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Famous people who died by suicide

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Attempted Suicides in fiction

Famous people who died by suicide

The following are lists of notable people who have definitely died 'intentionally' by their own hand, regardless of the circumstances. 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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★ Johnny Ace (1954), singer, American singer, playing Russian Roulette

★ Chris Acland (1996), British drummer (Lush), hanging

★ Stanley Adams (1977), American character actor, gunshot to the head

★ Robert Adams, Jr. (1906), congressman from Pennsylvania, shot himself after heavy losses in stock speculation

★ Stuart Adamson (2001), Scottish singer (Big Country, Skids), hanging

★ Chris Adkisson, a.k.a. Chris von Erich, (1991), professional wrestler, gunshot to the head

★ Kerry Adkisson, a.k.a. Kerry von Erich, (1993), professional wrestler, gunshot wound to the chest

★ Mike Adkisson, a.k.a. Mike von Erich, (1987), professional wrestler, overdosed on the tranquilizer Placidyl

★ Neil Aggett (1982), South African worker's union leader; hanged in prison (murder is suspected by some)

★ General Sergei Akhromeev (1991), Soviet military commander who led an unsuccessful coup against Mikhail Gorbachev

★ Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1927), Japanese writer (author of "Rashomon"), barbital overdose

★ Leandro Alem (1896), Argentine politician, founder of the Radical Civic Union

★ Michael Alfonso, a.k.a. Mike Awesome (2007), professional wrestler, hanging

★ Prince Alfred of Edinburgh (1899), member of the British Royal Family

★ Salvador Allende (1973), president of Chile (elected 1970), and uncle of renowned author Isabel Allende; allegedly shot himself during a coup d'etat against his regime orchestrated by General Augusto Pinochet - some sources allege that he was killed

★ Jeff Alm (1993), NFL player, killed himself following a car accident which killed his passenger

★ Jason Altom (1998), Ph.D. student

★ Jean Améry (1978), Austrian writer; overdose of sleeping pills

★ Forrest Howard Anderson (1989), Governor of Montana

★ Fridolin Anderwert (1880), Swiss Federal Councilor

★ Aman Andom (1974), military ruler of Ethiopia; committed suicide to avoid his execution in an internal purge

★ Gwili Andre (1959), Danish actress; self-immolation

★ Roger Angleton (1998), brother of imprisoned Texas extortionist who admitted in his suicide note to killing his sister-in-law, socialite Doris Angleton

★ Anson Jones (1858), doctor, businessman, congressman, and the last president of the Republic of Texas

★ Mark Antony (30 BC), Roman politician and general

★ Marshall Applewhite (1997), leader of Heaven's Gate religious cult

★ Hubert Aquin (1977), Canadian author; gunshot

★ Diane Arbus (1971), American photographer; barbiturate overdose and slashed wrists

★ Reinaldo Arenas (1990), Cuban-American artist and writer

★ Pedro Armendáriz, (1963), Mexican actor of both Mexican and hollywood's movies

★ Edwin Armstrong (1954), U.S. inventor of FM radio; jumped from a 13th floor window believing FM was a failure

★ Nikolas Asimos (1988), Greek rock musician; hanging

★ George Ault (1948), American painter

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

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★ James Robert Baker (1997), American writer

★ Albert Ballin (1918), overdose of sleeping pills

★ José Manuel Balmaceda (1891), President of Chile

★ Isobel Barnett (1980), British TV personality

★ Donald Barry, AKA Red Ryder (1980)

★ Diana Barrymore (1960), U.S. actress, writer ('Too Much, Too Soon')

★ Gert Bastian (1992)

★ J. Clifford Baxter (2002), Enron vice-chairman

★ Thomas McKee Bayne (1894), U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania

★ Scotty Beckett (1968), child actor, Our Gang films

★ Charles Eugène Bedaux (1944), efficiency engineer charged with treason for collaboration with Vichy government

★ Gertrude Bell (1926), archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq"

★ Peter Bellamy (1991), English folk singer

★ Ota Benga (1916), African Pygmy put on "display" in United States

★ Walter Benjamin (1940), German cultural theorist

★ Jill Bennett (1990), British film actress

★ Chris Benoit (2007), Professional wrestler, murdered his wife and 7-year-old son and later hung himself in his weight room

★ Pierre Bérégovoy (1993), French Prime Minister, killed himself a month after losing a general election

★ Hans Berger (1941), German physician and inventor of electroencephalography

★ Ricky Berry (1989), NBA player for the Sacramento Kings

★ John Berryman (1972), American poet, jumped from the Washington Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota

★ Bruno Bettelheim (1990), American psychoanalist

★ Georges Boulanger (1891), French politician and general

★ Mary Kay Bergman (1999), American voice actress, shot herself in the head

★ Robert Billings (1986), Canadian poet, drowned.

★ Tadeusz Borowski (1951), Polish writer and concentration camp survivor, asphyxiation

★ Tommy Boyce (1994), with Bobby Hart, songwriter for The Monkees

★ Karin Boye (1941), Swedish poet

★ Jonathan Brandis (2003), American actor

★ Cheyenne Brando (1995), Daughter of Marlon Brando, hanged

★ Eva Braun (1945), mistress and then wife of Adolf Hitler, cyanide

★ Richard Brautigan (1984), American writer

★ Herman Brood (2001), Dutch musician and painter

★ Barry Brown (1978), actor and writer

★ Oskar Brüsewitz (1976), East German cleric, committed self-immolation in protest of East Germany's persecution of Protestants

★ Brutus (42 BC), Roman politician, assassin of Julius Caesar

★ Eustace Budgell (1737), remembered because his death was discussed in a conversation between Samuel Johnson and his friend and biographer Boswell

★ Bernard Buffet (1999), French painter ('The Crucifixion')

★ Rembrandt Bugatti (1916), Italian sculptor

★ Dan Burros (1965), Jewish Neo-Nazi

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★ Andres Caicedo (1977), Colombian novelist

★ Capucine (1990), French actress

★ Arthur Edmund Carewe (1937), American actor; gunshot wound

★ Wallace Hume Carothers (1937), world renowned chemist, suffered chronic depression; killed himself in a hotel in 1937

★ Don Carpenter (1995), American novelist, friend of Richard Brautigan

★ Dora Carrington (1932), artist

★ Kevin Carter (1994), award-winning South African photographer and member of the Bang-Bang Club

★ Hugh Casey (1951), baseball player

★ Joseph Daniel 'Danny' Casolaro (1991), journalist

★ Adolphe Mouron Cassandre (1968), painter

★ Gaius Cassius Longinus (42 BC), Roman politician, co-assassin of Julius Caesar

★ Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1822), British politician

★ Cato the younger (46 BC), Roman republican statesman

★ Ugo Cavallero (1943), Italian Field Marshal

★ Paul Celan (1970), Romanian poet

★ Valerie Chacon (1982), wife of Bobby Chacon

★ Iris Chang (2004), Chinese-American author

★ Claude Chappe (1805), French inventor

★ Thomas Chatterton (1770), English poet

★ Leslie Cheung (2003), Hong Kong movie star and singer

★ Vere Gordon Childe (1957), Australian archaeologist and historian, jumped off Govett's Leap in the Blue Mountains

★ Seung-Hui Cho (2007) Perpetrator of the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre; shot himself shortly after killing 32 students.

★ Vern Christie, (1991), Australian businessman, General Manager of the Commonwealth Bank

★ Edwin Pearce Christy, (1862), American entertainer, founder of the Christy Minstrels

★ Christine Chubbuck (1974), American television journalist, shot herself in the head on live TV after reading the news

★ Chung Mong-hun (2003), Korean businessman, chairman of Hyundai Asan

★ Diana Churchill (1963), UK social worker, eldest daughter of Sir Winston Churchill

★ Jeremiah Clarke (1707), composer of Trumpet Voluntary, shot himself

★ Alasdair Clayre (1985), British academic, writer, broadcaster and singer, jumped in front of train

★ Cleopatra (30 BC), Queen of Egypt, snake bite

★ Charmian Clift (1969), Australian writer, wife of George Johnston;

★ Charles Clegg (1979), American author, photographer and railroad enthusiast

★ Robert Clive (1774), British conqueror of India and founder of the Empire, cut throat with pen-knife

★ Kurt Cobain (1994), Lead singer of the band Nirvana, gunshot to head

★ Sid Collins (1977), radio voice of the Indianapolis 500, hanged himself after being diagnosed with ALS

★ Ray Combs (1996), former host of popular American game show ''Family Feud'', used bedsheets to hang himself

★ Pamela Courson (1974), long time girlfriend of Jim Morrison, unknown whether she accidentally or purposely overdosed

★ Adam Couture, (1973), Former French politician and popular horse collector, used bed sheets to tie himself to horse and dragged across his 30 acre property

★ F. W. S. Craig (1989), UK election expert

★ Hart Crane (1932), American poet; jumped from a boat

★ Darby Crash (1980), American songwriter, singer of the Germs

★ René Crevel (1935), French writer, gassed himself

★ Richard Croft (1818), obstetrician in attendance at Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales "triple obstetrical tragedy" shot himself

★ Dennis Crosby (1991), actor, son of Bing Crosby

★ Harry Crosby (1929), writer, publisher

★ Lindsay Crosby (1989), actor, son of Bing Crosby

★ Géza Csáth (1919) , Hungarian writer

★ Andrew Cunanan (1997), killer of Gianni Versace and four others

★ Will Cuppy (1949), American writer, humorist

★ Ian Curtis (1980), English singer and songwriter (Joy Division)

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★ Stig Dagerman (1954), Swedish author

★ Dalida (1987), French singer

★ Dorothy Dandridge (1965), American singer and actress, first black woman nominated for Academy Award as Lead Actress for "Carmen Jones", death ruled suicide by overdose

★ Monika Dannemann (1996), Girlfriend of Jimi Hendrix

★ Bella Darvi (1971), actress of Polish parentage, gas

★ Dazai Osamu (1948), Japanese novelist

★ Guy Debord (1994), French philosopher, member of Situationist International

★ Jeanine Deckers (1985), Belgian religious, known as The Singing Nun

★ Albert Dekker (1968), American actor, accidental asphyxiation

★ Delphine Delamare (1848), French woman, the basis for Flaubert's Madame Bovary

★ Gilles Deleuze (1995), French philosopher, jumped from apartment window

★ Brad Delp (2007), lead singer of Boston, asphyxiation by carbon monoxide

★ Penelope Delta (1941), Greek author, ingested poison the same day the Germans invaded Athens

★ Denice Denton (2006), University of California Chancellor, jumped from 42-story San Francisco apartment building

★ Patrick Dewaere (1982), French actor

★ Rudolf Diesel (1913), Inventor of the Diesel engine

★ Dioxippus (336 BC?); Greek pankration fighter who nakedly defeated an armored, and armed, soldier of Alexander the Great; he was framed for theft, and forced into suicide, for his victory

★ Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (2001), young King of Nepal, committed suicide after assassinating his father, King Birendra, and other members of the royal family

★ Hugo Distler (1942), German composer, is believed to have committed suicide to avoid conscription into the German army

★ Desmond Donnelly (1974), British politician who fitted into none of the parties he tried

★ Terence Donovan (1996), English celebrity photographer

★ Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado (1983), former president of Cuba

★ Chris Doty (2006), Canadian filmmaker and playwright

★ Nick Drake (1974), British singer-songwriter, overdose (possibly accidental though officially ruled a suicide) of the anti-depressant, tryptizol

★ Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1945), French novelist

★ Dr. Jonathan Drummond-Webb (2004), American heart surgeon

★ Micke Dubois (2005), Swedish comedian, hanged himself

★ Thich Quang Duc (1963), self-immolation, Saigon

★ Pete Duel (1971), American actor

★ K. Sello Duiker (2005), South African author, hanged himself

★ Davor Dujmović (1999), Yugoslavian-Roma actor

★ James Dungy (2005), son of Indianapolis Colts head coach Tony Dungy

★ Budd Dwyer (1987), American politician, shot himself on live television

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★ Jeanne Eagels (1929), American silent film actress

★ George Eastman (1932), inventor of the Eastman Kodak Camera

★ Richey Edwards (1995), member of the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers, missing

★ Peg Entwistle (1933), Welsh-born actress, jumped from the "Hollywood" sign

★ Tom Evans (1983), Welsh musician (Badfinger), suicide by hanging

★ Merritt A. Edson (1955), Medal of Honor winner - Guadalcanal, gunshot

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★ Richard Farnsworth (2000), U.S. actor

★ Justin Fashanu (1998), British footballer

★ Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1982), German film director (often listed as a drug overdose)

★ René Favaloro (2000), Argentinian doctor, creator of the coronary artery bypass surgery

★ Paul Federn (1950), Austrian-American psychoanalist

★ Andrea Feldman (1972), American actress, a Warhol superstar

★ George Fiske (1918), American photographer

★ Robert FitzRoy (1865), Governor-General of New Zealand, Royal Navy officer. Nephew of the Viscount Castlereagh.

★ Ed Flanders (1995), U.S. actor (''St. Elsewhere''}

★ John Gould Fletcher (1950), Pulitzer Prize winning poet

★ James V. Forrestal (1949), former U.S. Secretary of Defense who quoted Sophocles in his suicide note

★ Dédé Fortin (2000), leader and singer of Québec band Les Colocs

★ Vincent Foster, (1993), Deputy White House Counsel, still controversial

★ Wade Frankum (1991), Spree shooter of Strathfield Massacre

★ Sigmund Freud (1939), founder of psychoanalysis (lethal dose of morphine)

★ John Friedrich (1991), Australian businessman and fraudster

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★ Zviad Gamsakhurdia (1993), former president of Georgia

★ Ted Gärdestad (1997), Swedish pop musician

★ Dave Garroway (1982), television host

★ Romain Gary (1980), Russian-French novelist, film director and diplomat

★ Danny Gatton (1994), American guitarist

★ Michel Gauquelin (1991), French psychologist and astrology researcher

★ Martha Gellhorn (1998), American author and war correspondent, self-poison

★ Kostas Georgakis (1970), Geology student, committed suicide as a protest to the Greek military junta of 1967-1974

★ Peter George (1966), author (''Red Alert'')

★ Mark Gertler (1939), British artist

★ Henri Giffard (1882), French aeronautical engineer

★ Michael Gilden (2006), American actor, dwarf

★ Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935), American feminist and author (''Herland'' & The Yellow Wallpaper)

★ John Wayne Glover (2005), North Shore Granny Killer.

★ Kurt Gödel (1978), German logician and mathematician (refused to eat any food)

★ Joseph Goebbels (1945), German Nazi leader

★ Hermann Göring (1946), German Nazi leader

★ Julen Goikoetxea (2006), Spanish cyclist

★ Fritha Goodey (2004), British actress

★ Adam Lindsay Gordon (1870), Australian poet ('Life is mostly froth and bubble')

★ Arshile Gorky (1948), Armenian painter, suicide by hanging

★ Eddie Graham (1985), American professional wrestler

★ Shauna Grant (1984), American adult film actress

★ Spalding Gray (2004), American playwright, drowned in Atlantic after jumping off Staten Island Ferry

★ Richard Greene (1983), boxing referee

★ Peter Gregg (1980), race car driver, gunshot to head

★ Robert von Greim (1945), German Air Marshal

★ Louis-Gabriel Guillemain (1770), French violinist and composer

★ Anton Gustafsson (2003), Swedish singer (Anton Maiden)

★ Antonio Guzmán Fernández (1982), serving president of the Dominican Republic

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★ Clara Immerwahr Haber (1915) German chemical engineer, wife of Dr. Fritz Haber whose army pistol she used soon after the first use of gas in WWI

★ Jerry Hadley (2007), American operatic tenor

★ Kenneth Halliwell (1967), English writer, lover of Joe Orton whom he murdered before killing himself

★ Mitch Halpern (2000), American boxing referee

★ Pete Ham (1975), Welsh musician (Badfinger), suicide by hanging

★ Rusty Hamer (1990), American former child actor (''The Danny Thomas Show'')

★ Lois Hamilton (1999), American actress, model, author, aviatrix

★ Tony Hancock (1968), British comedian

★ Edward Allen Hannegan (1859), U.S. Congressman from Indiana

★ Hannibal (182 BC), Carthaginian military commander

★ Lewis Vernon Harcourt (1922), British politician who killed himself after knowledge of his attempted seduction of a 12 year old boy became public

★ James Harden-Hickey (1898), U.S. eccentric who wrote a book about the appeal of suicide that also featured quotes on the subject from famous people; he chose an overdose of morphine

★ Mary Hardy (1985), Australian TV personality (found dead in the bath and was presumed to have committed suicide)

★ Eric Harris (1999), U.S. mass murderer, infamous for the Columbine High School Massacre shootings with Dylan Klebold

★ Michael D. Harter (1896), U.S. Congressman from Ohio

★ Brynn Hartman (1998), wife of actor Phil Hartman whom she murdered before turning the gun on herself

★ Elizabeth Hartman (1987), U.S. actress who emulated a character in her film 'The Group' who jumped from a window

★ Arihiro Hase (1996), Japanese voice actor, best known for his role as Hikaru Ichijyo in the anime TV series Super Dimensional Fortress Macross

★ Donny Hathaway (1979), American soul musician, best known for his duets with Roberta Flack; jumped from the 15th-floor window of his room in New York's Essex House

★ Felix Hausdorff (1942), mathematician, committed suicide with his wife and sister-in-law in a concentration camp

★ Phyllis Haver (1960), American actress of the silent film era, barbiturate overdose

★ Benjamin Haydon (1846), British painter

★ Jeanne Hébuterne (1920), painter, partner of Modigliani

★ Sadegh Hedayat (1951), Iranian writer, gassed himself

★ John Heddle (1989), British politician

★ Ernest Hemingway (1961), American novelist, shotgun blast to the head

★ Margaux Hemingway (1996), American actress and model; Ernest Hemingway's granddaughter

★ Benjamin Hendrickson (2006), American actor (''As The World Turns''), gunshot wound to the head

★ George Hennard (1991), American spree-killer (Luby's massacre)

★ James Leo Herlihy (1993), U.S. novelist (''Midnight Cowboy'')

★ Willard Hershberger (1940), Cincinnati Reds catcher, slashed wrists; only major league player to commit suicide during a season

★ Rudolf Hess (1987), Nazi leader

★ Paul Hester (2005), Australian musician, drummer for Split Enz and Crowded House

★ George W. Hill (1934), American film director

★ Heinrich Himmler (1945), German SS leader

★ Adolf Hitler (1945), Nazi Germany's leader

★ Abbie Hoffman (1989), U.S. political activist and political demonstrator

★ Don Hollenbeck (1954), CBS news anchor, inhalation of natural gas

★ Hong Xiuquan (1864), Chinese leader of the Taiping Rebellion

★ Doug Hopkins (1993), American musician, founding member of rock group Gin Blossoms, gunshot wound from a .38 pistol

★ Elmyr de Hory (1976), Hungarian art forger

★ Robert E. Howard (1936), American creator of "pulp" heroes Conan the Barbarian and Red Sonja, shot himself in the head after learning that his mother was in a permanent coma

★ Danton Hughes (2001), Australian sculptor, son of Time magazine art critic Robert Hughes, gassed himself at home

★ Francis Hughes (1981), IRA member, died during the 1981 Irish hunger strike

★ Chuck Humphrey (1998), American Heaven's Gate cult member

★ Martin Hurson (1981), IRA member, died during the 1981 Irish hunger strike

★ Suad Husni (2001) Egyptian actress, jumped off balcony

★ Michael Hutchence (1997), lead singer of Australian rock band INXS. Hanged himself from his hotel room door with his leather belt.

★ Phyllis Hyman (1995), American singer

★ Jared High (1998), an early victim of bullying and depression, took his life at age 13

★ Robin Hyde (1939), New Zealand writer and poet, illness

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★ William Inge (1973), U.S. playwright (Picnic, Come Back, Little Sheba, Bus Stop, Splendor in the Grass)

★ Judas Iscariot - Hung himself. Though Gnostic accounts suggest he was stoned to death by the apostles.

★ Isocrates (338 BC), Greek rhetorician

★ Juzo Itami (1997), Japanese actor and film director, leapt from the roof of his office building

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★ Cal Jammer (1995), Adult film star

★ Alice de Janzé (1941), American heiress

★ Vittorio Jano (1965), automobile design engineer

★ Richard Jeni (2007), comedian

★ Jim Jones (1978), leader of the Peoples Temple cult, died along with 914 of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at Jonestown, in northwestern Guyana

★ Alex Jordan (1995), American porn film actress

★ Timothy Jordan II (2005), The All-American Rejects' touring keyboardist

★ Nafisa Joseph (2004), Femina India Universe 1997, Miss Universe 1997 semi-finalist and MTV VJ, hanged

★ Luc Jouret (1994) homeopath, Belgian cult leader

★ József Attila (1937), Hungarian poet (hit by a train, the fact that it was suicide was never proved and many people think it was an accident)

★ Jung Da Bin (2007) South Korean Actress

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★ Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin (1918), Cossack leader during the Russian Civil War

★ Sarah Kane (1999), British playwright

★ Kostas Karyotakis (1928), Greek poet, shot himself

★ Yasunari Kawabata (1972), Japanese writer and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate, gassed himself

★ Kawakami Bizan (1908), Japanese novelist

★ Brian Keith (1997), American actor (''Family Affair'')

★ Dr. David Kelly (2003), British scientist, source of BBC story about the September Dossier

★ Samuel Austin Kendall (1933), congressman from Pennsylvania, self inflicted gunshot wound in the House Office Building

★ Preston King (1865), Senator from New York, leapt from ferryboat in New York Harbor

★ Dylan Klebold (1999), U.S. mass murderer, infamous for the Columbine High School Massacre shootings with Eric Harris

★ Heinrich von Kleist (1811), German dramatist and poet

★ Jochen Klepper (1942)

★ Günther von Kluge (1944), German Field Marshal

★ Fletcher Knebel (1993), U.S. novelist (''Seven Days in May'')

★ William F. Knowland (1974), former Senate Majority Leader, self inflicted gunshot

★ Sándor Kocsis (1979), Hungarian football (soccer) player, killed himself in Barcelona after diagnosis of stomach cancer and leukemia

★ Arthur Koestler (1983), journalist, novelist, political activist, and social philosopher

★ Sarah Kofman (1994), French philosopher

★ Hannelore Kohl (2001), wife of German ex-chancellor Helmut Kohl

★ Woo Bum-Kon (1982), spree killer, Uiryong, Korea

★ Prince Fumimaro Konoe (1945), Japanese war criminal

★ Alexandros Korizis (1941), Greek prime minister

★ Jerzy Kosinski (1991), Polish-American author

★ Philip Taylor Kramer (1995), rock musician (guitarist Iron Butterfly) and physicist

★ Louis Krages (2001), German race car driver and businessman (raced under the name of "John Winter")

★ Ivar Kreuger (1932) Swedish financier, entrepreneur and industrialist. Shot himself.

★ Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger (1945), Nazi official during WWII

★ Friedrich Alfred Krupp (1902), German industrialist, committed suicide when his homosexuality was revealed.

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★ Alan Ladd (1964), U.S. film star, overdose of alcohol and pills, highly disputed for many years

★ Paul Lafargue (1911), son-in-law of Karl Marx, communist theorist and author of ''The Right to Be Lazy''

★ Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (1953), Senator from Wisconsin

★ Karen Lancaume (2005), French adult film star; overdose on sleeping pills

★ Carole Landis (1948), American actress; overdose of Seconal

★ James H. Lane (1866), Senator from Kansas, general in Civil War, shot himself after being charged with financial irregularities

★ Hans Langsdorff (1939), captain of the ''Admiral Graf Spee''

★ Napoleon Lapathiotis (1944), Greek writer

★ Florence Lawrence (1938), American film actress; poison

★ George P. Lawrence (1917), representative from Massachusetts, jumped out of building to death due to stress caused by World War I

★ Katherine Lawrence (2004), writer

★ Lee Kyung Hae (2003), South Korean activist

★ Marshall Ledbetter Jr. (2003), lone man of non-violent protest within an office in Tallahassee, FL capitol building in 1991

★ Jon Lee (2002), drummer of the band Feeder

★ Richie Lee (2001), vocalist with U.S. 90s alternative rock band Acetone

★ Victoria Lee (1888), daughter of Emma Lee French

★ Megan Leigh (1990), American erotic dancer and porn star

★ Marc Lepine (1989), Canada's most prolific spree killer; self-inflicted gunshot

★ Primo Levi (1987), Italian author and Auschwitz survivor

★ Meriwether Lewis (1809), U.S. explorer with Clark; died in mysterious circumstances, either murder or suicide

★ Robert Ley (1945), Nazi war criminal

★ Carlos Alfonso Leyva (2007), Hispanic school teacher, shot himself after the loss of his job and girlfriend on the same day.

★ Miguel Angel Leyva (2007), after hearing of the death of his brother, he drove his car off a cliff and into the river.

★ Max Linder, (1925), French actor

★ Vachel Lindsay (1931), American poet, drunk a bottle of Lysol

★ Louis Lingg (1887), scheduled to be hanged for his alleged role in the Haymarket Square riot bomb, committed suicide by holding a lit stick of dynamite in his mouth

★ Diane Linkletter (1969), daughter of Art Linkletter

★ Friedrich List (1846), German economist

★ Mikael Ljungberg (2004), Swedish wrestler, Olympic gold medalist

★ Peter Llewelyn-Davies (1960), UK publisher who inspired J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan

★ Ross Lockridge, Jr. (1948}, U.S. novelist, author of ''Raintree County'', asphyxiation via car fumes

★ Philip Loeb (1955), blacklisted American actor

★ Mark Lombardi (2000), U.S. artist whose art described international white-collar crime networks; hanged himself in his Williamsburg, New York studio

★ Jack London (1916), U.S. novelist (his doctor believed he had committed suicide by overdose of morphine and atropine, but his widow prevailed on a more senior doctor to ascribe the death to uremia, and had the body quickly cremated before an autopsy could be done)

★ Terry Long (2005), Former NFL player

★ Hans Loritz (1946), concentration camp commandant at various times - Esterwegen, Dachau, Sachsenhausen

★ Noah Lottick (1990), Scientologist, profiled in ''TIME'' article The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power

★ Lorenz Lotmar (1980), Swiss writer

★ Malcolm Lowry (1957), British writer

★ Gang Lu (1991), Physics graduate student at the University of Iowa

★ Gherasim Luca (1994), Romanian surrealist

★ Lucan (65), Roman poet

★ Ron Luciano (1995), baseball umpire

★ J Anthony Lukas (1997), U.S. author and journalist

★ Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov (1918), Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist

★ Roman Lyashenko (2003), professional hockey player

★ Frankie Lymon (1968), singer ("Why do Fools Fall in Love?"), drug overdose

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★ Billy Mackenzie (1997), lead singer of 1980s pop group The Associates

★ Richard Manuel, (1986), singer, multi-instrumentalist, member of The Band, hanged himself while on tour in Florida

★ Simone Mareuil, (1954), French film actress

★ Andrew Martinez (2006), nude activist, naked during suicide

★ Susannah McCorkle (2001), jazz singer

★ Kid McCoy (1940), world champion boxer (real name: Norman Shelby)

★ Robert M. McLane (1904), mayor of Baltimore

★ Gordon McMaster (1997), British politician

★ Charles B. McVay III (1968), commanded USS Indianapolis (CA-35) when torpedoed during World War II

★ Magnentius (353), Roman usurper

★ Willy Mairesse (1969), Belgian race car driver

★ Sándor Márai (1989), Hungarian writer and journalist

★ Harry Martinson (1978), Swedish author

★ Isaac Israel Mata (2007), Hispanic plumber, after the death of his beloved sister, he shot himself in his home in New Mexico.

★ Denis Matthews (1988), UK pianist

★ Robert Maxwell (1991), Czech-born UK newspaper magnate who, some believe, jumped overboard in the Atlantic leaving a financial disaster in his wake - the official inquest ruled it was 'accidental drowning'

★ Vladimir Mayakovsky (1930), Russian poet; his suicide note said 'I don't recommend it for others'

★ Jacques Mayol (2001), French free-diver

★ Joe Meek (1967), Record producer

★ Niklaus Meienberg (1993), Swiss author

★ Ulrike Meinhof (1976) German radical leftist terrorist

★ Kitty Melrose (1912), English actress

★ Joseph Merrick (1890), UK celebrity known as the Elephant Man; alleged to have committed suicide by allowing his massive head to obstruct his windpipe

★ Charlotte Mew (1928), English poet

★ Noel Mewton-Wood (1953), Australian pianist; drank prussic acid

★ James Miller, ''fan man'', (2003), parachutist

★ Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1996), science-fiction writer

★ Mary Millington (1979), British porn star

★ Freddie Mills (1965), world champion boxer

★ William Oswald Mills (1973), U.S. congressman from Maryland

★ John Milton (1865), Governor of Florida

★ Yukio Mishima (1970), Japanese novelist; committed public ritual seppuku

★ Ana Mladić (1994), daughter of Serbian General Ratko Mladić, indicted for war crimes

★ Walther Model (1945), German Field Marshal

★ Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (1925), German cultural historian

★ George de Mohrenschildt (1977), gunshot wound to the mouth

★ Moses Taiwa Molelekwa (2001), South African jazz pianist

★ Jürgen W. Möllemann (2003), German politician

★ Henry de Montherlant (1972), French writer, swallowed a cyanide pill and shot himself in the head

★ Donnie Moore (1989), relief pitcher for the California Angels

★ Duane R. Morrison (2006), Platte Canyon High School shooting

★ Ted Moult (1986), British television personality

★ Renate Müller (1937), German actress

★ Al Mulock (1968), Canadian actor, committed suicide on the set of his last film, Once Upon a Time in the West

★ David Munrow (1976), UK early music specialist, founder of the Early Music Consort

★ Xavier Murguia (2007), Amateur gay pornography actor who unexpectedly pulled out a handgun and shot himself while filming on the set of his 3rd, and now defunct, film.

★ James Murray (1936), American silent film actor, (''The Crowd''), drowned in the Hudson River

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★ Scott Nearing (1983), American peace activist and practical conservationist; by self-starvation at nearly 100 years of age

★ Oskar Nedbal (1930), Czech composer ("The Tale of the Simply Johnny"); jumped out a window on Christmas Eve

★ Gérard de Nerval (1855), French writer

★ Joachim Nielsen (2000), Norwegian singer in the band Jokke & Valentinerne, overdosed on heroin

★ Goce Nikolovski (2006), Macedonian singer.

★ Frank Nitti (1943), U.S. gangster, who shot himself rather than go to jail (some believe that Nitti was murdered)

★ Maresuke Nogi (1912), Japanese hero of Russo-Japanese war, committed ritual suicide 切腹 with his wife following death of Meiji emperor

★ Jon Nödtveidt (2006), frontman of Swedish death metal band Dissection

★ Cynthia Nolan née Reed (1976), Sir Sidney Nolan's second wife

★ Alighiero Noschese, Italian impersonator (1979). Shot himself.

O

★ Lawrence Oates (1912), Antarctic explorer: he said ''I am just going outside and may be some time'' when he walked out of the tent to his death in the blizzard, leaving behind Robert Falcon Scott and the others

★ John O'Brien (1994), author of ''Leaving Las Vegas'' (on which the film was based)

★ C. Y. O'Connor (1902), Irish engineer

★ Hugh O'Connor (1995), actor

★ Luis Ocaña (1994), Spanish cyclist, Tour de France winner

★ Phil Ochs (1976), American singer, hanged himself in sister's apartment, Far Rockaway, New York

★ Per Yngve Ohlin (a.k.a. Dead), (1991), vocalist for Mayhem, killed himself with a shotgun after having slashed his wrist and cut his throat

★ Yukiko Okada (1986), Japanese idol of the '80s jumped from a 7 story building after failed wrist slashing and gas inhalation attempts

P

★ Jan Palach (1969), protesting Soviet crushing of the Prague Spring

★ Pepsi Paloma (1984), Filipino softporn film actress, hanged herself after dropping a rape case against Filipino TV Hosts Tito, Vic & Joey. Tito (Sotto) being a former Philippine Senator.

★ Billy Papke (1936), world champion boxer

★ Violeta Parra (1967), famous Chilean folk singer

★ Phasael (40 BC), prince from the Herodian Dynasty

★ Jules Pascin (1930), French-American painter

★ John Patrick (1995), U.S. playwright and screenwriter; placed a plastic bag over his head

★ Cesare Pavese (1950), Italian poet, novelist

★ George Periolat (1940), Silent film actor, drank arsenic

★ Petronius Arbiter (66), Roman satirist; opened his own veins

★ Justin Pierce (2000), British Actor

★ Richard Piggott (1890), author of the Piggott Forgeries

★ H. Beam Piper (1964), American science fiction writer

★ Sylvia Plath (1963), American poetess, author and essayist; gassed in kitchen oven

★ Dana Plato (1999), American actress, drug overdose

★ Derrick Plourde (2005), Musician, drummer of the Ataris, Lagwagon, Bad Astronaut, RKL and Mad Caddies shot himself on March 30th

★ Stevie Plunder (1995), Australian guitarist, The Whitlams

★ Ben Pollack (1971), Drummer and big-band leader from the mid '20s to the Swing era

★ Jan Potocki (1815), Polish aristocrat, traveler, writer; shot himself with a silver bullet

★ Marc Potvin (2006), Hockey coach, hanged himself

★ Nicos Poulantzas (1979), Greco-French Marxist political sociologist

★ Felix Powell (1942), UK song writer best known for "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile", once described as 'the most optimistic song ever written'

★ Kiki Preston (1946), American heiress

★ Lucien Anatole Prevost-Paradol (1870), French journalist and diplomat

★ George R Price (1975), American population geneticist

★ Freddie Prinze (1977), Puerto Rican American comedian and actor, best known for television show ''Chico and the Man'', died of self inflicted gunshot wound

★ Carlos Prío Socarrás (1977), former president of Cuba

★ Boris Pugo (1991), Latvian serving minister of the Interior of the USSR; self-inflicted gunshot

★ Jack Purvis (1962), American jazz trumpeter

Q

★ Richard Quine (1989), U.S. film director

★ Robert Quine (2004), guitar player of Richard Hell & the Voidoids

R

★ Florencio Morales Ramos (1989), 'Ramito', trova singer

★ Kuljeet Randhawa (2006), Indian television actress, hanging

★ Danny Rapp (1983), frontman for Danny & the Juniors

★ David Rappaport (1990), actor

★ Jan-Carl Raspe (1977), German criminal in Baader-Meinhof gang

★ Geli Raubal (1931), niece and possibly lover of Adolf Hitler; officially committed suicide but may have been murdered

★ Margaret Mary Ray (1998), David Letterman stalker, knelt in front of a train

★ Roy Raymond (1993), founder of Victoria's Secret

★ Alfred Redl (1913), Austrian army officer, spied for Russia

★ George Reeves (1959), American actor, played Superman on television, death officially ruled as suicide by gunshot, but remains controversial to this day

★ David Reimer (2004), Canadian advocate/the "John/Joan" case

★ John Reynolds (1966), American actor, played Torgo in the infamous cult classic "Manos" The Hands of Fate

★ Thomas Caute Reynolds (1887), Governor of Missouri

★ Thomas Reynolds (1844), Governor of Missouri

★ David Ritcheson (2007), hate crime victim; jumped off cruise ship

★ René Rivkin (2005), Australian stockbroker and entrepreneur

★ Carlos Roberto Reina (2003), former president of Honduras

★ Angel Rivero Mendez (1930), Puerto Rican soldier for the Spanish Army, inventor

★ John Robarts, (1982), former Premier of the Canadian province of Ontario, 1961 - 1971; committed suicide with shotgun

★ Rachel Roberts (1980), Welsh-born British actress

★ Bill Robinzine (1982), American basketball player

★ Charles Rocket (2005), American comedian

★ Sue Rodriguez (1994), Canadian amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) victim and advocate for Euthanasia

★ Samuel Romilly (1818), British prison reformer

★ Erwin Rommel (1944), German Field Marshal

★ Iris von Roten-Meyer (1990), artist and jurist

★ Mark Rothko (1970), Russian-American painter

★ Jacques Roux (1794), leader of the Enrages in the French Revolution

★ Ruan Lingyu (1935), Chinese actress

★ Irv Rubin (2002), leader of the Jewish Defense League

★ Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (1889), heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne

★ Thomas Jefferson Rusk (1857), senator from Texas

★ Michael Ryan (1987), mass murderer at Hungerford; self-inflicted gunshot wound after killing many others

★ Jakub Jan Ryba (1815), Czech composer and teacher

★ Johnathan Rubis (1892), American columnist

S

★ Albert Salmi (1990), American actor, apparently shot his wife to death with one gun and shot himself in the heart with another

★ Alexander Samsonov (1914), Russian military commander, gunshot to head following disastrous Battle of Tannenberg

★ David I. Sanchez (2007) African-American/Hispanic businessman, hung self over sexual/relationship frustrations.

★ Kevin Sanchez (2007) No one knows the main reason, some people say that maybe a depression on a failed relationship with Adal Ramones

★ George Sanders (1972), English actor, barbiturate overdose

★ Bobby Sands (1981), IRA member, died in the 1981 Irish hunger strike

★ Monica Santa Maria (1994), "Dalina" (hostess) of the Peruvian children's series ''Nubeluz''

★ Alberto Santos-Dumont (1932), Brazilian aviation pioneer, hanging

★ Bruce Sarver (2005), American NHRA driver, gunshot

★ Drake Sather (2004), American standup comedian, gunshot

★ Savannah (1994), American porn actress, shot herself with a handgun

★ Gia Scala (1972), British actress, overdose of drugs and alcohol, after previous unsuccessful suicide attempts

★ David Scarboro (1988), British actor (''EastEnders''), threw himself from Beachy Head

★ Eugen Schauman (1904), Finnish nationalist, assassin of Governor-General Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov

★ Martin J. Scheiman, ESQ. (1967), famed Mad Magazine Attorney and Libel lawyer, of self inflicted gun shot wound.

★ Margie Schoedinger (2003), filed lawsuit against George W. Bush claiming that she had been raped

★ Dave Schulthise (2004), bassist for Dead Milkmen

★ Conrad Schumann (1998), GDR refugee

★ Ingo Schwichtenberg (1995), former drummer of German power metal band Helloween

★ William Seabrook (1945), adventurer, travel writer

★ Jean Seberg (1979), American actress, barbiturate overdose

★ Edie Sedgwick (1972), American socialite, Warhol superstar

★ Sergio López Segú (2006), Spanish footballer, threw himself under a train

★ Seneca the Younger (65), was ordered to commit suicide by the emperor Nero

★ Anne Sexton (1974), American poet, inhaled carbon monoxide

★ Frances Ford Seymour (1950), NYC socialite, mother of Peter and Jane Fonda

★ Del Shannon (1990), American singer

★ H.A. Shanu (1905), Congo reformer

★ Shi Dongshan (1955), Chinese director

★ Shi Hui (1957), Chinese actor and director

★ Harold Shipman (2004), imprisoned British doctor found to have killed 250+ of his patients

★ Arthur Shrewsbury (1903), former captain of the England cricket team

★ Elizabeth Siddal (1862), Pre-Raphaelite icon

★ Eli Siegel (1978), founded Aesthetic Realism

★ Varnado Simpson (1997), Pfc jointly responsible for the My Lai Massacre

★ The Singing Nun - see Jeanine Deckers with her companion, Annie Pécher, in 1985 by an overdose of barbiturates and alcohol

★ Walter Slezak (1983), U.S. actor

★ Everett Sloane (1965), U.S. actor, part of Orson Welles' Mercury Theater

★ Anna Nicole Smith (2007) International Model, drug overdose

★ Alex Smith (1990), Queen of the Earth Aka ' Shiva '

★ Elliott Smith (2003), American musician (reported as suicide, still officially under investigation - no suspects named)

★ James Leonard Brierley Smith, (1968), South African paleoanatomist

★ Paul Snider (1980), promoter, murdered Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten then killed himself

★ Mitch Snyder (1990), U.S. activist, advocate for the homeless

★ Socrates (399 BCE), Greek philosopher, ordered to drink hemlock juice after his trial in Athens. In the Crito, Socrates is offered a chance to escape but refuses

★ Soga no Emishi (645), statesman

★ John Hanning Speke (1864), U.K. explorer of Africa

★ John Spence (1987), U.S. musician. Original lead singer of No Doubt, shot himself 9 months after band's 1st official gig

★ Sir Bernard Spilsbury (1947), U.K. forensic pathologist who helped convict Dr. Crippen; gassed himself in an oven at his laboratory

★ Layne Staley, (2002), Lead singer for American 'grunge' band, Alice in Chains; heroin overdose

★ Serge Stavisky (1934), Russian-French swindler

★ Wilhelm Stekel (1940), Austrian psychoanalist

★ Inger Stevens, 1970, Swedish born American film actress

★ Gary Stewart (2003), country singer

★ Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1822), nineteenth-century British statesman

★ Adalbert Stifter (1868), Austrian writer

★ Rory Storm (1972), singer of the Hurricanes (the band Ringo Starr was in before he joined The Beatles), in a pact with his mother

★ Alfonsina Storni (1938), Argentinian poetess. She committed suicide, by entering the sea at the La Perla beach near Mar del Plata, Argentina.

★ David Strickland (1999), actor

★ István Széchenyi (1860), Hungarian statesman

★ David Edward 'Screaming Lord' Sutch (1999), English rock singer and politician

T

★ Yutaka Taniyama (1958), Japanese mathematician

★ Victor Tausk (1919), pioneer psychoanalyst

★ Tawfik Abu al-Huda Baja (1956), former prime minister of Jordan

★ Sara Teasdale (1933), American poet

★ Arthur Teele Jr. (2005), former Miami city commissioner; in the lobby of the Miami Herald

★ Count Paul Teleki (1941), Hungarian statesman

★ Lou Tellegen (1934), Dutch-born American film actor

★ Luigi Tenco (1967), Italian singer-songwriter

★ Jason Thirsk (1996), bassist for Pennywise

★ Jesse B. Thomas (1853), U.S. Senator from Illinois

★ Hunter S. Thompson (2005), American author, gunshot

★ Ric Throssell (1999), Australian diplomat, writer

★ Georg Tintner (1999), Austrian-born conductor active in Canada and Australia; jumped 11 stories when he was no longer able to conduct due to illness

★ James Tiptree Jr (1987), American science fiction author, mercy-killed her terminally ill husband and then shot herself

★ Marcus Titinius (42 BC), tribune 450 BC

★ Li Tobler (1975), Swiss actress

★ Ernst Toller (1939), German writer

★ Mikhail Tomsky (1936), Russian revolutionary

★ Wolfe Tone (1798), Irish independence leader

★ John Kennedy Toole (1969), American novelist

★ Silvanus Trevail (1903), Cornish architect, shot himself in the lavatory of a train

★ Metod Trobec (2006), Slovenian killer

★ Kokichi Tsuburaya (1968) Japanese Olympic marathon runner

★ Marina Tsvetaeva (1941), Russian poetess and writer

★ Kurt Tucholsky (1935), German journalist and satirist

★ Alan Turing (1954), British mathematician and computer scientist

★ John Walker Turnbull (1999), British Soldier

★ Randy Turpin (1966), British world champion boxer

★ Tore Tønne (2002), Norwegian Minister of Health and Social Affairs

★ Jim Tyrer (1980), All-Pro tackle for the NFL Kansas City Chiefs, murder-suicide, killed his wife and then himself

U

★ U;Nee 2007, South Korean Actress And Singer

★ Ernst Udet (1941), German air ace and Luftwaffe inspector general

★ Urmuz (1923), Romanian writer

★ Gen Ushijima (1945), Japanese military commander who lost the Battle of Okinawa

V

★ Vaishnavi (2006), Indian actress

★ Kelly Jean Van Dyke, daughter of Jerry Van Dyke and wife of cult actor Jack Nance, hanging

★ Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke (1941), American film director

★ Peter Van Eyck (1969), Dutch-UK film actor

★ Vincent van Gogh (1890), Dutch painter, gunshot to chest

★ George Washington Vanderbilt III (1961), American yachtsman and scientific explorer

★ Johannes Vares (1946), Estonian poet, doctor and politician

★ Getúlio Dornelles Vargas (1954), President of Brazil, killed himself during impeachment trial

★ Publius Quinctilius Varus (9), at the end of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

★ Minnie Vautrin (1941), American missionary who helped the Chinese during the Nanking Massacre in 1937

★ Frank Vazquez (2006) vice president of operations for Trans-Continental Companies

★ Lupe Vélez (1944), actress

★ Baroness Mary Vetsera (1889), mistress of Crown Prince Rudolph - ''disputed: see Mayerling''

★ Tudor Vianu (1964), Romanian writer

★ Sid Vicious (1979), bassist of the Sex Pistols, heroin overdose

★ Hervé Villechaize (1993), French actor

★ Pierre-Charles Villeneuve (1806), French admiral who lost the Battle of Trafalgar

W

★ Petri Walli (1995), Finnish rock musician

★ Larry Walters (1993), US lawn chair pilot. Gunshot to the heart.

★ Jeremy Michael Ward (2003), musician in The Mars Volta

★ Stephen Ward (1963), U.K. osteopath who was caught up in the Profumo affair

★ Peter Warlock (1930), U.K. composer (also known as Philip Heseltine)

★ Andre Waters (2006), former American football player

★ Dylan Watters (2007), American/Hispanic college student, jumped off a building after both of his parents were murdered.

★ Doodles Weaver (1983), U.S. comedian, member of Spike Jones' City Slickers

★ Gary Webb (2004), U.S. investigative reporter; death ruled as suicide from two gunshots

★ Otto Weininger (1903), Austrian philosopher

★ Ernst Weiß (1940), German author

★ George Weldon (1963), U.K. conductor, died in South Africa

★ Horace Wells (1848), dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia

★ Vince Welnick (2006), Grateful Dead keyboardist; founding member and keyboardist of the Tubes

★ Fred West (1995), husband of convicted British killer Rosemary West Hanged himself in prison whilst awaiting trial on the same crimes

★ James Whale (1957), U.K. film director

★ Samuel Whitbread (1815), Whig politician

★ Dan White (1985), assassin of San Francisco mayor George Moscone and city manager Harvey Milk, carbon monoxide

★ Charles White Whittlesey (1921), Medal of Honor Recipient, famed commander of WWI's Lost Battalion

★ Kevin Whitrick (2007), British electrical engineer, died by hanging

★ Chris Wick (2007), former guitarist in the punk band Cheap Sex, hung himself

★ Paul Williams (1973), singer (Temptations)

★ Percy Williams (1982), athlete

★ Rozz Williams (1998), Musician, "Christian Death"

★ Wendy O. Williams (1998), lead singer of The Plasmatics

★ Don Wilson (1975), baseball player

★ Greg Wilton (2000), Australian Federal politician

★ John Gilbert Winant (1947), Governor of New Hampshire

★ Sheree Winton (1976), U.K. actress and mother of Dale Winton

★ Eduard Wirths (1945), military surgeon conducted research work at Auschwitz concentration camp

★ Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (1939), Polish author, novelist, painter, philosopher

★ David Witt (2006), father-in-law of 2006 Tour De France winner Floyd Landis

★ Frank Wolff (1971), American actor

★ Wally Wood (1981), cartoonist

★ Virginia Woolf (1941), British novelist, filled her pockets full of stones and walked into a river near her home.

X

★ Lluís Maria Xirinacs (2007), Catalan activist

Y

★ Alfredo Yabrán (1998), Argentine businessman

★ Kelly Yeomans (1997), school girl whose death sparked media controversy

★ Sergei Yesenin (1925), Russian poet, husband of Isadora Duncan

★ Haile Yimenu (1991), former Prime Minister of Ethiopia

★ Gig Young (1978), American actor, murder-suicide

★ Barbara Yung (1985), Hong Kong actress and former Miss Hong Kong contestant

Z

★ Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1970)

★ Marion Anthony Zioncheck (1936), congressman from Washington, jumped out of office building

★ Mahmoud Zuabi (2000), Syrian prime minister shot himself on May 21, two months after resigning over corruption charges

★ Stefan and Lotte Zweig (1942), Austrian novelist and his wife, barbital overdose

★ Szmul Zygielbojm (1943), committed suicide to protest the indifference of Allied governments in the face of the Holocaust

Monarchs

★ Saul King of Israel (1 Sam. 31:4)

★ Shang Zhou (1046 BC), the last king of the Shang Dynasty of China

★ Fusu (210 BC), son of the First Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, and brother of the Second Emperor, Qin Er Shi, forced to commit suicide by a fake decree

★ Qin Er Shi (207 BC), the Second Emperor of Qin dynasty China

★ Cleopatra VII of Egypt (30 BC), last Ptolemaic Queen of Egypt

★ Ludwig II of Bavaria (1886), drowning

★ Nero (68), emperor of Rome (under duress)

★ Otho (69), Roman emperor

★ Boudica (1st century), Celtic chieftainess

★ Decebal (106), Dacian king

★ Clodius Albinus (197), Roman emperor

★ Gordian I (238), Roman emperor

★ Quintillus (270), Roman emperor

★ Maximian (310), Roman emperor

★ Tewodros II of Ethiopia (April 13, 1868, Ethiopian Emperor

★ Chongzhen (1644), the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty of China

★ Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva (2001), young King of Nepal, committed suicide after assassinating his father, King Birendra, and other members of the royal family
=== By Seppuku ===

★ Minamoto no Yorimasa (1180)

★ Oda Nobunaga (1582)

★ Hojo Ujimasa (1590)

★ Akou-Roushi (47 ronins), (1703)

★ Yoshida Shoin (1859)

★ Takechi Hanpeita (1865)

★ Saigō Takamori (1876), Japanese politician

★ General Nogi (1912)

★ Korechika Anami, War Minister (1945)

★ Hatazo Adachi (1947), Japanese general

★ Kimitake Hiraoka, better known as Yukio Mishima (1970)

★ Emilio Salgari (1911), Italian writer

Unknown before death

The following is a list of people who were not famous while alive, but who became notable subsequent to their suicide

★ Kimveer Gil