Robert W. Criswell (1905), American humorist and newspaperman, jumped in front of subway train *

Dennis Crosby Dennis Michael Crosby (July 13, 1934 – May 4, 1991) was an American singer and occasional actor, the son of singer and actor Bing Crosby and his first wife Dixie Lee, and twin brother of Phillip Crosby. He was the father of '' Star Trek TNG ...

(1991), American singer and actor, gunshot *

Lindsay Crosby Lindsay Harry Crosby (January 5, 1938 – December 11, 1989) was an American actor and singer. He was the youngest of four sons from Bing Crosby's first marriage to Dixie Lee (his older brothers being Gary and twins Phillip and Dennis). Linds ...

(1989), American singer and actor, gunshot *

Julee Cruise Julee Ann Cruise (December 1, 1956 – June 9, 2022) was an American singer, songwriter and actress, known for her collaborations with composer Angelo Badalamenti and film director David Lynch in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She released fo ...

(2022), American musician * Charles Crumb (1992), American comics writer and artist and brother of cartoonist

Robert Crumb Robert Dennis Crumb (; born August 30, 1943) is an American cartoonist and musician who often signs his work R. Crumb. His work displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and satire of contem ...

, overdosed on pills * Andrew Cunanan (1997), American

spree killer A spree killer is someone who commits a criminal act that involves two or more murders or homicides in a short time, in multiple locations. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics defines a spree killing as "killings at two or more locations ...

, gunshot * Lester Cuneo (1925), American actor, gunshot *

Will Cuppy William Jacob Cuppy (August 23, 1884 – September 19, 1949) was an American humorist and literary critic, known for his satirical books about nature and historical figures. Early life Cuppy was born in Auburn, Indiana. He was named "Will" i ...

(1949), American humorist, sleeping pill overdose *

Ian Curtis Ian Kevin Curtis (15 July 1956 – 18 May 1980) was an English musician, singer, and songwriter. He was best known as the lead singer, guitarist, and lyricist of the post-punk band Joy Division, with whom he released the albums ''Unknown P ...

(1980), English singer-songwriter (

Joy Division Joy Division were an English rock band formed in Salford in 1976. The group consisted of vocalist Ian Curtis, guitarist/keyboardist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris. Sumner and Hook formed the band after atte ...

), hanging *

Patricia Cutts Patricia Cutts (20 July 1926 – 6 September 1974)Patricia Cu ...

(1974), English film and television actress, barbiturate overdose * Adam Czerniaków (1942), Polish-Jewish senator and head of the

Warsaw Ghetto The Warsaw Ghetto (german: Warschauer Ghetto, officially , "Jewish Residential District in Warsaw"; pl, getto warszawskie) was the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II and the Holocaust. It was established in November 1940 by the G ...

Judenrat A ''Judenrat'' (, "Jewish council") was a World War II administrative agency imposed by Nazi Germany on Jewish communities across occupied Europe, principally within the Nazi ghettos. The Germans required Jews to form a ''Judenrat'' in every c ...

'', cyanide poisoning

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* Stig Dagerman (1954), Swedish journalist and writer, carbon monoxide poisoning *

Dalida Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti (; 17 January 1933 – 3 May 1987), professionally known as Dalida, was an Italian-French singer and actress born in Egypt. She sang in eleven languages and sold millions of records internationally. Her best known son ...

(1987), French-Italian singer, barbiturate overdose *

Andrea Dandolo Andrea Dandolo (13067 September 1354) was elected the 54th doge of Venice in 1343, replacing Bartolomeo Gradenigo who died in late 1342. Early life Trained in historiography and law, Andrea Dandolo studied at the University of Padua, where ...

(1298), Venetian admiral, beating his head repeatedly against his flagship's mast * Karl Dane (1934), Danish-American silent film actor, gunshot * Laurie Dann (1988), American murderer and arsonist, gunshot to the head * Monika Dannemann (1996), German skater and painter, carbon monoxide exhaust fumes * Bella Darvi (1971), Polish actress, gas inhalation *

Ali-Akbar Davar Ali-Akbar Dāvar ( fa, علی‌اکبر داور also known as Mirza Ali-Akbar Khan-e Dāvar, 1885 – 9 February 1937) was an Iranian politician and judge and the founder of the modern judicial system of Iran. Biography Born in 1885

(1937), Iranian politician, judge and the founder of the modern judicial system of Iran, overdose of opium * Brad Davis (1991), American actor, assisted barbiturate overdose * Charlotte Dawson (2014), Australian TV presenter, hanging *

Osamu Dazai was a Japanese author. A number of his most popular works, such as ''The Setting Sun'' (''Shayō'') and ''No Longer Human'' (''Ningen Shikkaku''), are considered modern-day classics. His influences include Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Murasaki Shiki ...

(1948), Japanese author, drowning in the

Tamagawa Aqueduct is a 43 km long Japanese aqueduct located in Tokyo. It was constructed by the Tokugawa shogunate to supply drinking and fire-fighting water from the Tama river to Edo, providing irrigation water around farm villages. The aqueduct was made fol ...

* Alice de Janzé (1941), American heiress, gunshot *

Decebalus Decebalus (), sometimes referred to as Diurpaneus, was the last Dacian king. He is famous for fighting three wars, with varying success, against the Roman Empire under two emperors. After raiding south across the Danube, he defeated a Roman invas ...

(106 AD), King of

Dacia Dacia (, ; ) was the land inhabited by the Dacians, its core in Transylvania, stretching to the Danube in the south, the Black Sea in the east, and the Tisza in the west. The Carpathian Mountains were located in the middle of Dacia. It ...

Decentius Magnus Decentius (died 18 August 353) was ''caesar'' of the Western Roman Empire from 350 to 353, under his brother Magnentius. History Nothing is known of Decentius prior to 350. Magnentius usurped power from Constans on 18 January 350, and ...

(353 AD), Roman usurper.

Zosimus Zosimus, Zosimos, Zosima or Zosimas may refer to: People * * Rufus and Zosimus (died 107), Christian saints * Zosimus (martyr) (died 110), Christian martyr who was executed in Umbria, Italy * Zosimos of Panopolis, also known as ''Zosimus Alchem ...

, ''New History'
Book 2, Chapter 65
London: Green and Chaplin (1814). Transcribed by Roger Pearse (2002). Retrieved February 19, 2019. * Guy Debord (1994), French philosopher and founder of the Situationists International, gunshot * Jeanine Deckers (1985), Belgian musician known as the Singing Nun, overdose of sedatives *

Albert Dekker Thomas Albert Ecke Van Dekker (December 20, 1905 – May 5, 1968) was an American character actor and politician best known for his roles in ''Dr. Cyclops'', ''The Killers (1946 film), The Killers'' (1946), ''Kiss Me Deadly'', and ''The Wild Bun ...

(1968), actor known for the science fiction film ''

Dr. Cyclops ''Dr. Cyclops'' is a 1940 American science fiction horror film from Paramount Pictures, produced by Dale Van Every and Merian C. Cooper, directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack, and starring Thomas Coley, Victor Kilian, Janice Logan, Charles Halton, ...

'',

autoerotic asphyxiation Erotic asphyxiation (variously called asphyxiophilia, hypoxyphilia or breath control play) is the intentional restriction of oxygen to the brain for the purposes of sexual arousal. The term autoerotic asphyxiation is used when the act is done ...

. * Gilles Deleuze (1995), French philosopher, jumped out of window * Peter Delmé (1770), English politician, gunshot *

Brad Delp Bradley Edward Delp (June 12, 1951 – March 9, 2007) was an American musician who was the original lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Boston. He joined Boston in 1970 and performed on the band's first three albums. Early life ...

(2007), American singer-songwriter for the bands

Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...

and RTZ, carbon monoxide poisoning * Penelope Delta (1941), Greek writer, poison.Battersby, Eileen (January 25, 2014)
"A visit to the court of King Witless"
''

The Irish Times ''The Irish Times'' is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication. It launched on 29 March 1859. The editor is Ruadhán Mac Cormaic. It is published every day except Sundays. ''The Irish Times'' is considered a newspaper ...

''. Retrieved April 27, 2019. * Demonax (c. 170 AD),

Greek Cypriot Greek Cypriots or Cypriot Greeks ( el, Ελληνοκύπριοι, Ellinokýprioi, tr, Kıbrıs Rumları) are the ethnic Greek population of Cyprus, forming the island's largest ethnolinguistic community. According to the 2011 census, 659,115 r ...

Cynic philosopher, starved himself to death *

Demosthenes Demosthenes (; el, Δημοσθένης, translit=Dēmosthénēs; ; 384 – 12 October 322 BC) was a Greek statesman and orator in ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual pr ...

(322 BC), Greek statesman, poison.Plutarch, ''Demosthenes''
Chapter 29, Section 1
Perseus Project. Tufts University. Retrieved August 8, 2018. * Karl Denke (1924), German serial killer, hanging *

Jerry Desmonde Jerry Desmonde (born James Robert Sadler; 20 July 1908 – 11 February 1967) was an English actor and presenter. He is perhaps best known for his work as a comedic foil in duos with Norman Wisdom and Sid Field. Early life Jerry Desmonde wa ...

(1967), English actor *

Patrick Dewaere Patrick Dewaere (26 January 1947 – 16 July 1982) was a French film actor. Born in Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, he was the son of French actress Mado Maurin. Actor from a young age, his career lasted more than 21 years, until his suicide in ...

(1982), French actor, gunshot * Diaeus (146 BC), Greek strategos of the

Achaean League The Achaean League ( Greek: , ''Koinon ton Akhaion'' "League of Achaeans") was a Hellenistic-era confederation of Greek city states on the northern and central Peloponnese. The league was named after the region of Achaea in the northwestern P ...

, poison *

Ding Ruchang Admiral Ding Ruchang (; 18 November 1836 – 12 February 1895) was a Chinese military officer in the late Qing dynasty. Early life Ding was a native of what is now part of Chaohu City in Anhui Province, China. He joined the Taiping Rebellion i ...

(1895), Chinese admiral, opium overdose * Dioxippus (after 336 BC),

ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic p ...

pankratiast Pankration (; el, παγκράτιον) was a sporting event introduced into the Greek Olympic Games in 648 BC, which was an empty-hand submission sport with few rules. The athletes used boxing and wrestling techniques but also others, such as ...

and Olympic champion, fell upon his sword *

Tove Ditlevsen Tove Irma Margit Ditlevsen (14 December 1917 – 7 March 1976) was a Danish poet and author. With published works in a variety of genres, she was one of Denmark's best-known authors by the time of her death. Life Tove Ditlevsen was born ...

(1976), Danish poet and author * Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah (2001),

King of Nepal The King of Nepal (traditionally known as the Mahārājdhirāja i.e. Great King of Kings; it can also be translated as "Sovereign Emperor" ( ne, श्री ५ महाराजधिराज)) was Nepal's head of state and monarch from 1768 ...

and perpetrator of the

Nepalese royal massacre The Nepalese royal massacre occurred on 1 June 2001 at the Narayanhiti Palace, the then-residence of the Nepalese monarchy. Nine members of the royal family, including King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya, were killed in a mass shooting during a g ...

, gunshot to the head * Thomas M. Disch (2008), American writer, gunshot *

Adriaan Ditvoorst Adriaan Ditvoorst (23 January 1940 – 18 October 1987) was a Dutch film director and screenwriter. He directed nine films between 1965 and 1984. His 1967 film ''Paranoia'' was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival. Selec ...

(1987), Dutch film director and screenwriter, drowning *

Julia Domna Julia Domna (; – 217 AD) was Roman empress from 193 to 211 as the wife of Emperor Septimius Severus. She was the first empress of the Severan dynasty. Domna was born in Emesa (present-day Homs) in Roman Syria to an Arab family of priests ...

(217 AD), Roman empress, second wife of Emperor

Septimius Severus Lucius Septimius Severus (; 11 April 145 – 4 February 211) was Roman emperor from 193 to 211. He was born in Leptis Magna (present-day Al-Khums, Libya) in the Roman province of Africa. As a young man he advanced through the customary suc ...

Christopher Dorner Christopher Jordan Dorner (June 4, 1979 – February 12, 2013) was a former officer of the Los Angeles Police Department who, beginning on February 3, 2013, committed a series of shootings in Orange County, Los Angeles County, Riverside Count ...

(2013), former American police officer and mass shooter, gunshot *

Michael Dorris Michael Anthony Dorris (January 30, 1945 – April 10, 1997) was an American novelist and scholar who was the first Chair of the Native American Studies program at Dartmouth College. His works include the novel '' A Yellow Raft in Blue Water'' ( ...

(1997), American novelist, overdose of sleeping pills with vodka and asphyxiation *

Jon Dough Jon Dough (born Chester "Chet" Joseph Anuszak; November 12, 1962 – August 27, 2006) was an American pornographic actor active between 1985 and 2006. Early life Dough was born Chester Anuszak and grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. When he wa ...

(2006), American pornographic actor, hanging *

Edward Downes Sir Edward Thomas ("Ted") Downes, CBE (17 June 1924 – 10 July 2009) was an English conductor, specialising in opera. He was associated with the Royal Opera House from 1952, and with Opera Australia from 1970. He was also well known for hi ...

(2009), English conductor, assisted double suicide with wife Lady Joan Downes at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland *

Scott Dozier Scott Raymond Dozier (; November 20, 1970 – January 5, 2019) was an American murderer on death row in Nevada for the 2002 murder of 22-year-old Jeremiah Miller, who was one of Dozier's drug associates. He would have been the first inmate execu ...

(2019), American murderer, hanging * Charmaine Dragun (2007), Australian television newsreader, jumped off

The Gap The Gap may refer to: Places Australia * The Gap, New South Wales, a locality near Wagga Wagga, New South Wales * The Gap, Northern Territory, a suburb of Alice Springs, Northern Territory * The Gap, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland ...

Lynwood Drake Lynwood Crumpler Drake III (October 10, 1949 – November 8, 1992) was an American spree killer who killed six people and wounded one other at two homes in Morro Bay and a card-playing club in Paso Robles, California, United States on Novembe ...

(1992), American spree killer, gunshot * Nick Drake (1974), English singer-songwriter, overdose of

amitriptyline Amitriptyline, sold under the brand name Elavil among others, is a tricyclic antidepressant primarily used to treat cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS), major depressive disorder and a variety of pain syndromes from neuropathic pain to fibromyalgi ...

tablets *

Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus (born no later than 93 BC – died 42 BC) was a senator and praetor of the Roman Republic. He was born with the name ''Appius Claudius Pulcher'', into the patrician family of the Claudii Pulchri but adopted by ...

(42 BC), Roman senator *

Pete Duel Peter Ellstrom Deuel (February 24, 1940 – December 31, 1971), known professionally as Pete Duel, was an American stage, television, and film actor, best known for his starring role as outlaw Hannibal Heyes (alias Joshua Smith) in the tel ...

(1971), American actor, gunshot * Dave Duerson (2011),

safety Safety is the state of being "safe", the condition of being protected from harm or other danger. Safety can also refer to the control of recognized hazards in order to achieve an acceptable level of risk. Meanings There are two slightly dif ...

for the Chicago Bears, New York Giants, and

Phoenix Cardinals The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The Cardinals compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) West division, and play t ...

, gunshot to the chest *

Theresa Duncan Theresa Duncan (October 26, 1966 – July 10, 2007) was an American video game designer, blogger, filmmaker and critic. By the late 1990s, she was recognized as one of the most critically acclaimed game designers for young girls. Career Dunc ...

(2007), American video game designer, blogger, filmmaker and critic, ingestion of Tylenol and alcohol * R. Budd Dwyer (1987), American politician, gunshot to mouth

E

George Eastman George Eastman (July 12, 1854March 14, 1932) was an American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream. He was a major philanthropist, establishing the Eastman ...

(1932), American inventor and philanthropist, gunshot to heart * Volker Eckert (2007), German serial killer, hanging * Edward I. Edwards (1931), American politician, gunshot to head * Mack Ray Edwards (1971), American serial killer, hanging * Naima El Bezaz (2020), Moroccan-Dutch writer * Keith Emerson (2016), English rock musician, keyboardist, and composer for the bands

The Nice The Nice were an English progressive rock band active in the late 1960s. They blended rock, jazz and classical music and were keyboardist Keith Emerson's first commercially successful band. The group was formed in 1967 by Emerson, Lee Jack ...

and

Emerson, Lake & Palmer Emerson, Lake & Palmer (informally known as ELP) were an English progressive rock supergroup formed in London in 1970. The band consisted of Keith Emerson (keyboards), Greg Lake (vocals, bass, guitar, producer) and Carl Palmer (drums, percus ...

, gunshot to the head *

Martin Emond Martin Emond (4 June 1969 in New Zealand – March 2004 in Los Angeles, California, United States), also known under the pseudonyms "Martin Fuckin Emond", "Martyfuck", "Martywood", "Mickey Martin" and "MFE", was a New Zealand cartoon illustra ...

(2004), New Zealand cartoonist and painter, hanging *

Empedocles Empedocles (; grc-gre, Ἐμπεδοκλῆς; , 444–443 BC) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a native citizen of Akragas, a Greek city in Sicily. Empedocles' philosophy is best known for originating the cosmogonic theory of the ...

(c. 430 BC), Greek philosopher, leapt into Mount Etna * Robert Enke (2009), German

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

, struck by train *

Gudrun Ensslin Gudrun Ensslin (; 15 August 1940 – 18 October 1977) was a German far-left terrorist and founder of the West German far-left militant group Red Army Faction (, or RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang). After becoming involved with co-foun ...

(1977), German

terrorist, hanging. *

Peg Entwistle Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle (5 February 1908 – 16 September 1932) was a British stage and screen actress. She began her stage career in 1925, appearing in several Broadway productions. She appeared in only one film, '' Thirteen Women'', ...

(1932), Welsh-born American actress, leapt from the "H" in the Hollywood Sign * Epicharis (65 AD), Roman leading member of the

Pisonian conspiracy The conspiracy of Gaius Calpurnius Piso in AD 65 was a in the reign of the Roman emperor Nero (reign 54–68). The plot reflected the growing discontent among the ruling class of the Roman state with Nero's increasingly despotic leadership, a ...

, strangled herself with a band of cloth * Eratosthenes (194 BC), Greek

polymath A polymath ( el, πολυμαθής, , "having learned much"; la, homo universalis, "universal human") is an individual whose knowledge spans a substantial number of subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific pro ...

and chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria, voluntary starvation * Ermanaric (376 AD), king of the

Greuthungi The Greuthungi (also spelled Greutungi) were a Gothic people who lived on the Pontic steppe between the Dniester and Don rivers in what is now Ukraine, in the 3rd and the 4th centuries. They had close contacts with the Tervingi, another Gothic ...

Etika Desmond Daniel Amofah (May 12, 1990 – June 19, 2019), better known as Etika, was an American YouTuber and online streamer. He was best known for his highly energetic reactions to '' Super Smash Bros.'' character reveals and Nintendo Direct ...

(2019), American

YouTuber A YouTuber is an online personality and/or influencer who produces videos on the video-sharing platform YouTube, typically posting to their personal YouTube channel. The term was first used in the English language in 2006. Influence Influe ...

and streamer, drowned after jumping from the Manhattan Bridge * Euphrates the Stoic (118 AD), Roman

Stoic Stoic may refer to: * An adherent of Stoicism; one whose moral quality is associated with that school of philosophy * STOIC, a programming language * ''Stoic'' (film), a 2009 film by Uwe Boll * ''Stoic'' (mixtape), a 2012 mixtape by rapper T-Pain * ...

philosopher, hemlock poisoning *

Eurydice II of Macedon Eurydice (Greek: Εὐρυδίκη ''Eurydike''; died 317 BC) was the Queen of Macedon, wife of Philip III, daughter of Amyntas IV, son of Perdiccas III, and Cynane, daughter of Philip II and his first wife Audata. Biography Early life Eurydic ...

(317 BC), Queen of

Macedon Macedonia (; grc-gre, Μακεδονία), also called Macedon (), was an Classical antiquity, ancient monarchy, kingdom on the periphery of Archaic Greece, Archaic and Classical Greece, and later the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. Th ...

, hanging * Tom Evans (1983), English musician and songwriter for the group

Badfinger Badfinger were a Welsh rock band formed in Swansea, who were active from the 1960s to the 1980s. Their best-known lineup consisted of Pete Ham (vocals, guitar), Mike Gibbins (drums), Tom Evans (bass), and Joey Molland (guitar). They are rec ...

, hanging.Clark, Nick (April 26, 2013)
"Badfinger: last act in a rock'n'roll tragedy"
''The Independent''. *

Richard Evonitz Richard Marc Edward Evonitz (July 29, 1963 – June 27, 2002) was an American serial killer, kidnapper, and rapist responsible for the deaths of three teenaged girls in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, and the abduction and rape of a 15-year-ol ...

(2002), American serial killer and kidnapper

F

* Angus Fairhurst (2008), English artist, hanging * Enevold de Falsen (1808), Norwegian Supreme Court Justice, drowning * Moni Fanan (2009), Israeli basketball executive

Maccabi Tel Aviv Maccabi Tel Aviv ( he, מכבי תל אביב) is one of the largest sports clubs in Israel, and a part of the Maccabi association. Many sports clubs and teams in Tel Aviv are in association with Maccabi and compete in a variety of sports, such ...

, hanging * Gaius Fuficius Fango (40 BC), Roman general and politician *

Fausto Fanti Fausto Fanti Jasmin (October 20, 1978 – July 30, 2014) was a Brazilian actor, humorist and musician. He was one of the founding members of the comedy troupe Hermes & Renato and the original guitarist of parodic heavy metal band Massacration u ...

(2014), Brazilian humorist known as a member of the comedy troupe Hermes & Renato, and guitarist for

Massacration Massacration is a fictional American heavy metal band created by Brazilian humorists and musicians Bruno Sutter (as vocalist Detonator), Fausto Fanti (as lead guitarist Blondie Hammett), Marco Antônio Alves (as bassist Metal Avenger), Adriano ...

, hanging *

Richard Farnsworth Richard William Farnsworth (September 1, 1920 – October 6, 2000) was an American actor and stuntman. He was twice nominated for an Academy Award: in 1978 for Best Supporting Actor for ''Comes a Horseman,'' and in 2000 for Best Actor in '' T ...

(2000), American actor, gunshot * Justin Fashanu (1998), British footballer, hanging *

René Favaloro René Gerónimo Favaloro (July 12, 1923 – July 29, 2000) was an Argentine cardiac surgeon and educator best known for his pioneering work on coronary artery bypass surgery using the great saphenous vein. Early life Favaloro was born in 1 ...

(2000), Argentine cardiac surgeon (created technique for coronary

bypass surgery Bypass surgery refers to a class of surgery involving rerouting a tubular body part. Types include: * Vascular bypass surgery such as coronary artery bypass surgery, a heart operation * Cardiopulmonary bypass, a technique used in coronary artery ...

), gunshot to the heart * José Feghali (2014), Brazilian pianist, winner of the 1985

Van Cliburn International Piano Competition The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (The Cliburn) is an American piano competition by The Cliburn, first held in 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas and hosted by the Van Cliburn Foundation. Initially held at Texas Christian University, the c ...

, gunshot to head *

Anton Fier Anton Fier (June 20, 1956 – September 14, 2022) was an American drummer, producer, composer, and bandleader. Family Fier, known as Tony, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Ruthe Marie Fier and Anton J. Fier Jr., a former Marine and electrician. ...

(2022), American drummer, composer and bandleader, assisted suicide *

Hans Fischer Hans Fischer (; 27 July 1881 – 31 March 1945) was a German organic chemist and the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Chemistry "for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially for his synthesis of ha ...

(1945), German organic chemist and recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry *

Hermann Emil Fischer Hermann Emil Louis Fischer (; 9 October 1852 – 15 July 1919) was a German chemist and 1902 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He discovered the Fischer esterification. He also developed the Fischer projection, a symbolic way of dra ...

(1919), German chemist and recipient of the 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry *

Robert FitzRoy Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy (5 July 1805 – 30 April 1865) was an English officer of the Royal Navy and a scientist. He achieved lasting fame as the captain of during Charles Darwin's famous voyage, FitzRoy's second expedition to Tierra de ...

(1865), English

meteorologist A meteorologist is a scientist who studies and works in the field of meteorology aiming to understand or predict Earth's atmospheric phenomena including the weather. Those who study meteorological phenomena are meteorologists in research, while t ...

, surveyor, hydrographer,

Governor A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...

of New Zealand and captain of during

Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended ...

's second voyage of ''HMS Beagle'', slit throat * Quintus Fulvius Flaccus (172 BC), Roman consul, hanging *

Caroline Flack Caroline Louise Flack (9 November 1979 – 15 February 2020) was an English television and radio presenter and actress. She won the twelfth series of BBC’s ''Strictly Come Dancing'' in 2014 and presented '' The X Factor'' and later ''Love Is ...

(2020), English radio and television presenter, hanging *

Ed Flanders Edward Paul Flanders (December 29, 1934 – February 22, 1995) was an American actor. He is best known for playing Dr. Donald Westphall in the medical drama series ''St. Elsewhere'' (1982–1988). Flanders was nominated for eight Primetime Emm ...

(1995), American actor, gunshot *

John Bernard Flannagan John Bernard Flannagan (April 7, 1895 – January 6, 1942) was an American sculptor. Along with Robert Laurent and William Zorach, he is known as one of the first practitioners of direct carving (also known as ''taille directe'') in the Unite ...

(1942), American sculptor *

Frederick Fleet Frederick Fleet (15 October 1887 – 10 January 1965) was a British sailor, crewman and a survivor of the sinking of the . Fleet, along with fellow lookout Reginald Lee, was on duty when the ship struck the iceberg; it was Fleet who first ...

(1965), English sailor and lookout on the ''

RMS Titanic RMS ''Titanic'' was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United ...

'' who first spotted the iceberg that struck the vessel, hanging *

Mark Fleischman Mark Harvey Fleischman (February 1, 1940 – July 13, 2022) was an American businessman. He is best known for being the onetime owner of Studio 54. Career In 1981, Fleischman bought Studio 54 from its original owners Steve Rubell and Ian Sch ...

(2022), American businessman and onetime owner of Studio 54, assisted suicide with the aid of the assisted dying non-profit Dignitas *

Keith Flint Keith Charles Flint (17 September 1969 – 4 March 2019) was an English singer and member as well as one of the vocalists of the electronic dance act The Prodigy. Starting out as a dancer, he became the vocalist of the group and performed on th ...

(2019), English singer and dancer for The Prodigy, hanging * Charley Ford (1884), American outlaw, gunshot * Tom Forman (1926), American actor, director and producer, gunshot * André "Dédé" Fortin (2000), Canadian songwriter, singer and guitarist ( Les Colocs), stabbing *

Vince Foster Vincent Walker Foster Jr. (January 15, 1945 – July 20, 1993) was an American attorney who served as deputy White House counsel during the first six months of the Clinton administration. Foster had been a partner at Rose Law Firm in Lit ...

(1993), American attorney and Deputy White House Counsel to

Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...

, gunshot to mouth *

Jason David Frank Jason David Frank (September 4, 1973 – November 19, 2022) was an American actor and martial artist. He was known for his role as Tommy Oliver in ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' and other ''Power Rangers'' series. Early life Frank was born in ...

(2022), American actor (

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers ''Mighty Power Rangers'' (''MMPR'') is a superhero television series that premiered on August 28, 1993, on the Fox Kids programming block. It is the first entry of the ''Power Rangers'' franchise, and became a 1990s pop culture phenomenon along ...

Sweet Valley High ''Sweet Valley High'' is a series of young adult novels attributed to American author Francine Pascal, who presided over a team of ghostwriters to produce the series. The books chronicle the lives of identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefi ...

, The Junior Defenders), hanging * Wade Frankum (1991), Australian mass murderer who perpetrated the Strathfield massacre, gunshot * Kelly Fraser (2019), Canadian pop singer and songwriter *

Ryan Freel Ryan Paul Freel (March 8, 1976 – December 22, 2012) was an American professional baseball player. A utility player, Freel played second base, third base, and all three outfield positions in Major League Baseball for the Baltimore Orioles, Chicag ...

(2012), American professional baseball player, gunshot * John Friedrich (1991), Australian fraudster, gunshot * Emil Fuchs (1929), Austrian-American sculptor, gunshot * Fujimura Misao (1902), Japanese philosophy student and poet, jumped from the

Kegon Falls is located at Lake Chūzenji (source of the Oshiri River) in Nikkō National Park near the city of Nikkō, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. The falls were formed when the Daiya River was rerouted by lava flows. The main falls had a height of appro ...

* Anton Furst (1991), English production designer on '' Batman'' (1989), jump from an eighth story parking garage

G

* Anthony Galindo (2020), Venezuelan singer *

Alan García Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez (; 23 May 1949 – 17 April 2019) was a Peruvian politician who served as President of Peru for two non-consecutive terms from 1985 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2011. He was the second leader of the Peruvian Apris ...

(2019), Peruvian politician who served as

President of Peru The president of Peru ( es, link=no, presidente del Perú), officially called the president of the Republic of Peru ( es, link=no, presidente de la República del Perú), is the head of state and head of government of Peru. The president is th ...

from 1985 to 1990 and again from 2006 to 2011, gunshot * Jamir Garcia (2020), Filipino singer, vocalist of the band Slapshock, hanging * Santiago García (2021), Uruguayan soccer player, gunshot *

Danny Gatton Daniel Wood Gatton Jr. (September 4, 1945 – October 4, 1994) was an American virtuoso guitarist who combined blues, rockabilly, jazz, and country to create a musical style he called "redneck jazz". Career Daniel Wood Gatton Jr. was born in ...

(1994), American guitarist, gunshot * John Geddert (2021), American gymnastics coach, gunshot shortly after being charged with 24 felony counts related to sexual abuse of his trainees * Helen Palmer (1967), American author and actress who was the first wife of famed children's author Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, barbiturate overdose *

Richard Gerstl Richard Gerstl (14 September 1883 – 4 November 1908) was an Austrian painter and draughtsman known for his expressive psychologically insightful portraits, his lack of critical acclaim during his lifetime, and his affair with the wife of Ar ...

(1908), Austrian painter, stabbing and hanging * Babak Ghorbani (2014), Iranian wrestler, overdose *

Jeremy Giambi Jeremy Dean Giambi (; September 30, 1974 – February 9, 2022) was an American outfielder and first baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for four teams from 1998 to 2003, primarily the Oakland Athletics, where he was a teammate of h ...

(2022), American retired baseball player, gunshot to chest *

Karl Giese Karl Giese (18 October 1898 – March 1938) was a German archivist, museum curator, and the life partner of Magnus Hirschfeld. Biography Early years Giese was the youngest of six children of a working-class family and had three brothers and ...

(1938), German archivist, museum curator and life partner of

Magnus Hirschfeld Magnus Hirschfeld (14 May 1868 – 14 May 1935) was a German physician and sexologist. Hirschfeld was educated in philosophy, philology and medicine. An outspoken advocate for sexual minorities, Hirschfeld founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Com ...

Gildo Gildo (died 398) was a Roman Berber general in the province of Mauretania Caesariensis. He revolted against Honorius and the Western Roman Empire ( Gildonic war), but was defeated and possibly committed suicide or was assassinated. Etymology Th ...

(398 AD), Roman Berber general and rebel leader, hanging *

Rex Gildo Rex Gildo (formerly Alexander Gildo, born Ludwig Franz Hirtreiter; 2 July 1936 – 26 October 1999) was a German singer of Schlager ballads who reached the height of his popularity in the 1960s and 1970s, selling over 25 million records and st ...

(1999), German singer and actor, jump from his third-floor apartment window * Sam Gillespie (2003), philosopher whose writings and translations were crucial to the initial reception of

Alain Badiou Alain Badiou (; ; born 17 January 1937) is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure (ENS) and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Fouca ...

's work in the English-speaking world *

Claude Gillingwater Claude Benton Gillingwater (August 2, 1870 – November 1, 1939) was an American stage and screen actor. He first appeared on the stage then in more than 90 films between 1918 and 1939, including the Academy Award-nominated ''A Tale of Two ...

(1939), American actor, gunshot *

Charlotte Perkins Gilman Charlotte Perkins Gilman (; née Perkins; July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935), also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, advocate for social reform, and eugenicist. She w ...

(1935), American writer, chloroform overdose *

Kurt Gloor Kurt Gloor (8 November 1942 – 20 September 1997) was a Swiss film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed eleven films between 1967 and 1992. His 1976 film '' The Sudden Loneliness of Konrad Steiner'' was entered into the 26t ...

(1997), Swiss film director, screenwriter and producer * John Wayne Glover (2005), Australian serial killer, hanging * Holly Glynn (1987), a formerly unidentified young woman found in Dana Point, California, who had jumped off a cliff. Her body was not identified until 2015 * Jean-Luc Godard (2022), French-Swiss film director and film critic, assisted suicide procedure. * Joseph Goebbels (1945), Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister, gunshot or cyanide poisoning. *

Magda Goebbels Johanna Maria Magdalena "Magda" Goebbels (née Ritschel; 11 November 1901 – 1 May 1945) was the wife of Nazi Germany's Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. A prominent member of the Nazi Party, she was a close ally, companion, and politic ...

(1945), German wife of Joseph Goebbels, assisted suicide by gunshot or cyanide poisoning. *

Gongsun Zan Gongsun Zan () (before 161 - April or May 199), courtesy name Bogui, was a Chinese military general, politician, and warlord who lived during the late Eastern Han dynasty. Life Little is known of Gongsun Zan's early life. He and Liu Bei stu ...

(199 AD), Chinese general and

warlord A warlord is a person who exercises military, economic, and political control over a region in a country without a strong national government; largely because of coercive control over the armed forces. Warlords have existed throughout much of h ...

, setting himself and his family on fire * David Goodall (2018), English-born Australian botanist and ecologist, physician-assisted suicide * Gordian I (238 AD), Roman emperor, hanging *

Adam Lindsay Gordon Adam Lindsay Gordon (19 October 1833 – 24 June 1870) was a British-Australian poet, horseman, police officer and politician. He was the first Australian poet to gain considerable recognition overseas, and according to his contemporary, write ...

(1870), Australian poet, gunshot * Lucy Gordon (2009), English actress and model, hanging * Gōri Daisuke (2010), Japanese voice actor, narrator and actor, cut his wrist *

Hermann Göring Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering; ; 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German politician, military leader and convicted war criminal. He was one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party, which ruled Germany from 1933 to 1 ...

(1946), German politician, military leader, major figure in Nazi Party, potassium cyanide *

Arshile Gorky Arshile Gorky (; born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, hy, Ոստանիկ Մանուկ Ատոյեան; April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. He spent the last years of hi ...

(1948), Armenian American painter; hanging * Joachim Gottschalk (1941), German stage and film actor, gas inhalation *

Gaius Gracchus Gaius Sempronius Gracchus ( – 121 BC) was a reformist Roman politician in the 2nd century BC. He is most famous for his tribunate for the years 123 and 122 BC, in which he proposed a wide set of laws, including laws to establish ...

(121 BC), Roman politician, reformer and tribune, ordered a slave to kill him *

Eddie Graham Edward F. Gossett (January 15, 1930 – January 21, 1985), better known as Eddie Graham, was an American professional wrestler. He was also the promoter and booker for Championship Wrestling from Florida and President of the NWA in the 1970s. ...

(1985), American professional wrester, gunshot * Frank Graham (1950), American voice actor and radio announcer, carbon monoxide poisoning * Mike Graham (2012), American professional wrestler, gunshot *

Phil Graham Philip Leslie Graham (July 18, 1915 – August 3, 1963) was an American newspaperman. He served as publisher and later co-owner of ''The Washington Post'' and its parent company, The Washington Post Company. During his years with the Post Comp ...

(1963), American newspaper publisher, shotgun blast *

Sophie Gradon Sophie Hannah Gradon (25 October 1985 – 20 June 2018) was an English model. In 2008, she won Miss Newcastle. In 2009, Gradon won the title Miss Great Britain. In 2016, she was a contestant on the second series of ITV2's ''Love Island''. Ear ...

(2018), English model and television personality, hanging *

Wolfgang Grams Wolfgang Grams (March 6, 1953 – June 27, 1993) was a member of the Red Army Faction (RAF), a German far-left terrorist organisation. Life Wolfgang Grams was born in Wiesbaden, Germany. His parents, Werner and Ruth Grams, were expelled f ...

(1993), German

terrorist, gunshot * Bob Grant (2003), English actor, carbon monoxide poisoning *

Shauna Grant Colleen Marie Applegate, known professionally as Shauna Grant (May 30, 1963 – March 23, 1984), was an American pornographic actress and nude model. She ran away from her small town in Minnesota and proceeded to appear in over 30 pornographic ...

(1984), American porn actress, gunshot * Spalding Gray (2004), American actor, playwright, screenwriter, performance artist, and monologuist, jumped off the Staten Island Ferry * Mark Green (2004), American record-setting minor league hockey star, hanging *

Larry Grey Lawrence Grey (March 23, 1895 – May 5, 1951) was an English magician known for his card tricks. He also worked as an occasional actor and is known for voicing Bill the Lizard in Walt Disney's ''Alice in Wonderland''. Biography Larry Grey was ...

(1951), English magician and actor, gunshot * Walter Groß (1945), German physician, politician,

eugenicist Eugenics ( ; ) is a fringe set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population. Historically, eugenicists have attempted to alter human gene pools by excluding people and groups judged to be inferior or ...

and

race theorist Scientific racism, sometimes termed biological racism, is the pseudoscience, pseudoscientific belief that empirical evidence exists to support or justify racism (racial discrimination), racial inferiority, or racial superiority.. "Few tragedies ...

Carl Großmann Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann (13 December 1863 – 5 July 1922) was a German serial killer, sexual predator, and alleged cannibal, though it was never proven that he cannibalized his victims. He committed suicide while awaiting the end o ...

(1922), German serial killer, hanging *

Theodor Grotthuss Freiherr Christian Johann Dietrich Theodor von Grotthuss (20 January 1785 – 26 March 1822) was a Baltic German scientist known for establishing the first theory of electrolysis in 1806 and formulating the first law of photochemistry in 1817. His ...

(1822), German chemist * Paul Gruchow (2004), American writer, drug overdose

H

Charlie Haeger Charles Wallis Haeger (September 19, 1983October 3, 2020) was an American professional baseball player. He was one of the few knuckleball pitchers in Major League Baseball (MLB) during his career. He played in MLB for the Chicago White Sox, San ...

(2020), American baseball player, gunshot *

Jason Hairston Jason Hairston (July 17, 1971 – September 4, 2018) was an American businessman and American football player who played in the National Football League (NFL). He was the founder and CEO of Kuiu, a hunting gear company. Hairston grew up in Southe ...

(2018), American football player *

Lillian Hall-Davis Lillian Hall-Davis (23 June 1898 – 25 October 1933) was an English actress during the silent film era, featured in major roles in English film and a number of German, French and Italian films. Born Lilian Hall Davis, the daughter of a London ...

(1933), English actress, carbon monoxide poisoning and cut throat * Ryan Halligan (2003), bullied American middle school student, hanging *

Pete Ham Peter William Ham (27 April 1947 – 24 April 1975) was a Welsh singer, songwriter and guitarist best known as a lead vocalist of and composer for the 1970s rock band Badfinger, whose hit songs include " No Matter What", " Day After Day" and " ...

(1975), Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist for the band

, hanging. *

Tony Halme Tony Christian Halme (January 6, 1963 – January 8, 2010) was a Finnish politician, athlete, author, actor, and singer. He was a member of the Finnish Parliament from 2003 to 2007, representing the True Finns party as an independent politician ...

(2010), Finnish athlete, actor and politician, gunshot *

Bernardine Hamaekers Caroline Frédérique Bernardine Hamaekers (12 June 1836 – 24 October 1912) was a Belgian soprano prominent in the opera houses and ''demimonde'' of Paris from the mid-1850s through 1869. For a time she was the mistress of Napoleon III, but had ...

(1912), Belgian opera singer, cut throat with shattered drinking glass *

Rusty Hamer Russell Craig "Rusty" Hamer (February 15, 1947 – January 18, 1990) was an American stage, film and television actor. He is best known for portraying Rusty Williams, the wisecracking son of entertainer Danny Williams ( Danny Thomas), on the ...

(1990), American actor, gunshot * David Hamilton (2016), British photographer and filmmaker known for his nudes of pubescent girls, asphyxiation via plastic bag after several of his models accused him of rape * Hampsicora (215 BC),

Sardo Sardo is a hard, grating cow's milk Argentine cheese that is similar to Pecorino Romano, although the latter is made from sheep's milk and is sharper. Sardo comes from Argentina, and is not to be confused with Pecorino Sardo, another Italian shee ...

Punic The Punic people, or western Phoenicians, were a Semitic people in the Western Mediterranean who migrated from Tyre, Phoenicia to North Africa during the Early Iron Age. In modern scholarship, the term ''Punic'' – the Latin equivalent of t ...

political leader, landowner and anti-Roman rebel leader *

Tony Hancock Anthony John Hancock (12 May 1924 – 25 June 1968) was an English comedian and actor. High-profile during the 1950s and early 1960s, he had a major success with his BBC series ''Hancock's Half Hour'', first broadcast on radio from 1954, ...

(1968), English comedian, overdose by vodka and amphetamines * Hannibal (ca 182 BC), Carthaginian commander during the Second Punic War, poison *

Goo Hara Goo Hara (; January 3, 1991 – November 24, 2019), also known mononymously as Hara, was a South Korean pop singer and actress. She was a member of the girl group Kara (South Korean group), Kara, and had also appeared in television dramas inc ...

(2019), South Korean singer *

James Harden-Hickey James Harden-Hickey (born James Aloysius Harden, December 8, 1854 – February 9, 1898) was a Franco-American author, newspaper editor, duellist, adventurer and self-proclaimed Prince of Trinidad, reigning as James I. Early life James Aloysius ...

(1898), Franco-American author, newspaper editor, duellist, adventurer and self-proclaimed Prince of Trinidad, overdose of morphine * Marlia Hardi (1984), Indonesian actress, hanging *

Eric Harris Eric David Harris (April 9, 1981 – April 20, 1999) and Dylan Bennet Klebold (; September 11, 1981 – April 20, 1999) were an American mass murder duo who perpetrated the Columbine High School massacre on April 20, 1999. Harris and Klebo ...

(1999), one of the two American high school seniors who committed the Columbine High School massacre, gunshot."Columbine Documents"
JC-001-025923 through JC-001-026859; Jefferson County Sheriff's Office; ''

Rocky Mountain News The ''Rocky Mountain News'' (nicknamed the ''Rocky'') was a daily newspaper published in Denver, Colorado, United States, from April 23, 1859, until February 27, 2009. It was owned by the E. W. Scripps Company from 1926 until its closing. As ...

'' *

Brynn Hartman Philip Edward Hartman (; September 24, 1948 – May 28, 1998) was a Canadian-American actor, comedian, screenwriter and graphic designer. Hartman was born in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, and his family moved to the United States w ...

(1998), wife of comedian and actor

Phil Hartman Philip Edward Hartman (; September 24, 1948 – May 28, 1998) was a Canadian-American actor, comedian, screenwriter and graphic designer. Hartman was born in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, and his family moved to the United States w ...

, shot herself after murdering Hartman *

Elizabeth Hartman Mary Elizabeth Hartman (December 23, 1943 – June 10, 1987) was an American actress of the stage and screen. She debuted in the popular 1965 film ''A Patch of Blue'', playing a blind girl named Selina D'Arcy, opposite Sidney Poitier, a role for ...

(1987), American actress, leapt out of fifth floor window *

Walter Hasenclever Walter Georg Alfred Hasenclever (8 July 1890 – 22 June 1940) was a German Expressionist poet and playwright. His works were banned when the Nazis came to power and he went into exile in France. There he was imprisoned as a "foreign enemy". H ...

(1940), German poet and playwright, overdose of

Veronal Barbital (or barbitone), marketed under the brand names Veronal for the pure acid and Medinal for the sodium salt, was the first commercially available barbiturate. It was used as a sleeping aid (hypnotic) from 1903 until the mid-1950s. The chemic ...

Neda Hassani Neda Hassani (1977 – 23 June 2003) was an Iranian dissident. History Neda Hassani was born to Ahmed and Foroogh Hassani, as the eldest child of an Iranian family of three children. The family left Iran in the early 1980s, taking refuge in Greec ...

(2003), Iranian protester, self-immolation in front of French embassy in London * Charles Ray Hatcher (1984), American serial killer, hanging * Donny Hathaway (1979), American musician, jumped from the 15th floor window of his hotel room *

Phyllis Haver Phyllis Maude Haver (January 6, 1899 – November 19, 1960) was an American actress of the silent film era. Early life Haver was born in Douglass, Kansas to James Hiram Haver (1872–1936) and Minnie Shanks Malone (1879–1949). When s ...

(1960), American silent film actress, barbiturate overdose * Sadegh Hedayat (1951), Iranian writer, carbon monoxide poisoning *

Marvin Heemeyer Marvin John Heemeyer (October 28, 1951 – June 4, 2004) was an American automobile muffler repair shop owner who, following a dispute with town officials, demolished numerous buildings with a modified bulldozer in Granby, Colorado, on June 4, ...

(2004), American welder who went on a rampage with a modified bulldozer, gunshot * Sarah Hegazi (2020), Egyptian LGBT activist *

Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century f ...

(1961), American writer and journalist, gunshot to head * Margaux Hemingway (1996), American fashion model, actress; overdose of

phenobarbital Phenobarbital, also known as phenobarbitone or phenobarb, sold under the brand name Luminal among others, is a medication of the barbiturate type. It is recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the treatment of certain types of ep ...

* Benjamin Hendrickson (2006), American actor, gunshot * George Hennard (1991), American mass murderer who perpetrated the Luby's shooting, gunshot * Victor Heringer (2018), Brazilian novelist and poet, winner of the 2013 Prêmio Jabuti, self-defenestration *

Aaron Hernandez Aaron Josef Hernandez (November 6, 1989 April 19, 2017) was an American football tight end. He played in the National Football League (NFL) for three seasons with the New England Patriots until his career came to an abrupt end after his arrest ...

(2017), American football player and convicted murderer, hanging in prison cell, five days after his acquittal from a separate murder charge * Rudolf Hess (1987), German Nazi leader, hanging *

Paul Hester Paul Newell Hester (8 January 1959 – 26 March 2005) was an Australian musician and television personality. He was the drummer for the band Split Enz for a short time in 1984, and co-founding member and drummer of the rock group Crowded House ...

(2005), Australian drummer for

Split Enz Split Enz were a New Zealand rock band formed in Auckland in 1972 by Tim Finn and Phil Judd and had a variety of other members during its existence. Originally started as a folk-oriented group with quirky art rock stylings, the band built ...

and Crowded House, hanging *

John Hicklenton John Hicklenton (8 May 1967 – 19 March 2010), aka John Deadstock, was a British comics artist best known for his brutal, visceral work on flagship '' 2000 AD'' characters like ''Judge Dredd'' (in particular ''Heavy Metal Dredd'') and ''Nemesi ...

(2010), British comics artist, assisted suicide the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland * hide (1998), Japanese heavy metal singer, songwriter and record producer for the metal band

X Japan was a Japanese rock band from Chiba, formed in 1982 by drummer and pianist Yoshiki and lead vocalist Toshi. Starting as a predominantly power/speed metal band with heavy symphonic elements, they later gravitated towards a progressive soun ...

, hanging *

Virginia Hill Virginia Hill (born Onie Virginia Hill; August 26, 1916 – March 24, 1966) was an American organized crime figure. An Alabama native, she became a Chicago outfit courier during the mid-1930s. She was famous for being the girlfriend of mobster B ...

(1966), American mobster, sedative overdose * Himilco (396 BC), Carthaginian general, starving himself *

Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (; 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was of the (Protection Squadron; SS), and a leading member of the Nazi Party of Germany. Himmler was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and a main architect of th ...

(1945), German Nazi leader, cyanide * Ludwig Hirsch (2011), Austrian singer, songwriter and actor, jumped from the second floor of a hospital window *

(1945), Austrian-born Nazi Germany dictator, gunshot (possibly while biting down on a cyanide capsule at the same time) * Abbie Hoffman (1989), American political and social activist; phenobarbital overdose *

Crash Holly Michael John Lockwood (August 25, 1971 – November 6, 2003) was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Entertainment from 1999 to 2003 under the ring names ...

(2003), American wrestler,

asphyxia Asphyxia or asphyxiation is a condition of deficient supply of oxygen to the body which arises from abnormal breathing. Asphyxia causes generalized hypoxia, which affects primarily the tissues and organs. There are many circumstances that ca ...

due to pulmonary aspiration as a result of an alcohol and drug overdose * Libby Holman (1971), American singer and actress, carbon monoxide poisoning * Alec Holowka (2019), Canadian video game programmer, designer, and musician * Tyler Honeycutt (2018), American basketball player (

Sacramento Kings The Sacramento Kings are an American professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California. The Kings compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Western Conference Pacific Division. The Kings are the oldest ...

Khimki Khimki ( rus, Химки, p=ˈxʲimkʲɪ) is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, 18.25 kilometres northwest of central Moscow, and immediately beyond the Moscow city boundary. History Origins and formation Khimki was initially a railway station th ...

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Doug Hopkins Douglas Owen Hopkins (April 11, 1961 – December 5, 1993) was an American musician and songwriter. He co-founded Gin Blossoms, a popular modern rock band of the early 1990s, with Richard Taylor. He was the band's lead guitarist and a princ ...

(1993), American songwriter and lead guitarist for the band

Gin Blossoms Gin Blossoms is an American alternative rock band formed in 1987 in Tempe, Arizona. They rose to prominence following the 1992 release of their first major label album, ''New Miserable Experience'', and the first single released from that albu ...

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Brita Horn Brita Margaretha Horn (1745 – 13 March 1791), was a Swedish countess and courtier. She is known for being the love interest of Charles XIII of Sweden from 1765 to 1771, during which time Charles' wish to marry her was given political significan ...

(1791), Swedish countess and courtier, drowning *

Harry Horse Richard Horne (9 May 1960, Coventry – 10 January 2007, Papil, West Burra), better known by the pen name Harry Horse, was an English author, illustrator and political cartoonist. He was also known as lead singer of the band Swamptrash. Born an ...

(2007), English author, illustrator, cartoonist and musician, stabbed himself 47 times in a murder-suicide * Silvio Horta (2020), American screenwriter and television producer, gunshot * Robert E. Howard (1936), American author probably best known for his character

Conan the Barbarian Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero who originated in pulp magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, films (including '' Conan the Barbarian'' and '' Conan the Destroyer'') ...

, gunshot to the head *

Mike Howe Mike Howe (August 21, 1965 – July 26, 2021) was an American heavy metal singer who performed with Metal Church, Heretic, and Snair. Career Howe began his career as the singer for a Detroit band called Hellion (later renamed Snair after movi ...

(2021), American singer, and member of the heavy metal band

Metal Church Metal Church is an American heavy metal band. They originally formed in San Francisco, California in 1980 and then relocated to Aberdeen, Washington the following year and briefly using the name Shrapnel. Led by guitarist and songwriter Kurdt ...

* Hu Bo (2017), Chinese novelist and director *

Jeanne Hébuterne Jeanne Hébuterne (; 6 April 1898 – 26 January 1920) was a French painter and art model best known as the frequent subject and common-law wife of the artist Amedeo Modigliani. She took her own life the day after Modigliani died, and is now bu ...

(1920), French art model and artist, threw herself out of the fifth-floor window, grief-stricken over the death of her husband, Amedeo Modigliani * Quentin Hubbard (1976), son of

L. Ron Hubbard Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986) was an American author, primarily of science fiction and fantasy stories, who is best known for having founded the Church of Scientology. In 1950, Hubbard authored '' Dianeti ...

, gas * Nicholas Hughes (2009), fisheries biologist, son of renowned poet

Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, '' Th ...

, hanging * Rodney Hulin (1996), American prison inmate who had been raped, hanging * Lester Hunt (1954), United States Senator, gunshot *

Michael Hutchence Michael Kelland John Hutchence (22 January 1960 – 22 November 1997) was an Australian musician, singer-songwriter and actor. Hutchence co-founded the rock band INXS, which sold over 75 million records worldwide and was inducted into th ...

(1997), Australian singer and songwriter ( INXS), hanging *

Phyllis Hyman Phyllis Linda Hyman (July 6, 1949 – June 30, 1995) was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Hyman is best known for her music during the late 1970s through the early 1990s, some of her most notable songs were "You Know How to Love Me" ...

(1995), American singer-songwriter and actress, overdose of

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Imai Kanehira Imai Kanehira (今井兼平, 1152-1184) was a military commander of the late Heian Period of Japan. He was the milk brother of Minamoto no Yoshinaka. He became joint commander of Yoshinaka's faction during the Genpei War after Yoshinaka met up wit ...

(1184), Japanese general, jump from his horse onto a sword he placed in his mouth * Clara Immerwahr (1915), German chemist, gunshot *

William Inge William Motter Inge (; May 3, 1913 – June 10, 1973) was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations. In the early 1950s he had a string of memorable Broad ...

(1973), American writer, carbon monoxide poisoning * Arthur Crew Inman (1963), American poet, editor and author of one of the longest diaries on record *

Hideki Irabu was a Japanese professional baseball player of American and Japanese mixed ancestry. He played professionally in both Japan and the United States. Irabu played for the Lotte Orions / Chiba Lotte Marines and Hanshin Tigers of Nippon Professiona ...

(2011), Japanese professional baseball player, hanged *

Iras The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (Dutch: ''Infrarood Astronomische Satelliet'') (IRAS) was the first space telescope to perform a survey of the entire night sky at infrared wavelengths. Launched on 25 January 1983, its mission lasted ten mo ...

(30 BC), servant and advisor of Cleopatra. * Isokelekel (17th century), semi-mythical conqueror of Pohnpei Island in the Carolines and father of the cultural system of modern Pohnpei, bled to death after severing penis * Silius Italicus (c. 103 AD), Roman consul, orator, author and poet, starvation *

Juzo Itami , born , was a Japanese actor, screenwriter and film director. He directed eleven films (one short and ten features), all of which he wrote himself. Early life Itami was born Yoshihiro Ikeuchi in Kyoto. The name Itami was passed on from his fath ...

(1997), Japanese actor and film director, jumped from building *

Bruce Ivins Bruce Edwards Ivins (; April 22, 1946July 29, 2008) was an American microbiologist, vaccinologist, senior biodefense researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland, and ...

(2008), American microbiologist and suspect in the

2001 anthrax attacks The 2001 anthrax attacks, also known as Amerithrax (a portmanteau of "America" and "anthrax", from its FBI case name), occurred in the United States over the course of several weeks beginning on September 18, 2001, one week after the September 11 ...

, overdose of paracetamol

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* Charles R. Jackson (1968), American writer, barbiturate overdose *

Marcel Jacob Marcel Karl Jacob (30 January 1964 – 21 July 2009), professionally known as Marcel Jacob, was a Swedish musician, best known as the founder, chief songwriter, and bassist of the hard rock band Talisman. For a brief period, he also played in th ...

(2009), Swedish bassist for the hard rock bands

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Yngwie Malmsteen Yngwie Johan Malmsteen ( ; born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck, 30 June 1963) is a Swedish guitarist. He first became known in the 1980s for his neoclassical playing style in heavy metal, and has released 22 studio albums in a career spanning ov ...

* Irwin L. Jacobs (2019), American businessman, CEO of

Genmar Holdings Genmar Holdings, Inc. was the second largest manufacturer of recreational motor boats, founded in 1978. It was headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota with offices in Little Falls, Minnesota and Cadillac, Michigan. In 2009, the company filed fo ...

, gunshot after murdering his wife * M. Jaishankar (2018), Indian serial killer and rapist, slitting his own throat * Rahmah ibn Jabir Al Jalhami (1826), Arab tribal leader,

pirate Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods. Those who conduct acts of piracy are called pirates, v ...

captain and admiral, blew himself up with his ship and crew *

Jill Janus Jill Janus ( née Janiszewski; September 2, 1975 – August 14, 2018) was an American singer who was the lead vocalist of heavy metal bands Huntress, The Starbreakers and Chelsea Girls. Early life and education Janus was born in the Catskill ...

(2018), American lead singer of the metal band Huntress * Jang Ja-yeon (2009), South Korean actress, hanging *

Rick Jason Rick Jason (born Richard Jacobson; May 21, 1923 – October 16, 2000) was an American actor, born in New York City, and most remembered for starring in the ABC television drama ''Combat!'' (1962–1967). Childhood An only child of Jewish parent ...

(2000), American actor, gunshot * Jaxon (2006), American cartoonist and illustrator *

Fatafat Jayalaxmi Jayalakshmi, whose popular screen name was Fatafat Jayalakshmi (also Phataphat Jayalaxmi) (1958–1980), was an Indian actress active mainly in Tamil and Telugu films. In Malayalam movies she was known as Supriya. She acted about 66 movies in ...

(1980), Indian actress, hanging *

Richard Jeni Richard John Colangelo (April 14, 1957DOB according to Jeni's Website
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(2007), American standup comedian and actor, gunshot *

Herbert Turner Jenkins Herbert Turner Jenkins (June 7, 1907 – July 20, 1990) was an American law enforcement official and the longest-serving List of Police Chiefs of Atlanta, police chief of Atlanta. Early life Herbert Turner Jenkins was born on June 7, 1907, in L ...

(1990), longest serving police chief of Atlanta, gunshot * Ryan Jenkins (2009), American contestant on the 2009 reality TV series ''Megan Wants a Millionaire'', hanging *

Jeon Mi-seon Jeon Mi-seon (December 7, 1970 – June 29, 2019) was a South Korean actress. Though best known as a supporting actress in films and television series such as '' Memories of Murder'' (2003), ''Moon Embracing the Sun'' (2012), and ''Hide and See ...

(2019), South Korean actress, hanging *

Jeong Da-bin Jeong Da-bin (March 4, 1980 – February 10, 2007) was a South Korean actress. Best known for the popular television series '' Cats on the Roof'', she died through suicide in 2007 at the age of 26. Career Born Jeong Hye-seon in Seongnam, Gyeong ...

(2007), South Korean actress, hanging * Ji Yan (224 AD), Chinese official of the state of Eastern Wu, bureaucrat and reformer *

Jiang Qing Jiang Qing (19 March 191414 May 1991), also known as Madame Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary, actress, and major political figure during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976). She was the fourth wife of Mao Zedong, the Chairman of ...

(1991), Chinese communist revolutionary, politician, actress, fourth wife of Mao Zedong and member of the Gang of Four, hanging *Empress Jingyin (82 AD), Chinese imperial consort for Emperor Zhang of Han also known as ''Consort Song'' *Prince Joachim of Prussia (1920), son of Wilhelm II, German Emperor, gunshot *Adolph Joffe (1927), Soviet revolutionary and Left Oppositionist, gunshot *Jo Min-ki (2018), South Korean actor, hanging * B. S. Johnson (1973), English novelist, poet, literary critic, sports journalist, television producer and filmmaker, cut his wrists * Dan Johnson (Kentucky politician), Dan Johnson (2017), American politician, Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, gunshot * George Robert Johnston (2004), Canadian burglar and fugitive known as the ''Ballarat Bandit'', gunshot * Greg Johnson (ice hockey), Greg Johnson (2019), Canadian ice hockey player, gunshot * J.J. Johnson (2001), American Bebop trombonist, gunshot * Daniel V. Jones (1998), American maintenance worker, gunshot * Jim Jones (1978), American cult leader and founder of Peoples Temple, gunshot * Malcolm Jones III (1996), American comic book creator known for his work on Vertigo (DC Comics), Vertigo series ''The Sandman (Vertigo), The Sandman'' * Ingrid Jonker (1965), South African poet, drowning *Tor Jonsson (1951), Norwegian poet * Luc Jouret (1994), Belgian religious leader and co-founder of Order of the Solar Temple * Pavle Jovanovic (bobsledder), Pavle Jovanonic (2020), Serbian-American Olympic bobsledder * Juba I of Numidia (46 BC), King of Numidia, double-suicide by sword with Marcus Petreius. * Judacilius (90 BC), Piceni general and leader, swallowed poison and ordered to be set on fire * Naomi Judd (2022), American country music singer and actress, gunshot * Claude Jutra (1987), Canadian film director, actor and screenwriter, drowning

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* Kari Kairamo (1988), Finnish CEO and chairman of telecommunications company Nokia, hanging * Romas Kalanta (1972), Lithuanian high school student, self-immolation * Antonie Kamerling (2010), Dutch actor and musician, hanging * Sayaka Kanda (2021), Japanese actress and singer, jumped from an upper floor of a hotel * Sarah Kane (1999), English writer, hanging * Chris Kanyon (2010), American professional wrestler, overdose of anti-depressant pills * Kostas Karyotakis (1928), Greek poet, gunshot * Ricky Kasso (1984), American murderer, hanging * Bruno Kastner (1932), German actor, hanging * Kazuhiko Katō (2009), Japanese musician, hanging * Yasunari Kawabata (1972), Japanese writer, gassing * Kentaro Kawatsu, Kawatsu Kentarō (1970), Japanese swimmer, self-immolation * Andrew Kehoe (1927), American mass murderer, detonated truck full of dynamite while inside * Brian Keith (1997), American actor, gunshot * Mike Kelley (artist), Mike Kelley (2012), American artist, carbon monoxide poisoning * Israel Keyes (2012), American serial killer, slit wrists and strangulation * Jiah Khan (2013), British American actress of Indian descent, hanging * Sahar Khodayari (2019), Iranian activist who self-immolated in front of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Tehran * Margot Kidder (2018), Canadian-American actress, known for her role as Lois Lane in ''Superman'' feature films, drug and alcohol overdose * Daul Kim (2009), South Korean model and blogger, hanged in her Paris apartment * Kim Ji-hoon (singer), Kim Ji-hoon (2013), South Korean singer-songwriter (Two Two) and actor, hanging *Kim Jong-hyun (2017), South Korean singer-songwriter, radio host, and member of boy band SHINee, carbon monoxide poisoning * Korean Air Flight 858, Kim Sung-il (1987), North Korean agent who, together with Kim Hyon-hui, was responsible for the Korean Air Flight 858 bombing, bit into a cyanide-laced cigarette * Kim Yu-ri, Yu-ri Kim (2011), South Korean model, poison * Hana Kimura (2020), Japanese wrestler, hydrogen sulfide poisoning * Allyn King (1930), American actress, jumped from a fifth story window * Syd King (1933), English footballer and football manager, ingestion of corrosive liquid * Uday Kiran (2014), Indian actor, hanging * Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1938), German artist, gunshot * Stan Kirsch (2020), American actor, hanging * R. B. Kitaj (2007), American artist, suffocation * John Kivela (2017), American politician, hanging * Dylan Klebold (1999), one of the two American high school seniors who committed the Columbine High School massacre, gunshot. * Heinrich von Kleist (1811), German author, poet and journalist, gunshot * Billy Knight (basketball, born 1979), Billy Knight (2018), UCLA basketball player, self-inflicted blunt force injuries * Ilse Koch (1967), Nazi war criminal, hanging * Andrew Koenig (2010), American actor, hanging *Arthur Koestler (1983), Hungarian-British author, novelist known for the antitotalitarian novel ''Darkness At Noon'', barbiturates * Hannelore Kohl (2001), German wife of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, overdose of sleeping pills * Lawrence Kohlberg (1987), American developmental psychologist, drowning * Suicide of Takako Konishi, Takako Konishi (2001), Japanese office worker known for an urban legend surrounding her death, froze to death * Fumimaro Konoe (1945), Japanese prime minister, poison *Ruslana Korshunova (2008), Kazakhstani model, aged 20, jumped from the ninth-floor balcony of her apartment in New York City * Gé Korsten (1999), South African artist, gunshot * Jerzy Kosinski (1991), Polish-born American writer, suffocation with plastic bag *Death of Milica Kostić, Milica Kostić (1974), Serbian-Yugoslavian high school student, jump from the 12th floor of a building while fleeing a rapist * Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Kovalenko, Oleksandr Kovalenko (2010), Ukrainian football player and referee, jumped from his apartment * Hans Krebs (Wehrmacht general), Hans Krebs (1945), German general and Chief of Staff of the OKH, gunshot. * Winnenden school shooting#Perpetrator, Tim Kretschmer (2009), German student and mass shooter, gunshot * Norbert Kröcher (2016), German 2 June Movement terrorist, gunshot * Cheslie Kryst (2022), American model and presenter known as Miss USA 2019, suicide by jumping from height, jump from a Manhattan high-rise * Aleksandr Krymov (1917), Russian general, gunshot to the heart * Ashwani Kumar (police officer), Ashwani Kumar (2020), Indian police officer and politician who served as List of governors of Nagaland, governor of Nagaland from 2013 to 2014, hanging * Hsu Kun-yuan (2020), Taiwanese politician, jumped off his home * Kuyili (1780), Indian freedom fighter. Applied ghee, set herself ablaze and jumped into the armoury of the British * Richard Kyanka (2021), American web developer and founder of Something Awful, gunshot.

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* L'Inconnue de la Seine (late 1880s), unidentified French woman pulled out of the Seine, known for the influence of her death mask on literature and art * Deborah Laake (2000), American columnist and writer, overdose of pills * Titus Labienus (historian), Titus Labienus (8 AD), Roman lawyer, orator and historian * Leonard Lake (1985), American serial killer, ingesting cyanide capsules * Paul Lambert (media producer), Paul Lambert (2020), British television journalist, producer and communications director * Vilho Lampi (1936), Finnish painter, jumped from bridge * Karen Lancaume (2005), French pornographic film actress, overdose of temazepam * Carole Landis (1948), American actress, overdose of Secobarbital pills * James Henry Lane (Union general), James Henry Lane (1866), American partisan, abolitionist, senator and Union (American Civil War), Union general, gunshot to the head * Andrew E. Lange (2010), American astrophysicist * Hans Langsdorff (1939), German naval officer and ''Kapitän zur See'', gunshot * Adam Lanza (2012), perpetrator of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, gunshot to the head * Don Lapre (2011), American television pitchman noted for several products, cut throat with a razor blade * Mariano José de Larra (1837), Spanish writer, gunshot * Anna Laughlin (1937), American actress, gas poisoning * Florence Lawrence (1938), Canadian-American silent film actress, poisoning *Lee Eun-ju (2005), South Korean actress, slit wrists and hanging *Lee Hye-Ryeon (2007), South Korean singer, known as U;Nee, hanging * Jon Lee (drummer), Jon Lee (2002), Welsh drummer for the British rock band Feeder (band), Feeder, hanging * Valery Legasov (1988), Soviet-Russian inorganic chemist, member of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster commission, hanging * Friedrich Leibacher (2001), Swiss mass murderer, gunshot * Megan Leigh (1990), American pornographic actress, gunshot wound to the headJohnson, John (July 16, 1994)
"Suicide of Young Superstar Weighs on Porn Industry Tragedy: Pampered, wild Shannon Wilsey, known as Savannah, was the third actress to take her life"
''Los Angeles Times''. *Lemp Mansion, Lemp Family (1949), Four members of the St. Louis Lemp Brewery, Lemp Brewing family, gunshots * Dave Lepard (2006), Swedish singer and guitarist (Crashdïet), hanging * Marc Lépine (1989), Canadian perpetrator of the École Polytechnique massacre, shot himself after killing 14 women * Andrzej Lepper (2011), Polish politician known as the leader of Samoobrona RP (Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland), hanging * Arnie Lerma (2018), American former Scientologist and critic of Scientology, gunshot * Eugene Lester (1940), former Justice and Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, gunshot to the head * Amy Levy (1889), British writer inhaling charcoal gas * Suicide of Harry Lew, Harry Lew (2011), United States Marine, gunshot * Ephraim Lewis (1994), English singer, jumped off a fourth floor balcony * Robert Ley (1945), German Nazi politician and leader of the German Labour Front, hanging * Chris Lighty (2012), American music industry executive and manager, gunshot * lil' Chris (2015), English pop singer, hanging * Lil Loaded (2021), American rapper, gunshot to head * Max Linder (1925), French film and stage actor, double suicide with wife Hélène "Jean" Peters, veronal and morphine ingestion, cut wrists * Vachel Lindsay (1931), American poet, poison * Diane Linkletter (1969), American actress and daughter of Art Linkletter, jump from a sixth story window * Mark Linkous (2010), American musician, gunshot to the heart * Carlo Lizzani (2013), Italian film director, jumped from a balcony. * Liu Rushi (1664), Chinese courtesan, Ming dynasty, Ming loyalist, poet, painter and calligrapher, hanging * Willie Llewelyn (1893), Welsh cricketer, gunshot * Philip Loeb (1955), American actor, sleeping pill overdose *Kevin James Loibl (2016), assassin of Christina Grimmie, gunshot * Bernard Loiseau (2003), French chef, shotgun blast to the head * Ellen Joyce Loo (2018), Canadian-Hong Kong musician, singer, songwriter, and co-founder of the folk-pop rock group at 17, fall from her high-rise apartment building *Daniele Alves Lopes (1993), teen whose jump from a building was broadcast on Brazilian national television * Ricardo López (stalker), Ricardo López (1996), Uruguayan-born American stalker who attempted to kill Icelandic singer Björk by sending a letter bomb, gunshot * Lu Zhaolin (684 or 686), Chinese poet, drowning in the Ying River * Andreas Lubitz (2015), co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525, plane crash * Lucan (65 AD), Roman poet, cut veins * Lucretia (c. 510 BC), Roman noblewoman, stabbed herself * Ludwig II of Bavaria (1886), King of Bavaria, drowning * Roman Lyashenko (2003), Russian NHL hockey player, hanging * David Lytton (2015), a formerly unidentified British man found on Saddleworth Moor, strychnine

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* Billy Mackenzie (1997), Scottish vocalist for the band The Associates (band), The Associates, overdose of prescription drugs * Naevius Sutorius Macro (38 AD), Roman Praetorian prefect, prefect of the Praetorian Guard * Magnentius (353 AD), Roman usurper * Maurice Magnus (1920), American memoirist * Mago (general), Mago (344 BC), Carthaginian admiral and general * Bhaiyyu Maharaj (2018), Indian spiritual guru, gunshot * George W. Maher (1926), American architect * Joe Maini (1964), American jazz alto saxophonist, Russian Roulette * Philipp Mainländer (1876), German poet and philosopher, hanged himself using a pile of copies of ''The Philosophy of Redemption'' as platform *Sean Malone (2020), American bassist * Donald R. Manes (1986), American politician, stab wound to the chest * Mădălina Manole (2010), Romanian pop singer, pesticide poisoning * Michael Mantenuto (2017), American actor and ice hockey player, best known for his performance as Jack O'Callahan in the 2004 biopic ''Miracle (2004 film), Miracle'', gunshot * Richard Manuel (1986), Canadian pianist and lead singer for The Band, hanging * Titus Clodius Eprius Marcellus (79 AD), Roman consul and senator, slit his throat with a razor * Simone Mareuil (1954), French actress, self-immolation * Michael Marin (2012), American businessman, cyanide pill * Philip Markoff (2010), Medical student, Boston University * Andrew Martinez (2006), American nudism activist who became known on the University of California, Berkeley campus as the "Naked Guy", suffocation *Williams Martínez (2021), Uruguayan soccer player * Eleanor Marx (1898), socialist activist and younger daughter of Karl Marx, poison * Thalia Massie (1963), American victim of violent crime which resulted in the heavily publicized Massie Trial, barbiturate overdose * David Edward Maust (2006), American serial killer, hanging * Maximian (310 AD), Roman emperor * Vladimir Mayakovsky (1930), Russian and Soviet poet, gunshot * Jacques Mayol (2001), French Freediving, free diver and subject of the movie ''The Big Blue'', hanging * John McAfee (2021), British-American computer programmer, businessman and founder of the computer security software company McAfee, hanging * Allyson McConnell (2013), Australian-Canadian woman who killed her two children, jumped off a bridge while in Australia * Kid McCoy (1940), American world champion boxer, overdose of sleeping pills * Mindy McCready (2013), American country music singer, gunshot * Hector MacDonald (1903), British army major-general, gunshot * Walt McDougall (1938), American cartoonist, gunshot * Dan McGann (1910), American baseball player, gunshot *Evelyn McHale (1947), American bookkeeper, subject of an iconic photograph showing her body after she jumped from an observation platform of the Empire State Building * Tom McHale (novelist born 1941), Tom McHale (1983), American novelist * Chris McKinstry (2006), Canadian artificial intelligence researcher * Kenny McKinley (2010), American football player, gunshot * Robert McLane (1904), American politician, mayor of Baltimore, gunshot * John B. McLemore (2015), American horologist and subject of the podcast ''S-Town'', ingested potassium cyanide * Maggie McNamara (1978), American actress, drug overdose * Alexander McQueen (2010), British fashion designer and couturier, hanging * Charles B. McVay III (1968), American naval officer, captain of the USS Indianapolis (CA-35), USS ''Indianapolis'', gunshot to the head * Joe Meek (1967), English record producer, gunshot * Megabocchus (53 BC), Roman

and friend of Publius Licinius Crassus * Suicide of Megan Meier, Megan Meier (2006), American high school student and victim of bullying, hanging * Ulrike Meinhof (1976), German

terrorist, hanging * David Meirhofer (1974), American serial killer, hanging * Kitty Melrose (1912), English stage actress and singer, carbon monoxide poisoning * Adolf Merckle (2009), German entrepreneur and billionaire, train * Lucius Cornelius Merula (consul 87 BC), Lucius Cornelius Merula (87 BC), Roman politician, consul and high priest, cut his veins * Jill Messick (2018), American film producer * Charlotte Mew (1928), English poet, Lysol poisoning. * Katie Meyer (2022), US soccer player * Maningning Miclat (2000), Filipino poet and painter, jumped from the seventh floor of a building * Flávio Migliaccio (2020), Brazilian actor, film director and screenwriter, hanging * Walter M. Miller Jr. (1996), American writer, gunshot * Mary Millington (1979), English model and softcore pornographic actress, overdose of clomipramine, paracetamol and alcohol * Minamoto no Yorimasa (1180), Japanese poet, general and politician, ritual seppuku disembowelment * Mingsioi (1866), Chinese general, explosion * Miroslava (actress), Miroslava (1955), Czech-born Mexican actress, overdose of sleeping pills * Dave Mirra (2016), American BMX rider who later competed in rallycross racing, gunshot * Yukio Mishima (1970), Japanese author, poet, playwright, film director and activist, ritual seppuku disembowelment * Tyrone Mitchell (1984), American murderer, gunshot * Mithridates VI (63 BC), King of Kingdom of Pontus, Pontus, ordered an officer to stab him *Haruma Miura (2020), Japanese actor, hanging * Shizuka Miura (2010), Japanese doll maker and musician, possibly related to medication * Mkwawa (1898), Hehe people, Hehe tribal leader, gunshot to the head * Molon (220 BC),

satrap of Media (region), Media * Antonin Moine (1849), French sculptor, gunshot * Mario Monicelli (2010), Italian film director, jumped out of a hospital window * Marilyn Monroe (1962), American film actress, barbiturate overdose * Haoui Montaug (1991), American nightclub doorman and cabaret promoter, secobarbital overdose * Henry de Montherlant (1972), French writer, gunshot in the throat * Donnie Moore (1989), American baseball player, gunshot after shooting his wife * Ronald Lee Moore (2008), American fugitive and suspected serial killer, hanging * Masakatsu Morita (1970), Japanese political activist, stabbing per ritural seppuku disembowelment * A. R. Morlan (2016), American author *Gray Morrow (2001), American comics artist and illustrator, gunshot *Max Mosley (2021), British former Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, FIA president, gunshot after learning of terminal illness * Jason Moss (writer), Jason Moss (2006), American attorney and author of ''The Last Victim (book), The Last Victim'', gunshot * Miljan Mrdaković (2020), Serbian footballer, gunshot * Uwe Mundlos (2011), German National Socialist Underground terrorist, gunshot * Ona Munson (1955), American actress, barbiturate overdose * David Munrow (1976) English music historian, hanging * Ian Murdock (2015), American software engineer and founder of the Debian distribution of the GNU variants#Linux kernel, GNU/Linux operating system, hanging * Francine Mussey (1933), French actress, ingestion of poison Vladimir P

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* Chūichi Nagumo (1944), Japanese admiral, gunshot * Mirosław Nahacz (2007), Polish novelist and screenwriter, hanging * Seigō Nakano (1943), Japanese fascist political leader and journalist, disembowelment * Vladimir Nalivkin (1918), Russian scientist, politician, diplomat *Azade Namdari (2021), Iranian television host * Scott Nearing (1983), American political activist and conservationist, by self-starvation *Milan Nedić (1946), Serbian general, politician and prime minister of the Government of National Salvation, jumping out of a Belgrade prison window * Nekojiru (1998), Japanese manga artist, hanging * Nero (68 AD), Roman emperor, ordered his secretary to kill him * Marcus Cocceius Nerva (jurist), Marcus Cocceius Nerva (33 AD), Roman jurist, official and confidant of Tiberius, starvation *Klara Dan von Neumann (1963), Hungarian-American computer programmer, drowning * Terry Newton (2010), English rugby league player, hanging * Tom Nicon (2010), French model, jumped out of apartment window * Bruno Niedziela (1962), American football player * Frank Nitti (1943), American gangster in charge of Al Capone's strong-arm and "muscle" operations, and later the front-man for Capone's crime syndicate, gunshot to the head * Karl Nobiling (1878), German academic, who made an assassination attempt on the German emperor Wilhelm I, gunshot to the head * Jon Nödtveidt (2006), Swedish guitarist for the black metal band Dissection (band), Dissection, gunshot * Iván Noel (2021), French-Argentine film director and producer * Bill Nojay (2016), American politician and member of the New York State Assembly, gunshot * Mita Noor (2013), Bangladeshi actress, hanging * Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, Franz Nopcsa (1933), Hungarian aristocrat, adventurer, scholar, geologist, paleontologist and albanologist, gunshot after killing companion Bajazid Doda * Christine Norman, (1930), American stage actress, jump from building * John Norton-Griffiths, (1930), British engineer and politician, gunshot to head * Hisashi Nozawa (2004), Japanese writer, hanging

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*John O'Brien (novelist), John O'Brien (1994), American novelist, best known for his novel, ''Leaving Las Vegas (novel), Leaving Las Vegas'', gunshot to the head *Sean O'Haire (2014), American former WWE wrestler and MMA fighter, hanging * Phil Ochs (1976), American singer-songwriter, hanging * Oda Nobunaga (1582), Japanese daimyō and general, ritual seppuku disembowelment * Kiyoshi Ogawa, Ogawa Kiyoshi (1945), Japanese

pilot * Aleksandr Dmitrievich Ogorodnik (1977), Soviet diplomat and spy for the CIA, cyanide capsule * Per "Dead" Ohlin (1991), Swedish vocalist for the Early Norwegian black metal scene, Norwegian black metal band Mayhem (band), Mayhem, gunshot to the head * Yukiko Okada (1986), Japanese singer, jumped out of window * Lembit Oll (1999), Estonian chess Grandmaster, jumped out of window * Ambrose Olsen (2010), American model, hanging * Sergo Ordzhonikidze (1937), Soviet

leader, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, CPSU Politburo, the head of the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy and close associate of

, gunshot * Otho (69 AD), Roman Emperor, stabbed himself * Othryades (546 BC), Spartan hoplite, sole survivor of the Battle of the 300 Champions * Ōuchi Yoshitaka (1551), Japanese ''daimyō'' and general, ritual seppuku disembowelment

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* Stephen Paddock (2017), American perpetrator of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, gunshot * Caecina Paetus (42 AD), Roman alleged conspirator against Emperor Claudius, stabbed himself * Tommy Page (2017), American singer songwriter * Ali Reza Pahlavi (born 1966), Ali-Reza Pahlavi (2011), son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, last Shah of Iran, gunshot * Leila Pahlavi (2001), daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, last Shah of Iran, overdose of sleeping pills * Jan Palach (1969), Czech student, self-immolation * Mico Palanca (2019) Filipino actor, jump from building * Brodie's Law (act), Brodie Panlock (2006), Australian bullying victim, jumped from the top of a multilevel carpark in Hawthorn, Victoria, Hawthorn * Pantites (c. 470s BC),

n warrior and one of the Battle of Thermopylae#Greek army, 300 Spartans sent to the Battle of Thermopylae, hanging * Park Yong-ha (2010), South Korean actor and singer, hanging * Park Won-soon (2020), South Korean activist, lawyer and Mayor of Seoul * Violeta Parra (1967), Chilean composer, songwriter, folklorist, ethno-musicologist and visual artist, gunshot * Suicide of Rehtaeh Parsons, Rehtaeh Parsons (2013), Canadian high school student who was bullied at school and online after images of her alleged gang rape were distributed online by its perpetrators, hanging * Christine Pascal (1996), French actress, writer and director, jumped out of window * Dušan Pašek (1998), Slovak ice hockey player, gunshot * Darrin Patrick (2020), American author and pastor, gunshot * Mark Pavelich (2021), American hockey player, asphyxia * Cesare Pavese (1950), Italian author, overdose of barbiturates * Pina Pellicer (1964), Mexican actress, overdose of sleeping pills * Peregrinus Proteus (165 AD), Ancient Greece, Greek Early Christianity, early Christian Conversion to Christianity, convert and later Cynic philosopher from Mysia, immolated himself on a funeral pyre during the Ancient Olympic Games, Olympic Games * Oscar Glaze Peters (1894), American businessman * Jeret Peterson, Jeret "Speedy" Peterson (2011), American skier, Olympic medalist, gunshot * Marcus Petreius (46 BC), Roman politician and general, double-suicide by sword with Juba I of Numidia * Petronius (66 AD), Roman senator, consul, courtier and novelist, opening his veins * Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (1901), German chemist and hygienist * Phasael (40 BC), prince from the Herodian Dynasty of Judea and governor of Jerusalem, hit his head against a great stone * Phila (daughter of Antipater), Phila (287 BC), Macedonian noblewoman, daughter and adviser of Antipater, poison * Philistus (356 BC), Greek historian and naval commander * Justin Pierce (2000), English-born American actor and skateboarder known for his role in the 1995 drama ''Kids (film), Kids'', hanging * Rosamond Pinchot (1938), American actress and socialite, carbon monoxide poisoning * H. Beam Piper (1964), American science fiction author, gunshot * Gaius Calpurnius Piso (conspirator), Gaius Calpurnius Piso (65 AD), Roman senator, orator, advocate and leading member of the

, slit his wrists * Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso (consul 7 BC), Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso (20 AD), Roman statesman and consul, cut his throat * Luigi Pistilli (1996), Italian actor, hanging * Alejandra Pizarnik (1972), Argentine poet, secobarbital overdose *

(1963), American poet, novelist, children's author, gassing herself in her kitchen * Dana Plato (1999), American child actress, notable for the TV series ''Diff'rent Strokes'', overdose of carisoprodol and hydrocodone Plato's son, Tyler Lambert, killed himself on May 6, 2010, almost 11 years to the day after her death, via gunshot wound to the head * Edward Platt (1974), American actor, notable for his role on the TV series ''Get Smart'' * E. O. Plauen (1944), German cartoonist, hanging with a towel * Michael Player (1986), American serial killer, gunshot * Daniel Pollock (1992), Australian actor, walked in front of moving train * Gnaeus Pompeius Longinus (105 AD), Roman senator and general, swallowing poison * Porcia (wife of Brutus), Porcia (42 BC), Roman noblewoman, wife of Marcus Junius Brutus, swallowing burning coal or

* C.W. Post (1914), American inventor, and pioneer in the manufacturing of prepared foods, in particular breakfast cereal, gunshot * Poenius Postumus (61 AD), Roman ''prefect, praefectus castrorum'' of the Roman legion, Legion Legio II Augusta, II ''Augusta'', fell upon his sword * Randy Potter (2017), American former missing person, gunshot * Jan Potocki (1815), Polish nobleman, gunshot * James Edward Pough (1990), American spree killer, gunshot * Hayden Poulter (2018), New Zealand serial killer * Disappearance of Susan Powell#Murders of Charles and Braden Powell, Josh Powell (2012), American main suspect in the Disappearance of Susan Powell, disappearance of his wife, Susan, blew up his house with him and his children inside * Slobodan Praljak (2017), Bosnian Croat director, general and war criminal, potassium cyanide * George R. Price (1975), American scientist, cutting an artery * Suicide of Phoebe Prince, Phoebe Prince (2010), American high school student who was bullied at school and online, hanging * Ptolemy (general), Ptolemy (309 BC), Macedonian general, hemlock poisoning * Ptolemy of Cyprus (58 BC), King of Cyprus and member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, poison * Boris Pugo (1991), Soviet politician, gunshot * Kushal Punjabi (2019), Indian actor, hanging

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* Qiao Renliang (2016), Chinese singer and actor, slit wrist * Qu Yuan (278 BC), Chinese poet and minister, drowning * Henry Quastler (1963), Austrian physician and radiologist, overdosed on pills * Antero de Quental, (1891) Portuguese writer and poet, gunshot. * Quintillus (270 AD), Roman emperor, opening his veins * Horacio Quiroga (1937), Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer, drank a glass of cyanide

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* Władysław Raginis (1939), Polish military commander, grenade * Otto Rahn (1939), German medievalist, Ariosophy, Ariosophist and Obersturmführer of the Schutzstaffel, freezing * Jason Raize (2004), American actor, singer and former Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme, hanging * Sushant Singh Rajput (2020), Indian actor, hanging * František Rajtoral (2017), Czech soccer player, hanging * Anil Ramdas (2012), Dutch writer and journalist, method undisclosed * Kodela Siva Prasada Rao (2019), Indian politician, hanging * Suicide of Nicola Ann Raphael, Nicola Ann Raphael (2001), Scottish bullied student, overdose of dextropropoxyphene * David Rappaport (1990), English actor, known for the film ''Time Bandits'', gunshot * Jan-Carl Raspe (1977), German

terrorist, gunshot * Terry Ratzmann (2005), American mass murderer, gunshot * Geli Raubal (1931), niece of Adolf Hitler, gunshot * Margaret Mary Ray (1998), American stalker, hit by a train * Roy Raymond (businessman), Roy Raymond (1993), American founder of Victoria's Secret, jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge * Albert Razin (2019), Russian Udmurt language rights activist and sociologist, self-immolation * Reckful (2020), Israeli-American Twitch (service), Twitch streamer and Esports player * Liam Rector (2007), American poet and educator, gunshot * Wilhelm Rediess (1945), Nazi SS and Police Leader in German occupation of Norway, Norway, gunshot * Ernst Reicher (1936), German actor, screenwriter, film producer and film director, hanging * David Reimer (2004), Canadian man who after a botched circumcision in infancy, was unsuccessfully gender reassignment, reassigned as a girl until he learned the truth at age 13, gunshot * The Renegade (wrestler), The Renegade (1999), American professional wrestler, gunshot * Angelo Reyes (2011), Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, gunshot *Thomas Caute Reynolds, Thomas C. Reynolds (1887), Confederate governor of Missouri, jump from the third floor into the freight elevator shaft of the Custom House in St. Louis * John Rheinecker (2017) American Major League Baseball pitcher, hanging * Sen no Rikyū, Rikyū (1591), Japanese Japanese tea ceremony, tea master and confidant of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, ritual seppuku disembowelment * Artūras Rimkevičius (2019), Lithuanian footballer, gunshot * Al Rio (2012), Brazilian comics artist, and animation director, hanging * Adele Ritchie, (1930) American actress, gunshot to the throat * Peter Robbins (actor), Peter Robbins (2022), American voice actor, voice of Charlie Brown * Dale Roberts (footballer born 1986), Dale Roberts (2010), English football, hanging * Rachel Roberts (actress), Rachel Roberts (1980), Welsh actress, barbiturate and alcohol overdose and consumption of lye or alkali * Charles Rocket (2005), American actor, cut throat * Suicide of Jamey Rodemeyer, Jamey Rodemeyer (2011), American bullied blogger and high school student, hanging * Elliot Rodger (2014), American

who perpetrated the 2014 Isla Vista killings, gunshot to the head * Robert Neal Rodriguez (1992), American serial killer, cyanide poisoning * Roh Moo-hyun (2009), List of Presidents of South Korea, ninth President of the Republic of Korea, jump from a cliff * Erwin Rommel (1944), German general and military theorist, cyanide poisoning * Jodon F. Romero (2012), American criminal whose suicide was broadcast on national television following a car chase in Arizona, gunshot * Edgar Rosenberg (1987), American film and television producer and husband of Joan Rivers, diazepam overdose * Frank Rosolino (1978), American jazz trombonist, shot himself after killing one son and blinding the other * Mark Rothko (1970), American abstract expressionist painter, slit his arms * Death of Conrad Roy, Conrad Roy (2014), American marine salvage captain, carbon monoxide poisoning, after his girlfriend urged him to commit suicide, for which she was convicted of involuntary manslaughter * Ruan Lingyu (1935), Chinese actress, barbiturate overdose * Ernst Rückert (1945), German actor, hanging * Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (1889), son of Emperor Franz Joseph I, gunshot during the Mayerling incident * Lori Erica Ruff (2010), American formerly unidentified identity thief, gunshot * Edmund Ruffin (1865), American author, agriculturalist, agronomist and Fire-Eaters, secessionist, gunshot to the head * Quintus Corellius Rufus (before 113 AD), Roman senator, consul, confidant and teacher of Pliny the Younger, refusing food and treatment for his illnesses * Michael Ruppert (2014), American political activist, gunshot * 2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident, Richard Russell (2018), American airport ground operator and airplane thief, intentionally crashing the stolen airplane * Stevie Ryan (2017), American actress and comedian, hanging * Rick Rypien (2011), Canadian professional ice hockey player

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* Mário de Sá-Carneiro (1916), Portuguese poet and short story writer * Jun Sadogawa (2013), Japanese manga artist, hanging * El Hedi ben Salem (1977), Moroccan actor, hanging * Mark Salling (2018), American actor, hanging * Johanna Sällström (2007), Swedish actress * Alexander Samsonov (1914), Russian cavalry officer and general, gunshot * George Sanders (1972), Russian-born English actor, singer, composer and author, overdose * Sanmao (author), Sanmao (1991), Taiwanese writer and translator, hanged with silk stockings * Mónica Santa María (1994), Peruvian model and TV presenter, gunshot * Nick Santino (2012), American soap opera actor, overdosed on pills *Alberto Santos-Dumont (1932), Brazilian aviation pioneer, hanging * Vytautas Šapranauskas (2013), Lithuanian actor, hanging * Carl Sargeant (2017), Welsh politician and former member of the Welsh Government, hanging * Sam Sarpong (2015), British-born American model and actor, jump from a bridge * Satanta (chief), Satanta (1878), Kiowa war chief, jump out a window * Drake Sather (2004), American screenwriter, gunshot * Jiro Sato (1934), Japanese tennis player, drowning * Saul (1012 BC), United Monarchy, Jewish king, pierced himself with his sword * Savannah (actress), Savannah (1994), American adult film actress, gunshot to the head * Marcus Ostorius Scapula (consul 59), Marcus Ostorius Scapula (65 AD), Roman senator, consul and military tribune, severed his veins and stabbed himself with help from a slave * Mamercus Aemilius Scaurus (34 AD), Roman rhetorician, poet, senator and consulTacitus (32-37 AD)
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''Annals'', University of Chicago. * Thomas Schäfer (2020), German politician, jumped in front of a train * Aleko Schinas (1913), Greek assassin of List of kings of Greece, King George I of Greece, jumped out of a Thessaloniki police station window * Sybille Schmitz (1955), German actress, overdose of sleeping pills * Robert Schommer (2001), American astronomer * Conrad Schumann (1998), German Democratic Republic soldier who famously defected to West Germany during the construction of the Berlin Wall, hanging * Tom Schweich (2015), American politician, gunshot * Metellus Scipio (46 BC), Roman consul and military commander, stabbed himself * L'Wren Scott (2014), American fashion designer, hanging * Tony Scott (2012), English film director of films such as ''Top Gun'', jumped off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles * Junior Seau (2012), American football All-Pro player, gunshot to the chest * Jean Seberg (1979), American actress, barbiturate overdose * Sonia Sekula (1963), Swiss painter, hanging * Seneca the Younger (65 AD), Roman philosopher, cut his veins *Arma Senkrah (1900), American violinist, gunshot * Rezső Seress (1968), Hungarian pianist and composer, choked himself with a wire * Marcus Sedatius Severianus (161 or 162), Roman senator, consul and general, starved himself * Mamercus Aemilius Scaurus (34 AD), Roman senator, followed by his wife Sextia * Anne Sexton (1974), American poet, carbon monoxide poisoning * Frances Ford Seymour (1950), Canadian-American socialite, cut her throat * Oksana Shachko (2018), Ukrainian artist and activist, cofounder of FEMEN, hanging * Shah Begum (wife of Jahangir), Shah Begum (1604), first wife of Jahangir, Emperor Jahangir, opium overdose * Shahrzad (Reza Kamal), Shahrzad (1937), Iranian dramatist and playwright * Shamash-shum-ukin (648 BC), King of Babylon,

* Del Shannon (1990), American musician, gunshot * Samir Sharma (2020), Indian actor, hanging * H. James Shea Jr. (1970), American politician, gunshot * Alice Bradley Sheldon (James Tiptree, Jr.) (1987), American writer, gunshot * Harold Shipman (2004), English family doctor and serial killer, hanging * Shoba (1980), Indian actress, hanging * Manuel Fernández Silvestre (1921), Spanish general, gunshot * Tiffany Simelane (2009), Swazi beauty queen, ingestion of Pesticide poisoning, weevil tablet * Per Sivle (1904), Norwegian poet and novelist, gunshot * Mykola Skrypnyk (1933), Ukrainian Bolshevik leader, gunshot * Austra Skujiņa (1932) Latvian poet, jump from a bridge. * Irina Slavina (journalist), Irina Slavina (2020), Russian journalist, self-immolation * Walter Slezak (1983), Austrian actor, gunshot * Everett Sloane (1965), American actor, drug overdose * Austin J. Small (1929), British popular writer "Seamark", gas inhalation * Smiley Culture (2011), English reggae singer and DJ, stabbing * James Vinton Smith (1952), Australian politician, gunshot * Someshvara I (1068), King of Western Chalukya, drowning in the Tungabhadra river * David Sonboly (2016), Iranian-German perpetrator of the 2016 Munich shooting, gunshot * Sophonisba (after 203 BC), Carthaginian noblewoman, swallowing poison * Peu Sousa (2013), Brazilian guitarist for Nove Mil Anjos and Pitty, hanging * Barea Soranus (66 AD), Roman consul, senator and governor of Asia (Roman province), Asia * Kate Spade (2018), American fashion designer, hanging * Gary Speed (2011), Welsh footballer and manager, hanging * Mark Speight (2008), English television presenter, hanging * Sporus (69 AD), Roman boy whom the emperor Nero had castrated and married, stabbed his throat with a dagger * 2010 Austin suicide attack#Joseph Stack, Andrew Joseph Stack III (2010), American embedded software consultant, plane crash * Nicolas de Staël (1955), French painter, leapt from his eleventh story studio terrace * Frank Stanford (1978), American poet, gunshot * Scott Stearney (2018), United States Navy admiral, gunshot *Costică Ștefănescu (2013), Romanian footballer and manager, jump from the fifth floor of the Military Hospital in Bucharest * Jean Stein (2017), American author, jump from a New York City high rise * Shooting of Robert Godwin#Perpetrator, Steve Stephens (2017), American vocational specialist and murder suspect, gunshot after police pursuit * Jon Paul Steuer (2018), American actor and musician, known as the first actor to play the ''Star Trek'' character Alexander Rozhenko, gunshot * Brody Stevens (2019), American stand-up comedian and actor, hanging * Inger Stevens (1970), Swedish-American actress, barbiturate overdose * John Stevens (cricketer, born 1875), John Stevens (1923), English cricketer, jumped in front of moving train * Lyle Stevik (2001), formerly unidentified man using the alias name taken from a book by Joyce Carol Oates, hanging * Gary Stewart (singer), Gary Stewart (2003), American country music singer, gunshot to the neck * Jay Stewart (1989), American television and radio announcer, gunshot * Adalbert Stifter (1868), Austrian writer, cut neck with a razor * Pringle Stokes (1828), British naval officer and captain of during her HMS Beagle#First voyage (1826–1830), first voyage, gunshot * Alfonsina Storni (1938), Argentine poet, drowning * David Stove (1994), Australian philosopher, hanging * Otto Strandman (1941), Estonian politician, gunshot * Mel Street (1978), American country singer, gunshot * Ludwig Stumpfegger (1945), German doctor and

's personal surgeon, cyanide poisoning * Sue Harukata (1555), daimyo of Ouchi clan, disembowelment * Sungdare Sherpa (1989), Nepalese Sherpa people, Sherpa mountaineer * Sulli (2019), South Korean actress, singer, and model, hanging * Roy Sullivan (1983), American park ranger known for being struck by lightning seven times, gunshot * David Edward Sutch (1999), English musician also known as Screaming Lord Sutch, hanging * Adam Svoboda (2019), Czech ice hockey goaltender and coach, hanging * Aaron Swartz (2013), American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and activist, hanging *Sawyer Sweeten (2015), American former child actor (''Everybody Loves Raymond''), gunshot

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* Sinedu Tadesse (1995), Ethiopian murderer, hanging *Jahangir Tafazzoli (1990), Iranian journalist and politician * Taira no Tokiko (1185), Japanese Buddhist nun, wife of the Taira no Kiyomori, chief of the ''Taira'', grandmother of Emperor Antoku, drowning * Taira no Tomomori (1185), Japanese general, admiral and heir apparent of the ''Taira'', drowning * Yūko Takeuchi (2020), Japanese actress, hanging * Yutaka Taniyama (1958), Japanese mathematician * Jacque Alexander Tardy (1827), Scottish-French pirate, slit his own throat * Jean Tatlock (1944), American physician, psychiatrist, communist activist, mistress of Robert Oppenheimer, drowning in a bathtub * Victor Tausk (1919), Austrian psychoanalyst and neurologist, gunshot and hanging * Wayne Kent Taylor (2021), American entrepreneur and founder of Texas Roadhouse * Pál Teleki (1941), Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary, gunshot * Lou Tellegen (1934), Dutch actor, director and screenwriter, stabbed himself in the chest with a pair of scissors * Stella Tennant (2020) British model * Josef Terboven (1945), Nazi Reichskommissar for German occupation of Norway, Norway, detonating 50 kg of dynamite * Tewodros II (1868), Emperor of Ethiopia, gunshot * Tezozomoctli (Cuauhtitlan), Tezozomoctli (1430),

of Cuauhtitlan, poison * Mike Thalassitis (2019), English-Cypriot footballer and television personality, hanging * Jack Thayer (1945), RMS Titanic, Titanic survivor, cut his wrists * Samuel J. F. Thayer (1893), American architect, gunshot * Thích Quảng Đức (1963), Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhist Buddhist monk, monk, self-immolation * Hugo Thimig (1944), Austrian actor, overdose of Barbital * Nicky Thomas (singer), Nicky Thomas (1990), Jamaican reggae singer * Hunter S. Thompson (2005), gonzo journalist, author of ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'', gunshot * 2011 Ohio exotic animal release, Terry Thompson (2011), zookeeper and owner of Muskingum County Animal Farm, gunshot * William Thornton (British Army officer), William Thornton (1840), British lieutenant-general * Ofonius Tigellinus (69 AD), Roman Praetorian prefect, prefect of the Praetorian Guard, cut his throat with a razor * Carlos Tobalina (filmmaker), Carlos Tobalina (1989), Peruvian-born pornographic filmmaker and actor, gunshot * Li Tobler (1975), Swiss actress, model and life partner of artist H. R. Giger, gunshot * Suicide of Amanda Todd, Amanda Todd (2012), Canadian high school student who was bullied at school and online, hanging * Ernst Toller (1939), German playwright, socialist revolutionary and politician, hanging * Ivo-Valentino Tomaš (2019), Croatian football player * Radka Toneff (1982), Norwegian jazz singer, overdose of sleeping pills * John Kennedy Toole (1969), American novelist known for ''A Confederacy of Dunces'', carbon monoxide poisoning * Dudu Topaz (2009), Israeli TV personality and entertainer, hanging while incarcerated in jail * Maury Travis (2002), American serial killer, hanging * Silvanus Trevail (1903), English architect, gunshot * Dick Trickle (2013), American NASCAR driver, gunshot * Sunil Tripathi (2013), American student and former suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing * Verne Troyer (2018), American actor known for his role as Mini-Me in the ''Austin Powers'' films, alcohol intoxication * Tron (hacker), Tron (1998), German hacker, hanging * Butch Trucks (2017), American drummer for the Allman Brothers Band, gunshot * Yordan Tsitsonkov (1926), Macedonian Bulgarian assassin, hanged himself * Kōkichi Tsuburaya (1968), Japanese marathoner, cut his wrists * Marina Tsvetaeva (1941), Russian poet, hanging * Kurt Tucholsky (1935), German journalist, satirist and writer, overdose of sleeping pills * Alan Turing (1954), English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist, eating an apple laced with cyanide * Jim Tyrer (1980), American football player, gunshot

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* Ernst Udet (1941), German pilot and air force general, gunshot to the head * Miyu Uehara (2011), Japanese model, hanging * Matome Ugaki, Ugaki Matome (1945), Japanese admiral, diarist and the last

pilot, unsuccessfully attempted a kamikaze attack after Surrender of Japan, Japan already surrendered, likely crashing into the sea * Jack Unterweger (1994), Austrian serial killer, hanging * Andrew Urdiales (2018), American serial killer * Mitsuru Ushijima (1945), Japanese general, began to commit ritual seppuku disembowelment just before one of his adjutants decapitated him with a saber

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* Edwin Valero (2010), Venezuelan boxer, hanging * Kelly Jean Van Dyke (1991), American adult film actress, hanging * Vincent van Gogh (1890), Dutch Post-Impressionist painter, gunshot * George Washington Vanderbilt III (1961), American explorer and member of the Vanderbilt family, jumped from the 10th floor of the Mark Hopkins Hotel * Johannes Vares (1946), Estonian poet, doctor and politician, gunshot * Getúlio Vargas (1954), two-time President of Brazil, gunshot * Publius Quinctilius Varus (9 AD), Roman general, fell upon his sword * Minnie Vautrin (1940), American missionary in China, stove gas inhalation * Lupe Vélez (1944), Mexican actress, overdose of secobarbital * Dominique Venner (2013), French author, gunshot to the head in the Notre Dame de Paris * Marcus Julius Vestinus Atticus (65 AD), Roman senator and consul, opening his veins * Titus Vettius (104 BC), Roman

and leader of a slave revolt * Lucius Antistius Vetus (consul 55), Lucius Antistius Vetus (65 AD), Roman senator, consul and governor of Germania Superior * Juhan Viiding (1995), Estonian poet and actor, cut his veins * Hervé Villechaize (1993), French actor known for his work on the television series ''Fantasy Island'', gunshot * Pierre-Charles Villeneuve (1806), French admiral, stabbing * Norah Vincent (2022), American journalist and novelist, assisted suicide * Lucius Annius Vinicianus (42 AD), Roman senator, plotter of the assassination of Caligula, rebel against Claudius * Frank Vitkovic (1987), Australian spree killer who perpetrated the Queen Street massacre in Melbourne, jumped from a window * Ned Vizzini (2013), American author of young adult fiction such as the novel ''It's Kind of a Funny Story'', leapt from a building * Zinaida Volkova (1933), daughter of Leon Trotsky, gas asphyxiation * Chris Von Erich (1991), professional wrestler, gunshot to the headCohen, Eric
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About Sports. Retrieved November 13, 2014. * Kerry Von Erich (1993), professional wrestler, gunshot to the chest * Mike Von Erich (1987), professional wrestler, overdose of Placidyl and alcohol * Bulelani Vukwana (2002), South African spree killer, gunshot

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* Bradford Thomas Wagner (2005), American real estate agent, gay pornographic film actor and suspected serial rapist, hanging himself with a bed sheet * Gustav Wagner (1980), Austrian SS-''Oberscharführer'' and deputy commander of Sobibor extermination camp, knife wound * Bess Truman, David Wallace (1904), father of United States First Lady Bess Truman, gunshot to the head * David Foster Wallace (2008), American author, hanging * Stephen Ward (1963), English osteopathic physician and one of the central figures in the 1963 Profumo affair, overdose of sleeping pills * John William Warde (1938), American bank clerk known for spending 14 hours on a ledge before jumping from the 17th floor of Manhattan's Gotham Hotel * Ed Warren (politician), Ed Warren (1963), American actor, politician and former List of mayors of Cheyenne, Wyoming, mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, carbon monoxide poisoning * Nick Wasicsko (1993), former Mayor of Yonkers, New York (1987–89), gunshot to the head * Andre Waters (2006), former NFL safety, gunshot to the head * Gary Webb (2004), American investigative reporter, gunshot to the head *Jaromir Weinberger (1967), Czech/American composer, lethal overdose of sedative * Otto Weininger (1903), Austrian philosopher, gunshot * Jeff Weise (2005), American high school student who perpetrated the Red Lake shootings, gunshot * Dorrit Weixler (1916), German film actress, hanging * Bob Welch (musician), Bob Welch (2012), American rock singer-songwriter and former member of Fleetwood Mac, gunshot to the chest * Horace Wells (1848), American dentist and pioneer of anaesthesiology, slitting his left femoral artery with a razor * Vince Welnick (2006), American singer-songwriter and keyboardist for The Tubes, slit throat * Suicide of Dawn-Marie Wesley, Dawn-Marie Wesley (2000), Canadian bullied high school student, hanging * Fred West (1995), English serial killer, hanging * Assia Wevill (1969), German-born lover of English poet Ted Hughes, murder–suicide of her daughter with Hughes, gas * James Whale (1957), English director, drowning * Dan White (1985), San Francisco politician who assassinated Mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, carbon monoxide poisoning * Kurt-Werner Wichmann (1993), German suspected serial killer and main suspect in the Göhrde murders, hanging * Robin Williams (2014), American comedian and actor, hanging * Rozz Williams (1998), American musician, lead vocalist for Christian Death, hanging * Wendy O. Williams (1998), American singer-songwriter for the Plasmatics, gunshot * Tom Wills (1880), Australian cricketer and pioneer of Australian rules football, stabbed himself in the heart with a pair of scissors * Jarrid Wilson (2019), American pastor and author * Christopher Wilmarth (1987), American sculptor, hanging *Sheree Winton (1976), English actress, barbiturate overdose * Jack Wishna (2012), president and CEO of CPAmerica International, CPAmerica, carbon monoxide poisoning * Frank Wolff (actor), Frank Wolff (1971), American actor, slashed his throat * Binghamton shooting#Perpetrator, Jiverly Antares Wong (2009), naturalized American citizen from Vietnam who perpetrated the Binghamton shooting, gunshot * Tobi Wong (2010), Canadian born designer, and conceptual artist, overdosed on pills * Woo Bum-kon, Bum-kon Woo (1982), South Korean policeman and spree killer * Woo Seung-yeon, Seung-yeon Woo (2009), South Korean actress and model, hanging * Wally Wood (1981), American comic book writer and artist, gunshot * Francesca Woodman (1981), American photographer, jumped from a window * Virginia Woolf (1941), English author, essayist, and publisher, drowning * Stephen Wooldridge (2017), Australian cyclist *Tera Wray (2016), American pornographic actress *Marcin Wrona (2015), Polish film director, hanging * Wu Zixu (484 BC), Chinese general and politician of the Wu (state), Wu, stabbed himself with a sword

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* Yakushiji Motoichi (1504), Japanese samurai and deputy governor, ritual seppuku disembowelment * Yamaguchi Otoya (1960), Japanese nationalist who assassinated Asanuma Inejirō, hanging * Yang Yang (tenor), Yang Yang (2019), Chinese tenor, jump from the 26th floor of his apartment building * Yasmine (singer), Yasmine (2009), Belgian singer, hanging * Seizō Yasunori (1945), Japanese kamikaze pilot, flew his plane into the ''USS Bunker Hill (CV-17), USS Bunker Hill'' * Suicide of Kelly Yeomans, Kelly Yeomans (1997), English bullied high school student, dextropropoxyphene overdose * Sergei Yesenin (1925), Russian and Soviet poet, hanging * Francis Parker Yockey (1960), American neo-Fascism, neo-Fascist political philosopher and polemicist also known under his pen name ''Ulick Varange'', cyanide poisoning * Yoñlu (2006), Brazilian singer-songwriter, carbon monoxide poisoning *Yoon Ki-won (2011), South Korean football (soccer), football goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper, charcoal-burning suicide * Atsumi Yoshikubo (2014), Japanese psychiatrist, intentionally getting lost in the Boreal forest of Canada, Canadian Taiga * Gūwalgiya Youlan (1921), Manchu noblewoman, primary consort of Zaifeng, Prince Chun and mother of China's last emperor Puyi, opium overdose * Cy Young (animator), Cy Young (1964), Chinese-American animator, barbiturate overdose * Faron Young (1996), American country music singer, gunshot * Gig Young (1978), American actor, gunshot after fatally shooting his wife * Lee Thompson Young (2013), American actor, gunshot * Fakhra Younus (2012), Pakistani dancer, jumped from building

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* Bill Zeller (2011), American computer programmer and developer of myTunes, oxygen deprivation due to hanging led to brain damage, taken off life support * Hai Zi (1989), Chinese poet, lying down on railroad tracks * Marion Zioncheck (1936), American congressman from Washington (state), Washington's Washington's 1st congressional district, 1st district, jumped from his office window * Joost Zwagerman (2015), Dutch writer, poet, and essayist * Stefan Zweig (1942), Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer, barbiturate overdose

Possible or disputed suicides

* Clodius Albinus (197), Roman emperor, killed himself after a defeat in battle (possibly executed by

) * Prince Alfred of Edinburgh (1899), member of the British Royal Family. The exact circumstances of Alfred's death are unknown, and varying accounts have been published. His sister Marie's memoirs simply say his health "broke down", and other writers have said that he had "consumption". ''The Times'' published an account stating he had died of a tumor, while the ''Complete Peerage'' gives the generally accepted account that he "shot himself". * Gameel Al-Batouti (1999), Egyptian airline pilot, pilot of EgyptAir and former officer of the Egyptian Air Force who was killed in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990. It is disputed on whether or not it was caused by mechanical malfunction or by Al-Batouti in a suicide by pilot * Scotty Beckett (1968), American actor, an overdose of either barbiturates or alcohol, after seeking medical attention for blunt force trauma injuries following a severe beating * Wade Belak (2011), Canadian ice hockey player. Belak was found dead in his home in Toronto, and the police investigated his death as a suicide. Later, hockey analyst and former player P.J. Stock alleged that Belak's death was not a suicide, but accidental. Although Stock later stepped back from his comments, members of Belak's family also believe his death was accidental. * Edward Brittain (1918), British army captain, gunshot by enemy sniper, to whom Brittain may have deliberately exposed himself, to avoid a court-martial for homosexuality * Terry A. Davis (2018), American programmer and creator of TempleOS, struck by a train * Jeffrey Epstein (2019), American financier and convicted sex offender, hanging Whether Epstein's death was suicide or homicide is Death of Jeffrey Epstein, a point of controversy. * John Fitch (inventor), John Fitch (1798), American inventor, opium overdose * James Forrestal (1949), First U.S. Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Navy, fell from 16th floor of building (disputed suicide) * Rick Genest (2018), performance artist, actor and model, fall from a balcony * Kurt Gödel (1978), Austrian-American logician, mathematician and philosopher, died of starvation as a result of refusing to eat anything not prepared by his wife, who was hospitalized, out of fear of being poisoned. It is unclear whether this was a suicide. * Nigel Green (1972), English actor, overdose of sleeping pills * Hannibal (183–181 BC), Carthaginian military commander and tactician, possibly poison * Kim Sung-jae, Sung-jae Kim (1995), South Korean singer and former member of Deux (band), Deux, stabbed in the arm 28 times with a syringe containing animal anesthetic. It is unknown if it was a murder or suicide. * David Koresh (1993), American leader of the Branch Davidians, gunshot. It is unknown if he was murdered by one of the Branch Davidians, or if he died by suicide. * Jules Lequier (1862), French philosopher, likely swam voluntarily out into the ocean * Primo Levi (1987), Italian chemist, writer and Holocaust survivor, jumped from his third-story apartment * Meriwether Lewis (1809), U.S. explorer and partner of William Clark (explorer), William Clark, gunshot. There is some debate as to whether his death was a suicide * Lucretius (c. 55 BC), Roman poet and Epicurean philosopher. The only source of his suicide is Jerome, who is considered by scholars as unreliable and hostile towards Lucretius * Kizito Mihigo (2020), Rwandan gospel singer, Rwandan genocide, genocide survivor and peace activist, hanging. Human rights organisations and Rwandan activists challenged this. * Unity Mitford, (1948), British socialite and Nazi sympathiser, died eight years after shooting herself of injuries caused by the bullet; debatable if this counts as suicide * Alighiero Noschese (1979), Italian TV impersonator, gunshot while being recovered under care for clinical depression. As patients with depression are not permitted to possess firearms and other lethal objects, it was suspected that someone murdered Noschese or smuggled the gun to him. * Orgetorix (60 BC), Gaul, Gallic member of the ruling class of the Helvetii and conspirator. It is uncertain if he died by suicide or was executed. * Giuseppe Pinelli (1969), Italian anarchist, fall from police station window, police claim of suicide widely disputed * John William Polidori (1821), English writer and physician, ingestion of hydrogen cyanide. The coroner gave a verdict of death by natural causes despite strong evidence of suicide * Freddie Prinze (1977), American actor and comedian, gunshot to the head while under the influence of methaqualone and alcohol. His death was initially ruled suicide, but his mother and other loved ones successfully convinced a court to change the official cause of death to accidental. * Elliott Smith (2003), American singer, songwriter and musician, stab wounds to chest. While Smith's death was originally reported as a suicide, the official autopsy report released in December 2003 left open the question of homicide *

(399 BC), Classical Greek Classical Athens, Athenian Philosophy, philosopher, credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, poison (likely Apiaceae, hemlock) Due to the fact that Socrates was forced to poison himself to death as his sentence following his conviction for impiety and corrupting the minds of the youth of Athens, the question of whether this constitutes a genuine suicide is a subject of debate. * John Hanning Speke (1864), British explorer, gunshot. An inquest concluded that his death was accidental, a conclusion supported by Speke's biographer Alexander Maitland, as the location of the fatal wound just below Speke's armpit made suicide unlikely. However, the idea of suicide has appealed to some critics of Speke. * Tsarong (1959), Tibetan diplomat, court official and reformer, died in a Chinese prison shortly before his public execution with no cause of death ever being revealed, his friend Heinrich Harrer suspects suicide * Sid Vicious (1979), English musician and member of the Sex Pistols, heroin overdose He had made a suicide pact with his then recently deceased girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, as evident by a note found in his coat pocket after his death. * Lolo Ferrari (2000), French pornographic actress, dancer, singer, and Guinness World Records, Guinness World Record holder, antidepressant and heroin overdose. Ferrari had been depressed, and while her death was ruled a suicide, it is speculated that her husband killed her. After it was found that mechanically induced suffocation could not be ruled out, her husband was arrested. He was released from prison after 13 months, after a second autopsy was performed.

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