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For incidents of suicide depicted in fiction, see List of suicides in fiction.
See also: List of famous deaths by accidental drug overdose and Lists of people by cause of death
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The following are lists of notable people who intentionally terminated their own lives. Suicides committed under duress are included. Deaths by accident or misadventure are excluded. Individuals who might or might not have died by their own hand, or whose intention to die is in dispute, but who are widely believed to have deliberately killed themselves, may be listed under Possible suicides.

Suicides

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  • William Inge (1973), U.S. playwright (Picnic, Come Back, Little Sheba, Bus Stop, Splendor in the Grass), carbon monoxide
  • Judas Iscariot, hanged himself according to the Gospel of Matthew, though the Book of Acts suggests he died a violent death in a field he had bought, and the apocryphical Gospel of Judas suggests he was stoned to death by the apostles
  • Juzo Itami (1997), Japanese actor and film director, jumped off building

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  • Lawrence Oates (1912), Antarctic explorer; he said "I am just going outside and may be some time" when he walked out of the tent to his death in the blizzard, leaving behind Robert Falcon Scott and the others
  • John O'Brien (1994), author of Leaving Las Vegas (on which the film was based), gunshot
  • C. Y. O'Connor (1902), Irish engineer, gunshot
  • Hugh O'Connor (1995), actor, gunshot
  • Luis Ocaña (1994), Spanish cyclist, Tour de France winner, gunshot
  • Phil Ochs (1976), American singer, hanged himself in sister's apartment, Far Rockaway, New York
  • Per Yngve Ohlin (a.k.a. Dead), (1991), vocalist for band Mayhem, killed himself with a shotgun after having slashed his wrist and cut his throat
  • Yukiko Okada (1986), Japanese idol of the 1980s, jumped from a 7 story building after failed wrist slashing and gas inhalation attempts
  • Otho (69), Roman emperor, stabbed himself with a dagger

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Forced suicide

The following people committed forced suicide - acts of suicide as a punishment at the behest of civil or judicial authorities:

  • Fusu (210 BC), son of the First Emperor of China Qin Shi Huang and brother of the Second Emperor Qin Er Shi; forced to commit suicide by a fake decree.
  • Asano Naganori (1701), Japanese noble, forced to commit seppuku after attacking Kira Yoshinaka. The Akou-Roushi (47 ronin), (1703), former retainers of Naganori, were also later ordered to commit seppuku after killing Yoshinaka.
  • Oda Nobunaga (1582), after being betrayed by his general Akechi Mitsuhide.
  • Qin Er Shi (207 BC), the second emperor of Qin dynasty China, forced to commit suicide by Zhao Gao.
  • Mori Ranmaru (1582), Oda Nobunaga's servant and close companion, forced to commit suicide along with him.
  • Erwin Rommel (1944), German Field Marshal, took part in a plot against Hitler; forced to take poison in exchange for his family being protected from reprisals.
  • Socrates (399 BCE), Greek philosopher, ordered to drink hemlock juice after his trial in Athens. In the Crito, Socrates is offered a chance to escape but refuses.
  • Hojo Ujimasa (1590), lord of Odawara, after Toyotomi Hideyoshi successfully besieged him.

Unknown before death

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

  • Pekka-Eric Auvinen (2007), Jokela High School Massacre, self-inflicted gunshot to the head.
  • Kimveer Gill (2006), Dawson College shooting
  • Thomas Hamilton (1996), killed 16 five-year-olds and their teacher in the Dunblane massacre.
  • Eric Harris (1999), one of the shooters in the Columbine High School massacre
  • Joel Henry Hinrichs III (2005), detonated suicide bomb at the University of Oklahoma
  • Clayne Jeffs, nephew of Warren Jeffs, committed suicide with a firearm after admitting that Warren Jeffs had sexually assaulted him as a child.[2]
  • Dylan Klebold (1999), one of the shooters in the Columbine High School massacre
  • Friedrich Leibacher (2001), killer of 14 in Zug massacre
  • Malachi Ritscher (2006), burned himself to death as an anti-war protest on Chicago's Kennedy expressway
  • Gene Sprague (2004), jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge; featured heavily in the 2006 documentary The Bridge.
  • Seung-Hui Cho (2007), shooter in the Virginia Tech massacre; turned his gun on himself after executing 32 people
  • Vincent van Gogh (1890), Dutch Post-Impressionist artist, believed to have only sold one painting while alive; has become world-famous since his death by self-inflicted gunshot.
  • Jeff Weise (2005), Red Lake High School shooter
  • Roland Weißelberg (2006) Lutheran vicar; set himself alight in the German town of Erfurt, where Martin Luther took his monastic vows in 1505, following the example of Oskar Brüsewitz.

Possible suicides

The following is a list of people whose cause of death is disputed, or whose intention to commit suicide is doubtful.

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  • George Washington Adams (1829), Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and the son of John Quincy Adams. Adams drowned after going overboard. It is generally assumed that he committed suicide.
  • Carl Fredrik Algernon (1987), Swedish rear admiral and arms material inspector
  • Pier Angeli (1971), Italian-born actress, died of an overdose of barbiturates. Speculation that her death was a suicide has never been officially confirmed.

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  • Andreas Baader (1977), leader of the German revolutionary organization Red Army Faction (RAF). His suicide by gunshot to the head whilst in prison is questioned by some supporters of the group.
  • Boudica (61 AD), Iceni queen, reportedly either drank poison or died of an illness after her army was defeated by the Romans.
  • Gaetano Bresci (1901), Italian anarchist, assassin of King Umberto I (officially died as a result of suicide, but was found strangled)

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  • Guru Dutt (1964), Indian actor and director; accidental or intentional overdose of sleeping pills

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  • Judy Garland (1969), American actress/singer, autopsy-ruled accidental barbiturate overdose

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  • Randall Jarrell (1965), American writer, struck by a car and killed at an odd hour of the evening on a lonesome stretch of road near Chapel Hill, North Carolina; after struggling with clinical depression and shortly after a suicide attempt in which he unsuccessfully slashed his wrists

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  • Frida Kahlo (1954), Mexican painter. Supposedly died of a pulmonary embolism, but no autopsy was performed, and many are convinced that she committed suicide.
  • Weldon Kees (1955), American poet, artist and musician. Vanished in 1955; his car was found beside the Golden Gate Bridge, from which he may have leaped to his death. He had spoken to his friends of suicide beforehand, but had also spoken of departing for Mexico; either may have happened.
  • Douglas Kenney (1980), writer, producer, actor of National Lampoon Magazine and Animal House. Jumped, fell or was pushed off a cliff in Hawaii. Composed note: "These are the best days I've chosen to ignore" found in hotel room.
  • Ivar Kreuger (1932), Swedish financier, entrepreneur and industrialist, officially shot himself - but the evidence that he was murdered is also compelling.

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  • Alun Lewis (1944), British soldier and poet, found near the officers' latrine, a gunshot in his head, his revolver still in his hand. The official Army Court of Inquiry concluded that his death was accidental, but suicide has been suggested.
  • Meriwether Lewis (1809), U.S. explorer with Clark, gunshot, disputed as to either murder or suicide
  • Ludwig II of Bavaria (1886), drowned in captivity, officially ruled as suicide but circumstances are unclear

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  • Ettore Majorana, Italian physicist who disappeared in 1938; one of the possible considered explanations is that he committed suicide by drowning
  • Jan Masaryk (1948), Czech statesman, found dead in the courtyard of the Foreign Ministry below his bathroom window. Though the initial 'investigation' stated that he committed suicide by jumping out of the window, it is now commonly believed that he was defenestrated by Communists.
  • Hideto Matsumoto, also known as "hide" (1998), Japanese musician, possibly accidental hanging
  • Robert Maxwell (1991), Czech-born UK newspaper magnate who, some believe, jumped overboard in the Atlantic leaving a financial disaster in his wake - the official inquest ruled it was 'accidental drowning'
  • Jürgen W. Möllemann (2003), German politician, parachute failure
  • Marilyn Monroe (1962), US Actress, found dead and naked in her bed in her California home from an overdose of sleeping pills
  • Renate Müller (1937), German actress, fall from window originally reported as resulting from an epileptic seizure; also reported by some that the Gestapo was involved in her death

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  • Pier delle Vigne (1249), Italian diplomat. Reportedly killed himself to avoid torture, although the circumstances of his death are not certain. In The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri puts him among suicides.
  • Pontius Pilate (36), Roman governor and judge of Jesus of Nazareth; Eusebius of Caesarea quotes some accounts which relate that Pilate committed suicide, but this is considered to be merely a legend.

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  • Quintillus (270), Roman emperor, various conflicting accounts of his death, but possible suicide by wrist-slitting

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  • Jan-Carl Raspe (1977), German criminal in Baader-Meinhof gang
  • Geli Raubal (1931), niece and possibly lover of Adolf Hitler; officially committed suicide but may have been murdered
  • Dean Reed (1986), musician known as the "Red Elvis" for his leftist political views and popularity in the Soviet Bloc, drowned, but may have been accidental; his family claimed it was murder
  • Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (1889), heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, gunshot, officially as part of a suicide pact, but there is substantial speculation about a murder coverup

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  • Saul, King of Israel (1 Sam. 31:4), died either by falling on his sword or at the hands of an Amalekite soldier
  • Romy Schneider (1982), Austrian actress, found dead in her apartment in Paris in May 1982, suggested suicide by taking a lethal cocktail of alcohol and sleeping pills. However, no post-mortem examination was carried out, and she was declared to have died from cardiac arrest.
  • Elizabeth Shin (2000), MIT student, died from burns inflicted by a fire in her dormitory room after sending emails to faculty members saying that she was depressed and wanted to kill herself.
  • Elizabeth Siddal (1862), Pre-Raphaelite icon and wife of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, officially an accidental overdose, but Rossetti may have destroyed a suicide note
  • Elliott Smith (2003), American musician (reported as suicide, still officially under investigation - no suspects named). Smith died of two fatal stab wounds to the chest after an argument with girlfriend Jennifer Chiba. She claimed that she had locked herself in the bathroom to find Smith with a knife in his chest upon her return. However, many suspect that Chiba murdered Smith. An official autopsy was carried out, the results of which were inconclusive.

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  • Saigō Takamori (1876), Japanese samurai, injured in battle, might have committed suicide, or been killed by comrades rather than being killed or captured by the enemy.
  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1893), Russian composer. Generally assumed to have died of cholera; one account claims that he committed suicide by taking arsenic following an attempt to blackmail him over his homosexuality. Some believe that he wrote his Sixth Symphony as his own Requiem.

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  • Pierre-Charles Villeneuve (1806), French admiral who lost the Battle of Trafalgar, stabbed in chest; recorded as suicide, but may have been murdered by agents of Napoleon

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  • Kenneth Williams (1988), English actor, barbiturate overdose. Williams was taking medication for back pain and stomach trouble, which he referred to in the last sentence in his diary, concluding "oh — what's the bloody point?". His diary had often spoke of suicidal thoughts. The coroner recorded an open verdict.

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  • Alfredo Yabrán (1998), Argentine businessman, gunshot, sometimes alleged to have faked his death

References

  1. ^ "BALTIMORE'S MAYOR COMMIT SUICIDE; Robert M. McLane, Married Two Weeks Ago, Shoots Himself". New York Times. 1904-05-31. p. 1. Retrieved 2008-03-22.
  2. ^ Insider accounts put sect leader on the run[1].

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