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The following notable people have died by suicide. This includes suicides effected under duress and excludes deaths by accident or misadventure. People who may or may not have died by their own hand, or whose intention to die is disputed, but who are widely believed to have deliberately killed themselves, may be listed.
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- Chris Acland (1996), English drummer for the band Lush, hanging[1]
- Art Acord (1931), American actor and rodeo champion, ingestion of poison[2][3]
- Manuel Acuña (1873), Mexican poet, ingestion of potassium cyanide[4][5]
- George Washington Adams (1829), American politician, lawyer, and eldest son of John Quincy Adams, drowning in Long Island Sound[6]
- Marian Hooper Adams (1885), American socialite and photographer, potassium cyanide[7]
- Phillip Adams (2021), American football player, gunshot[8]
- Robert Adams Jr. (1906), Congressman from Pennsylvania, gunshot[9]
- Stanley Adams (1977), American actor and screenwriter, gunshot wound[10]
- Stephanie Adams (2018), American former glamour model, known as the November 1992 Playboy Playmate, jumped from a 25th floor window after having murdered her 7-year-old son Vincent by pushing him out first[11][12]
- Francis William Lauderdale Adams (1893), English writer and poet, shot in head[13]
- Stuart Adamson (2001), Scottish guitarist and singer for Big Country and Skids, hanging after alcohol ingestion[14]
- Adrastus (c. 550s BC), exiled son of Gordias, king of Phrygia[15]
- Vibulenus Agrippa (36 AD), Roman equestrian, poison[16]
- Ahn Jae-hwan (2008), South Korean actor, carbon monoxide poisoning[17][18]
- Aizong of Jin (1234), Chinese emperor of the Jin dynasty[19]
- Chantal Akerman (2015), Belgian film director[20]
- Sergey Akhromeyev (1991), Marshal of the Soviet Union, hanging[21]
- Stephen Akinmurele (1999), British suspected serial killer, hanging[22]
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1927), Japanese writer, overdose of barbital[23]
- Marwan al-Shehhi (2001), United Arab Emirates member of Al-Qaeda and one of the 9/11 hijackers, plane crash of United Airlines Flight 175[24][25]
- Alcetas (320 BC), Hellenic general of Alexander the Great[26]
- Leelah Alcorn (2014), American transgender teenager, walked in front of a truck[27]
- Leandro Alem (1896), Argentine politician, founder of the Radical Civic Union, gunshot to the head[28]
- Alexander (220 BC), Seleucid satrap of Persis[29]
- Henry Alexander (1894), American painter, swallowing oxalic acid[30]
- Ross Alexander (1937), American actor, gunshot to the head[31]
- Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya (2020), Russian-Australian ice skater, jumped from window of her apartment[32]
- Ghazaleh Alizadeh (1996), Iranian poet and writer, hanging[33]
- Gia Allemand (2013), American actress and model, hanging[34]
- Salvador Allende (1973), 28th president of Chile, gunshot[35][36]
- Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1932), wife of Joseph Stalin, gunshot[37]
- Jeff Alm (1993), American football player, gunshot[38]
- Jason Altom (1998), American PhD student, potassium cyanide[39]
- August Ames (2017), Canadian pornographic actress, hanging[40][41]
- Jean Améry (1978), Austrian writer, overdose of sleeping pills[42]
- Amphicrates of Athens (86 BC), Greek sophist and rhetorician, starved himself[43]
- Korechika Anami (1945), Japanese War Minister, stabbed himself as part of ritual seppuku disembowelment[44][45]
- Adna Anderson (1889), General, US Military Railroads during the American Civil War, railroad civil engineer/manager, gunshot[46][47]
- Forrest Howard Anderson (1989), Governor of Montana, gunshot[48]
- Mary A. Anderson (1996), unidentified woman using an alias, cyanide poisoning[49]
- Robert Leroy Anderson (2003), American murderer and self-proclaimed serial killer, hanging[50]
- Keith Andes (2005), American actor, asphyxiation[51]
- Andragathius (388 AD), Roman general and Magister equitum who assassinated emperor Gratian, drowned in the sea[52]
- Andromachus (364 BC), Eleian cavalry general[53]
- Odysseas Angelis (1987), Greek general and head of the Hellenic Armed Forces during the Greek Junta, hanging[54]
- Roger Angleton (1998), American murderer, cut himself over 50 times with a razor[55][56]
- Publius Rufus Anteius (67 AD), Roman politician, drank poison and cut his veins[57]
- Mark Antony (30 BC), Roman politician and general, stabbed with sword[58]
- Kei Aoyama (2011), Japanese manga artist, hanging[59]
- Marcus Gavius Apicius (before 40 AD), Roman socialite, gourmet and man of great wealth, poison[60][61]
- Marshall Applewhite (1997), American leader of the Heaven's Gate religious cult, poisoned himself as part of the cult's mass suicide that year[62]
- Araki Yukio (1945), Japanese kamikaze pilot[63]
- Arbogast (394 AD), Roman general[64]
- Diane Arbus (1971), American photographer, overdosed on pills and slashed wrists[65][66]
- Archias of Cyprus (between 158 and 154 BC), Ptolemaic governor of Cyprus, hanging[67]
- Reinaldo Arenas (1990), Cuban-American artist and writer, drug and alcohol overdose[68]
- José María Arguedas (1969), Peruvian novelist and poet, gunshot[69]
- Pedro Armendáriz (1963), Mexican actor, gunshot[70]
- Edwin Armstrong (1954), American inventor of FM radio, jumped from a 13th floor window[71][72]
- Arria (42 AD), Roman wife of Caecina Paetus an alleged conspirator against Emperor Claudius, stabbed herself[73]
- Sei Ashina (2020), Japanese actress[74]
- Süleyman Askerî (1915), Ottoman Army officier, gunshot[75]
- Tore Asplund (1977), Swedish-born American painter, hanging[76]
- Ottilie Assing (1884), German writer, journalist, feminist and abolitionist, swallowing potassium cyanide[77]
- John Atchison (2007), American federal prosecutor and alleged child sex offender, hanging[78][79]
- Mohamed Atta (2001), Egyptian member of Al-Qaeda, and leader of the 9/11 hijackers, plane crash of American Airlines Flight 11[80][81][82]
- Titus Pomponius Atticus (32 BC), Roman banker, businessman, editor, author and friend of Marcus Tullius Cicero, starving himself[83]
- Pekka-Eric Auvinen (2007), Finnish Jokela High School shooter, gunshot to head[84][85]
- Avicii (2018), Swedish DJ and music producer, exsanguination from cuts[86]
- Mike Awesome (2007), American professional wrestler, hanging[87]
- Marion Aye (1951), American actress, ingestion of bi-chloride of mercury tablets[88]
- May Ayim (1996), German author, jumped from 13th floor of a Berlin building[89]
- Albert Ayler (1970), American jazz saxophonist, jumped into New York City's East River[90][91]
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- Andreas Baader (1977), German RAF terrorist, gunshot[92]
- Yevgeni Babich (1972), Soviet ice hockey player, hanging[93]
- Pamela Bach (2025), American actress, gunshot[94]
- Nikki Bacharach (2007), American daughter of Burt Bacharach and Angie Dickinson, suffocation using plastic bag and helium[95][96]
- Josef Bachmann (1970), German anti-communist, who made an assassination attempt on the German student movement-leader Rudi Dutschke, asphyxiation with plastic bag[97]
- Faith Bacon (1956), American burlesque dancer and actress, jumped from hotel window[98]
- Jeff Baena (2025), American screenwriter and film director, hanging[99][100]
- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (2019), Iraqi-born Islamic terrorist and leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, detonation of a suicide vest[101]
- Bai Qi (257 BC), Chinese general and commander of the Qin army, cut his throat with a sword[102]
- David Bairstow (1998), English cricketer, hanging[103]
- James Robert Baker (1997), American writer, asphyxiation[104]
- Mark Balelo (2013), American cast member on the reality TV series Storage Wars, carbon monoxide asphyxiation[105][106][107]
- Joe Ball (1938), American serial killer, gunshot[108]
- José Manuel Balmaceda (1891), President of Chile, gunshot[109]
- Lou Bandy (1959), Dutch singer and comedian[110]
- Pratyusha Banerjee (2016), Indian actress, hanging[111]
- Somen "Steve" Banerjee (1994), Indian American entrepreneur, co-founder of Chippendales and convicted criminal, hanging[112]
- Bantcho Bantchevsky (1988), Bulgarian American singer, jump from New York Metropolitan Opera balcony[113]
- Herculine Barbin (1868), French intersex memoirist, gas[114]
- Erich Bärenfänger (1945), German general[115]
- Robert Hayward Barlow (1951), American writer and anthropologist, barbiturate overdose[116]
- Aziza Barnes (2024), American poet, screenwriter, and playwright[117]
- Boris Barnet (1965), Russian film director, hanging[118][119]
- Uwe Barschel (1987), German politician, ingested five sleeping potions[120]
- Mark O. Barton (1999), American spree killer, gunshot[121]
- Ralph Barton (1931), American artist, gunshot[122]
- Johanna Bassani (2020), Austrian combined Nordic skier and ski jumper[123]
- Pierre Batcheff (1932), French actor, overdose of barbital[124]
- Simone Battle (2014), American pop singer and member of the band G.R.L., hanging[125]
- Herb Baumeister (1996), American serial killer, gunshot[126]
- J. Clifford Baxter (2002), American Enron Corporation executive, gunshot[127]
- Sarah Becker (2024), American reality television personality, known for her appearances on The Real World: Miami[128]
- Amelie "Melli" Beese (1925), German pioneer aviator, gunshot[129]
- Ari Behn (2019), Norwegian author and painter[130]
- Jovan Belcher (2012), American football player, gunshot, murder-suicide[131]
- Peter Bellamy (1991), English folk musician and member of the band The Young Tradition[132]
- Malik Bendjelloul (2014), Swedish documentary filmmaker, jumped in front of moving train[133][134][135][136]
- Brenda Benet (1982), American television and film actress, gunshot[137]
- Walter Benjamin (1940), German-Jewish literary critic and culture theorist, morphine overdose[138]
- Jill Bennett (1990), English actress, secobarbital overdose[139]
- Chester Bennington (2017), American lead singer of Linkin Park, hanging[140]
- Louis Bennison (1929), American actor, gunshot[141]
- Chris Benoit (2007), Canadian professional wrestler, hanging[142]
- Pierre Bérégovoy (1993), French politician and Prime Minister (1992–93), gunshot[143]
- Mary Kay Bergman (1999), American voice actress, gunshot[144]
- Marty Bergen (1900), American baseball player, cut throat with a razor after killing his family with an ax[145]
- David Berman (2019), American musician and poet, hanging[146]
- John Berryman (1972), American poet, jumped off the Washington Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota[147]
- Bruno Bettelheim (1990), Austrian-born US psychologist and writer, asphyxiation with plastic bag[148]
- Paul Bhattacharjee (2013), British actor, jumped from a clifftop[149]
- Brian Bianchini (2004), American model, hanging[150]
- Steve Bing (2020), American businessman and film producer, jumped from 27th floor of apartment building[151]
- Bob Birch (2012), American musician, gunshot[152]
- David Birnie (2005), Australian serial killer and rapist, hanging[153]
- Maggy Biskupski (2018), French police officer and president of Movement of Angry Police Officers (MPC), gunshot[154][155]
- Jens Bjørneboe (1976), Norwegian novelist, hanging[156]
- Eli M. Black (1975), CEO of United Fruit Co., jumped out of a building[157]
- Junius Blaesus (31 AD), Roman consul, general and governor of Africa, fell on a sword[158]
- Jeremy Blake (2007), American artist, drowning[159]
- Clara Blandick (1962), American stage and screen actress[160]
- Erica Blasberg (2010), American golfer, asphyxia caused prescription overdose[161]
- Miguel Blesa (2017), Spanish banker and businessman, involved in various corruption scandals, gunshot to chest[162]
- Vasily Blokhin (1955), Soviet general and NKVD executioner[163]
- Adele Blood (1936), American actress, gunshot[164]
- Clara Bloodgood (1907), American Broadway actress, gunshot[165]
- Gaius Blossius (c. 129 BC), Roman philosopher and adviser to Tiberius Gracchus and Eumenes III[166]
- Isabella Blow (2007), English magazine editor, and muse to fashion designer Alexander McQueen, poisoning[167]
- Joe Bodolai (2011), American film and television producer and writer, poisoning[168]
- Ludwig Boltzmann (1906), Austrian physicist, known for thermodynamics and atomic theory, hanging[169]
- Bonosus (280 AD), Roman usurper, hanging[170]
- Eduardo Bonvallet (2015), Chilean World Cup footballer and pundit, hanging[171]
- Jeremy Michael Boorda (1996), US Chief of Naval Operations, gunshot to the chest[172]
- Éric Borel (1995), French high school student and spree killer, gunshot[173][174]
- Adrian Borland (1999), English singer-songwriter (The Outsiders, The Sound), jumped in front of a moving train[175]
- Martin Bormann (1945), German head of the Nazi Party Chancellery, cyanide poisoning[176]
- Jean-Louis Bory (1979), French writer, gunshot to the chest[177]
- Yevgenia Bosch (1925), Soviet Bolshevik revolutionary and politician, gunshot[178][179]
- Novak Bošković (2019), Serbian handball player, gunshot[180]
- Dmitry Bosov (2020), Russian businessman and billionaire, gunshot[181][182]
- Stephen "tWitch" Boss (2022), American hip hop dancer and DJ, gunshot[183]
- Mohamed Bouazizi (2011), Tunisian street vendor, self-immolation[184]
- Boudica (61 AD), Queen of the Iceni, poison[185]
- Georges Ernest Boulanger (1891), French general and politician, gunshot[186]
- Dallen Bounds (1999), American serial killer, gunshot[187]
- Anthony Bourdain (2018), American chef, author, and television personality, hanging[188][189]
- John Bowers (1936), 50, American actor, drowning[190]
- Tommy Boyce (1994), American songwriter, gunshot[191]
- Karin Boye (1941), Swedish writer[192]
- Charles Boyer (1978), French actor, secobarbital overdose[193]
- Thomas Lynn Bradford (1921), American spiritualist lecturer and psychic investigator, gas inhalation[194]
- Annalise Braakensiek (2019), Australian model[195]
- Jonathan Brandis (2003), American actor, hanging[196]
- Cheyenne Brando (1995), Tahitian model/actress, hanging[197][198]
- Charlie Brandt (2004), American serial killer, hanging[199]
- Mike Brant (1975), Israeli pop star[200] jumped from his Paris apartment building[201]
- Robert Eugene Brashers (1999), American serial killer, gunshot[202]
- Eva Braun (1945), German wife of Adolf Hitler, cyanide poisoning[203][204]
- Richard Brautigan (1984), American writer, gunshot[205]
- John Brenkus (2025), American producer, director and television personality[206]
- Brennus (279 BC), Gallic tribal leader and general, stabbed himself[207]
- Gaetano Bresci (1901), Italian anarchist who assassinated King Umberto I of Italy, hanging[208]
- James E. Brewton (1967), American painter and printmaker, gunshot[209]
- Lilya Brik (1978), Russian author and socialite, overdose of sleeping pills[210]
- Molly Brodak (2020), American poet, writer, and baker[211]
- Herman Brood (2001), Dutch rock musician and painter, jumped from hotel roof[212][213]
- Joseph Brooks (2011), American screenwriter, director, producer, and composer, asphyxiation[214]
- May Brookyn (1894), British stage actress, overdose of carbolic acid[215][216]
- John Munro Bruce (1901), Australian businessman, father of Prime Minister S. M. Bruce[217]
- Dieter Brummer (2021), Australian actor [218]
- Jürgen Brümmer (2014), German Olympic gymnast, jumped from the Körsch Viaduct after suffocating his son[219]
- Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger (42 BC), Roman politician and conspirator to assassinate Julius Caesar, ran into his sword[220]
- Roy Buchanan (1988), American guitarist and blues musician, hanging[221]
- David Buckel (2018), American LGBT rights lawyer and environmental activist, self-immolation in Prospect Park, Brooklyn[222]
- Randy Budd (2016), American businessman whose wife, Sharon, was critically injured and disfigured by rocks thrown at their car from an overpass, gunshot[223][224]
- Eustace Budgell (1737), English writer and politician, drowning in the Thames[225]
- Brad Bufanda (2017), American actor, jumped from building[226]
- Dale Buggins (1981), Australian stunt motorcyclist, gunshot[227]
- Wilhelm Burgdorf (1945), German general, Chief of the Heerespersonalamt and Chief Adjutant to Adolf Hitler, gunshot[228]
- Anne Burrell (2025), American chef and television personality, drug overdose[229]
- Dan Burros (1965), Jewish American neo-Nazi activist and member of the Ku Klux Klan, gunshot to the head[230]
- August Anheuser Busch Sr. (1934), American CEO of Anheuser-Busch, gunshot[231]
- Germán Busch (1939), Bolivian military officer and 41st and 43rd President of Bolivia, gunshot[232][233]
- Aaron Bushnell (2024), American member of the United States Air Force, self-immolation[234]
- Zvonko Bušić (2013), Croatian hijacker responsible for hijacking TWA Flight 355 in 1976, gunshot[235]
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- Cai Lun (121 AD), Chinese eunuch court official, imperial adviser, inventor of paper and the modern papermaking process, poison[236]
- Calanus (323 BC), Indian gymnosophist and companion of Alexander the Great, self-immolation[237]
- Novius Calavius (314 BC), Campanian nobleman, leader of an anti-Roman insurrection[238]
- Ovius Calavius (314 BC), Campanian nobleman, leader of an anti-Roman insurrection[238]
- Lucius Arruntius Camillus Scribonianus (42 AD), Roman politician, consul and rebel against Emperor Claudius[239]
- Donald Cammell (1996), Scottish film director, gunshot[240]
- Homaro Cantu (2015), American chef, hanging[241]
- Capital Steez (2012), American hip-hop artist, jumped off the rooftop of the Cinematic Music Group headquarters in Manhattan[242][243]
- Capucine (1990), French actress and model, jumped from an eighth-floor apartment[244]
- George Caragonne (1995), American comic book writer, jumped from the 45th floor of the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Manhattan[245]
- Robert Card (2023), American former Army Reservist and perpetrator of the 2023 Lewiston shootings, gunshot[246]
- Wallace Carothers (1937), American inventor of nylon, cyanide poisoning[247]
- Dora Carrington (1932), English artist, gunshot[248]
- Kevin Carter (1994), South African photojournalist, carbon monoxide poisoning[249]
- Tim Carter (2008), English footballer, hanging[250][251]
- Justina Casagli (1841), Swedish opera singer, jumped out a window[252][253]
- Finn M. W. Caspersen (2009), American financier and philanthropist, gunshot[254][255]
- Gaius Cassius Longinus (42 BC), Roman politician, general and conspirator to assassinate Julius Caesar, fell on his sword[256]
- Camilo Castelo Branco (1890), Portuguese novelist, gunshot to the head[257]
- Carlos Castilho (1987), Brazilian footballer and manager
- Ariel Castro (2013), Puerto Rican-American kidnapper, rapist and murderer, hanging[258]
- Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart (2018), Cuban nuclear physicist, son of Fidel Castro[259]
- Kelly Catlin (2019), American cycling champion[260]
- Cato the Younger (46 BC), Roman statesman and politician, stabbed with sword[261]
- Paul Celan (1970), Romanian poet, drowning in the Seine[262]
- Censorinus (53 BC), Roman cavalryman and friend of Publius Licinius Crassus, ordered shieldbearer to stab him[263]
- Champignon (2013), Brazilian musician, bassist for Charlie Brown Jr., gunshot[264]
- Danny Chan (1993), Hong Kong singer and song writer. He had drug overdose which caused him to be in coma for 13 months as Queen Mary Hospital. He died on October 25, 1993.
- Joseph Newton Chandler III (2002), formerly[265] unidentified identity thief, gunshot[266]
- Pierre Chanal (2003), French serial killer, cut femoral artery[267]
- V. B. Chandrasekhar (2019), Indian cricketer, hanging[268]
- Iris Chang (2004), American historian and author of The Rape of Nanking, gunshot to head[269]
- Charmion (30 BC), servant and advisor of Cleopatra[270]
- Charondas (6th century BC), Sicilian-Greek lawgiver, stabbed himself with a dagger[271]
- Richard Chase (1980), American serial killer, anti-depressant overdose[272]
- Gilles Châtelet (1999), French philosopher and mathematician[273]
- Thomas Chatterton (1770), English poet and forger, arsenic poisoning[274][275]
- Chen Wenlong (1277), Chinese politician, bureaucrat and general, starvation[276]
- Gu Cheng (1993), Chinese poet, hanging[277]
- Danny Chen (2011), Chinese-American U.S. Army private, gunshot[278]
- Vic Chesnutt (2009), American singer-songwriter, muscle relaxant overdose[279][280]
- Leslie Cheung (2003), Hong Kong singer and actor, leapt from the 24th floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel[281][282]
- Chimalpopoca (1428), Emperor of Tenochtitlan, hanging[283]
- V. J. Chitra (2020), Indian actress,[284] hanging[285]
- Chiung Yao (2024), Taiwanese writer and film producer, charcoal burning[286]
- Seung-Hui Cho (2007), American university student who perpetrated the Virginia Tech shooting, gunshot[287]
- Choi Jin-sil (2008), South Korean actress, hanging[288]
- Choi Jin-young (2010), South Korean actor and singer, hanging[289]
- Choi Sung-bong (2023), South Korean singer[290]
- Chongzhen (1644), Chinese emperor of the Ming dynasty[291]
- David Christie (1997), French singer[292]
- Henri Christophe (1820), Haitian revolutionary and King of Haiti, gunshot to the heart[293]
- Brian Christopher (2018), American professional wrestler, hanging[294][295]
- Christine Chubbuck (1974), American television reporter, gunshot[296]
- Chung Doo-un (2019), South Korean politician[297]
- Diana Churchill (1963), eldest daughter of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, barbiturate overdose[298]
- Frank Churchill (1942), American film composer, gunshot[299]
- Bob Carlos Clarke (2006), Irish photographer, jumped in front of a train[300]
- Jeremiah Clarke (1707), English baroque composer and organist, gunshot[301][302]
- Paul Clayton (1967), American folksinger and folklorist, electrocution[303]
- Tyler Clementi (2010), Rutgers University student, jumped off the George Washington Bridge[304]
- Robert George Clements (1947), Irish physician and suspected murderer, morphine overdose[305]
- Cleomenes I (c. 489 BC), King of Sparta, slashed himself from shins to belly[306]
- Cleomenes III (219 BC), King of Sparta[307]
- Cleombrotus of Ambracia (after 399 BC), Greek philosopher, acquaintance of Socrates and Plato[308]
- Cleopatra (30 BC), Queen of Egypt, inducing an asp to bite her[58]
- Kurt Cobain (1994), American singer/songwriter, and frontman of the band Nirvana, gunshot[309]
- Jack Cole (1958), American cartoonist known as the creator of Plastic Man, gunshot to the head[310] with a rifle[311]
- Ray Combs (1996), American comedian, actor, and television game show host, hanging[312][313]
- Camila María Concepción (2020), American screenwriter and transgender rights activist[314]
- Louis Conradt (2006), assistant district attorney from Texas, gunshot[315][316]
- Adolfo Constanzo (1989), American serial killer, drug dealer, warlock and cult leader, ordered a follower to shoot him[317]
- Tarka Cordell (2008), British musician, hanging[318]
- Don Cornelius (2012), American television producer, best known as the creator and host of Soul Train, gunshot[319]
- Chris Cornell (2017), American musician, singer/songwriter, and member of the bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, hanging after a performance[320]
- Marcus Caecilius Cornutus (43 BC), Roman politician and general[321]
- Tony Costa (1974), American serial killer, hanging[322]
- John Coughlin (2019), American figure skater,[323] hanging[324]
- Hart Crane (1932), American poet, jumped off ship[325]
- Darby Crash (1980), American singer (Germs), heroin overdose[326]
- Publius Licinius Crassus (53 BC), Roman general, ordered shieldbearer to stab him[327]
- René Crevel (1935), French writer, gas asphyxiation
- Robert W. Criswell (1905), American humorist and newspaperman, jumped in front of subway train[328]
- Dennis Crosby (1991), American singer and actor, son of Bing Crosby, gunshot[329]
- Harry Crosby (1929), American poet and publisher, gunshot[330]
- Lindsay Crosby (1989), American singer and actor, youngest of Bing Crosby's four sons from his first marriage, gunshot[331]
- Julee Cruise (2022), American musician[332][333]
- Charles Crumb (1992), American comics writer and artist and brother of cartoonist Robert Crumb, overdosed on pills[334]
- Andrew Cunanan (1997), American spree killer, gunshot[335]
- Lester Cuneo (1925), American actor, gunshot[336]
- Will Cuppy (1949), American humorist, sleeping pill overdose[337]
- Ian Curtis (1980), English singer-songwriter (Joy Division), hanging[338]
- Patricia Cutts (1974), English film and television actress, barbiturate overdose[339]
- Adam Czerniaków (1942), Polish-Jewish senator and head of the Warsaw Ghetto Judenrat, cyanide poisoning[340]
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- Stig Dagerman (1954), Swedish journalist and writer, carbon monoxide poisoning[341]
- Dalida (1987), French-Italian singer, barbiturate overdose[342][343]
- Andrea Dandolo (1298), Venetian admiral, beating his head repeatedly against his flagship's mast[344]
- Karl Dane (1934), Danish-American silent film actor, gunshot[345][346][347][348]
- Laurie Dann (1988), American murderer and arsonist, gunshot to the head[349]
- Monika Dannemann (1996), German skater and painter, carbon monoxide exhaust fumes[350]
- Bella Darvi (1971), Polish actress, gas inhalation[351]
- Ali-Akbar Davar (1937), Iranian politician, judge and the founder of the modern judicial system of Iran, overdose of opium[352]
- Alan Davies (1992), British footballer, carbon monoxide poisoning[353]
- Brad Davis (1991), American actor, assisted barbiturate overdose[354]
- Charlotte Dawson (2014), Australian TV presenter, hanging[355][356]
- Osamu Dazai (1948), Japanese author, drowning in the Tamagawa Aqueduct[357]
- Alice de Janzé (1941), American heiress, gunshot[358]
- Decebalus (106 AD), King of Dacia[359]
- Decentius (353 AD), Roman usurper[360]
- Guy Debord (1994), French philosopher and founder of the Situationists International, gunshot[361]
- Jeanine Deckers (1985), Belgian musician known as the Singing Nun, overdose of sedatives[362]
- Albert Dekker (1968), actor known for the science fiction film Dr. Cyclops, autoerotic asphyxiation.[363][364]
- Gilles Deleuze (1995), French philosopher, self-defenestration[365]
- Jeremy Wade Delle (1991), American high school student who inspired the Pearl Jam song "Jeremy", gunshot[366]
- Peter Delmé (1770), English politician, gunshot[367]
- Brad Delp (2007), American singer-songwriter for the bands Boston and RTZ, carbon monoxide poisoning[368]
- Penelope Delta (1941), Greek writer, poison[369][370][371]
- Demonax (c. 170 AD), Greek Cypriot Cynic philosopher, starved himself to death[372]
- Demosthenes (322 BC), Greek statesman, poison[373]
- Karl Denke (1924), German serial killer, hanging[374]
- Jerry Desmonde (1967), English actor[375]
- Julius Dettmann (1945, Nazi Germany Schutzstaffel (SS) officer who had Anne Frank and her relatives and friends arrested and deported, hanging[376][377]
- Patrick Dewaere (1982), French actor, gunshot[378]
- Diaeus (146 BC), Greek strategos of the Achaean League, poison[379]
- Joseph Di Mambro (1994), French religious leader and co-founder of Order of the Solar Temple[380]
- Ding Ruchang (1895), Chinese admiral, opium overdose[381]
- Dioxippus (after 336 BC), ancient Greek pankratiast and Olympic champion, fell upon his sword[382]
- Tove Ditlevsen (1976), Danish poet and author[383]
- Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah (2001), King of Nepal and perpetrator of the Nepalese royal massacre, gunshot to the head[384]
- Thomas M. Disch (2008), American writer, gunshot[385]
- Adriaan Ditvoorst (1987), Dutch film director and screenwriter, drowning[386]
- Julia Domna (217 AD), Roman empress, second wife of Emperor Septimius Severus[387]
- Christopher Dorner (2013), former American police officer and mass shooter, gunshot[388]
- Michael Dorris (1997), American novelist, overdose of sleeping pills with vodka and asphyxiation[389]
- Jon Dough (2006), American pornographic actor, hanging[390]
- Francis Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrig (1894), British nobleman and Liberal politician, gunshot[391][392]
- Edward Downes (2009), English conductor, assisted double suicide with wife Lady Joan Downes at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland[393]
- Scott Dozier (2019), American murderer, hanging[394]
- Charmaine Dragun (2007), Australian television newsreader, jumped off The Gap[395]
- Lynwood Drake (1992), American spree killer, gunshot[396]
- Nick Drake (1974), English singer-songwriter, overdose of amitriptyline tablets[397]
- Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus (42 BC), Roman senator[398]
- Pete Duel (1971), American actor, gunshot[399]
- Dave Duerson (2011), American football safety for the Chicago Bears, New York Giants, and Phoenix Cardinals, gunshot to the chest[400]
- Theresa Duncan (2007), American video game designer, blogger, filmmaker and critic, ingestion of Tylenol and alcohol[401]
- R. Budd Dwyer (1987), American politician, gunshot to mouth[402]
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- George Eastman (1932), American inventor and philanthropist, gunshot to heart[403]
- Volker Eckert (2007), German serial killer, hanging[404]
- Edward I. Edwards (1931), American politician, gunshot to head[405]
- Mack Ray Edwards (1971), American serial killer, hanging[406]
- James Dallas Egbert III (1980), American university student, gunshot[407]
- Paul Ehrenfest (1933), Austrian theoretical physicist, murder-suicide by shooting his son and himself[408]
- Naima El Bezaz (2020), Moroccan-Dutch writer[409]
- Keith Emerson (2016), English rock musician, keyboardist, and composer for the bands The Nice and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, gunshot to the head[410]
- Martin Emond (2004), New Zealand cartoonist and painter, hanging[411]
- Empedocles (c. 430 BC), Greek philosopher, leapt into Mount Etna[412][413]
- Robert Enke (2009), German footballer, struck by train[414]
- Gudrun Ensslin (1977), German RAF terrorist, hanging[92]
- Peg Entwistle (1932), Welsh-born American actress, jumped from the "H" in the Hollywood Sign[415][a]
- Epicharis (65 AD), Roman leading member of the Pisonian conspiracy, strangled herself with a band of cloth[416]
- Eratosthenes (194 BC), Greek polymath and chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria, voluntary starvation[417]
- Ermanaric (376 AD), king of the Greuthungi[418]
- Florbela Espanca (1930), Portuguese poet, barbiturates overdose
- Etika (2019), American YouTuber and streamer, drowned after jumping from the Manhattan Bridge[419]
- Euphrates the Stoic (118 AD), Roman Stoic philosopher, hemlock poisoning[420]
- Eurydice II of Macedon (317 BC), Queen of Macedon, hanging[421]
- Tom Evans (1983), English musician and songwriter for the group Badfinger, hanging[422]
- Richard Evonitz (2002), American serial killer and kidnapper[423]
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- Angus Fairhurst (2008), English artist, hanging[424]
- Enevold de Falsen (1808), Norwegian Supreme Court Justice, drowning[425]
- Moni Fanan (2009), Israeli basketball executive Maccabi Tel Aviv, hanging[426]
- Gaius Fuficius Fango (40 BC), Roman general and politician[427]
- Fausto Fanti (2014), Brazilian humorist known as a member of the comedy troupe Hermes & Renato, and guitarist for Massacration, hanging[428]
- Richard Farnsworth (2000), American actor, gunshot[429]
- Hazel Farris (1906), American mass murderer, outlaw and fugitive whose mummy became a tourist attraction, alcohol and arsenic poisoning[430]
- Justin Fashanu (1998), British footballer, hanging[431]
- René Favaloro (2000), Argentine cardiac surgeon (created technique for coronary bypass surgery), gunshot to the heart[432]
- José Feghali (2014), Brazilian pianist, winner of the 1985 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, gunshot to head[433]
- Malevo Ferreyra (2008), Argentine police chief accused of multiple murders and acts of torture during the 1970s, gunshot to the head[434]
- Anton Fier (2022), American drummer, composer and bandleader, assisted suicide[435][436]
- Hans Fischer (1945), German organic chemist and recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry[437]
- Hermann Emil Fischer (1919), German chemist and recipient of the 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry[438]
- Mark Fisher (2017), English writer and political theorist, hanging[439]
- Mathieu Fischer (2021), Belgian survivor of the 2016 Brussels bombings[440]
- Robert FitzRoy (1865), English meteorologist, surveyor, hydrographer, Governor of New Zealand and captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's second voyage of HMS Beagle,[441] slit throat[442]
- Quintus Fulvius Flaccus (172 BC), Roman consul, hanging[443]
- Caroline Flack (2020), English radio and television presenter, hanging[444]
- Mike Flanagan (2011), American baseball player and 1979 American League Cy Young Award winner[445] shotgun wound to the head[446]
- Vester Flanagan (2015), American television news reporter responsible for killing Alison Parker and Adam Ward, gunshot to the head[447]
- Ed Flanders (1995), American actor, gunshot[448]
- John Bernard Flannagan (1942), American sculptor[449]
- Frederick Fleet (1965), English sailor and lookout on the RMS Titanic who first spotted the iceberg that struck the vessel, hanging[450]
- Mark Fleischman (2022), American businessman and onetime owner of Studio 54, assisted suicide with the aid of the assisted dying non-profit Dignitas[451][452]
- Keith Flint (2019), English singer and dancer for The Prodigy,[453] hanging[454]
- Charley Ford (1884), American outlaw, gunshot[455][456][457]
- Tom Forman (1926), American actor, director and producer, gunshot[458]
- André "Dédé" Fortin (2000), Canadian songwriter, singer and guitarist (Les Colocs), stabbing[459]
- Vince Foster (1993), American attorney and Deputy White House Counsel to Bill Clinton, gunshot to mouth[460][461]
- Jason David Frank (2022), American actor known for the TV series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, hanging[462]
- Wade Frankum (1991), Australian mass murderer who perpetrated the Strathfield massacre, gunshot[463]
- Kelly Fraser (2019), Canadian pop singer and songwriter[464]
- Ryan Freel (2012), American professional baseball player, gunshot[465]
- Sigmund Freud (1939), Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis, assisted suicide with morphine overdose
- John Friedrich (1991), Australian fraudster, gunshot[466]
- Beşir Fuad (1887), Ottoman intellectual, cutting his wrists[467]
- Emil Fuchs (1929), Austrian-American sculptor, gunshot[468][469]
- Fujimura Misao (1902), Japanese philosophy student and poet, jumped from the Kegon Falls[470]
- Travis Fulton (2021), American boxer and mixed martial artist fighter, hanging[471][472]
- Anton Furst (1991), English production designer on Batman (1989), jump from an eighth story parking garage[473]
- Fusu (210 BC), Chinese prince and heir apparent of the Qin dynasty[474]
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- Anthony Galindo (2020), Venezuelan singer[475]
- Hughie Gallacher (1957), British footballer, stood in front of moving train
- Ed Gantner (1990), American professional wrestler and American football player, self-inflicted gunshot to the heart[476]
- Alan García (2019), Peruvian politician who served as President of Peru from 1985 to 1990 and again from 2006 to 2011, gunshot[477]
- Jamir Garcia (2020), Filipino singer, vocalist of the band Slapshock, hanging[478]
- Santiago García (2021), Uruguayan soccer player, gunshot[479][480]
- Romain Gary (1980), French novelist, diplomat, and film director, gunshot[481]
- Arturo Gatti (2009), Canadian professional boxer, hanging[482]
- Danny Gatton (1994), American guitarist, gunshot[483]
- John Geddert (2021), American gymnastics coach, gunshot[484] shortly after being charged with 24 felony counts related to sexual abuse of his trainees[485]
- Richard Gerstl (1908), Austrian painter, stabbing and hanging[486]
- Babak Ghorbani (2014), Iranian wrestler, overdose[487]
- Jeremy Giambi (2022), American retired baseball player, gunshot to chest[488]
- Karl Giese (1938), German archivist, museum curator and life partner of Magnus Hirschfeld[489]
- Paul Gilbert (1976), American film and television actor, gunshot[490]
- Gildo (398 AD), Roman Berber general and rebel leader, hanging[491]
- Rex Gildo (1999), German singer and actor, jump from his third-floor apartment window[492]
- Richard Gilkey (1997), American painter, gunshot[493]
- Sam Gillespie (2003), philosopher whose writings and translations were crucial to the initial reception of Alain Badiou's work in the English-speaking world[494]
- Claude Gillingwater (1939), American actor, gunshot[495]
- Virginia Giuffre (2025), American-Australian advocate for survivors of sex trafficking, and accuser of child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Britain's Prince Andrew[496]
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935), American writer, chloroform overdose[497]
- Kurt Gloor (1997), Swiss film director, screenwriter and producer[498]
- John Wayne Glover (2005), Australian serial killer, hanging[499]
- 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.[500][501]
- Jean-Luc Godard (2022), French-Swiss film director and film critic, assisted suicide procedure[502][503]
- Joseph Goebbels (1945), Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister, gunshot or cyanide poisoning[504][505]
- Magda Goebbels (1945), German wife of Joseph Goebbels, assisted suicide by gunshot or cyanide poisoning[504][505]
- Gongsun Zan (199 AD), Chinese general and warlord, setting himself and his family on fire[506]
- David Goodall (2018), English-born Australian botanist and ecologist, physician-assisted suicide[507]
- Dickie Goodman (1989), American novelty musician and record producer, gunshot[508]
- Gordian I (238 AD), Roman emperor, hanging[509]
- Adam Lindsay Gordon (1870), Australian poet, gunshot[510]
- Lucy Gordon (2009), English actress and model, hanging[511]
- Gōri Daisuke (2010), Japanese voice actor, narrator and actor, cut his wrist[512]
- Hermann Göring (1946), German politician, military leader, major figure in Nazi Party, potassium cyanide[513]
- Arshile Gorky (1948), Armenian American painter; hanging[514]
- Joachim Gottschalk (1941), German stage and film actor, gas inhalation[515]
- Gaius Gracchus (121 BC), Roman politician, reformer and tribune, ordered a slave to kill him[516]
- Eddie Graham (1985), American professional wrestler, gunshot[517]
- Frank Graham (1950), American voice actor and radio announcer, carbon monoxide poisoning[518]
- Mike Graham (2012), American professional wrestler, gunshot[519][520]
- Phil Graham (1963), American newspaper publisher, shotgun[521]
- Sophie Gradon (2018), English model and television personality, hanging[522]
- Wolfgang Grams (1993), German Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF) terrorist, gunshot[523]
- Bob Grant (2003), English actor, carbon monoxide poisoning[524]
- Shauna Grant (1984), American porn actress, gunshot[525]
- Spalding Gray (2004), American actor, playwright, screenwriter, performance artist, and monologuist, jumped off the Staten Island Ferry[526]
- Mark Green (2004), American record-setting minor league hockey star, hanging[527][528]
- Larry Grey (1951), English magician and actor, gunshot[529]
- Walter Groß (1945), German physician, politician, eugenicist and race theorist[530]
- Carl Großmann (1922), German serial killer, hanging[531]
- Theodor Grotthuss (1822), German chemist[532]
- Paul Gruchow (2004), American writer, drug overdose[533]
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- Charles Haddon (2010), English lead singer of pop-synth band Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, hanging[534]
- Charlie Haeger (2020), American baseball player, gunshot[535]
- Jason Hairston (2018), American football player[536]
- Lillian Hall-Davis (1933), English actress, carbon monoxide poisoning and cut throat[537]
- Ryan Halligan (2003), bullied American middle school student, hanging[538]
- Pete Ham (1975), Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist for the band Badfinger, hanging[422]
- Tony Halme (2010), Finnish athlete, actor and politician, gunshot[539]
- Bernardine Hamaekers (1912), Belgian opera singer, cut throat with shattered drinking glass[540]
- Rusty Hamer (1990), American actor, gunshot[541]
- Hamilcar I of Carthage (480 BC), King of Carthage, self-immolation[542]
- David Hamilton (2016), British photographer and filmmaker known for his nudes of pubescent girls, asphyxiation via plastic bag after several of his models accused him of rape[543][544]
- Lois Hamilton (1999), American model and actress, overdose of sleeping pills[545]
- Hampsicora (215 BC), Sardo-Punic political leader, landowner and anti-Roman rebel leader[546]
- Tony Hancock (1968), English comedian, overdose by vodka and amphetamines[547]
- Hannibal (ca 182 BC), Carthaginian commander during the Second Punic War, poison[548]
- Goo Hara (2019), South Korean singer[549][550][551]
- James Harden-Hickey (1898), Franco-American author, newspaper editor, duellist, adventurer and self-proclaimed Prince of Trinidad, overdose of morphine[552]
- Marlia Hardi (1984), Indonesian actress, hanging[553]
- Eric Harris (1999), one of the two American high school seniors who committed the Columbine High School massacre, gunshot[554][555]
- Brynn Hartman (1998), wife of comedian and actor Phil Hartman, shot herself after murdering Hartman[556]
- Elizabeth Hartman (1987), American actress, leapt out of fifth floor window[557]
- Walter Hasenclever (1940), German poet and playwright, overdose of Veronal[558]
- Neda Hassani (2003), Iranian protester, self-immolation in front of French embassy in London[559]
- Charles Ray Hatcher (1984), American serial killer, hanging[560]
- Donny Hathaway (1979), American musician, jumped from the 15th floor window of his hotel room[561]
- Phyllis Haver (1960), American silent film actress, barbiturate overdose[562]
- Robert Hawkins (2007), American mass murderer, perpetrator of the Westroads Mall shooting, gunshot[563]
- Jeanne Hébuterne (1920), French painter, jumped from window of fifth-floor apartment[564]
- Sadegh Hedayat (1951), Iranian writer, carbon monoxide poisoning[565][566]
- Marvin Heemeyer (2004), American welder who went on a rampage with a modified bulldozer, gunshot[567]
- Sarah Hegazi (2020), Egyptian LGBT activist[568]
- Claudia Heill (2011), Austrian judoka, jump from a sixth story window[569]
- Ernest Hemingway (1961), American writer and journalist, gunshot to head[570]
- Margaux Hemingway (1996), American fashion model, actress; overdose of phenobarbital[571]
- Benjamin Hendrickson (2006), American actor, gunshot[572]
- George Hennard (1991), American mass murderer who perpetrated the Luby's shooting, gunshot[573]
- Victor Heringer (2018), Brazilian novelist and poet, winner of the 2013 Prêmio Jabuti, self-defenestration[574]
- Aaron Hernandez (2017), American football player and convicted murderer, hanging in prison cell, five days after his acquittal from a separate murder charge.[575] Hernandez was posthumously diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which has led to speculation over how the condition may have affected his behavior.[576]
- Wolfgang Herrndorf (2013), German writer, gunshot[577]
- Rudolf Hess (1987), German Nazi leader, hanging[578]
- Paul Hester (2005), Australian drummer for Split Enz and Crowded House, hanging[579]
- John Hicklenton (2010), British comics artist, assisted suicide the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland[580]
- hide (1998), Japanese heavy metal singer, songwriter and record producer for the metal band X Japan, hanging[581]
- Tyler Hilinski (2018), American football quarterback, gunshot[582]
- Virginia Hill (1966), American mobster, sedative overdose[583]
- Himilco (396 BC), Carthaginian general, starving himself[584]
- Heinrich Himmler (1945), German Nazi leader, cyanide[585]
- Ludwig Hirsch (2011), Austrian singer, songwriter and actor, jumped from the second floor of a hospital window[586]
- Leo Hirschfield (1922), Austrian-American candymaker known as the inventor of the Tootsie Roll, gunshot to the head[587][588]
- Adolf Hitler (1945), Austrian-born Nazi Germany dictator, gunshot[589][590] (possibly while biting down on a cyanide capsule at the same time)[591]
- Abbie Hoffman (1989), American political and social activist, phenobarbital overdose[592]
- Richard Holden (2005), Canadian politician, leapt from 8th-floor balcony[593]
- Crash Holly (2003), American wrestler, asphyxia due to pulmonary aspiration as a result of an alcohol and drug overdose[594]
- Libby Holman (1971), American singer and actress, carbon monoxide poisoning[595][596]
- Alec Holowka (2019), Canadian video game programmer, designer, and musician[597]
- Tyler Honeycutt (2018), American basketball player (Sacramento Kings, Khimki), gunshot[598][599]
- Doug Hopkins (1993), American songwriter and lead guitarist for the band Gin Blossoms, gunshot[600]
- Brita Horn (1791), Swedish countess and courtier, drowning[601]
- Harry Horse (2007), English author, illustrator, cartoonist and musician, stabbed himself 47 times in a murder-suicide[602]
- Silvio Horta (2020), American screenwriter and television producer, gunshot[603]
- Robert E. Howard (1936), American author known for his character Conan the Barbarian, gunshot to the head[604]
- Mike Howe (2021), American singer, and member of the heavy metal band Metal Church[605]
- Hsu Kun-yuan (2020), Taiwanese politician, jumped off his home[606]
- Hu Bo (2017), Chinese novelist and director[607][608]
- Huang Zhiheng (1986), Chinese mass murderer, cutting his wrists with a can lid[609]
- Quentin Hubbard (1976), son of L. Ron Hubbard, gas[610]
- Nicholas Hughes (2009), fisheries biologist, son of renowned poet Sylvia Plath, hanging[611]
- Rodney Hulin (1996), American prison inmate who had been raped, hanging[612]
- Lester C. Hunt (1954), United States Senator, gunshot[613]
- Michael Hutchence (1997), Australian singer and songwriter (INXS), hanging[614]
- Phyllis Hyman (1995), American singer-songwriter and actress, overdose of phenobarbital[615]
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- Imai Kanehira (1184), Japanese general, jump from his horse onto a sword he placed in his mouth[616]
- Clara Immerwahr (1915), German chemist and Fritz Haber's wife, gunshot[617]
- William Inge (1973), American writer, carbon monoxide poisoning[618]
- Arthur Crew Inman (1963), American poet, editor and author of one of the longest diaries on record[619]
- Hideki Irabu (2011), Japanese professional baseball player, hanged[620]
- Iras (30 BC), servant and advisor of Cleopatra[270]
- 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[621][622][623]
- Silius Italicus (c. 103 AD), Roman consul, orator, author and poet, starvation[624]
- Juzo Itami (1997), Japanese actor and film director, jumped from building[625][626]
- Bruce Ivins (2008), American microbiologist and suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks, overdose of paracetamol[627][628]
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- Charles R. Jackson (1968), American writer, barbiturate overdose[629]
- Marcel Jacob (2009), Swedish bassist for the hard rock bands Talisman and Yngwie Malmsteen[630][631]
- Irwin L. Jacobs (2019), American businessman, CEO of Genmar Holdings, gunshot after murdering his wife[632]
- M. Jaishankar (2018), Indian serial killer and rapist, slitting his own throat[633]
- Rahmah ibn Jabir Al Jalhami (1826), Arab tribal leader, pirate captain and admiral, blew himself up with his ship and crew[634]
- Jill Janus (2018), American lead singer of the metal band Huntress[635]
- Jang Ja-yeon (2009), South Korean actress, hanging[636]
- Rick Jason (2000), American actor, gunshot[637]
- Jaxon (2006), American cartoonist and illustrator[638]
- Fatafat Jayalaxmi (1980), Indian actress, hanging[639]
- Richard Jeni (2007), American standup comedian and actor, gunshot[640][641][642]
- Herbert Turner Jenkins (1990), longest serving police chief of Atlanta, gunshot[643]
- Ryan Jenkins (2009), American contestant on the 2009 reality TV series Megan Wants a Millionaire, hanging[644][645]
- Jeon Mi-seon (2019), South Korean actress, hanging[646]
- Jeong Da-bin (2007), South Korean actress, hanging[647]
- Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem (1772), German lawyer and philosopher, whose suicide was the major inspiration for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, gunshot[648]
- Ji Yan (224 AD), Chinese official of the state of Eastern Wu, bureaucrat and reformer[649]
- Jiang Qing (1991), Chinese communist revolutionary, politician, actress, fourth wife of Mao Zedong and member of the Gang of Four, hanging[650]
- Empress Jingyin (82 AD), Chinese imperial consort for Emperor Zhang of Han also known as Consort Song[236]
- Prince Joachim of Prussia (1920), son of Wilhelm II, German Emperor, gunshot[651]
- Adolph Joffe (1927), Soviet revolutionary and Left Oppositionist, gunshot[652]
- Jo Min-ki (2018), South Korean actor, hanging[653]
- B. S. Johnson (1973), English novelist, poet, literary critic, sports journalist, television producer and filmmaker, cut his wrists[654]
- Dan Johnson (2017), American politician, Republican member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, gunshot[655]
- George Robert Johnston (2004), Canadian burglar and fugitive known as the Ballarat Bandit, gunshot[656]
- Greg Johnson (2019), Canadian ice hockey player, gunshot[657]
- J.J. Johnson (2001), American Bebop trombonist, gunshot[658]
- Daniel V. Jones (1998), American maintenance worker, gunshot[659]
- Jim Jones (1978), American cult leader and founder of Peoples Temple, gunshot[660][661]
- Malcolm Jones III (1996), American comic book creator known for his work on Vertigo series The Sandman[662]
- Ingrid Jonker (1965), South African poet, drowning[663]
- Tor Jonsson (1951), Norwegian poet[664][665]
- Luc Jouret (1994), Belgian religious leader and co-founder of Order of the Solar Temple[380]
- Pavle Jovanonic (2020), Serbian-American Olympic bobsledder[666]
- Juba I of Numidia (46 BC), King of Numidia, double-suicide by sword with Marcus Petreius[667]
- Judacilius (90 BC), Picentes general and leader, swallowed poison and ordered to be set on fire[668]
- Judas Iscariot (AD 30 or 33), Apostle turned betrayer of Jesus, hanging
- Naomi Judd (2022), American country music singer and actress, gunshot[669]
- Claude Jutra (1987), Canadian film director, actor and screenwriter,[670] drowning[671][672]
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- Ted Kaczynski (2023), American mathematician and domestic terrorist known as the Unabomber, hanging[673][674]
- Kari Kairamo (1988), Finnish CEO and chairman of telecommunications company Nokia, hanging[675]
- Romas Kalanta (1972), Lithuanian high school student, self-immolation[676]
- Alexey Kaledin (1918), Russian Don Cossack general, gunshot to the heart[677]
- Antonie Kamerling (2010), Dutch actor and musician, hanging[678]
- Sayaka Kanda (2021), Japanese actress and singer, jumped from an upper floor of a hotel[679]
- Sarah Kane (1999), English writer, hanging[680]
- Chris Kanyon (2010), American professional wrestler, overdose of anti-depressant pills[681]
- Kagney Linn Karter (2024), American pornographic film actress, gunshot[682][683]
- Kostas Karyotakis (1928), Greek poet, gunshot[684]
- Ricky Kasso (1984), American murderer, hanging[685]
- Bruno Kastner (1932), German actor, hanging[686]
- Kazuhiko Katō (2009), Japanese musician, hanging[687]
- Nicky Katt (2025), American actor, gunshot[688]
- Yasunari Kawabata (1972), Japanese writer, gas inhalation[689]
- Kawatsu Kentarō (1970), Japanese swimmer, self-immolation[690]
- Andrew Kehoe (1927), American mass murderer, detonated truck full of dynamite while inside it[691]
- Brian Keith (1997), American actor, gunshot[692]
- Mike Kelley (2012), American artist, carbon monoxide poisoning[693]
- Israel Keyes (2012), American serial killer, slit wrists and strangulation[694]
- Jiah Khan (2013), British American actress of Indian descent, hanging[695][696]
- Sahar Khodayari (2019), Iranian activist who self-immolated in front of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Tehran[697]
- Mykola Khvylovy (1933), Soviet Ukrainian novelist, poet, publicist and national communist activist[698]
- Margot Kidder (2018), Canadian-American actress, known for her role as Lois Lane in Superman feature films, drug and alcohol overdose[699]
- Daul Kim (2009), South Korean model and blogger, hanged in her Paris apartment[700]
- Kim Ji-hoon (2013), South Korean singer-songwriter (Two Two) and actor, hanging[701]
- Kim Jong-hyun (2017), South Korean singer-songwriter, radio host, and member of boy band SHINee, carbon monoxide poisoning[702]
- Kim Sae-ron (2025), South Korean actress [703]
- 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[704]
- Yu-ri Kim (2011), South Korean model, poison[705]
- Hana Kimura (2020), Japanese wrestler, hydrogen sulfide poisoning[706][707]
- Allyn King (1930), American actress, jumped from a fifth story window[708][709][710]
- Syd King (1933), English footballer and football manager, ingestion of corrosive liquid[711][712]
- Uday Kiran (2014), Indian actor, hanging[713]
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1938), German artist, gunshot[714]
- Stan Kirsch (2020), American actor, hanging[715]
- R. B. Kitaj (2007), American artist, suffocation[716]
- John Kivela (2017), American politician, hanging[717]
- Dylan Klebold (1999), one of the two American high school seniors who committed the Columbine High School massacre, gunshot[554][555]
- Heinrich von Kleist (1811), German author, poet and journalist, gunshot[718]
- Billy Knight (2018), UCLA basketball player, blunt force injuries[719]
- Ilse Koch (1967), Nazi war criminal, hanging[720][721]
- Andrew Koenig (2010), American actor, hanging[722]
- Arthur Koestler (1983), Hungarian-British author, novelist known for the antitotalitarian novel Darkness At Noon, barbiturates[723]
- Sarah Kofman (1994), French philosopher, unknown way[724]
- Hannelore Kohl (2001), German wife of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, overdose of sleeping pills[725]
- Lawrence Kohlberg (1987), American developmental psychologist, drowning[726]
- Takako Konishi (2001), Japanese office worker known for an urban legend surrounding her death, froze to death[727]
- Fumimaro Konoe (1945), Japanese prime minister, poison[728]
- Ruslana Korshunova (2008), Kazakhstani model, aged 20, jumped from the ninth-floor balcony of her apartment in New York City[729]
- Gé Korsten (1999), South African artist, gunshot[730]
- Jerzy Kosinski (1991), Polish-born American writer, suffocation with plastic bag[731]
- Milica Kostić (1974), Serbian-Yugoslavian high school student, jump from the 12th floor of a building while fleeing a rapist[732]
- Stephen Kovacs (2022), American fencer and fencing coach, hanging with laundry bag while in prison[733]
- Oleksandr Kovalenko (2010), Ukrainian football player and referee, jumped from his apartment[734]
- Hans Krebs (1945), German general and Chief of Staff of the OKH, gunshot[228]
- Alec Kreider (2017), American convicted triple murderer, hanging[735]
- Tim Kretschmer (2009), German student and mass shooter, gunshot[736]
- Norbert Kröcher (2016), German 2 June Movement terrorist, gunshot[737]
- Alan Krueger (2019), American economist[738]
- Aleksandr Krymov (1917), Russian general, gunshot to the heart[739]
- Cheslie Kryst (2022), American model and presenter known as Miss USA 2019, jump from a Manhattan high-rise[740][741]
- Ashwani Kumar (2020), Indian police officer and politician who served as governor of Nagaland from 2013 to 2014, hanging[742]
- Kuyili (1780), Indian freedom fighter, self-immolation[743]
- Richard Kyanka (2021), American web developer and founder of Something Awful, gunshot[744]
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- L'Inconnue de la Seine (late 1880s), unidentified French woman pulled out of the Seine, known for the influence of her death mask on literature and art[745]
- Deborah Laake (2000), American columnist and writer, overdose of pills[746]
- Titus Labienus (8 AD), Roman lawyer, orator and historian[747]
- Kyren Lacy (2025), American football player, gunshot[748]
- Leonard Lake (1985), American serial killer, ingesting cyanide capsules[749]
- Paul Lambert (2020), British television journalist, producer and communications director[750]
- Vilho Lampi (1936), Finnish painter, jumped from bridge[751][752]
- Karen Lancaume (2005), French pornographic film actress, overdose of temazepam[753]
- Carole Landis (1948), American actress, overdose of secobarbital pills[754][755]
- James Henry Lane (1866), American partisan, abolitionist, senator and Union general, gunshot to the head[756]
- Andrew E. Lange (2010), American astrophysicist[757]
- Hans Langsdorff (1939), German naval officer and Kapitän zur See, gunshot[758]
- Adam Lanza (2012), perpetrator of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, gunshot to the head[759]
- Don Lapre (2011), American television pitchman noted for several products, cut throat with a razor blade[760]
- William Larnach (1898), New Zealand politician[761]
- Mariano José de Larra (1837), Spanish writer, gunshot[762]
- Anna Laughlin (1937), American actress, gas poisoning[763]
- Brian Laundrie (2021), American partner of formerly missing woman Gabby Petito, gunshot to head weeks after killing Petito[764]
- Margaret Laurence (1987), Canadian writer, overdose[765]
- Florence Lawrence (1938), Canadian-American silent film actress, poisoning[766]
- Coco Lee (2023), Hong Kong American signer. Battaled depression and lost the battle. She attempted suicide on July 2, 2023 and fell into coma shortly after. She died on July 5, 2023 at Queen Mary Hospital.
- Lee Eun-ju (2005), South Korean actress, slit wrists and hanging[767]
- Lee Hye-Ryeon (2007), South Korean singer, known as U;Nee, hanging[768]
- Jon Lee (2002), Welsh drummer for the British rock band Feeder, hanging[769]
- Sara Lee (2022), American professional wrestler, combined drug intoxication[770]
- Lee Sun-Kyun (2023), Korean actor, carbon monoxide poisoning[771]
- Thomas H. Lee (2023), American financier, gunshot[772]
- Valery Legasov (1988), Soviet-Russian inorganic chemist, member of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster commission, hanging[773]
- Friedrich Leibacher (2001), Swiss mass murderer, gunshot[774]
- Megan Leigh (1990), American pornographic actress, gunshot wound to the head[775]
- Lemp Family (1949), Four members of the St. Louis Lemp Brewing family, gunshots[776]
- Dave Lepard (2006), Swedish singer and guitarist (Crashdïet), hanging[777][778]
- Marc Lépine (1989), Canadian perpetrator of the École Polytechnique massacre, shot himself after killing 14 women[779]
- Andrzej Lepper (2011), Polish politician known as the leader of Samoobrona RP (Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland), hanging[780][781]
- Arnie Lerma (2018), American former Scientologist and critic of Scientology, gunshot[782]
- Eugene Lester (1940), former Justice and Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, gunshot to the head[783]
- Amy Levy (1889), British writer[784] inhaling charcoal gas[785]
- Harry Lew (2011), United States Marine, gunshot[786][787]
- Ephraim Lewis (1994), English singer, jumped off a fourth floor balcony[788]
- Robert Ley (1945), German Nazi politician and leader of the German Labour Front, hanging[789]
- Chris Lighty (2012), American music industry executive and manager, gunshot[790]
- lil' Chris (2015), English pop singer, hanging[791]
- Lil Loaded (2021), American rapper, gunshot to head[792][793]
- Max Linder (1925), French film and stage actor, double suicide with wife Hélène "Jean" Peters, veronal and morphine ingestion, cut wrists[794]
- Vachel Lindsay (1931), American poet, poison[795]
- Diane Linkletter (1969), American actress and daughter of Art Linkletter, jump from a sixth story window[796]
- Mark Linkous (2010), American musician, gunshot to the heart[797]
- Carlo Lizzani (2013), Italian film director, jumped from a balcony[798]
- Liu Rushi (1664), Chinese Gējì, poet, artist and Ming loyalist, hanging[799]
- Willie Llewelyn (1893), Welsh cricketer, gunshot[800]
- Philip Loeb (1955), American actor, sleeping pill overdose[801]
- Kevin James Loibl (2016), assassin of Christina Grimmie, gunshot[802]
- Bernard Loiseau (2003), French chef, shotgun blast to the head[803]
- Terry Long (2005), American football player, poisioning[804]
- 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[805][806][807]
- Daniele Alves Lopes (1993), teen whose jump from a building was broadcast on Brazilian national television[808]
- Ricardo López (1996), Uruguayan-born American stalker who attempted to kill Icelandic singer Björk by sending a letter bomb, gunshot[809]
- Lu Xiufu (1279), Chinese statesman, bureaucrat and general, murder-suicide by drowning Emperor Bing of Song and himself[810]
- Lu Zhaolin (684 or 686), Chinese poet, drowning in the Ying River[811]
- Andreas Lubitz (2015), co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525, plane crash[812]
- Lucan (65 AD), Roman poet, cut veins[813]
- Lucretia (c. 510 BC), Roman noblewoman, stabbed herself[814]
- Ludwig II of Bavaria (1886), King of Bavaria, drowning[815]
- Roman Lyashenko (2003), Russian NHL hockey player, hanging[816][817]
- David Lytton (2015), a formerly unidentified British man found on Saddleworth Moor, strychnine[818]
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- Hector MacDonald (1903), British army major-general, gunshot[819]
- Billy Mackenzie (1997), Scottish vocalist for the band The Associates, overdose of prescription drugs[820][821]
- Naevius Sutorius Macro (38 AD), Roman prefect of the Praetorian Guard[822]
- Pua Magasiva (2019), New Zealand actor known for Power Rangers Ninja Storm and Shortland Street[823]
- Piotr "Magik" Łuszcz (2000), Polish rapper known from Kaliber 44 and Paktofonika, jumping off of his window[824]
- Magnentius (353 AD), Roman usurper[360]
- Maurice Magnus (1920), American memoirist[825]
- Mago (344 BC), Carthaginian admiral and general[826]
- Anne Maguire (1980), Irish woman who had three of her children killed by an out of control car, slit her throat and wrists[827]
- Bhaiyyu Maharaj (2018), Indian spiritual guru, gunshot[828]
- George W. Maher (1926), American architect[829][830][831]
- Joe Maini (1964), American jazz alto saxophonist, Russian Roulette[832]
- Philipp Mainländer (1876), German poet and philosopher, hanging [833]
- Sean Malone (2020), American bassist[834]
- Donald R. Manes (1986), American politician, stab wound to the chest[835]
- Mădălina Manole (2010), Romanian pop singer, pesticide poisoning[836]
- Arman Manookian (1931), Ottoman Empire-born Armenian and American painter[837]
- Michael Mantenuto (2017), American actor and ice hockey player, best known for his performance as Jack O'Callahan in the 2004 biopic Miracle, gunshot[838]
- Richard Manuel (1986), Canadian pianist and lead singer for The Band, hanging[839]
- Titus Clodius Eprius Marcellus (79 AD), Roman consul and senator, slit his throat with a razor[840]
- Simone Mareuil (1954), French actress, self-immolation[841]
- Michael Marin (2012), American businessman, cyanide pill[842]
- Philip Markoff (2010), Medical student, Boston University[843]
- Andrew Martinez (2006), American nudism activist who became known on the University of California, Berkeley campus as the "Naked Guy", suffocation[844]
- Williams Martínez (2021), Uruguayan soccer player[845]
- Eleanor Marx (1898), socialist activist and younger daughter of Karl Marx, poison[846]
- Thalia Massie (1963), American victim of violent crime which resulted in the heavily publicized Massie Trial, barbiturate overdose[847]
- Lisa Lynn Masters (2016), American actress, writer, and model[848]
- Troy Masters (2024), American journalist and editor[849]
- David Edward Maust (2006), American serial killer, hanging[850]
- Maximian (310 AD), Roman emperor[851]
- Vladimir Mayakovsky (1930), Russian and Soviet poet, gunshot[852]
- Faigy Mayer (2015), American app developer, jumped from 20th floor rooftop bar[853]
- Jacques Mayol (2001), French free diver and subject of the movie The Big Blue, hanging[696]
- John McAfee (2021), British-American computer programmer, businessman and founder of the computer security software company McAfee, hanging[854]
- Allyson McConnell (2013), Australian-Canadian woman who killed her two children,[855] jumped off a bridge while in Australia[856]
- Susannah McCorkle (2001), American jazz singer, jumping from apartment[857]
- Kid McCoy (1940), American world champion boxer, overdose of sleeping pills[858]
- Mindy McCready (2013), American country music singer, gunshot[859][860]
- Walt McDougall (1938), American cartoonist, gunshot[861]
- Dan McGann (1910), American baseball player, gunshot[862]
- 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[863]
- Tom McHale (1983), American novelist[864]
- Kenny McKinley (2010), American football player, gunshot[865]
- Chris McKinstry (2006), Canadian artificial intelligence researcher[866]
- Robert McLane (1904), American politician, mayor of Baltimore, gunshot[867]
- John B. McLemore (2015), American horologist and subject of the podcast S-Town, ingested potassium cyanide[868]
- Maggie McNamara (1978), American actress, drug overdose[869][870]
- Ronnie McNutt (2020), American war veteran, single-shot rifle[871]
- Alexander McQueen (2010), British fashion designer and couturier, hanging[872][873]
- Charles B. McVay III (1968), American naval officer, captain of the USS Indianapolis, gunshot to the head[874]
- Joe Meek (1967), English record producer, gunshot[875]
- Megabocchus (53 BC), Roman cavalryman and friend of Publius Licinius Crassus[263]
- Megan Meier (2006), American high school student and victim of bullying, hanging[876]
- Ulrike Meinhof (1976), German RAF terrorist, hanging[877]
- David Meirhofer (1974), American serial killer, hanging[878]
- Joseph Meister (1940), French caretaker who was the first person to be inoculated against rabies, gas furnace[879]
- Kitty Melrose (1912), English stage actress and singer, carbon monoxide poisoning[880]
- Meng Tian (210 BC), Chinese general, administrator and inventor[474]
- Adolf Merckle (2009), German entrepreneur and billionaire, train[881]
- Lucius Cornelius Merula (87 BC), Roman politician, consul and high priest, cut his veins[882]
- Jill Messick (2018), American film producer[883][884][885]
- Charlotte Mew (1928), English poet, Lysol poisoning[886]
- Katie Meyer (2022), American soccer player[887]
- Maningning Miclat (2000), Filipino poet and painter, jumped from the seventh floor of a building[888]
- Flávio Migliaccio (2020), Brazilian actor, film director and screenwriter, hanging[889]
- Walter M. Miller Jr. (1996), American writer, gunshot[890][891]
- Mary Millington (1979), English model and softcore pornographic actress, overdose of clomipramine, paracetamol and alcohol[892]
- Minamoto no Yorimasa (1180), Japanese poet, general and politician, ritual seppuku disembowelment[893]
- Mingsioi (1866), Chinese general, explosion[894]
- Miroslava (1955), Czech-born Mexican actress, overdose of sleeping pills[895]
- Dave Mirra (2016), American BMX rider who later competed in rallycross racing, gunshot[896]
- Yukio Mishima (1970), Japanese author, poet, playwright, film director and activist, ritual seppuku disembowelment[897]
- Tyrone Mitchell (1984), American murderer, gunshot[898]
- Mithridates VI (63 BC), King of Pontus, ordered an officer to stab him[899]
- Haruma Miura (2020), Japanese actor, hanging[900]
- Shizuka Miura (2010), Japanese doll maker and musician, possibly related to medication[901][902]
- Mkwawa (1898), Hehe tribal leader, gunshot to the head[903]
- George de Mohrenschildt (1977), American petroleum geologist, CIA informant, friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and key witness for the Warren Commission, gunshot[904]
- Molon (220 BC), Seleucid satrap of Media[29]
- Antonin Moine (1849), French sculptor, gunshot[905]
- Mario Monicelli (2010), Italian film director, jumped out of a hospital window[906][907][908]
- Marilyn Monroe (1962), American film actress, barbiturate overdose[909]
- Haoui Montaug (1991), American nightclub doorman and cabaret promoter, secobarbital overdose[910][911]
- Henry de Montherlant (1972), French writer, gunshot in the throat[912]
- Donnie Moore (1989), American baseball player, gunshot after shooting his wife[913]
- Ronald Lee Moore (2008), American fugitive and suspected serial killer, hanging[914][915]
- Emanuel Moravec (1945), Czech army officer, writer, politician and collaborator, gunshot to the head[916]
- Masakatsu Morita (1970), Japanese political activist, stabbing per ritual seppuku disembowelment[917][918]
- A. R. Morlan (2016), American author[919]
- Gray Morrow (2001), American comics artist and illustrator, gunshot[920]
- Max Mosley (2021), British FIA president, gunshot after learning of terminal illness[921]
- Jason Moss (2006), American attorney and author of The Last Victim, gunshot[922]
- Ted Moult (1986), British farmer and radio and TV personality, gunshot[923]
- Joaquim Augusto Mouzinho de Albuquerque (1902), Portuguese cavalry office, gunshot to the head
- Miljan Mrdaković (2020), Serbian footballer, gunshot[924]
- Uwe Mundlos (2011), German National Socialist Underground terrorist, gunshot[925]
- Ona Munson (1955), American actress, barbiturate overdose[926]
- David Munrow (1976), English music historian, hanging[927][928]
- Ian Murdock (2015), American software engineer and founder of the Debian distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system, hanging[929]
- Grayson Murray (2024), American professional golfer and winner of two PGA Tour events, carbon monoxide poisoning[930]
- Francine Mussey (1933), French actress, ingestion of poison[931]
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- Ebrahim Nabavi (2025), Iranian satirist, writer and diarist[932]
- Chūichi Nagumo (1944), Japanese admiral, gunshot[933]
- Mirosław Nahacz (2007), Polish novelist and screenwriter, hanging[934]
- Seigō Nakano (1943), Japanese fascist political leader and journalist, disembowelment[935]
- Vladimir Nalivkin (1918), Russian scientist, politician, diplomat[936]
- Azade Namdari (2021), Iranian television host[937]
- Scott Nearing (1983), American political activist and conservationist, by self-starvation[938]
- Milan Nedić (1946), Serbian general, politician and prime minister of the Government of National Salvation, jumping out of a Belgrade prison window[939]
- Nekojiru (1998), Japanese manga artist, hanging[940]
- Nero (68 AD), Roman emperor, ordered his secretary to kill him[941]
- Marcus Cocceius Nerva (33 AD), Roman jurist, official and confidant of Tiberius, starvation[942]
- Klara Dan von Neumann (1963), Hungarian-American computer programmer, drowning[943]
- Terry Newton (2010), English rugby league player, hanging[944][945]
- Tom Nicon (2010), French model, jumped out of apartment window[946]
- Bruno Niedziela (1962), American football player[947]
- 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[948]
- Karl Nobiling (1878), German academic, who made an assassination attempt on the German emperor Wilhelm I, gunshot to the head[949]
- Jon Nödtveidt (2006), Swedish guitarist for the black metal band Dissection, gunshot[950]
- Iván Noel (2021), French-Argentine film director and producer, potassium cyanide[951]
- Bill Nojay (2016), American politician and member of the New York State Assembly, gunshot[952]
- Mita Noor (2013), Bangladeshi actress, hanging[953]
- Franz Nopcsa (1933), Hungarian aristocrat, adventurer, scholar, geologist, paleontologist and albanologist, gunshot after killing companion Bajazid Doda[954]
- Christine Norman, (1930), American stage actress, jump from building[955]
- John Norton-Griffiths, (1930), British engineer and politician, gunshot to head[956][957]
- Hisashi Nozawa (2004), Japanese writer, hanging[958]
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- Lawrence Oates (1912), British army officer, later an Antarctic explorer, he walked from his tent into a blizzard[959]
- John O'Brien (1994), American novelist, best known for his novel, Leaving Las Vegas, gunshot to the head[960]
- Sean O'Haire (2014), American former WWE wrestler and MMA fighter, hanging[961]
- Angela O'Leary (1921), American artist, gas inhalation[962]
- Phil Ochs (1976), American singer-songwriter, hanging[963]
- Oda Nobunaga (1582), Japanese daimyō and general, ritual seppuku disembowelment[964]
- Ogawa Kiyoshi (1945), Japanese kamikaze pilot[965]
- Aleksandr Dmitrievich Ogorodnik (1977), Soviet diplomat and spy for the CIA, cyanide capsule[966]
- Per "Dead" Ohlin (1991), Swedish vocalist for the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, gunshot to the head[967][968][969]
- Yukiko Okada (1986), Japanese singer, jumped from window[970]
- Mălina Olinescu (2011), Romanian singer, jump from window[971]
- Lembit Oll (1999), Estonian chess Grandmaster, jumped out of window[972]
- Ambrose Olsen (2010), American model, hanging[973]
- Sergo Ordzhonikidze (1937), Soviet Bolshevik leader, member of the CPSU Politburo, the head of the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy and close associate of Joseph Stalin, gunshot[974]
- Otho (69 AD), Roman Emperor, stabbed himself[975]
- Othryades (546 BC), Spartan hoplite, sole survivor of the Battle of the 300 Champions[976]
- Ōuchi Yoshitaka (1551), Japanese daimyō and general, ritual seppuku disembowelment[977]
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- Stephen Paddock (2017), American perpetrator of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, gunshot[978]
- Caecina Paetus (42 AD), Roman alleged conspirator against Emperor Claudius, stabbed himself[73]
- Tommy Page (2017), American singer songwriter[979]
- Ali-Reza Pahlavi (2011), son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, last Shah of Iran, gunshot[980]
- Leila Pahlavi (2001), daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, last Shah of Iran, overdose of sleeping pills[981]
- Sol Pais (2019), American student and suspect in FBI manhunt, gunshot[982]
- Jan Palach (1969), Czech student, self-immolation[983]
- Mico Palanca (2019), Filipino actor, jump from building[984]
- Helen Palmer (1967), American author and actress who was the first wife of famed children's author Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, barbiturate overdose[985]
- Ryan Christopher Palmeter (2023), American mass shooter and terrorist, gunshot
- Breece D'J Pancake (1979), American short story writer, gunshot[986]
- Brodie Panlock (2006), Australian bullying victim, jumped from the top of a multilevel carpark in Hawthorn[987]
- Pantites (c. 470s BC), Spartan warrior and one of the 300 Spartans sent to the Battle of Thermopylae, hanging[988]
- Elaine Parent (2002), American con artist, identity thief and murderer, gunshot to the chest[989]
- Park Yong-ha (2010), South Korean actor and singer, hanging[990]
- Park Won-soon (2020), South Korean activist, lawyer and Mayor of Seoul[991][992]
- Violeta Parra (1967), Chilean composer, songwriter, folklorist, ethno-musicologist and visual artist,[993] gunshot[994]
- 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[995]
- Christine Pascal (1996), French actress, writer and director, jumped out of window[996][997]
- Dušan Pašek (1998), Slovak ice hockey player, gunshot[998]
- Darrin Patrick (2020), American author and pastor, gunshot[999]
- Mark Pavelich (2021), American hockey player, asphyxia[1000]
- Cesare Pavese (1950), Italian author, overdose of barbiturates[1001]
- Pina Pellicer (1964), Mexican actress, overdose of sleeping pills[1002]
- Peregrinus Proteus (165 AD), Greek early Christian convert and later Cynic philosopher from Mysia, immolated himself on a funeral pyre during the Olympic Games[1003]
- Oscar Glaze Peters (1894), American businessman[1004]
- Jeret "Speedy" Peterson (2011), American skier, Olympic medalist, gunshot[1005]
- Marcus Petreius (46 BC), Roman politician and general, double-suicide by sword with Juba I of Numidia[667]
- Petronius (66 AD), Roman senator, consul, courtier and novelist, opening his veins[1006]
- Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (1901), German chemist and hygienist[1007]
- Phasael (40 BC), prince from the Herodian dynasty of Judea and governor of Jerusalem, hit his head against a great stone[1008]
- Phila (287 BC), Macedonian noblewoman, daughter and adviser of Antipater, poison[1009]
- Philistus (356 BC), Greek historian and naval commander[1010]
- Justin Pierce (2000), English-born American actor and skateboarder known for his role in the 1995 drama Kids, hanging[1011][1012]
- Rosamond Pinchot (1938), American actress and socialite, carbon monoxide poisoning[1013]
- H. Beam Piper (1964), American science fiction author, gunshot[1014][1015]
- Gaius Calpurnius Piso (65 AD), Roman senator, orator, advocate and leading member of the Pisonian conspiracy, slit his wrists[1016]
- Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso (20 AD), Roman statesman and consul, cut his throat[1017]
- Luigi Pistilli (1996), Italian actor, hanging[1018]
- Alejandra Pizarnik (1972), Argentine poet, secobarbital overdose[1019]
- Sylvia Plath (1963), American poet, novelist, children's author, gas inhalation[1020]
- Dana Plato (1999), American child actress, notable for the TV series Diff'rent Strokes, overdose of carisoprodol and hydrocodone[1021] 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[1022]
- Edward Platt (1974), American actor, notable for his role on the TV series Get Smart[1023]
- E. O. Plauen (1944), German cartoonist, hanging with a towel[1024]
- Michael Player (1986), American serial killer, gunshot[1025]
- Polemon of Laodicea (144 AD), Roman sophist, rhetorician and strategos, locked himself in his family tomb[1026]
- Daniel Pollock (1992), Australian actor, walked in front of moving train[1027]
- Gnaeus Pompeius Longinus (105 AD), Roman senator and general, swallowing poison[1028]
- Porcia (42 BC), Roman noblewoman, wife of Marcus Junius Brutus, swallowing burning coal[1029] or carbon monoxide poisoning[1030]
- C.W. Post (1914), American inventor and pioneer in the manufacturing of prepared foods, in particular breakfast cereal, gunshot[1031][1032]
- Poenius Postumus (61 AD), Roman praefectus castrorum of the Legion II Augusta, fell upon his sword[1033]
- Randy Potter (2017), American former missing person, gunshot[1034]
- Jan Potocki (1815), Polish nobleman, gunshot[1035]
- James Edward Pough (1990), American spree killer, gunshot[1036]
- Hayden Poulter (2018), New Zealand serial killer[1037]
- Josh Powell (2012), American main suspect in the disappearance of his wife, Susan, blew up his house with him and his children inside[1038]
- Slobodan Praljak (2017), Bosnian Croat director, general and war criminal, potassium cyanide[1039]
- Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol (1870), French journalist, writer and Ambassador to the United States, gunshot[1040]
- George R. Price (1975), American scientist, cutting an artery[1041]
- Wolfgang Přiklopil (2006), Austrian kidnapper, jumping in front of moving train[1042]
- Phoebe Prince (2010), American high school student who was bullied at school and online, hanging[1043]
- Ptolemy (309 BC), Macedonian general, hemlock poisoning[1044]
- Ptolemy of Cyprus (58 BC), King of Cyprus and member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, poison[1045]
- Boris Pugo (1991), Soviet politician, gunshot[1046]
- Kushal Punjabi (2019), Indian actor, hanging[1047]
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- Qiao Renliang (2016), Chinese singer and actor, slit wrist[1048]
- Qu Yuan (278 BC), Chinese poet and minister, drowning[1049][1050]
- Henry Quastler (1963), Austrian physician and radiologist, overdosed on pills[1051]
- Benny Quick (1999), German pop and Schlager singer of the 1960s and 1970s, hanging[1052]
- Edmond Thomas Quinn (1929), American sculptor and painter, drowning[1053]
- Quintillus (270 AD), Roman emperor, opening his veins[1054]
- Horacio Quiroga (1937), Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer, drank a glass of cyanide[1055]
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- Margarita Gil Roësset (1932), Spanish sculptor, illustrator, and poet
- Władysław Raginis (1939), Polish military commander, grenade[1056]
- Otto Rahn (1939), German medievalist, Ariosophist and Obersturmführer of the Schutzstaffel, freezing[1057]
- Mikayla Raines (2025), American animal rescuer and YouTuber, hanging[1058][1059]
- Jason Raize (2004), American actor, singer and former Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme, hanging[1060]
- Sushant Singh Rajput (2020), Indian actor, hanging[1061]
- František Rajtoral (2017), Czech soccer player, hanging[1062]
- Anil Ramdas (2012), Dutch writer and journalist, method undisclosed[1063]
- Carlos Rangel (1988), Venezuelan writer and journalist, gunshot[1064]
- Kodela Siva Prasada Rao (2019), Indian politician, hanging[1065]
- Nicola Ann Raphael (2001), Scottish bullied student, overdose of dextropropoxyphene[1066]
- Danny Rapp (1983), American singer and the frontman for the group Danny & the Juniors, gunshot[1067]
- David Rappaport (1990), English actor, known for the film Time Bandits, gunshot[1068]
- Jan-Carl Raspe (1977), German RAF terrorist, gunshot[92][1069][1070][1071]
- Terry Ratzmann (2005), American mass murderer, gunshot[1072]
- Geli Raubal (1931), niece of Adolf Hitler, gunshot[1073]
- Margaret Mary Ray (1998), American stalker, hit by a train[1074]
- Roy Raymond (1993), American founder of Victoria's Secret, jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge[1075][1076]
- Albert Razin (2019), Russian Udmurt language rights activist and sociologist, self-immolation[1077]
- Reckful (2020), Israeli-American Twitch streamer and Esports player[1078]
- Liam Rector (2007), American poet and educator, gunshot[1079][1080]
- Wilhelm Rediess (1945), Nazi SS and Police Leader in Norway, gunshot[1081]
- Dean Reed (1986), American-born actor, singer-songwriter, director, and social activist who defected to communist East Germany, self drowning.[1082]
- Ernst Reicher (1936), German actor, screenwriter, film producer and film director, hanging[1083]
- 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[1084]
- Albert Relf (1937), English cricketer, gunshot[1085]
- Ren Hang (2017), Chinese photographer and poet[1086]
- The Renegade (1999), American professional wrestler, gunshot[519]
- Mehmed Reshid (1919), Ottoman politician, gunshot[1087]
- Angelo Reyes (2011), Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, gunshot[1088]
- Mark Reynolds (2003), musician, lead singer of Red Flag[1089]
- 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[1090]
- John Rheinecker (2017), American Major League Baseball pitcher, hanging[1091]
- Rikyū (1591), Japanese tea master and confidant of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, ritual seppuku disembowelment[1092]
- Artūras Rimkevičius (2019), Lithuanian footballer, gunshot[1093]
- Al Rio (2012), Brazilian comics artist, and animation director, hanging[1094]
- Adele Ritchie, (1930), American actress, gunshot to the throat[1095]
- Adelaide Frost Rickenbacker, (1977) wife of Eddie Rickenbacker, gunshot[1096]
- Peter Robbins (2022), American voice actor, voice of Charlie Brown[1097]
- Dale Roberts (2010), English footballer, hanging[1098]
- Rachel Roberts (1980), Welsh actress, barbiturate and alcohol overdose and consumption of lye or alkali[1099]
- Charles Rocket (2005), American actor, cut throat[1100]
- Jamey Rodemeyer (2011), American bullied blogger and high school student, hanging[1101]
- Elliot Rodger (2014), American spree killer who perpetrated the 2014 Isla Vista killings, gunshot to the head[1102]
- Ricky Rodriguez (2005), son of cult leader David Berg, gunshot following his murder of Angela M. Smith[1103]
- Robert Neal Rodriguez (1992), American serial killer, cyanide poisoning[1104]
- Roh Moo-hyun (2009), ninth President of the Republic of Korea, jump from a cliff[1105]
- Erwin Rommel (1944), German general and military theorist, cyanide poisoning[1106][1107][1108]
- Jodon F. Romero (2012), American criminal whose suicide was broadcast on national television following a car chase in Arizona, gunshot[1109]
- Edgar Rosenberg (1987), American film and television producer and husband of Joan Rivers, diazepam overdose[1110]
- Frank Rosolino (1978), American jazz trombonist, shot himself after killing one son and blinding the other[1111]
- Mark Rothko (1970), American abstract expressionist painter, slit his arms[1112]
- Conrad Roy (2014), American marine salvage captain, carbon monoxide poisoning,[1113] after his girlfriend urged him to commit suicide,[1114] for which she was convicted of involuntary manslaughter[1115][1116]
- Himanshu Roy (2018), Indian police officer, gunshot[1117]
- Ruan Lingyu (1935), Chinese actress, barbiturate overdose[1118]
- Ernst Rückert (1945), German actor, hanging[1119]
- Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (1889), son of Emperor Franz Joseph I, gunshot during the Mayerling incident[1120]
- Lori Erica Ruff (2010), American formerly unidentified identity thief, gunshot[1121]
- Edmund Ruffin (1865), American author, agriculturalist, agronomist and secessionist, gunshot to the head[1122]
- Quintus Corellius Rufus (before 113 AD), Roman senator, consul, confidant and teacher of Pliny the Younger, refusing food and treatment for his illnesses[1123]
- Michael Ruppert (2014), American political activist, gunshot[1124]
- Thomas Jefferson Rusk (1857), American politician and military leader, gunshot[1125]
- Richard Russell (2018), American airport ground operator and airplane thief, intentionally crashing the stolen airplane[1126]
- Stevie Ryan (2017), American actress and comedian, hanging[1127]
- Rick Rypien (2011), Canadian professional ice hockey player[1128]
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- Mário de Sá-Carneiro (1916), Portuguese poet and short story writer, strychnine poisoning[1129]
- Jun Sadogawa (2013), Japanese manga artist, hanging[1130]
- Saigō Takamori (1877), Japanese samurai, nobleman and general, seppuku[1131]
- El Hedi ben Salem (1977), Moroccan actor, hanging[1132][1133][1134][1135][1136][1137]
- Mark Salling (2018), American actor, hanging[1138]
- Johanna Sällström (2007), Swedish actress[1139]
- Albert Salmi (1990), American character actor, fatally shot his wife, and himself in a murder-suicide[1140]
- Ramón Sampedro (1998), Spanish quadriplegic seaman, assisted suicide with potassium cyanide
- Alexander Samsonov (1914), Russian cavalry officer and general, gunshot[1141][1142]
- George Sanders (1972), Russian-born English actor, singer, composer and author, overdose[1143]
- Kianush Sanjari (2024), Iranian journalist and activist, jump from a building[1144]
- Sanmao (1991), Taiwanese writer and translator, hanged with silk stockings[1145]
- Mónica Santa María (1994), Peruvian model and TV presenter, gunshot[1146]
- Nick Santino (2012), American soap opera actor, overdosed on pills[1147]
- Alberto Santos-Dumont (1932), Brazilian aviation pioneer, hanging[1148]
- Vytautas Šapranauskas (2013), Lithuanian actor, hanging[1149]
- Carl Sargeant (2017), Welsh politician and former member of the Welsh Government, hanging[1150]
- Sam Sarpong (2015), British-born American model and actor, jump from a bridge[1151]
- Yoshiki Sasai (2014), Japanese biologist, hanging[1152][1153][1154][1155]
- Satanta (1878), Kiowa war chief, jump out a window[1156]
- Drake Sather (2004), American screenwriter, gunshot[1157]
- V. P. Sathyan (2006), Indian footballer, jumped in front of a train[1158]
- Jiro Sato (1934), Japanese tennis player, drowning[1159]
- King Saul (1012 BC), Jewish king, pierced himself with his sword,[1160] to avoid being captured or killed by the Philistines, which some Rabbis claim does not count as suicide.[1161][1162]
- Savannah (1994), American adult film actress, gunshot to the head[775]
- Marcus Ostorius Scapula (65 AD), Roman senator, consul and military tribune, severed his veins and stabbed himself with help from a slave[1163]
- Mamercus Aemilius Scaurus (34 AD), Roman rhetorician, poet, senator and consul[1164]
- Thomas Schäfer (2020), German politician, jumped in front of a train[1165]
- Aleko Schinas (1913), Greek assassin of King George I of Greece, jumped out of a Thessaloniki police station window[1166]
- Sybille Schmitz (1955), German actress, overdose of sleeping pills[1167]
- Andreas Schnieders (2022), German boxer[1168]
- Robert Schommer (2001), American astronomer[1169]
- Dave Schulthise (2004), American bass guitarist for The Dead Milkmen,[1170] overdose of pills[1171]
- Conrad Schumann (1998), German Democratic Republic soldier who famously defected to West Germany during the construction of the Berlin Wall, hanging[1172]
- Tom Schweich (2015), American politician, gunshot[1173]
- Metellus Scipio (46 BC), Roman consul and military commander, stabbed himself[1174]
- L'Wren Scott (2014), American fashion designer, hanging[1175]
- Tony Scott (2012), English film director of films such as Top Gun, jumped off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles[1176]
- Angela Scoular (2011), English actress, ingestion of drain cleaner[1177]
- Scott Scurlock (1996), American bank robber, gunshot to the head[1178]
- Junior Seau (2012), American football All-Pro player, gunshot to the chest[1179][1180]
- Jean Seberg (1979), American actress, barbiturate overdose[1181][1182]
- Sonia Sekula (1963), Swiss painter, hanging[1183]
- Seneca the Younger (65 AD), Roman philosopher, cut his veins[1184][1185]
- Arma Senkrah (1900), American violinist, gunshot[1186]
- Rezső Seress (1968), Hungarian pianist and composer, choked himself with a wire[1187]
- Servilia (30 BC), Roman noblewoman and wife of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus Minor, swallowing burning coal[1188]
- Marcus Sedatius Severianus (161 or 162), Roman senator, consul and general, starved himself[1189]
- Mamercus Aemilius Scaurus (34 AD), Roman senator, followed by his wife Sextia[1164]
- Anne Sexton (1974), American poet, carbon monoxide poisoning[1190]
- Frances Ford Seymour (1950), Canadian-American socialite, cut her throat[1191][1192]
- Oksana Shachko (2018), Ukrainian artist and activist, cofounder of FEMEN,[1193] hanging[1194]
- Shah Begum (1604), first wife of Emperor Jahangir, opium overdose[1195][1196]
- Shahrzad (1937), Iranian dramatist and playwright[1197]
- Shamash-shum-ukin (648 BC), King of Babylon, self-immolation[1198]
- Del Shannon (1990), American musician, gunshot[1199]
- Samir Sharma (2020), Indian actor, hanging[1200]
- H. James Shea Jr. (1970), American politician, gunshot[1201]
- Alice Bradley Sheldon (James Tiptree Jr.) (1987), American writer, gunshot[1202]
- Harold Shipman (2004), English family doctor and serial killer, hanging[1203]
- Shoba (1980), Indian actress, hanging[1204][1205][1206]
- V. G. Siddhartha (2019), Indian businessman, drowning[1207]
- Manuel Fernández Silvestre (1921), Spanish general, gunshot[1208]
- Tiffany Simelane (2009), Swazi beauty queen, ingestion of weevil tablet[1209][1210]
- Chris Simon (2024), Retired professional hockey player[1211]
- Narender Singh (2016), Indian judoka, hanging[1212]
- PC Siqueira (2023), Brazilian Internet and television personality, hanging[1213]
- Per Sivle (1904), Norwegian poet and novelist, gunshot[1214]
- Mykola Skrypnyk (1933), Ukrainian Bolshevik leader, gunshot[1215]
- Austra Skujiņa (1932), Latvian poet, jump from a bridge[1216]
- Irina Slavina (2020), Russian journalist, self-immolation[1217]
- Walery Sławek (1939), Polish Prime Minister, gunshot []
- Walter Slezak (1983), Austrian actor, gunshot[1218]
- Everett Sloane (1965), American actor, drug overdose[1219]
- Austin J. Small (1929), British popular writer "Seamark", gas inhalation[1220]
- Smiley Culture (2011), English reggae singer and DJ, stabbing[1221]
- James Vinton Smith (1952), Australian politician, gunshot[1222]
- Jess Smith (1923), American political advisor, entrepreneur and member of the Ohio Gang, gunshot to the head[1223]
- Someshvara I (1068), King of Western Chalukya, drowning in the Tungabhadra river[1224]
- António Soares dos Reis (1889), Portuguese sculptor, gunshot to the head
- David Sonboly (2016), Iranian-German perpetrator of the 2016 Munich shooting, gunshot[1225]
- Song Jae-rim (2024), South Korean actor and model[1226]
- Sophonisba (after 203 BC), Carthaginian noblewoman, swallowing poison[1227]
- Barea Soranus (66 AD), Roman consul, senator and governor of Asia[1228]
- Peu Sousa (2013), Brazilian guitarist for Nove Mil Anjos and Pitty, hanging[1229]
- José Tomás de Sousa Martins (1897), Portuguese physician, morphine overdose
- Kate Spade (2018), American fashion designer, hanging[1230]
- Gary Speed (2011), Welsh footballer and manager, hanging[1231]
- Mark Speight (2008), English television presenter, hanging[1232]
- Sporus (69 AD), Roman boy whom the emperor Nero had castrated and married, stabbed his throat with a dagger[1233]
- Andrew Joseph Stack III (2010), American embedded software consultant, plane crash[1234]
- Nicolas de Staël (1955), French painter, leapt from his eleventh story studio terrace[1235]
- Frank Stanford (1978), American poet, gunshot[1236]
- Randy Stair (2017), American mass murderer, perpetrator of the Eaton Township Weis Markets shooting, gunshot[1237]
- Scott Stearney (2018), United States Navy admiral, gunshot[1238]
- Costică Ștefănescu (2013), Romanian footballer and manager, jump from the fifth floor of the Military Hospital in Bucharest[1239]
- Jean Stein (2017), American author, jump from a New York City high rise[1240][1241]
- Wilhelm Stekel (1940), Austrian physician and psychologist, Aspirin overdose
- Steve Stephens (2017), American vocational specialist and murder suspect, gunshot after police pursuit[1242]
- Jon Paul Steuer (2018), American actor and musician, known as the first actor to play the Star Trek character Alexander Rozhenko, gunshot[1243][1244][1245]
- Brody Stevens (2019), American stand-up comedian and actor, hanging[1246]
- Inger Stevens (1970), Swedish-American actress, barbiturate overdose[1247]
- John Stevens (1923), English cricketer, jumped in front of moving train[1248]
- Lyle Stevik (2001), formerly[1249] unidentified man using the alias name taken from a book by Joyce Carol Oates, hanging[1250]
- Gary Stewart (2003), American country music singer, gunshot to the neck[1251]
- Jay Stewart (1989), American television and radio announcer, gunshot[1252]
- Adalbert Stifter (1868), Austrian writer, cut neck with a razor[1253]
- Pringle Stokes (1828), British naval officer and captain of HMS Beagle during her first voyage, gunshot[1254]
- Alfonsina Storni (1938), Argentine poet, drowning[1255]
- David Stove (1994), Australian philosopher, hanging[1256]
- Otto Strandman (1941), Estonian politician, gunshot[1257]
- Mel Street (1978), American country singer, gunshot[1258][1259]
- David Strickland (1999), American actor, best known as Todd Stites in Suddenly Susan, hanging[1260]
- Ludwig Stumpfegger (1945), German doctor and Adolf Hitler's personal surgeon, cyanide poisoning[176]
- Sue Harukata (1555), daimyo of Ouchi clan, disembowelment[1261]
- Sungdare Sherpa (1989), Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer[1262]
- Sulli (2019), South Korean actress, singer, and model, hanging[1263][1264]
- Roy Sullivan (1983), American park ranger known for being struck by lightning seven times, gunshot[1265]
- David Edward Sutch (1999), English musician also known as Screaming Lord Sutch, hanging[1266]
- Adam Svoboda (2019), Czech ice hockey goaltender and coach,[1267] hanging[1268]
- Aaron Swartz (2013), American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and activist, hanging[1269]
- Larry Sweeney (2011), American professional wrestler, hanging[1270]
- Sawyer Sweeten (2015), American former child actor (Everybody Loves Raymond), gunshot[1271]
- Péter Szondi (1971), Hungarian-German philologist and literary scholar, drowning[1272]
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- Sinedu Tadesse (1995), Ethiopian murderer, hanging[1273]
- Jahangir Tafazzoli (1990), Iranian journalist and politician[1274]
- Taira no Tokiko (1185), Japanese Buddhist nun, wife of the chief of the Taira, grandmother of Emperor Antoku, drowning[1275]
- Taira no Tomomori (1185), Japanese general, admiral and heir apparent of the Taira, drowning[1276]
- Yūko Takeuchi (2020), Japanese actress, hanging[1277][1278]
- Yutaka Taniyama (1958), Japanese mathematician[1279]
- Jacque Alexander Tardy (1827), Scottish-French pirate, slit his own throat[1280]
- Octave Tassaert (1874), French painter, charcoal-burning[1281]
- Jean Tatlock (1944), American physician, psychiatrist, communist activist, mistress of Robert Oppenheimer, drowning in a bathtub[1282]
- Victor Tausk (1919), Austrian psychoanalyst and neurologist, gunshot and hanging[1283]
- Wayne Kent Taylor (2021), American entrepreneur and founder of Texas Roadhouse[1284]
- Pál Teleki (1941), Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary, gunshot[1285]
- Lou Tellegen (1934), Dutch actor, director and screenwriter, stabbed himself in the chest with a pair of scissors[1286]
- Seth Teller (2014), American computer scientist, blunt trauma to head and torso[1287][1288]
- Stella Tennant (2020), British model[1289]
- Josef Terboven (1945), Nazi Reichskommissar for Norway, detonating 50 kg of dynamite[1290]
- Tewodros II (1868), Emperor of Ethiopia, gunshot[1291]
- Tezozomoctli (1430), Emperor of Cuauhtitlan, poison[1292]
- Mike Thalassitis (2019), English-Cypriot footballer and television personality, hanging[1293]
- Jack Thayer (1945), Titanic survivor, cut his wrists[1294]
- Samuel J. F. Thayer (1893), American architect, gunshot[1295]
- Thích Quảng Đức (1963), Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk, self-immolation[1296]
- Hugo Thimig (1944), Austrian actor, overdose of barbital[1297]
- Nicky Thomas (1990), Jamaican reggae singer[1298]
- Hunter S. Thompson (2005), American gonzo journalist, author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, gunshot[1299]
- Terry Thompson (2011), American zookeeper and owner of Muskingum County Animal Farm, gunshot[1300]
- William Thornton (1840), British lieutenant-general[1301]
- Ofonius Tigellinus (69 AD), Roman prefect of the Praetorian Guard, cut his throat with a razor[1302]
- Jānis Timma (2024), Latvian basketball player, asphyxiation[1303]
- Carlos Tobalina (1989), Peruvian-born pornographic filmmaker and actor, gunshot[1304]
- Li Tobler (1975), Swiss actress, model and life partner of artist H. R. Giger, gunshot[1305]
- Amanda Todd (2012), Canadian high school student who was bullied at school and online, hanging[1306]
- Ernst Toller (1939), German playwright, socialist revolutionary and politician, hanging[1307]
- Tolui (1232), Mongol prince, general and regent, sacrificed himself in a shamanistic ritual[1308]
- Ivo-Valentino Tomaš (2019), Croatian football player[1309]
- Radka Toneff (1982), Norwegian jazz singer, overdose of sleeping pills[1310]
- John Kennedy Toole (1969), American novelist known for A Confederacy of Dunces, carbon monoxide poisoning[1311]
- Dudu Topaz (2009), Israeli TV personality and entertainer, hanging while incarcerated in jail[1312]
- Maury Travis (2002), American serial killer, hanging[1313]
- Silvanus Trevail (1903), English architect, gunshot[1314]
- Dick Trickle (2013), American NASCAR driver, gunshot[1315][1316]
- José Francisco Trindade Coelho (1908), Portuguese writer, gunshot to the heart
- Sunil Tripathi (2013), American student and former suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing[1317]
- Verne Troyer (2018), American actor known for his role as Mini-Me in the Austin Powers films, alcohol intoxication[1318]
- Tron (1998), German hacker, hanging[1319]
- Butch Trucks (2017), American drummer for the Allman Brothers Band, gunshot[1320]
- Yordan Tsitsonkov (1926), Macedonian Bulgarian assassin, hanged himself[1321]
- Kōkichi Tsuburaya (1968), Japanese marathoner, cut his wrists[1322]
- Marina Tsvetaeva (1941), Russian poet, hanging[1323]
- Kurt Tucholsky (1935), German journalist, satirist and writer, overdose of sleeping pills[1324]
- Houston Tumlin (2021), American child actor and soldier, gunshot[1325]
- Alan Turing (1954), English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist, eating an apple laced with cyanide[1326]
- Helen Twelvetrees (1958), American actress, overdose of sedatives[1327]
- Jim Tyrer (1980), American football player, gunshot[1328]
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- Ernst Udet (1941), German pilot and air force general, gunshot to the head[1329]
- Miyu Uehara (2011), Japanese model, hanging[1330][1331]
- Ugaki Matome (1945), Japanese admiral, diarist and the last kamikaze pilot, unsuccessfully attempted a kamikaze attack after Japan had already surrendered, likely crashing into the sea[1332]
- Jack Unterweger (1994), Austrian serial killer, hanging[1333]
- Andrew Urdiales (2018), American serial killer, hanging[1334]
- Mitsuru Ushijima (1945), Japanese general, began to commit ritual seppuku disembowelment just before one of his adjutants decapitated him with a saber[1335][1336]
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- Dimitris Vakrinos (1997), Greek serial killer and robber, hanging[1337]
- Edwin Valero (2010), Venezuelan boxer, hanging[1338]
- Kelly Jean Van Dyke (1991), American adult film actress, hanging[1339]
- George Washington Vanderbilt III (1961), American explorer and member of the Vanderbilt family, jumped from the 10th floor of the Mark Hopkins Hotel[1340]
- Johannes Vares (1946), Estonian poet, doctor and politician, gunshot[1341]
- Getúlio Vargas (1954), two-time President of Brazil, gunshot[1342]
- Publius Quinctilius Varus (9 AD), Roman general, fell upon his sword[1343]
- Minnie Vautrin (1940), American missionary in China, stove gas inhalation[1344][1345]
- Lupe Vélez (1944), Mexican actress, overdose of secobarbital[1346]
- Dominique Venner (2013), French author, gunshot to the head in the Notre Dame de Paris[1347]
- Marcus Julius Vestinus Atticus (65 AD), Roman senator and consul, opening his veins[1348]
- Titus Vettius (104 BC), Roman equestrian and leader of a slave revolt[1349]
- Lucius Antistius Vetus (65 AD), Roman senator, consul and governor of Germania Superior[1350]
- Juhan Viiding (1995), Estonian poet and actor, cut his veins[1351][1352]
- Hervé Villechaize (1993), French actor known for his work on the television series Fantasy Island, gunshot[1353]
- Pierre-Charles Villeneuve (1806), French admiral, stabbing[1354][1355][1356]
- Norah Vincent (2022), American journalist and novelist, assisted suicide[1357]
- Lucius Annius Vinicianus (42 AD), Roman senator, plotter of the assassination of Caligula, rebel against Claudius[1358]
- Frank Vitkovic (1987), Australian spree killer who perpetrated the Queen Street massacre in Melbourne, jumped from a window[1359]
- Ned Vizzini (2013), American author of young adult fiction such as the novel It's Kind of a Funny Story, leapt from a building[1360]
- Zinaida Volkova (1933), daughter of Leon Trotsky, gas asphyxiation[1361][1362]
- Chris Von Erich (1991), professional wrestler, gunshot to the head[1363]
- Kerry Von Erich (1993), professional wrestler, gunshot to the chest[1363]
- Mike Von Erich (1987), professional wrestler, overdose of Placidyl and alcohol[1363]
- Bulelani Vukwana (2002), South African spree killer, gunshot[1364]
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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[1365]
- Gustav Wagner (1980), Austrian SS-Oberscharführer and deputy commander of Sobibor extermination camp, knife wound[1366]
- Chuck Wagon (1981), American musician and member of The Dickies[1367]
- David Wallace (1904), father of United States First Lady Bess Truman, gunshot to the head[1368]
- Marie Walcamp (1936), American actress, gas inhalation[1369]
- David Foster Wallace (2008), American author, hanging[1370]
- Stephen Ward (1963), English osteopathic physician and one of the central figures in the 1963 Profumo affair, overdose of sleeping pills[1371]
- 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[1372][1373]
- Ed Warren (1963), American actor, politician and former mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, carbon monoxide poisoning[1374]
- Nick Wasicsko (1993), former Mayor of Yonkers, New York (1987–89), gunshot to the head[1375]
- Andre Waters (2006), former NFL safety, gunshot to the head[1376]
- Gary Webb (2004), American investigative reporter, gunshot to the head[1377]
- Jaromir Weinberger (1967), Czech/American composer, lethal overdose of sedative[1378][1379]
- Otto Weininger (1903), Austrian philosopher, gunshot[1380]
- Jeff Weise (2005), American high school student who perpetrated the Red Lake shootings, gunshot[1381]
- Dorrit Weixler (1916), German film actress, hanging[1382]
- Bob Welch (2012), American rock singer-songwriter and former member of Fleetwood Mac, gunshot to the chest[1383]
- Horace Wells (1848), American dentist and pioneer of anaesthesiology, slitting his left femoral artery with a razor[1384]
- Vince Welnick (2006), American singer-songwriter and keyboardist for The Tubes, slit throat[1385]
- Dawn-Marie Wesley (2000), Canadian bullied high school student, hanging[1386]
- Fred West (1995), English serial killer, hanging[1387]
- Assia Wevill (1969), German-born lover of English poet Ted Hughes, murder–suicide of her daughter with Hughes, gas[1388]
- James Whale (1957), English director, drowning[1389]
- Dan White (1985), San Francisco politician who assassinated Mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, carbon monoxide poisoning[1390]
- Kurt-Werner Wichmann (1993), German suspected serial killer and main suspect in the Göhrde murders, hanging[1391]
- Robin Williams (2014), American comedian and actor, hanging[1392][1393][1394]
- Ronnie Williams (1997), Welsh entertainer[1395]
- Rozz Williams (1998), American musician, lead vocalist for Christian Death, hanging[1396]
- Wendy O. Williams (1998), American singer-songwriter for the Plasmatics, gunshot[1397]
- Tom Wills (1880), Australian cricketer and pioneer of Australian rules football, stabbed himself in the heart with a pair of scissors[1398]
- Jarrid Wilson (2019), American pastor and author[1399]
- Christopher Wilmarth (1987), American sculptor, hanging[1400]
- Sheree Winton (1976), English actress, barbiturate overdose[1401]
- Jack Wishna (2012), president and CEO of CPAmerica, carbon monoxide poisoning[1402]
- Frank Wolff (1971), American actor, slashed his throat[1403]
- Jiverly Antares Wong (2009), naturalized American citizen from Vietnam who perpetrated the Binghamton shooting, gunshot[1404]
- Tobi Wong (2010), Canadian born designer, and conceptual artist, overdosed on pills[1405]
- Bum-kon Woo (1982), South Korean policeman and spree killer[1406]
- Seung-yeon Woo (2009), South Korean actress and model, hanging[1407]
- Wally Wood (1981), American comic book writer and artist, gunshot[1408]
- Francesca Woodman (1981), American photographer, jumped from a window[1409]
- Virginia Woolf (1941), English author, essayist, and publisher, drowning[1410]
- Stephen Wooldridge (2017), Australian cyclist[1411]
- Tera Wray (2016), American pornographic actress[1412]
- Marcin Wrona (2015), Polish film director, hanging[1413]
- Wu Zixu (484 BC), Chinese general and politician of the Wu, stabbed himself with a sword[1414]
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- Xiang Yu (202 BC), Chinese rebel leader and king of Western Chu, slit his own throat[1415]
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- Yakushiji Motoichi (1504), Japanese samurai and deputy governor, ritual seppuku disembowelment[1416]
- Yamaguchi Otoya (1960), Japanese nationalist who assassinated Asanuma Inejirō, hanging[1417]
- Yang Yang (2019), Chinese tenor, jump from the 26th floor of his apartment building[1418][1419]
- Yasmine (2009), Belgian singer, hanging[1420]
- Seizō Yasunori (1945), Japanese kamikaze pilot, flew his plane into the USS Bunker Hill[1421]
- Kelly Yeomans (1997), English bullied high school student, dextropropoxyphene overdose[1422]
- Sergei Yesenin (1925), Russian and Soviet poet, hanging[1423]
- Francis Parker Yockey (1960), American neo-Fascist political philosopher and polemicist also known under his pen name Ulick Varange, cyanide poisoning[1424]
- Yoñlu (2006), Brazilian singer-songwriter, carbon monoxide poisoning[1425]
- Yoon Ki-won (2011), South Korean football goalkeeper, charcoal-burning suicide[1426]
- Atsumi Yoshikubo (2014), Japanese psychiatrist, intentionally getting lost in the Canadian Taiga[1427][1428]
- Gūwalgiya Youlan (1921), Manchu noblewoman, primary consort of Zaifeng, Prince Chun and mother of China's last emperor Puyi, opium overdose[1429]
- Cy Young (1964), Chinese-American animator, barbiturate overdose[1430]
- Faron Young (1996), American country music singer, gunshot[1431]
- Gig Young (1978), American actor, gunshot after fatally shooting his wife[1432]
- Lee Thompson Young (2013), American actor, gunshot[1433]
- Fakhra Younus (2012), Pakistani dancer, jumped from building[1434]
- Barbara Yung, a Hong Kong actress and Miss Hong Kong Pageant contestant. She had issues after breaking up with her boyfriend Kent Tong. She killed herself by inhaling carbon monoxide in her apartment.
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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[1435]
- Bogdan Žerajić (1910), Herzegovinian Serb student and nationalist revolutionary, who made an assassination attempt on the Governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina Marijan Varešanin, gunshot[1436]
- Zhang Han (205 BC), Chinese general[1437]
- Zhang Shicheng (1367), Chinese warlord, leading figure during the Red Turban Rebellion and self-proclaimed king of Great Zhou, hanging[1438]
- Zhang Shijie (1279), Chinese admiral, general, bureaucrat and politician, drowning[810]
- Zhou of Shang (1046 BC), Chinese king of the Shang dynasty, set fire to himself and his palace[1439]
- Hai Zi (1989), Chinese poet,[1440][1441] lying down on railroad tracks[1442]
- Alexander Ziegler (1987), Swiss author and actor, overdose of tranquilizers[1443]
- Marion Zioncheck (1936), American congressman from Washington's 1st district, jumped from his office window[1444]
- Joost Zwagerman (2015), Dutch writer, poet, and essayist[1445][1446][1447]
- Stefan Zweig (1942), Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer, barbiturate overdose[1448][1449]
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- Clodius Albinus (197), Roman emperor, killed himself after a defeat in battle (possibly executed by Septimius Severus)[1450]
- 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".[1451]: 62 The Times published an account stating he had died of a tumor,[1451]: 62 while the Complete Peerage gives the generally accepted account that he "shot himself".[1452][1453]
- Gameel Al-Batouti (1999), Egyptian 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[1454]
- Suchir Balaji (2024), American artificial intelligence researcher who died several weeks after making accusations against his ex-employer, OpenAI. Both the San Francisco police and the Chief Medical Examiner concluded that his death was a suicide. Balaji's family insist that he was killed.[1455]
- 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[1456][1457]
- 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.[1458] Later, hockey analyst and former player P.J. Stock alleged that Belak's death was not a suicide, but accidental.[1459] Although Stock later stepped back from his comments, members of Belak's family also believe his death was accidental.[1460]
- 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[1461][1462]
- Maurice Chevalier (1972), French singer, died on account of kidney injury, a sequel of attempted suicide with barbiturates overdose.
- Terry A. Davis (2018), American programmer and creator of TempleOS, struck by a train[1463]
- Jeffrey Epstein (2019), American financier and convicted sex offender, hanging.[1464] Whether Epstein's death was suicide or homicide is a point of controversy.[1465]
- Lolo Ferrari (2000), French pornographic actress, dancer, singer, and 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.[1466]
- John Fitch (1798), American inventor, opium overdose[1467]
- James Forrestal (1949), First U.S. Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Navy, fell from 16th floor of building (disputed suicide)[1468]
- Rick Genest (2018), performance artist, actor and model, fall from a balcony[1469][1470]
- 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.[1471]
- Nigel Green (1972), English actor, overdose of sleeping pills[1472]
- Hannibal (183–181 BC),[1473] Carthaginian military commander and tactician, possibly poison[1474][1475]
- Ho Ka-i (1953), Soviet and North Korean politician and operative, officially died of suicide by gunshot but an assassination also seems likely.[1476]
- Sung-jae Kim (1995), South Korean singer and former member of Deux, stabbed in the arm 28 times with a syringe containing animal anesthetic. It is unknown if it was a murder or suicide.[1477]
- 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.[1478]
- Jules Lequier (1862), French philosopher, likely swam voluntarily out into the ocean[1479]
- Primo Levi (1987), Italian chemist, writer and Holocaust survivor, jumped from his third-story apartment[1480]
- Gilbert N. Lewis (1946), American chemist, cyanide poisoning. It is disputed whether he had a heart attack or died by suicide.[1481]
- Meriwether Lewis (1809), US explorer and partner of William Clark, gunshot. There is some debate as to whether his death was a suicide.[1482]
- 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[1483]
- Kizito Mihigo (2020), Rwandan gospel singer, genocide survivor and peace activist, hanging. Human rights organisations and Rwandan activists challenged this.[1484]
- 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[1485]
- 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.[1486]
- Orgetorix (60 BC), Gallic member of the ruling class of the Helvetii and conspirator. It is uncertain if he died by suicide or was executed.[1487]
- Liam Payne (2024), member of the boyband One Direction. Died by falling of the 3rd floor balcony of a hotel. He might have been under the influence of alcohol or drugs. It is unsure whether he fell or jumped. Autopsy revealed he did not protect himself while falling.[1488]
- Giuseppe Pinelli (1969), Italian anarchist, fall from police station window, police claim of suicide widely disputed[1489]
- 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[1490]
- 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,[1491][1492] but his mother and other loved ones successfully convinced a court to change the official cause of death to accidental.[1493]
- Bernardo Sassetti (2012), Portuguese jazz pianist and film composer, fell or jumped off a cliff to the sea (a nearby fisherman said he saw him jump).[1494]
- 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.[1495][1496]
- Socrates (399 BC), Classical Greek Athenian philosopher, credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, poison (likely hemlock)[1497][1498][1499][1500] 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.[1501]
- John Hanning Speke (1864), British explorer, gunshot.[1502] 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.[1503] However, the idea of suicide has appealed to some critics of Speke.[1504]
- 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[1505]
- Vincent van Gogh (1890), Dutch Post-Impressionist painter, gunshot to the chest.[1506] Naifeh and Smith 2011 biography of van Gogh argued that he was a possible victim of accidental manslaughter or foul play by René Secrétan, who led a gang of teenage hooligans who enjoyed getting drunk and bullying the tortured artist.[1507]
- Jeffrey "JV" Vandergrift (2023), DJ and radio show host, body found in San Francisco bay following long battle with Lyme disease. Suicide suspected.[1508]
- Sid Vicious (1979), English musician and member of the Sex Pistols, heroin overdose.[1509][1510] 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.[1511]
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