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The following are lists of notable people who intentionally killed themselves. Suicides committed under duress are included. Deaths by accident or misadventure are excluded. Individuals 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".

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See also List of suicides in the 21st century and List of suicides which have been attributed to bullying.

A

  • Chris Acland (1996), British drummer (Lush), hanging
  • Manuel Acuña (1873), Mexican poet, ingestion of potassium cyanide
  • Robert Adams, Jr. (1906), congressman from Pennsylvania, gunshot
  • Stuart Adamson (2001), Scottish guitarist and singer (Big Country, Skids), hanging after alcohol ingestion
  • Ahn Jae-hwan (2008), South Korean actor, carbon monoxide poisoning
  • Chantal Akerman (2015), Belgian film director
  • Sergey Akhromeyev (1991), Marshal of the Soviet Union, hanging
  • Stephen Akinmurele (1999), British suspected serial killer, hanging
  • Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1927), Japanese writer, barbital overdose
  • Marwan al-Shehhi (2001), United Arab Emirate member of Al-Qaeda, and one of the 9/11 hijackers, plane crash
  • Ross Alexander (1937), American actor, gunshot
  • Leandro Alem (1896), Argentine politician, founder of the Radical Civic Union, gunshot to the head
  • Prince Alfred of Edinburgh (1899), member of the British Royal Family, shot himself
  • Gia Allemand (2013), American actress/model, known for her appearances on the reality TV shows, The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love and Bachelor Pad, hanging
  • Salvador Allende (1973), president of Chile, gunshot.
  • Jeff Alm (1993), American football player, gunshot
  • Jason Altom (1998), American Ph.D student, potassium cyanide
  • Jean Améry (1978), Austrian writer; overdose of sleeping pills
  • Korechika Anami, Japanese War Minister (1945), stabbed in Japanese ritual suicide
  • Adna Anderson (1889), General, U.S. Military Railroads during the American Civil War, railroad civil engineer/manager, gunshot
  • Forrest Howard Anderson (1989), Governor of Montana, gunshot
  • Roger Angleton (1998), American murderer, cutting or hanging
  • Mark Antony (30 BC), Roman politician and general, stabbed with sword
  • Marshall Applewhite (1997), American leader of the Heaven's Gate religious cult, overdose
  • Diane Arbus (1971), American photographer, overdosed on pills and slashed wrists
  • Reinaldo Arenas (1990), Cuban-American artist and writer, drug and alcohol overdose
  • José María Arguedas (1969), Peruvian novelist and poet, gunshot
  • Pedro Armendáriz (1963), Mexican actor, gunshot
  • Edwin Armstrong (1954), American inventor of FM radio, jumped from a 13th floor window
  • John Atchison (2007), American federal prosecutor and alleged child sex offender, hanging
  • Mohamed Atta (2001), Egyptian member of Al-Qaeda, and leader of the 9/11 hijackers, plane crash
  • Pekka-Eric Auvinen (2007), Finnish Jokela High School shooter, gunshot to the head
  • Mike Awesome (2007), born Michael Alfonso, American professional wrestler, hanging
  • May Ayim (1996), German author, jumped from 13th floor of a Berlin building
  • Albert Ayler (1970), American jazz saxophonist, jumped into New York City's East River

    • B

  • Nikki Bacharach (2007), American daughter of Burt Bacharach and Angie Dickinson, suffocation using plastic bag and helium
  • Faith Bacon (1956), American burlesque dancer and actress, jumped from hotel window
  • David Bairstow (1998), English cricketer, hanged himself
  • James Robert Baker (1997), American writer, asphyxiation
  • Mark Balelo (2013), American cast member on the reality TV series Storage Wars, carbon monoxide asphyxiation
  • Joe Ball (1938), American serial killer, gunshot
  • José Manuel Balmaceda (1891), President of Chile, gunshot
  • Lou Bandy (1959), Dutch singer and comedian, overdose medicals
  • Pratyusha Banerjee (2016), Indian actress, hanging
  • Robert Hayward Barlow (1951), American writer and anthropologist, barbiturate overdose
  • Boris Barnet (1965), Russian film director, hanging
  • Ralph Barton (1931), American artist, gunshot
  • Simone Battle (2014), American musician (G.R.L.), hanging
  • Herb Baumeister (1996), American serial killer, gunshot
  • Amelie "Melli" Beese (1925), German pioneer aviator, gunshot
  • Jovan Belcher (2012), American football player, shot himself after killing his girlfriend
  • Peter Bellamy (1991), English musician
  • Malik Bendjelloul (2014), Swedish documentary filmmaker, jumped in front of moving train
  • Walter Benjamin (1940), German literary critic and culture theorist, overdosed on morphine
  • Jill Bennett (1990), British actress, Quinalbarbitone overdose
  • Louis Bennison (1929), American actor who murdered his lover actress Margaret Lawrence and then took his own life by gunshot in murder-suicide.
  • Chris Benoit (2007), Canadian professional wrestler, hanged himself after murdering his wife and son
  • Pierre Bérégovoy (1993), French politician and Prime Minister (1992–3), gunshot
  • Mary Kay Bergman (1999), American voice actress, gunshot
  • John Berryman (1972), American poet, jumped off a bridge
  • Bruno Bettelheim (1990). Austrian-born U.S. psychologist and writer, self-asphyxiated with plastic bag over head
  • Paul Bhattacharjee (2013), British actor, jumped from a clifftop
  • Brian Bianchini (2004), American model, hanging
  • Bob Birch (2012), American musician, gunshot
  • David Birnie (2005), Australian serial killer and rapist, hanging
  • Jeremy Blake (2007), American artist, drowning
  • Adele Blood (1936), American actress, gunshot
  • Clara Bloodgood (1907), American Broadway actress, gunshot
  • Isabella Blow (2007), English magazine editor, and muse to fashion designer Alexander McQueen, poisoning
  • Ludwig Boltzmann (1906), Austrian physicist, known for thermodynamics and atomic theory, hanging
  • Eduardo Bonvallet (2015), Chilean World Cup footballer and pundit, known for his strong opinions, hanging
  • Jeremy Michael Boorda (1996), Chief of Naval Operations, US Navy, shot in chest,
  • Georges Ernest Boulanger (1891), French general and politician, gunshot
  • Charles Boyer (1978), French actor, Seconal overdose
  • Jonathan Brandis (2003), American actor, hanging
  • Cheyenne Brando (1995), Tahitian model/actress, hanging
  • Mike Brant (1975), Israeli pop star, jumped from apartment building
  • Eva Braun (1945), German wife of Adolf Hitler, cyanide poisoning
  • Richard Brautigan (1984), American writer, gunshot
  • James E. Brewton (1967), American painter and printmaker, gunshot
  • Herman Brood (2001), Dutch musician, artist, composer, jumped from hotel roof
  • Joseph Brooks (2011), American screenwriter, director, producer, and composer; asphyxiation
  • Barry Brown (1978), American actor, gunshot
  • Jürgen Brümmer (2014), German Olympic gymnast, jumped from the Koersch Viaduct
  • Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger (42 BCE), by sword

    • C

  • Donald Cammell (1996), Scottish film director, gunshot
  • Capital Steez (2012), American hip-hop artist, jumped off the rooftop of the Cinematic Music Group headquarters in Manhattan
  • Capucine (1990), French actress and model, jumped from an eighth-floor apartment
  • George Caragonne (1995), American comic book writer, jumped from the 45th floor of the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Manhattan
  • Wallace Carothers (1937), American inventor of nylon, cyanide poisoning
  • Dora Carrington (1932), British artist, gunshot
  • Kevin Carter (1994), South African photojournalist, carbon monoxide poisoning
  • Tim Carter (2008), footballer, hanging
  • Justina Casagli (1841), Swedish opera singer, jumped out a window
  • Finn M. W. Caspersen (2009), American financier and philanthropist, gunshot
  • Ariel Castro (2013), Puerto Rican American man convicted in August 2013 of kidnapping, rape and aggravated murder for holding Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight and Gina DeJesus in his Cleveland, Ohio home over the course of a decade, hanging
  • Cato the Younger (46 BC), Roman statesman and politician, stabbed himself with his sword
  • Iris Chang (2004), American historian and author of The Rape of Nanking, gunshot wound to the head
  • Gilles Châtelet (1999), French philosopher and mathematician
  • Thomas Chatterton (1753), English poet, essayist, dramatist, forger, arsenic poisoning, presumed suicide, possible accident
  • Gu Cheng (1993), Chinese poet, hanged himself after attacking his wife with an axe
  • Vic Chesnutt (2009), American singer-songwriter, muscle relaxant overdose
  • Leslie Cheung (2003), Hong Kong singer and actor, leapt from the 24th floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel
  • Seung-Hui Cho (2007), American university student who perpetrated the Virginia Tech massacre, gunshot
  • Choi Jin-sil (2008), South Korean actress, hanging
  • Choi Jin-young (2010), South Korean actor and singer, hanging
  • Christine Chubbuck (1974), television reporter, shot herself during a live news broadcast
  • Tyler Clementi (2010), Rutgers University student, jumped off the George Washington Bridge
  • Cleopatra (30 BC), Queen of Egypt, inducing a snake to bite her
  • Kurt Cobain (1994), American musician (Nirvana), shotgun wound to the head
  • Ray Combs (1996), American comedian, actor, and television game show host, known for hosting Family Feud from 1988–1994, hanging
  • Don Cornelius (2012), American television show host and producer, best known as the creator and host of Soul Train, gunshot
  • Hart Crane (1932), American poet, jumped off ship
  • Darby Crash (1980), American singer (Germs), heroin overdose
  • Smiley Culture (2011), English reggae singer and DJ, stabbed himself during police raid
  • Lester Cuneo (1925), American actor, gunshot
  • Ian Curtis (1980), English singer-songwriter (Joy Division), hanging
  • Patricia Cutts (1974), English film and television actress, barbiturate overdose
  • Will Cuppy (1949), American humorist, sleeping-pill overdose.

    • D

  • Dalida (1987), French-Italian singer, barbiturate overdose
  • Karl Dane (1934), Danish-American silent film actor, gunshot
  • Monika Dannemann (1996), German skater and painter, exhaust fumes
  • Brad Davis (1991), American actor, euthanasia by drug overdose
  • Charlotte Dawson (2014), Australian TV presenter, hanging
  • Alice de Janzé (1941), American heiress, gunshot
  • 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
  • Gilles Deleuze (1995), French philosopher, jumped out of window
  • Peter Delmé (1770), English politician, gunshot
  • Brad Delp (2007), American rock musician (Boston), carbon monoxide poisoning
  • Penelope Delta (1941), Greek writer, poisoned
  • Patrick Dewaere (1982), French actor, gunshot
  • Thomas M. Disch (2008), American writer, gunshot
  • Adriaan Ditvoorst (1987), Dutch film director and screenwriter, drowning
  • Christopher Dorner (2013), American police officer, gunshot
  • Michael Dorris (1997), American novelist, took sleeping pills with vodka, asphyxiation
  • Jon Dough (2006), American pornographic actor, hanging
  • Charmaine Dragun (2007), Australian television newsreader, jumped off The Gap, an oceanside cliff
  • Dave Duerson (2011), American football safety who played for the Chicago Bears, the New York Giants, and the Phoenix Cardinals, gunshot to the chest
  • R. Budd Dwyer (1987), American politician, gunshot

    • E

  • George Eastman (1932), American inventor and philanthropist, gunshot to the heart
  • Keith Emerson (2016), British rock star, keyboardist, and composer (The Nice, Emerson, Lake & Palmer), gunshot to the head
  • Empedocles (c. 430 BC),
  • Robert Enke (2009), German footballer, stood on rail road tracks near Neustadt am Rübenberge
  • Peg Entwistle (1932), Welsh-born American actress, leapt from the "H" in the Hollywood Sign
  • Tom Evans (1983), English musician and songwriter (Badfinger), hanging

    • F

  • Moni Fanan (2009), team manager of the Israeli basketball team Maccabi Tel-Aviv, 1992–2008, hanging
  • Richard Farnsworth (2000), American actor, gunshot
  • Justin Fashanu (1998), British footballer, hanging
  • René Favaloro (2000), Argentine cardiac surgeon (created technique for coronary bypass surgery), gunshot to the heart
  • José Feghali (2014), Brazilian pianist, winner of the 1985 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, gunshot to head.
  • Robert FitzRoy (1865), English meteorologist, surveyor and hydrographer, who captained the HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's famous voyage, slit throat with razor
  • Ed Flanders (1995), American actor, gunshot
  • John Bernard Flannagan (1942), American sculptor
  • James D. Ford (2001), chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives for two decades, gunshot
  • André "Dédé" Fortin (2000), founding member of the Québécois band Les Colocs, stabbed in Japanese ritual suicide
  • Vince Foster (1993), Deputy White House Counsel to Bill Clinton, gunshot,
  • Wade Frankum (1991), Australian mass murderer who perpetrated the Strathfield massacre, gunshot
  • Emil Fuchs (1929), Austrian American sculptor, gunshot
  • Mutsumi Fujisaki (2011), also known as Miyu Uehara, Japanese model, hanging
  • Anton Furst (1991), English production designer who created the Gotham City and Batmobile used in the 1989 Batman film, as well as the look of Planet Hollywood, jumped from an eighth story parking garage

    • G

  • Helen Palmer Geisel (1967), American author and actress who was the first wife of famed children's author Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, barbiturate overdose
  • Sam Gillespie (2003), philosopher whose writings and translations were crucial to the initial reception of Alain Badiou's work in the English-speaking world
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935), American writer, chloroform overdose
  • 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.
  • Lucy Gordon (2009), British actress and model, hanging
  • Hermann Göring (1946), German politician, military leader, major figure in Nazi Party, potassium cyanide
  • Arshile Gorky (1948), Armenian American painter; hanging
  • Philip Leslie "Phil" Graham (1963), American newspaper publisher, hanging
  • 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 (2004), American record-setting minor league hockey star, hanging
  • Paul Gruchow (2004), American writer, drug overdose

    • H

  • Lillian Hall-Davis (1933), British actress, carbon monoxide poisoning and cut throat
  • Ryan Halligan (2003), Vermont high school student who committed suicide due to bullying, hanging
  • Pete Ham (1975), British musician (Badfinger), hanging
  • Rusty Hamer (1990), American actor, gunshot
  • Sue Hamilton (1969), American model and actress, gunshot
  • Tony Hancock (1968), British comedian, overdose by vodka and amphetamines
  • Marlia Hardi (1984), Indonesian actress, hanging; she owed five million rupiah to her arisan group
  • Eric Harris (1999), one of the two American high school seniors who committed the Columbine High School massacre, gunshot
  • Brynn Hartman (1998), wife of comedian and actor Phil Hartman, shot herself after murdering her husband
  • Elizabeth Hartman (1987), American actress, leapt out of fifth floor window
  • Donny Hathaway (1979), American musician, jumped from the 15th floor window of his hotel room
  • Phyllis Haver (1960), American silent film actress, barbiturate overdose
  • Ernest Hemingway (1961), American writer and journalist, gunshot wound to the head
  • Margaux Hemingway (1996), American fashion model, actress; overdose of phenobarbital
  • Benjamin Hendrickson (2006), American actor, gunshot
  • Paul Hester (2005), Australian television personality and drummer from Crowded House, hanged himself in a Melbourne park
  • hide (1998), Japanese musician (X Japan and solo), hanging
  • Heinrich Himmler (1945), German Nazi leader, cyanide
  • Adolf Hitler (1945), Austrian-born, Nazi Germany dictator, committed suicide by gunshot (possibly while biting down on a cyanide capsule at the same time)
  • Abbie Hoffman (1989), American political and social activist; phenobarbital overdose
  • Libby Holman (1971), American singer and actress, carbon monoxide poisoning
  • Doug Hopkins (1993), American musician (Gin Blossoms), gunshot
  • Brita Horn (1791), Swedish countess and courtier, drowning
  • Robert E. Howard (1936), American author probably best known for his character Conan the Barbarian, gunshot to the head
  • Quentin Hubbard (1976), Son of L. Ron Hubbard, gas
  • Nicholas Hughes (2009), fisheries biologist, son of renowned poet Sylvia Plath, hanging
  • Rodney Hulin (1996), Texas prisoner who had been raped, by hanging on January 26, 1996; he died on May 9, 1996.
  • 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

    • I

  • William Inge (1973), American writer, carbon monoxide poisoning
  • Isokelekel (17th century), semi-mythical conqueror of Pohnpei Island in the Carolines and father of the cultural system of modern Pohnpei, bled to death after severing penis
  • Juzo Itami (1997), Japanese actor and film director, jumped from building

    • J

  • Jang Ja-yeon (2009), South Korean actress, hanging
  • Charles R. Jackson (1968), American writer, barbiturate overdose
  • Marcel Jacob (2009), Swedish musician, best known as the bassist in the hard rock bands Talisman and Yngwie Malmsteen.
  • Fatafat Jayalaxmi (1980), Indian actress, hanging
  • Clayne Jeffs (2002), nephew of Warren Jeffs, gunshot following admission that Warren had sexually assaulted him as a child
  • Richard Jeni (2007), American standup comedian and actor, gunshot
  • Ryan Jenkins (2009), American contestant on the 2009 reality TV series Megan Wants a Millionaire, hanging
  • Jeong Da-bin (2007), South Korean actress, hanging
  • B.S. Johnson (1973), English novelist, poet, literary critic, sports journalist, television producer and filmmaker, cut his wrists
  • J.J. Johnson (2001), American Bebop trombonist, gunshot
  • Malcolm Jones III (1996), American comic book creator known for his work on Vertigo series The Sandman

    • K

  • Antonie Kamerling (2010), Dutch actor and musician, hanging
  • Sarah Kane (1999), English writer, hanging
  • Chris Kanyon (2010), American professional wrestler, overdose of anti-depressant pills
  • Kostas Karyotakis (1928), Greek poet, gunshot
  • Bruno Kastner (1932), German actor, hanging
  • Kazuhiko Kato (2009), Japanese musician, hanging
  • Yasunari Kawabata (1972), Japanese writer, gassing
  • Brian Keith (1997), American actor, gunshot
  • Mike Kelley (2012), American artist,
  • Israel Keyes (2012), American serial killer, strangulation
  • Jiah Khan (2013), British American actress of Indian descent, hanging
  • Daul Kim (2009), South Korean model and blogger, hanged in her Paris apartment
  • Ji-hoo Kim (2008), South Korean actor and model, hanging
  • Yu-ri Kim (2011), South Korean model, poison
  • Allyn King (1930), American actress, jumped from a fifth story window
  • Syd King (1933), British footballer and football manager, ingestion of corrosive liquid
  • Uday Kiran (2014), Telugu actor, hanging
  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1938), German artist, gunshot
  • R. B. Kitaj (2007), American artist, suffocation
  • Dylan Klebold (1999), one of the two American high school seniors who committed the Columbine High School massacre, gunshot
  • 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 (Tuinal) overdose taken with alcohol
  • Lawrence Kohlberg (1987), American developmental psychologist, drowning
  • Ruslana Korshunova (2008), Kazakhstani model, aged 20, jumped from the ninth-floor balcony of her apartment in New York City
  • Jerzy Kosinski (1991), Polish-born American writer, suffocation with plastic bag
  • Kuyili (1780). Indian freedom fighter. Applied ghee, set herself ablaze and jumped into the armoury of the British

    • L

  • Deborah Laake (2000), American columnist and writer, overdose of pills
  • Leonard Lake (1985), American serial killer, cyanide capsules
  • Karen Lancaume (2005), French pornographic film actress, overdose of temazepam
  • Carole Landis (1948), American actress, overdose of pills Seconal
  • Don Lapre (2011), American television pitchman noted for several products, cut throat with a razor blade
  • 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 (2002), Welsh drummer of British rock band Feeder, hanging
  • Megan Leigh (1990), American pornographic actress; gunshot wound to the head
  • Dave Lepard (2006), Swedish singer and guitarist for Crashdïet, hanging
  • Andrzej Lepper (2011), Polish politician who was the leader of Samoobrona RP (Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland), hanging
  • Harry Lew (2011), United States Marine, gunshot
  • Ephraim Lewis (1994), English singer, jumped off a fourth floor balcony
  • Meriwether Lewis (1809), U.S. explorer and partner of William Clark, gunshot; there is some debate as to whether his death was a suicide
  • Chris Lighty (2012), American music industry executive and manager, gunshot
  • Lin Dai (1964), Chinese actress, overdose of sleeping pills and methane gas poisoning
  • Max Linder (1925), French film and stage actor, double suicide with wife, veronal and morphine ingestion, cut wrists
  • Mark Linkous (2010), American musician, gunshot to the heart
  • Philip Loeb (1955), American actor, sleeping pill overdose
  • Daniele Alves Lopes (1993), teen whose jump from a building was broadcast on Brazilian national television
  • Lucan (65 AD), Roman poet, cut veins
  • Roman Lyashenko (2003), Russian NHL hockey player, hanging

    • M

  • Billy Mackenzie (1997), Scottish musician (The Associates), drug overdose
  • Maurice Magnus (1920), American memoirist
  • George W. Maher (1926), American architect
  • Joe Maini (1964) Russian Roulette
  • Donald R. Manes (1986), American politician, stabbed self in chest
  • Martin Manley (2013), American sports writer and statistician, gunshot; his suicide note took the form of a website about his life and death
  • Mădălina Manole (2010), Romanian pop singer, pesticide poisoning
  • Richard Manuel (1986), Canadian musician, lead singer and pianist for The Band, hanging
  • Simone Mareuil (1954), French actress, self-immolation
  • Andrew Martinez (2006), American nudism activist who became known on the University of California, Berkeley campus as the "Naked Guy", suffocation
  • Vladimir Mayakovsky (1930), Russian and Soviet poet, gunshot
  • Jacques Mayol (2001), French free diver and subject of the movie The Big Blue, hanging
  • Allyson McConnell (2013), Australian woman resident in Alberta, Canada 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
  • 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 (1983), American novelist
  • Kenny McKinley (2010), American football player, gunshot
  • Robert M. McLane (1904), American politician, mayor of Baltimore, gunshot
  • Maggie McNamara (1978), American actress, drug overdose
  • Alexander McQueen (2010), British fashion designer and couturier, hanging
  • Briony McRoberts (2013), English actress, jumped in front of London tube train
  • Joe Meek (1967), British record producer, gunshot
  • Megan Meier (2006), American high school student who committed suicide due to cyberbullying, hanging
  • Ulrike Meinhof (1976), German journalist and RAF-terrorist, hanged herself
  • Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1996), American writer, gunshot
  • Mary Millington (1979), English model and softcore pornographic actress, overdose of Anafranil, Paracetamol and alcohol
  • 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; stabbed in Japanese ritual suicide
  • 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 barbiturate overdose
  • Masakatsu Morita (1970), Japanese political activist, stabbed in Japanese ritual suicide
  • Jason Moss (2006), American attorney and author of The Last Victim, gunshot
  • Ona Munson (1955), American actress, barbiturate overdose
  • Francine Mussey (1933), French actress, poison

    • N

  • Vladimir Nalivkin (1918), Russian scientist, politician, diplomat, gunshot
  • Scott Nearing (1983), American political activist and conservationist, by self-starvation
  • Nekojiru (1998), Japanese manga artist, hanging
  • Terry Newton (2010), English rugby league player, hanging
  • Tom Nicon (2010), French model, jumped out of apartment window
  • Frank Nitti (1943), Chicago 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
  • Jon Nödtveidt (2007), Swedish guitarist (Dissection), gunshot
  • Hisashi Nozawa (2004), Japanese writer, hanging

    • O

  • John O'Brien (1994), American novelist, best known for his 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
  • Per "Dead" Ohlin (1991), Swedish vocalist for the Norwegian black metal 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

    • P

  • Jan Palach (1969), Czech student, self-immolation
  • Park Yong-ha (2010), South Korean actor and singer, hanging
  • Violeta Parra (1967), Chilean composer, songwriter, folklorist, ethno-musicologist and visual artist, gunshot
  • Christine Pascal (1996), French actress, writer and director, jumped out of window
  • Dušan Pašek (1998), Slovak ice hockey player, gunshot
  • Cesare Pavese (1950), Italian author, overdose of barbiturates
  • Jeret "Speedy" Peterson (2011), American skier, Olympic medalist, gunshot
  • Justin Pierce (2000), English-born American actor and skateboarder known for his role in the 1995 drama Kids, hanging
  • Alejandra Pizarnik (1972), Argentine poet; overdose of Secobarbital sodium
  • 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 Vanadom (Soma) and Lortab; Plato's son, Tyler Lambert, killed himself on May 6, 2010, almost 11 years to the day after Plato's death, via gunshot wound to the head
  • Edward Platt (1974) American actor, notable for his role on the TV series Get Smart; poison
  • Jan Potocki (1815), Polish nobleman, gunshot
  • George R. Price (1975), American Scientist
  • Phoebe Prince (2010), American high school student who committed suicide due to school bullying and cyberbullying, hanging

    • Q

  • Henry Quastler (1963), Austrian physician and radiologist, overdosed on pills
  • Horacio Quiroga (1937), Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer, drank a glass of cyanide

    • R

  • Jason Raize (2004), American actor, singer and former Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme, hanging
  • Nicola Ann Raphael (2001), Lenzie Academy high school student who committed suicide due to bullying, overdose of Coproxamol
  • David Rappaport (1990), English actor, known for the film Time Bandits, gunshot
  • Roy Raymond (1993), American founder of Victoria's Secret, jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge
  • Liam Rector (2007), U.S. poet and educator; gunshot
  • Terry Reeves (2005), district attorney for Winn Parish, Louisiana, 1991 until his death in office; gunshot
  • David Reimer (2004), Canadian man who after a botched circumcision in infancy, was unsuccessfully reassigned as a girl until he learned the truth at age 13, gunshot
  • Angelo Reyes (2011), Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, gunshot
  • Al Rio (2012), Brazilian comics artist, and animation director, hanging
  • Dale Roberts (2010), English football, hanging
  • Rachel Roberts (1980), Welsh actress, barbiturate and alcohol overdose and consumption of lye or alkali
  • Annie Robinson (1914), Titanic stewardess and survivor, jumped from the deck of the Leyland liner Devonian during voyage in the Caribbean. She was seen panicking as the ship entered fog and it's whistles sounded off.
  • Charles Rocket (2005), American actor, cut throat
  • Jamey Rodemeyer (2011), American high school student who committed suicide due to constant bullying, hanging
  • Roh Moo-hyun (2009), ninth President of the Republic of Korea, jumping from a cliff
  • Erwin Rommel (1944), German Nazi general, forced by Hitler to commit suicide for treason
  • Edgar Rosenberg (1987), American film and television producer and husband of Joan Rivers, prescribed sedative overdose
  • Mark Rothko (1970), American abstract expressionist painter, slit his arms
  • Ruan Lingyu (1935), Chinese actress, barbiturate overdose
  • Lori Erica Ruff (2010), unidentified woman who had assumed the given name, gunshot
  • Michael Ruppert (2014), American political activist, gunshot

    • S

  • El Hedi ben Salem (1977), Moroccan actor, hanging
  • Johanna Sällström (2007), Swedish actress, overdose of sleeping pills
  • George Sanders (1972), Russian-born English actor, singer, composer and author, overdose
  • Nick Santino (2012), American soap opera actor, overdosed on pills
  • Savannah (1994), American adult film actress, gunshot to the head
  • Sybille Schmitz (1955), German actress, overdose
  • Robert Schommer (2001), American astronomer
  • Conrad Schumann (1998), East German soldier who famously defected to West Germany during the construction of the Berlin Wall, hanging.
  • L'Wren Scott (2014), American fashion designer, hanging
  • Tony Scott (2012), English film director, famous for 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
  • Seneca the Younger (65), Roman philosopher, cut his veins
  • Anne Sexton (1974), American poet, carbon monoxide inhalation by running automobile in closed garage
  • Alice Bradley Sheldon (James Tiptree, Jr.) (1987), American writer, gunshot
  • Shoba (1980), Indian actress
  • Tiffany Simelane (2009), Swazi beauty queen, poisoning
  • Walter Slezak (1983), Austrian actor, gunshot
  • Everett Sloane (1965), American actor, drug overdose
  • Gary Speed (2011), Welsh footballer and manager, hanging
  • Mark Speight (2008), English television presenter, hanging
  • Frank Stanford (1978), American poet, gunshot
  • Lyle Stevik (2001), unidentified man using the alias name taken from a book by Joyce Carol Oates, hanging
  • Adalbert Stifter (1868), Austrian writer, cut neck with a razor
  • Alfonsina Storni (1938), Argentine poet, drowning
  • David Stove (1994), Australian philosopher, hanging
  • Otto Strandman (1941), Estonian politician, gunshot
  • David Edward Sutch (1999), English musician also known as Screaming Lord Sutch, hanging
  • Aaron Swartz (2013), American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and activist, hanging
  • Sawyer Sweeten (2015), American former child actor (Everybody Loves Raymond), gunshot

    • T

  • Lou Tellegen (1934), Dutch actor, director and screenwriter, stabbed himself in the chest with a pair of scissors
  • Tewodros II (1868), Emperor of Ethiopia, gunshot
  • Jack Thayer (1945), Titanic survivor, cut his wrists while sitting in his automobile, despondent over two of his sons being killed in WW2.
  • Samuel J. F. Thayer (1893), American architect, gunshot
  • Nicky Thomas (1990), Jamaican reggae singer
  • Hunter S. Thompson (2005), gonzo journalist, author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, gunshot
  • Terry Thompson (2011), zookeeper and owner of Muskingum County Animal Farm, gunshot
  • Li Tobler (1975), Swiss actress, model and life partner of artist H. R. Giger, gunshot
  • Amanda Todd (2012), Canadian high school student who committed suicide due to school bullying and cyberbullying, hanging
  • 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
  • Dick Trickle (2013), American NASCAR driver, gunshot
  • Silvanus Trevail (1903), British architect; shot himself
  • Yordan Tsitsonkov (1926), Macedonian Bulgarian assassin, hanged himself
  • Marina Tsvetaeva (1941), Russian poet, hanging
  • Kurt Tucholsky (1935), German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer, overdose

    • U

  • Jack Unterweger (1994), Austrian serial killer, hanging

    • V

  • Edwin Valero (2010), Venezuelan boxer, hanging
  • Vincent van Gogh (1890), Dutch Post-Impressionist, gunshot
  • Johannes Vares (1946), Estonian poet, doctor and politician, gunshot
  • Getúlio Vargas (1954), two-time President of Brazil, gunshot
  • Lupe Vélez (1944), Mexican actress, overdose of seconal tablets
  • John Verrept (1912), Belgian aviator, first person to commit suicide using an airplane
  • Juhan Viiding (1995), Estonian poet and actor, cut his veins
  • Hervé Villechaize (1993), French actor known for his work on the TV series Fantasy Island, gunshot
  • Frank Vitkovic (1987), Australian mass murderer who perpetrated the Queen Street massacre, falling from a height
  • Ned Vizzini (2013), American author of young adult fiction, such as the novel, It's Kind of a Funny Story, leapt from a building
  • Chris Von Erich (1991), born Chris Barton Adkisson, professional wrestler, gunshot to the head
  • Kerry Von Erich (1993), born Kerry Gene Adkisson, professional wrestler, gunshot to the chest
  • Mike Von Erich (1987), born Michael Brett Adkisson, professional wrestler, overdose of Placidyl and alcohol

    • W

  • Gustav Wagner (1980), deputy commander, Sobibor extermination camp, knife wound
  • 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
  • Otto Weininger (1903), Austrian philosopher, gunshot
  • Jeff Weise (2005), American high school student who, after years of bullying, committed the Red Lake shootings and then committed suicide, gunshot
  • Dorrit Weixler (1916), German film actress, hanging
  • Bob Welch (2012), musician and former member of Fleetwood Mac, gunshot to the chest
  • Dawn-Marie Wesley (2000), Canadian high school student who committed suicide due to bullying, 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
  • Robin Williams (2014), American comedian and actor, hanging
  • Rozz Williams (1998), American musician, and lead vocalist for Christian Death, hanging
  • Sue Williams (1969), American actress and Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for April 1965, gunshot to the chest
  • 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
  • Christopher Wilmarth (1987), American sculptor, hanging
  • Jack Wishna (2012), president and CEO of CPAmerica, carbon monoxide poisoning
  • Tobi Wong (2010), Canadian born designer, and conceptual artist, overdosed on pills
  • 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, publisher, and writer of short stories, drowning
  • Tera Wray (2016), American pornographic actress, drug overdose
  • Marcin Wrona (2015), Polish film director, hanging

    • Y

  • Yasmine (2009), Belgian singer, hanging
  • Kelly Yeomans (1997), Merrill College bullied high school student, painkiller overdose
  • Sergei Yesenin (1925), Russian and Soviet poet, hanging
  • Yoon Ki-won (2011), South Korean football goalkeeper, charcoal-burning suicide
  • Gig Young (1978), American actor, gunshot after fatally shooting his wife
  • Lee Thompson Young (2013), American actor known for the films Friday Night Lights and The Famous Jett Jackson, gunshot
  • Fakhra Younus (2012), Pakistani dancer, jumped from building
  • Qu Yuan (278 BC), Chinese poet and minister, drowning

    • Z

  • 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
  • Joost Zwagerman (2015), Dutch writer, poet, and essayist
  • Stefan Zweig (1942), Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer, barbiturate overdose

    • Possible suicides

  • Clodius Albinus (197), Roman emperor, killed himself after a defeat in battle (possibly executed by Septimius Severus)
  • Alexis Arguello (2009), Nicaraguan boxer and politician; shot himself on the heart- some sources believe he was murdered.
  • Le Corbusier (1965), one of the pioneers of modern architecture, went for a swim against his doctor's orders. There is some debate whether his death was a suicide.
  • Hannibal (183–181 BC), a Carthaginian military commander and tactician, possibly poison
  • Meriwether Lewis (1809), U.S. explorer and partner of William Clark, gunshot. There is some debate as to whether his death was a suicide
  • Freddie Prinze (1977), American actor and comedian; gunshot, while under the influence of methaqualone and alcohol. Initially ruled suicide but later determined accidental
  • Socrates (399 BC), Classical Greek Athenian philosopher, credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, drank poison, probably hemlock Because 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.
  • Luigi Tenco (1967), Italian singer and songwriter, gunshot to the head.
  • Alan Turing (1954), English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist, eating an apple laced with cyanide; while the inquest ruled the death a suicide, the BBC disputes this

    • References

    List of suicides Wikipedia
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