List of suicides

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.

A

 * Chris Acland (1996), British drummer for the band Lush, hanging
 * Manuel Acuña (1873), Mexican poet
 * Robert Adams, Jr. (1906), congressman from Pennsylvania, shot himself after heavy losses in stock speculation
 * Stuart Adamson (2001), Scottish guitarist and singer (Big Country, Skids), self-strangulation after alcohol ingestion
 * Ahn Jae-hwan (2008), South Korean actor, carbon monoxide poisoning
 * Sergey Akhromeyev (1991), Marshal of the Soviet Union, hanging
 * Clodius Albinus (197), Roman emperor, killed himself after a defeat in battle
 * Ross Alexander (1937), American actor, gunshot
 * Michael Alfonso, a.k.a. Mike Awesome (2007), American professional wrestler, hanging
 * Prince Alfred of Edinburgh (1899), member of the British Royal Family, shot himself
 * Leandro Alem (1896), Argentine politician, founder of the Radical Civic Union, gunshot to the head
 * Salvador Allende (1973), president of Chile; shot himself during a coup d'état — some sources allege that he was killed. See also Death of Salvador Allende
 * Jeff Alm (1993), American NFL player, gunshot
 * Marwan al-Shehhi (2001), United Arab Emirate member of Al-Qaeda, and one of the 9/11 hijackers
 * Jason Altom (1998), American Ph.D. student, ingested potassium cyanide
 * Jean Améry (1978), Austrian writer; overdose of sleeping pills
 * Korechika Anami, Japanese War Minister (1945), seppuku
 * Forrest Howard Anderson (1989), Governor of Montana, gunshot
 * Roger Angleton (1998), American murderer, cutting or hanging
 * Marshall Applewhite (1997), American leader of the Heaven's Gate religious cult, overdose
 * Diane Arbus (1971), American photographer, overdosed on pills and slashed wrists
 * Reinaldo Arenas (1990), Cuban-American artist and writer, drug and alcohol overdose
 * José María Arguedas, (1969), Peruvian novelist and poet, gunshot
 * Pedro Armendáriz, (1963), Mexican actor, gunshot
 * Edwin Armstrong (1954), American inventor of FM radio, jumped from a 13th floor window
 * John Atchison (2007), American federal prosecutor and alleged child sex offender
 * Mohamed Atta (2001), Egyptian member of Al-Qaeda, and leader of the 9/11 hijackers
 * Pekka-Eric Auvinen (2007), Finnish Jokela High School shooter, self-inflicted gunshot to the head
 * May Ayim (1996), German author, jumped from 13th floor of a Berlin building
 * Albert Ayler (1970), American jazz saxophonist, jumped into New York City's East River

B

 * Nikki Bacharach (2007), Daughter of Burt Bacharach and Angie Dickinson, suffocated using plastic bag and helium
 * James Robert Baker (1997), American writer
 * José Manuel Balmaceda (1891), President of Chile, gunshot
 * Robert Hayward Barlow (1951), American writer and anthropologist, barbiturate overdose
 * Amelie "Melli" Beese (1925), pioneer aviatrix, gunshot
 * Chris Benoit (2007), Professional wrestler, hanged himself after murdering his wife and son.
 * Mary Kay Bergman (1999), American voice actress, shotgun.
 * Clara Bloodgood (1907), American Broadway actress, committed suicide by gunshot in her Baltimore hotel room despondent over a Clyde Fitch play The Truth which starred Bloodgood but which Fitch dedicated to actress Marie Tempest
 * Ludwig Boltzmann (1906), Austrian physicist famous for thermodynamics and the atomic theory, hanging
 * Jeremy Michael Boorda (1996), Chief of Naval Operations, US Navy
 * Jonathan Brandis (2003), American actor, hanging

C

 * Tyler Clementi (2010), gay American student at Rutgers University, jumped off the George Washington Bridge.
 * Kurt Cobain (1994), American rock singer, death by self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
 * Wallace Carothers (1937), inventor of nylon, cyanide poisoning
 * Ian Curtis (1980), English singer songwriter, death by hanging.

D

 * Alice de Janzé (1941), American heiress, committed suicide with a firearm.
 * Penelope Delta (1941), Greek writer, killed herself when the Germans invaded Greece during WWII
 * Brad Delp (2007), American rock musician, killed himself by carbon monoxide poisoning in his bathroom using two charcoal grills.
 * Michael Dorris (1997), American novelist, took sleeping pills with vodka, placed a plastic bag over his head, and died of asphyxiation

E

 * Robert Enke (2009), German footballer, killed himself by standing on rail road tracks near Neustadt am Rübenberge.

F

 * Moni Fanan (2009), Team manager of the Israeli basketball team Maccabi Tel-Aviv during the years 1992–2008, hanging.
 * Robert FitzRoy (1865), Pioneering meteorologist, surveyor and hydrographer, who captained the HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's famous voyage.

G

 * Sam Gillespie (2003), Australian-born philospher whose writings and translations were crucial to the initial reception of Alain Badiou's work in the English-speaking world.
 * Mark Green (2004), Record-setting minor league hockey star, hung himself after being accused of stealing from a car dealership.

H

 * Eric David Harris (1999), one of the two American high school seniors who committed the Columbine High School massacre.
 * Ernest Hemingway (1961), American writer and journalist, death by self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
 * Margaux Hemingway (1996); fashion model, actress, Ernest Hemingway's granddaughter. Overdose of phenobarbital.
 * Adolf Hitler (1945); Austrian-born, Nazi Germany dictator, died by shooting himself in the mouth to avoid capture by the Soviet military.
 * Michael Hutchence (1997), Australian singer and songwriter, drug overdose.

J

 * Marcel Jacob (2009), Swedish musician"
 * Clayne Jeffs, nephew of Warren Jeffs, committed suicide with a firearm after admitting that Warren Jeffs had sexually assaulted him as a child.

K

 * Dylan Klebold (1999), one of the two American high school seniors who committed the Columbine High School massacre.
 * Kostas Karyotakis (1928), Greek poet, gunshot

L

 * Deborah Laake (2000), U.S. staff writer, columnist and writer; overdose of pills
 * Meriwether Lewis (1809), U.S. explorer with William Clark, gunshot. There is some debate as to whether his death was a suicide.
 * Max Linder (1925), French film and stage actor, double suicide with wife; veronal and morphine ingestion, cut wrists.
 * Roman Lyashenko (2003), Russian NHL hockey player, hanged himself with a belt.

M

 * Mădălina Manole (14 July 1967-14 July 2010), Romanian pop singer.
 * Tom McHale (1941-1983), American novelist
 * Robert M. McLane (1904), American mayor of Baltimore, gunshot
 * Kenny McKinley (1987-2010), American football player, gunshot
 * Antonin Moine (1796–1849), French sculptor, gunshot

N

 * Scott Nearing (1983), American political activist and conservationist, by self-starvation at 100 years of age

O

 * Lembit Oll (1999), Estonian chess Grandmaster, jumped out of window

P

 * Sylvia Plath (1963), American poet, novelist, children's author; committed suicide by gassing herself in her kitchen.

R

 * Liam Rector (2007), acclaimed U.S. poet and educator (Columbia, Bennington College) put a shotgun to his head in his Greenwich Village apartment. At the time he was battling colon cancer and a heart condition.


 * David Reimer, man who after a botched circumcision in infancy, was unsuccessfully reassigned as a girl until he learned the truth at age 13, gunshot.

S

 * Robert Schommer (2001), American astronomer
 * Miroslava Stern (1955) - actress, overdose of sleeping pills
 * Otto Strandman (1941), Estonian politician, gunshot

T

 * Samuel J. F. Thayer (1893), architect, gunshot
 * Hunter S. Thompson (2005), gonzo journalist, author of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", gunshot
 * Li Tobler (1975), Swiss actress, model and life partner of artist H. R. Giger, gunshot
 * Dudu Topaz (2009), Israeli TV personality and entertainer, Hanging

V

 * Edwin Valero (2010), Venezuelan boxer, hanging, after arrest on suspicion of murdering his wife
 * Johannes Vares (1946), Estonian poet, doctor and politician
 * Juhan Viiding (1995), Estonian poet and actor, cut his veins

W

 * Assia Wevill (1969), German born lover of English poet Ted Hughes; murder-suicide of her daughter with Hughes, gas
 * Dan White (1985), San Francisco politician who assassinated Harvey Milk, carbon monoxide poisoning
 * Tobi Wong (2010), Canadian born designer, and conceptual artist.
 * Virginia Woolf (1941) English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories; suicide by drowning