The following people died by

suicide 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 s ...

. 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 S ...

, drowning in

Long Island Sound Long Island Sound is a marine sound and tidal estuary of the Atlantic Ocean. It lies predominantly between the U.S. state of Connecticut to the north and Long Island in New York to the south. From west to east, the sound stretches from the Eas ...

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. Accord ...

(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 In Greek mythology, Adrastus or Adrestus (Ancient Greek: Ἄδραστος or Ἄδρηστος), (perhaps meaning "the inescapable"), was a king of Argos, and leader of the Seven against Thebes. He was the son of the Argive king Talaus, but was ...

(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, t ...

, king of

Phrygia In classical antiquity, Phrygia ( ; grc, Φρυγία, ''Phrygía'' ) was a kingdom in the west central part of Anatolia, in what is now Asian Turkey, centered on the Sangarios River. After its conquest, it became a region of the great empires ...

* 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 Ahn Jae-hwan (June 8, 1972) was a South Korean actor. Ahn was found dead in his car on August 22, 2008, but the exact time of his death has not been revealed; police confirmed that he had died several days prior as his body was already decayin ...

(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 e ...

* Aizong of Jin (1234), Chinese emperor of the Jin dynasty *

Chantal Akerman Chantal Anne Akerman (; 6 June 19505 October 2015) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and Film studies, film professor at the City College of New York. She is best known for films such as ''Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 108 ...

(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 transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

, 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 Al-Qaeda (; , ) is an Islamic extremism, Islamic extremist organization composed of Salafist jihadists. Its members are mostly composed of Arab, Arabs, but also include other peoples. Al-Qaeda has mounted attacks on civilian and military ta ...

and one of the

9/11 The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial ...

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, M ...

."Names of hijackers"
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St. Petersburg Times The ''Tampa Bay Times'', previously named the ''St. Petersburg Times'' until 2011, is an American newspaper published in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. It has won fourteen Pulitzer Prizes since 1964, and in 2009, won two in a single ...

''. 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 st ...

(320 BC), Hellenic general of

Alexander the Great Alexander III of Macedon ( grc, wikt:Ἀλέξανδρος, Ἀλέξανδρος, Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the Ancient Greece, ancient Greek kingdom of Maced ...

Leelah Alcorn Leelah Alcorn (November 15, 1997 – December 28, 2014) was an American transgender girl whose suicide attracted international attention; she had posted a suicide note to her Tumblr blog about societal standards affecting transgender pe ...

(2014), American transgender teenager, walked in front of a truck *

Leandro Alem Leandro Nicéforo Alem (born Leandro Alén; 11 March 1841 – 1 July 1896) was an Argentine politician, founder and leader of the Radical Civic Union. He was the uncle and political teacher of Hipólito Yrigoyen. He was also an active Freema ...

(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 A satrap () was a governor of the provinces of the ancient Median and Achaemenid Empires and in several of their successors, such as in the Sasanian Empire and the Hellenistic empires. The satrap served as viceroy to the king, though with consid ...

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 Ross Alexander (born Alexander Ross Smith; July 27, 1907 – January 2, 1937) was an American stage and film actor. Early years Alexander was born Alexander Ross Smith in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Maud Adelle ( Cohen) and Alexander Ross ...

(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 Ghazaleh Alizadeh ( fa, غزاله علیزاده ); 15 February 1949 – 12 May 1996) was an Iranian poet and writer. Her mother was also a poet and writer. She married twice; she and her husband Bijan Elahi had a daughter called Salma. She als ...

(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 Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva (russian: link=no, Надежда Сергеевна Аллилуева; – 9 November 1932) was the second wife of Joseph Stalin. She was born in Baku to a friend of Stalin, a fellow revolutionary, and was ra ...

(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 Secreta ...

, 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 Jean Améry (31 October 191217 October 1978), born Hanns Chaim Mayer, was an Austrian-born essayist whose work was often informed by his experiences during World War II. His most celebrated work, ''At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survi ...

(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 , sometimes referred to as hara-kiri (, , a native Japanese kun reading), is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. It was originally reserved for samurai in their code of honour but was also practised by other Japanese people ...

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 th ...

, railroad civil engineer/manager, gunshot *

Forrest Howard Anderson Forrest Howard Anderson (January 30, 1913 – July 20, 1989) was an American politician, attorney, and judge who served as the 17th Governor of Montana from 1969 to 1973. Prior to this, he served as the Attorney General of Montana from 1957 to ...

(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 The , in English Master of the Horse or Master of the Cavalry, was a Roman magistrate appointed as lieutenant to a dictator. His nominal function was to serve as commander of the Roman cavalry in time of war, but just as a dictator could be nomi ...

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 wa ...

, 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 autoc ...

(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 to d ...

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 Ptolemaic is the adjective formed from the name Ptolemy, and may refer to: Pertaining to the Ptolemaic dynasty * Ptolemaic dynasty, the Macedonian Greek dynasty that ruled Egypt founded in 305 BC by Ptolemy I Soter * Ptolemaic Kingdom Pertaining ...

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 geo ...

, 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 Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 – February 1, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor, who developed FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver system. He held 42 patents and received numerous awa ...

(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 Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (; 1 August 10 BC – 13 October AD 54) was the fourth Roman emperor, ruling from AD 41 to 54. A member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, Claudius was born to Nero Claudius Drusus, Drusu ...

, stabbed herself.

Pliny the Younger Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo (61 – c. 113), better known as Pliny the Younger (), was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate ...

(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 Televisio ...

(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 fo ...

(2001), Egyptian member of

, and leader of the

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 Tower ...

. * 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 rec ...

(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 in ...

(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 Burt Freeman Bacharach ( ; born May 12, 1928) is an American composer, songwriter, record producer and pianist who composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. A six-time Gra ...

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 Josef Erwin Bachmann (12 October 1944 – 24 February 1970) became widely known in Germany for his assassination attempt on the Marxist activist Rudi Dutschke, firing three bullets at him, on 11 April 1968. Bachmann was convicted of the attack ...

(1970), German

anti-communist Anti-communism is Political movement, political and Ideology, ideological opposition to communism. Organized anti-communism developed after the 1917 October Revolution in the Russian Empire, and it reached global dimensions during the Cold War, w ...

, who made an assassination attempt on the

German student movement The West German student movement or sometimes called the 1968 movement in West Germany was a social movement that consisted of mass student protests in West Germany in 1968; participants in the movement would later come to be known as 68ers. T ...

-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 Islamic terrorism (also known as Islamist terrorism or radical Islamic terrorism) refers to terrorist acts with religious motivations carried out by fundamentalist militant Islamists and Islamic extremists. Incidents and fatalities ...

and leader of the

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

, 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 James Robert Baker (October 18, 1947 – November 5, 1997) was an American author of sharply satirical, predominantly gay-themed transgressional fiction. A native Californian, his work is set almost entirely in Southern California. After gradua ...

(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 ''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 ...

'', 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 wa ...

(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 fi ...

(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 Indian Americans or Indo-Americans are citizens of the United States with ancestry from India. The United States Census Bureau uses the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with Native Americans, who have also historically been referred to ...

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 operat ...

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 bina ...

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). Complica ...

Boris Barnet Boris Vasilyevich Barnet (russian: Бори́с Васи́льевич Ба́рнет; 18 June 1902 – 8 January 1965) was a Soviet film director, actor and screenwriter of British heritage. He directed 27 films between 1927 and 1963. Barne ...

(1965), Russian film director, hanging *

Uwe Barschel Uwe Barschel (13 May 1944 – 11 October 1987) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Minister-President in the state of Schleswig-Holstein. Having assumed office of Minister-President at the age of 38, Ba ...

(1987), German politician, ingested five sleeping potions *

Mark O. Barton On July 29, 1999, a shooting spree occurred at two Atlanta, Georgia, Atlanta-area day trading firms, Momentum Securities and the All-Tech Investment Group. Nine people were killed, and 13 other people were injured. The gunman, identified as 44-y ...

(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 Johanna Bassani (25 April 2002 – 5 May 2020) was an Austrian combined Nordic skier and ski jumper. Career Bassani was born on 25 April 2002. She began her career with the team UVB Hinzenbach, winning the championship in her hometown of Attnang- ...

(2020), Austrian combined Nordic skier and ski jumper *

Pierre Batcheff Pierre Batcheff (Russian: Пьер Батчефф; 23 June 1901? – 13 April 1932) was a French actor of Russian origin. He became a popular film actor from the mid-1920s until the early 1930s, and among his best-known work was the surrealist sh ...

(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 with ...

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 The Young Tradition were an English folk group of the 1960s, formed by Peter Bellamy, Royston Wood and Heather Wood. They recorded three albums of mainly traditional British folk music, sung in arrangements for their three unaccompanied voices. ...

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 Malik Bendjelloul (14 September 1977 – 13 May 2014) was a Swedish documentary filmmaker, journalist and former child actor.Rohter, Larry (20 July 2012)Retrieved 26 February 2013.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 mys ...

(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, a ...

(2017), American lead singer of

Linkin Park Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. The band's current lineup comprises vocalist/rhythm guitarist/keyboardist Mike Shinoda, lead guitarist Brad Delson, bassist Dave Farrell, DJ/turntablist Joe Hahn and drummer ...

, hanging *

Louis Bennison Louis Bennison (October 17, 1884 – June 9, 1929) was an American stage and silent film actor, known for westerns. Biography Bennison was born on October 17, 1884, in Oakland, California. He attended the University of California, Berkeley. ...

(1929), American actor, gunshot *

Chris Benoit Christopher Michael Benoit (; May 21, 1967 – June 24, 2007) was a Canadian Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He worked for various pro-wrestling promotions during his 22-year career including most notably the WWE, 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 is not ...

(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. Thr ...

(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 Gautam Paul Bhattacharjee (4 May 1960 – c. 10 July 2013) was a British actor who worked on stage, film and television. Early life and career The son of Gautam Bhattacharjee, a member of the Indian Communist Party who had to flee from the co ...

(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 Robert Wayne "Bob" Birch (July 14, 1956 – August 15, 2012) was an American musician. He was primarily a session musician and sideman to a variety of notable artists. Early life At an early age, Birch was inspired to pursue music by his f ...

(2012), American musician, gunshot *

David Birnie David John Birnie (16 February 1951 – 7 October 2005) and Catherine Margaret Birnie ( née Harrison; born 23 May 1951) were an Australian couple from Perth, Western Australia, who murdered four women at their home in 1986, and attempted to m ...

(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 an ...

(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 Jeremy Blake (October 4, 1971 – July 17, 2007) was an American digital artist and painter. His work included projected DVD installations, Type C prints, and collaborative film projects. Education and career Blake graduated from the School ...

(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 Adele Mary Blood (April 23, 1886 – September 13, 1936) was an American actress in silent movies, vaudeville, and theater. Biography Blood was born on April 23, 1886, in Alameda, California, to Ira E. Blood and Frances Emma Stewart. Her mothe ...

(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 law, agrarian reform law entailing the transfer of land from the Roman state and wealthy landowners to poorer citizens. He had also serve ...

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 thermodyn ...

(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 century ...

, hanging *

Eduardo Bonvallet Eduardo Guillermo Bonvallet Godoy (13 January 1955 – 18 September 2015) was a Chilean footballer who played as a defensive midfielder and later developed a sportscasting career. He was best known for his strong and rather harsh commentaries ...

(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 Martin Ludwig Bormann (17 June 1900 – 2 May 1945) was a German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery. He gained immense power by using his position as Adolf Hitler's private secretary to control the flow of information ...

(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 Bo ...

(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 o ...

Boudica Boudica or Boudicca (, known in Latin chronicles as Boadicea or Boudicea, and in Welsh as ()), was a queen of the ancient British Iceni tribe, who led a failed uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61. She ...

(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 Dallen Forrest Bounds (August 9, 1971 – December 23, 1999) was an American serial killer. After killing two acquaintances, he barricaded himself with two women and ultimately committed suicide. Law enforcement officers have closed four murd ...

(1999), American serial killer, gunshot *

Anthony Bourdain Anthony Michael Bourdain (; June 25, 1956 – June 8, 2018) was an American celebrity chef, author, and travel documentarian who starred in programs focusing on the exploration of international culture, cuisine, and the human condition. Bourdai ...

(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 Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – c. September 16, 1984) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. A prolific writer, he wrote throughout his life and published ten novels, two collections of short stories, and four bo ...

(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 Lilya Yuryevna Brik (alternatively spelled ''Lili'' or ''Lily''; russian: link=no, Ли́ля Ю́рьевна Брик; née Kagan; – August 4, 1978) was a Russian author and socialite, connected to many leading figures in the Russian avant ...

(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' r ...

(2001), Dutch rock musician and painter, jumped from hotel roof * Joseph Brooks (2011), American screenwriter, director, producer, and composer, asphyxiation *

May Brookyn May Brookyn (?1854/59 - February 15, 1894) was an English born American stage actress. Brookyn was born in Cornwall, England. Her name was spelled Brookyn but is often misspelled Brooklyn. Brookyn joined a theatrical company at age 15 when her ...

(1894), British stage actress, overdose of carbolic acid *

John Munro Bruce John Munro Bruce (10 October 1840 – 4 May 1901) was an Australian businessman. He was born in Ireland to Scottish parents and arrived in the colony of Victoria at the age of 18. He became the managing director and eventual majority shareholder ...

(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 letter ...

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, , 33 ...

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 advoc ...

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 Bris ...

(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 Neo-Nazism comprises the post–World War II militant, social, and political movements that seek to revive and reinstate Nazism, Nazi ideology. Neo-Nazis employ their ideology to promote hatred and Supremacism#Racial, racial supremacy (ofte ...

activist and member of the

Ku Klux Klan The Ku Klux Klan (), commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is an American white supremacist, right-wing terrorist, and hate group whose primary targets are African Americans, Jews, Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and ...

, gunshot to the head *

August Anheuser Busch Sr. August Anheuser Busch Sr. (December 29, 1865 – February 10, 1934) was an American brewing magnate who served as the President and Chief executive officer, CEO of Anheuser-Busch, based in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1913 to 1934. It became the wo ...

(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 glo ...

, 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 Cai Lun (; courtesy name: Jingzhong (); – 121 CE), formerly romanized as Ts'ai Lun, was a Chinese eunuch court official of the Eastern Han dynasty. He is traditionally regarded as the inventor of paper and the modern papermaking process ...

(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 millennium ...

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 distributed ...

and the modern

papermaking Papermaking is the manufacture of paper and cardboard, which are used widely for printing, writing, and packaging, among many other purposes. Today almost all paper is made using industrial machinery, while handmade paper survives as a speciali ...

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'' Bra ...

(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 Campania (, also , , , ) is an administrative Regions of Italy, region of Italy; most of it is in the south-western portion of the Italian peninsula (with the Tyrrhenian Sea to its west), but it also includes the small Phlegraean Islands and the i ...

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

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 wi ...

(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 Capucine (, born Germaine Hélène Irène Lefebvre , 6 January 1928 – 17 March 1990) was a French fashion model and actress known for her comedic roles in ''The Pink Panther'' (1963) and ''What's New Pussycat?'' (1965). She appeared in 36 film ...

(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 Experiment ...

(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 petro ...

, 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 Kevin Carter (13 September 1960 – 27 July 1994) was a South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club. He was the recipient in 1994 of a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph depicting the 1993 famine in Sudan. He died by sui ...

(1994), South African photojournalist, carbon monoxide poisoning * Tim Carter (2008), English footballer, hanging *

Justina Casagli Justina Kristina Casagli née Wässelius (4 October 1794 – 1841) was a Swedish opera singer Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translat ...

(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 cons ...

(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 Fidel most commonly refers to: * Fidel Castro (1926–2016), Cuban communist revolutionary and politician * Fidel Ramos (1928–2022), Filipino politician and former president Fidel may also refer to: Other persons * Fidel (given name) Film * ...

(2018), Cuban nuclear physicist, son of

Fidel Castro Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (; ; 13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 200 ...

Kelly Catlin Kelly Catlin (November 3, 1995 – March 7, 2019) was an American professional racing cyclist who rode for UCI Women's Team . Catlin won gold medals in the women's team pursuit at the 2016, 2017, and 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. S ...

(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 pr ...

(46 BC), Roman statesman and politician, stabbed with sword *

Paul Celan Paul Celan (; ; 23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a Romanian-born German-language poet and translator. He was born as Paul Antschel to a Jewish family in Cernăuți (German: Czernowitz), in the then Kingdom of Romania (now Chernivtsi, U ...

(1970), Romanian poet, drowning in the

Seine ) , mouth_location = Le Havre/Honfleur , mouth_coordinates = , mouth_elevation = , progression = , river_system = Seine basin , basin_size = , tributaries_left = Yonne, Loing, Eure, Risle , tributarie ...

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. Charlie Brown Jr. was a Brazilian alternative rock band from Santos, São Paulo. The group was popular with disadvantaged youth because of their relatable commentary about social issues and the frequent use of skate punk and hip hop slang in ...

, 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'', an ...

(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 Cleopatra VII Philopator ( grc-gre, Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ}, "Cleopatra the father-beloved"; 69 BC10 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler.She was also a ...

. 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 Gilles Châtelet (2 February 1944 – 11 June 1999) was a French philosopher and mathematician.Johnson, Douglas (June 25, 1999)"Obituary: Gilles Chatelet" ''The Independent (London), The Independent''. Biography Châtelet began studying at the É ...

(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. Althoug ...

(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 (album), ''Little'', was released in 1990. His commercial breakthrough came in 1996 with the rele ...

(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 Q ...

(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 C ...

(1644), Chinese emperor of the

Ming dynasty The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol Empire, Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last ort ...

* 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 M ...

(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 Winston Churchill in the Second World War, dur ...

, 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 Tyler Clementi (December 19, 1991 – September 22, 2010) was an American student at Rutgers University–New Brunswick who jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River at the age of 18, on September 22, 2010. On S ...

(2010),

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

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 St ...

Robert George Clements Robert George Clements (1880 – 30 May 1947) was a physician and a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Clements is suspected of the murder of his fourth wife, who died of morphine poisoning. His first three w ...

(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 ...

(30 BC), Queen of Egypt, inducing an asp to bite her. *

Kurt Cobain Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American musician who served as the lead vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter of the rock band Nirvana. Through his angst-fueled songwriting and anti-establishment persona ...

(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, Plastic Man was one of the first superheroes to ...

, gunshot to the head with a rifle * Ray Combs (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 (1989), American serial killer, drug dealer, warlock and cult leader, ordered a follower to shoot him * Tarka Cordell (2008) British musician, hanging * Don Cornelius (2012), American television producer, best known as the creator and host of ''Soul Train'', gunshot *Chris Cornell (2017), American musician, singer/songwriter, and member of the bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, hanging after a performance * Tony Costa (1974), American serial killer, hanging * John Coughlin (figure skater), John Coughlin (2019), American figure skater, hanging * Hart Crane (1932), American poet, jumped off ship * Darby Crash (1980), American singer (Germs (band), 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 (1991), American singer and actor, gunshot * Lindsay Crosby (1989), American singer and actor, gunshot * Julee Cruise (2022), American musician * Charles Crumb (1992), American comics writer and artist and brother of cartoonist Robert Crumb, overdosed on pills * Andrew Cunanan (1997), American spree killer, gunshot * Lester Cuneo (1925), American actor, gunshot * Will Cuppy (1949), American humorist, sleeping pill overdose * Ian Curtis (1980), English singer-songwriter (Joy Division), hanging * Patricia Cutts (1974), English film and television actress, barbiturate overdose * Adam Czerniaków (1942), Polish Jews, Polish-Jewish senator and head of the Warsaw Ghetto ''Judenrat'', cyanide poisoning

D

* Stig Dagerman (1954), Swedish journalist and writer, carbon monoxide poisoning * Dalida (1987), French-Italian singer, barbiturate overdose * Andrea Dandolo (admiral), Andrea Dandolo (1298), Republic of Venice, 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 (1937), Iranian politician, judge and the founder of the modern judicial system of Iran, overdose of opium * Brad Davis (actor), Brad Davis (1991), American actor, assisted barbiturate overdose * Charlotte Dawson (2014), Australian TV presenter, hanging * Osamu Dazai (1948), Japanese author, drowning in the Tamagawa Aqueduct * Alice de Janzé (1941), American heiress, gunshot * Decebalus (106 AD), King of Dacia * Decentius (353 AD), Roman usurper.Zosimus (historian), Zosimus, ''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 (1968), actor known for the science fiction film ''Dr. Cyclops'', autoerotic asphyxiation. * Gilles Deleuze (1995), French philosopher, jumped out of window * Peter Delmé (MP for Ludgershall and Southampton), Peter Delmé (1770), English politician, gunshot * Brad Delp (2007), American singer-songwriter for the bands Boston (band), Boston and RTZ (band), 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''. Retrieved April 27, 2019. * Demonax (c. 170 AD), Greek Cypriot Cynicism (philosophy), Cynic philosopher, starved himself to death * Demosthenes (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 (1967), English actor * Patrick Dewaere (1982), French actor, gunshot * Diaeus (146 BC), Greek strategos of the Achaean League, poison * Ding Ruchang (1895), Chinese admiral, opium overdose * Dioxippus (after 336 BC), Ancient Greece, ancient Greek pankratiast and Olympic champion, fell upon his sword * Tove Ditlevsen (1976), Danish poet and author * Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah (2001), King of Nepal and perpetrator of the Nepalese royal massacre, gunshot to the head * Thomas M. Disch (2008), American writer, gunshot * Adriaan Ditvoorst (1987), Dutch film director and screenwriter, drowning * Julia Domna (217 AD), Roman empress, second wife of Emperor Septimius Severus * Christopher Dorner (2013), former American police officer and mass shooter, gunshot * Michael Dorris (1997), American novelist, overdose of sleeping pills with vodka and asphyxiation * Jon Dough (2006), American pornographic actor, hanging * Edward Downes (2009), English conductor, assisted double suicide with wife Lady Joan Downes at the Dignitas (Swiss non-profit organisation), Dignitas clinic in Switzerland * Scott Dozier (2019), American murderer, hanging * Charmaine Dragun (2007), Australian television newsreader, jumped off The Gap (Sydney), The Gap * Lynwood Drake (1992), American spree killer, gunshot * Nick Drake (1974), English singer-songwriter, overdose of amitriptyline tablets * Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus (42 BC), Roman senator *Pete Duel (1971), American actor, gunshot *Dave Duerson (2011),

Safety (gridiron football position), safety for the Chicago Bears, New York Giants, and Arizona Cardinals, Phoenix Cardinals, gunshot to the chest * Theresa Duncan (2007), American video game designer, blogger, filmmaker and critic, ingestion of Tylenol and alcohol * R. Budd Dwyer (1987), American politician, gunshot to mouth

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* George 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 and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, gunshot to the head *Martin Emond (2004), New Zealand cartoonist and painter, hanging * Empedocles (c. 430 BC), Greek philosopher, leapt into Mount Etna * Robert Enke (2009), German Association football, footballer, struck by train * Gudrun Ensslin (1977), German

terrorist, hanging. * Peg Entwistle (1932), Welsh-born American actress, leapt from the "H" in the Hollywood Sign * Epicharis (Pisonian conspirator), Epicharis (65 AD), Roman leading member of the Pisonian conspiracy, strangled herself with a band of cloth * Eratosthenes (194 BC), Greek polymath and chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria, voluntary starvation * Ermanaric (376 AD), king of the Greuthungi * Etika (2019), American YouTuber and Online streamer, streamer, drowned after jumping from the Manhattan Bridge * Euphrates the Stoic (118 AD), Roman Stoicism, Stoic philosopher, hemlock poisoning * Eurydice II of Macedon (317 BC), Queen of Macedon, hanging * Tom Evans (musician), Tom Evans (1983), English musician and songwriter for the group Badfinger, hanging.Clark, Nick (April 26, 2013)
"Badfinger: last act in a rock'n'roll tragedy"
''The Independent''. * Richard Evonitz (2002), American serial killer and kidnapper

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*Angus Fairhurst (2008), English artist, hanging * Enevold de Falsen (1808), Norwegian Supreme Court Justice, drowning * Moni Fanan (2009), Israeli basketball executive Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C., Maccabi Tel Aviv, hanging * Gaius Fuficius Fango (40 BC), Roman general and politician * Fausto Fanti (2014), Brazilian humorist known as a member of the comedy troupe Hermes & Renato, and guitarist for Massacration, hanging * Richard Farnsworth (2000), American actor, gunshot * Justin Fashanu (1998), British footballer, hanging * René Favaloro (2000), Argentine cardiac surgeon (created technique for coronary Coronary artery bypass surgery, bypass surgery), gunshot to the heart * José Feghali (2014), Brazilian pianist, winner of the 1985 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, gunshot to head * Anton Fier (2022), American drummer, composer and bandleader, assisted suicide * Hans Fischer (1945), German organic chemist and recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry * Hermann Emil Fischer (1919), German chemist and recipient of the 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry * Robert FitzRoy (1865), English meteorologist, surveyor, hydrography, hydrographer, Governor-General of New Zealand, Governor of New Zealand and captain of during Charles Darwin's Second voyage of HMS Beagle, second voyage of ''HMS Beagle'', slit throat * Quintus Fulvius Flaccus (consul 179 BC), Quintus Fulvius Flaccus (172 BC), Roman consul, hanging * Caroline Flack (2020), English radio and television presenter, hanging * Ed Flanders (1995), American actor, gunshot * John Bernard Flannagan (1942), American sculptor * Frederick Fleet (1965), English sailor and lookout on the ''RMS Titanic'' who first spotted the iceberg that struck the vessel, hanging * Mark Fleischman (2022), American businessman and onetime owner of Studio 54, assisted suicide with the aid of the assisted dying non-profit Dignitas (Swiss non-profit organisation), Dignitas * Keith Flint (2019), English singer and dancer for The Prodigy, hanging * Charley Ford (1884), American outlaw, gunshot * Tom Forman (actor), Tom Forman (1926), American actor, director and producer, gunshot * Dédé Fortin, André "Dédé" Fortin (2000), Canadian songwriter, singer and guitarist (Les Colocs), stabbing * Vince Foster (1993), American attorney and Deputy White House Counsel to Bill Clinton, gunshot to mouth * Jason David Frank (2022), American actor (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Sweet Valley High, The Junior Defenders), hanging * Strathfield massacre, Wade Frankum (1991), Australian mass murderer who perpetrated the Strathfield massacre, gunshot * Kelly Fraser (2019), Canadian pop singer and songwriter * Ryan Freel (2012), American professional baseball player, gunshot * John Friedrich (fraudster), John Friedrich (1991), Australian fraudster, gunshot * Emil Fuchs (artist), Emil Fuchs (1929), Austrian-American sculptor, gunshot * Misao Fujimura, Fujimura Misao (1902), Japanese philosophy student and poet, jumped from the Kegon Falls * Anton Furst (1991), English production designer on ''Batman (1989 film), Batman'' (1989), jump from an eighth story parking garage

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* Anthony Galindo (2020), Venezuelan singer * Alan García (2019), Peruvian politician who served as President of Peru from 1985 to 1990 and again from 2006 to 2011, gunshot * Jamir Garcia (2020), Filipino singer, vocalist of the band Slapshock, hanging *Santiago García (Uruguayan footballer), Santiago García (2021), Uruguayan soccer player, gunshot *Danny Gatton (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 (author), Helen Palmer (1967), American author and actress who was the first wife of famed children's author Dr. Seuss, Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, barbiturate overdose * Richard Gerstl (1908), Austrian painter, stabbing and hanging * Babak Ghorbani (2014), Iranian wrestler, overdose * Jeremy Giambi (2022), American retired baseball player, gunshot to chest * Karl Giese (1938), German archivist, museum curator and life partner of Magnus Hirschfeld * Gildo (398 AD), Roman Berbers, Berber general and rebel leader, hanging * Rex Gildo (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's work in the English-speaking world * Claude Gillingwater (1939), American actor, gunshot * Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935), American writer, chloroform overdose * Kurt Gloor (1997), Swiss film director, screenwriter and producer * John Wayne Glover (2005), Australian serial killer, hanging * Suicide of Holly Glynn, 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, Euthanasia in Switzerland, assisted suicide procedure. * Joseph Goebbels (1945), Nazi politician and Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Propaganda Minister, gunshot or cyanide poisoning. * Magda Goebbels (1945), German wife of Joseph Goebbels, assisted suicide by gunshot or cyanide poisoning. * Gongsun Zan (199 AD), Chinese general and Warlord#China, warlord, setting himself and his family on fire * David Goodall (botanist), David Goodall (2018), English-born Australian botanist and ecologist, physician-assisted suicide * Gordian I (238 AD), Roman emperor, hanging * Adam Lindsay Gordon (1870), Australian poet, gunshot * Lucy Gordon (actress), Lucy Gordon (2009), English actress and model, hanging * Gōri Daisuke (2010), Japanese voice actor, narrator and actor, cut his wrist * Hermann Göring (1946), German politician, military leader, major figure in Nazi Party, potassium cyanide * Arshile Gorky (1948), Armenian American painter; hanging * Joachim Gottschalk (1941), German stage and film actor, gas inhalation * Gaius Gracchus (121 BC), Roman politician, reformer and tribune, ordered a slave to kill him * Eddie Graham (1985), American professional wrester, gunshot * Frank Graham (voice actor), Frank Graham (1950), American voice actor and radio announcer, carbon monoxide poisoning * Mike Graham (wrestler), Mike Graham (2012), American professional wrestler, gunshot * Phil Graham (1963), American newspaper publisher, shotgun blast * Sophie Gradon (2018), English model and television personality, hanging * Wolfgang Grams (1993), German

terrorist, gunshot * Bob Grant (actor), Bob Grant (2003), English actor, carbon monoxide poisoning * Shauna Grant (1984), American porn actress, gunshot * Spalding Gray (2004), American actor, playwright, screenwriter, performance artist, and monologuist, jumped off the Staten Island Ferry * Mark Green (ice hockey), Mark Green (2004), American record-setting minor league hockey star, hanging * Larry Grey (1951), English magician and actor, gunshot * Walter Gross (politician), Walter Groß (1945), German physician, politician, eugenicist and race theorist * Carl Großmann (1922), German serial killer, hanging * Theodor Grotthuss (1822), German chemist * Paul Gruchow (2004), American writer, drug overdose

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* Charlie Haeger (2020), American baseball player, gunshot * Jason Hairston (2018), American football player * Lillian Hall-Davis (1933), English actress, carbon monoxide poisoning and cut throat * Suicide of Ryan Halligan, Ryan Halligan (2003), bullied American middle school student, hanging * Pete Ham (1975), Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist for the band Badfinger, hanging. * Tony Halme (2010), Finnish athlete, actor and politician, gunshot * Bernardine Hamaekers (1912), Belgian opera singer, cut throat with shattered drinking glass * Rusty Hamer (1990), American actor, gunshot * David Hamilton (photographer), David Hamilton (2016), British photographer and filmmaker known for his nude (art), nudes of pubescent girls, asphyxiation via plastic bag after several of his models accused him of rape * Hampsicora (215 BC), Sardinians, Sardo-Punics, Punic political leader, landowner and anti-Roman rebel leader * Tony Hancock (1968), English comedian, overdose by vodka and amphetamines * Hannibal (ca 182 BC), Carthaginian commander during the Second Punic War, poison *Goo Hara (2019), South Korean singer * James Harden-Hickey (1898), Franco-American author, newspaper editor, duellist, adventurer and self-proclaimed Principality of Trinidad, Prince of Trinidad, overdose of morphine * Marlia Hardi (1984), Indonesian actress, hanging * Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, Eric Harris (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, Colorado, Jefferson County Sheriff's Office; ''Rocky Mountain News'' * Brynn Hartman (1998), wife of comedian and actor Phil Hartman, shot herself after murdering Hartman * Elizabeth Hartman (1987), American actress, leapt out of fifth floor window * Walter Hasenclever (1940), German poet and playwright, overdose of Barbital, Veronal * Neda Hassani (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 (1960), American silent film actress, barbiturate overdose * Sadegh Hedayat (1951), Iranian writer, carbon monoxide poisoning * Marvin Heemeyer (2004), American welder who went on a rampage with a modified bulldozer, gunshot * Sarah Hegazi (2020), Egyptian LGBT activist * Ernest Hemingway (1961), American writer and journalist, gunshot to head * Margaux Hemingway (1996), American fashion model, actress; overdose of phenobarbital * Benjamin Hendrickson (2006), American actor, gunshot * Luby's shooting#Perpetrator, 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 (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 (2005), Australian drummer for Split Enz and Crowded House, hanging * John Hicklenton (2010), British comics artist, assisted suicide the Dignitas (Swiss non-profit organisation), Dignitas clinic in Switzerland * hide (musician), hide (1998), Japanese heavy metal music, heavy metal singer, songwriter and record producer for the metal band X Japan, hanging * Virginia Hill (1966), American mobster, sedative overdose * Himilco (general), Himilco (396 BC), Carthaginian general, starving himself * Heinrich Himmler (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 cyanide poisoning, biting down on a cyanide capsule at the same time) * Abbie Hoffman (1989), American political and social activist; phenobarbital overdose * Crash Holly (2003), American wrestler, asphyxia due to pulmonary aspiration as a result of an Alcohol (drug), 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, BC Khimki, Khimki), gunshot * Doug Hopkins (1993), American songwriter and lead guitarist for the band Gin Blossoms, gunshot * Brita Horn (1791), Swedish countess and courtier, drowning * Harry Horse (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, gunshot to the head * Mike Howe (2021), American singer, and member of the heavy metal band Metal Church * Hu Bo (2017), Chinese novelist and director *Jeanne Hébuterne (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, gas * Nicholas Hughes (2009), fisheries biologist, son of renowned poet Sylvia Plath, hanging * Suicide of Rodney Hulin, Rodney Hulin (1996), American prison inmate who had been raped, hanging * Lester C. Hunt, Lester Hunt (1954), United States Senator, gunshot * Michael Hutchence (1997), Australian singer and songwriter (INXS), hanging * Phyllis Hyman (1995), American singer-songwriter and actress, overdose of phenobarbital

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* Imai Kanehira (1184), Japanese general, jump from his horse onto a sword he placed in his mouth * Clara Immerwahr (1915), German chemist, gunshot * William Inge (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 (2011), Japanese professional baseball player, hanged * Charmion (servant to Cleopatra)#Plutarch, Iras (30 BC), servant and advisor of

. * Isokelekel (17th century), semi-mythical conqueror of Pohnpei Island in the Caroline Islands, 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 (1997), Japanese actor and film director, jumped from building * Bruce Edwards Ivins, Bruce Ivins (2008), American microbiologist and suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks, overdose of paracetamol

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* Charles R. Jackson (1968), American writer, barbiturate overdose * Marcel Jacob (2009), Swedish bassist for the hard rock bands Talisman (band), Talisman and Yngwie Malmsteen * Irwin L. Jacobs (2019), American businessman, CEO of Genmar Holdings, 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 captain and admiral, blew himself up with his ship and crew * Jill Janus (2018), American lead singer of the metal band Huntress (band), Huntress * Jang Ja-yeon (2009), South Korean actress, hanging * Rick Jason (2000), American actor, gunshot *Jaxon (cartoonist), Jaxon (2006), American cartoonist and illustrator * Fatafat Jayalaxmi (1980), Indian actress, hanging * Richard Jeni (2007), American standup comedian and actor, gunshot * Herbert Turner Jenkins (1990), longest serving police chief of Atlanta, gunshot * Ryan Jenkins (entrepreneur), Ryan Jenkins (2009), American contestant on the 2009 reality TV series ''Megan Wants a Millionaire'', hanging *Jeon Mi-seon (2019), South Korean actress, hanging *Jeong Da-bin (2007), South Korean actress, hanging * Ji Yan (Three Kingdoms), Ji Yan (224 AD), Chinese official of the state of Eastern Wu, bureaucrat and reformer *Jiang Qing (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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Jonghyun at 2016 Korean Popular Culture And Arts Awards

* 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 (masque mortuaire)

* L'Inconnue de la Seine (late 1880s), unidentified French woman pulled out of the

, 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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Ulrike Meinhof als junge Journalistin (retuschiert)

* 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

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

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),

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

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

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

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

, 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 Cynicism (philosophy), 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 Pisonian conspiracy, 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 * Sylvia Plath (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

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 spree killer 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

, 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

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

* 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

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 Septimius Severus) * 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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