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Confirmed suicides

A

B

  • Albert Ballin (1918), German businessman, overdose of sleeping pills
  • Isobel Barnett (1980), British TV personality, electrocution
  • Don "Red" Barry (1980), American actor (Adventures of Red Ryder), gunshot
  • Gert Bastian (1992), German military officer and politician, gunshot
  • Dave Batters (2009), Canadian politician
  • Thomas McKee Bayne
    (1894), U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania, gunshot
  • Charles Eugène Bedaux (1944), French efficiency engineer charged with treason for collaboration with Vichy government
  • Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1849), English poet and dramatist, poisoning
  • Juan Belmonte (1962), Spanish bullfighter and matador, gunshot
  • Ota Benga (1916), Congolese pygmy put on "display" in United States, gunshot
  • John Berg (2007), American actor, carbon monoxide poisoning
  • Marty Bergen (1900), American Baseball player, slit his throat with razor after killing his wife and two children with an axe
  • Hans Berger (1941), German physician and inventor of electroencephalography, hanging
  • Ricky Berry (1989), American NBA player for the Sacramento Kings, gunshot
  • Kenny Blatchford (1933), Canadian politician, drowning
  • Barbara Blida (2007), Polish politician, gunshot
  • Tadeusz Borowski (1951), Polish writer and concentration camp survivor, asphyxiation
  • Patrick Bourque (2007), Canadian bass guitarist (Emerson Drive)
  • Barry Brown (1978), American actor and writer, gunshot
  • Oskar Brüsewitz (1976), East German cleric, committed self-immolation in protest of East Germany's persecution of Protestants
  • Bernard Buffet (1999), French painter ('The Crucifixion'), suffocation
  • Rembrandt Bugatti (1916), Italian sculptor, natural gas

C

  • Andres Caicedo
    (1977), Colombian novelist, drug overdose
  • José Luis Calva (2007), Mexican writer, cannibal and serial killer, hanging
  • Arthur Edmund Carewe (1937), American actor, gunshot
  • Don Carpenter (1995), American novelist, gunshot
  • Hugh Casey (1951), American baseball player, gunshot
  • Adolphe Mouron Cassandre
    (1968), French writer
  • Ugo Cavallero (1943), Italian Field Marshal, gunshot
  • Ana Cristina César
    (1983), Brazilian poet, jumped out window from parents' apartment
  • Valerie Chacon (1982), wife of Bobby Chacon
    , gunshot
  • Pauline Chan (2002), Hong Kong actress, jumped off building
  • Kathy Change (1996), American performance artist and political activist, self-immolation
  • Claude Chappe (1805), French inventor, threw himself down a well
  • Vere Gordon Childe
    (1957), Australian archaeologist and historian, jumped off Govett's Leap in the Blue Mountains
  • Brett Chidester
    (2003), American teenager, asphyxiation, led to Delaware's "Brett’s law"
  • Isamu Chō, Japanese Army officer during the Battle of Okinawa, committed seppuku rather than surrender
  • Chongzhen Emperor of China
    (1644), the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, ordered his household to commit suicide, then hanged himself
  • Edwin Pearce Christy, (1862), American entertainer, founder of the Christy Minstrels, threw himself from window
  • Chung Mong-hun (2003), Korean businessman, chairman of Hyundai Asan, jumped out of building
  • Alasdair Clayre (1985), British academic, writer, broadcaster and singer, jumped in front of train
  • Charles Clegg (1979), American author, photographer and railroad enthusiast
  • Charmian Clift (1969), Australian writer, wife of George Johnston, barbiturate overdose
  • Robert Clive (1774), British conqueror of India and founder of the Empire, cut throat with pen-knife
  • Bob Collins
    (2007), Australian politician, overdose
  • Sid Collins (1977), American radio voice of the Indianapolis 500, hanged himself after being diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
  • René Crevel (1935), French writer, gassed himself
  • Richard Croft
    (1818), British obstetrician, shot himself
  • Harry Crosby (1929), American writer, publisher
  • Géza Csáth (1919), Hungarian writer, poison

D

  • Stig Dagerman (1954), Swedish author, carbon monoxide
  • Edward Davidson (2008), American spammer and convicted criminal, gunshot
  • Cliff Davies (2008), British-American drummer, gunshot
  • Delphine Delamare (1848), French woman, the basis for Flaubert's Madame Bovary, cyanide
  • Denice Denton (2006), American University of California Chancellor, jumped from 42-story San Francisco apartment building
  • Dido
    (7th century B.C.), Founder and First Queen of Carthage, sword through chest upon funeral pyre
  • Di Xin
    (1046 BC), the last king of the Shang Dynasty of China, set fire to his palace while inside it
  • Deborah Digges (2009), teacher and author
  • Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (2001), young King of Nepal, shot himself after assassinating his father, King Birendra, and other members of the royal family.
  • Hugo Distler (1942), German composer, gas
  • Desmond Donnelly (1974), British politician and journalist, barbiturate and alcohol overdose
  • Terence Donovan (1996), English celebrity photographer, hanging
  • Patric Doonan (1958), British actor
  • Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado (1983), former president of Cuba, gunshot
  • Chris Doty (2006), Canadian filmmaker and playwright, hanging
  • Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1945), French novelist
  • Dr. Jonathan Drummond-Webb (2004), American heart surgeon, oxycodone overdose
  • Micke Dubois (2005), Swedish comedian, hanging
  • Thich Quang Duc
    (1963), Vietnamese Buddhist monk, self-immolation
  • K. Sello Duiker (2005), South African author, hanging
  • Davor Dujmović (1999), Yugoslavian-Roma actor, hanging

E

  • John East (1986), US senator from North Carolina, carbon monoxide poisoning
  • Merritt A. Edson (1955), American Medal of Honor recipient for actions at Guadalcanal, gas
  • Richard Egan
    (2009), American businessman and ambassador to Ireland, shotgun
  • Paul Ehrenfest (1933), Austrian physicist, made major contributions to quantum mechanics, gunshot
  • Jim Ellison (1996), American lead singer and guitarist of Material Issue, carbon monoxide poisoning
  • Landis Everson (2007), American poet, gunshot

F

  • Audrey Fagan (2007), Australian Federal Police assistant commissioner, hanging
  • Paul Federn (1950), Austrian-American psychoanalyst
  • Jeff Fehring (2008), Australian footballer
  • Andrea Feldman (1972), American actress and Warhol superstar, jumped out of building
  • George Fiske (1918), American photographer, shot himself
  • John Gould Fletcher (1950), American Pulitzer Prize winning poet, drowning
  • Bernard Floud (1967), UK Member of Parliament, gas and barbiturates
  • James V. Forrestal
    (1949), former U.S. Secretary of Defense, fall from window, possible homicide
  • Dédé Fortin (2000), Canadian leader and singer of Québec band Les Colocs, stabbed himself
  • Seán Fortune (1999), Irish Roman Catholic priest charged with molesting children, overdose
  • Vincent Foster
    (1993), American Deputy White House Counsel, gunshot
  • Nora May French (1907), American poet, poison(swallowing cyanide)
  • Misao Fujimura (1903), Japanese high school student, drowning

G

H

  • Clara Immerwahr Haber (1915) German chemical engineer and wife of Dr. Fritz Haber, gunshot
  • Jerry Hadley (2007), American operatic tenor, gunshot
  • Kenneth Halliwell (1967), British writer, lover and murderer of Joe Orton, sleeping pill overdose
  • Mitch Halpern (2000), American boxing referee, gunshot
  • Lois Hamilton (1999), American actress, model, author, aviatrix, sleeping pill overdose and suffocation
  • Thomas Hamilton
    (1996), killed 16 five-year-olds and their teacher in the Dunblane massacre, gunshot
  • 9/11 attacks
  • St. John Hankin
    (1909), British poet, drowning
  • Edward A. Hannegan (1859), U.S. Congressman from Indiana, morphine overdose
  • Lewis Vernon Harcourt
    (1922), British politician, killed himself after public exposure as a pedophile
  • Mary Hardy (1985), Australian TV personality (found dead in the bath and was presumed to have committed suicide)
  • Tony Harris
    (2007), American FIBA basketball player, apparent hanging
  • Michael D. Harter (1896), U.S. Congressman from Ohio
  • Arihiro Hase (1996), Japanese voice actor, jumped from window
  • Imogen Hassall (1980), British actress, overdose
  • Felix Hausdorff (1942), German mathematician, committed suicide with his wife and sister-in-law in a concentration camp
  • Benjamin Haydon (1846), British painter
  • John Heddle (1989), British politician
  • Leicester Hemingway (1982) American novelist and younger brother of Ernest Hemingway, gunshot
  • Konrad Henlein (1945), Czechoslovakian Nazi official, slashed wrists
  • James Leo Herlihy (1993), American novelist (Midnight Cowboy), sleeping pill overdose
  • Willard Hershberger (1940), American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds), slashed wrists
  • George W. Hill (1934), American film director
  • Joel Henry Hinrichs III
    (2005), American who detonated suicide bomb at the University of Oklahoma
  • news anchor
    , inhalation of natural gas
  • Elmyr de Hory (1976), Hungarian art forger, sleeping pill overdose
  • Soad Hosny (2001) Egyptian actress, jumped from balcony
  • Ivan Hribar (1941), Yugoslav politician, drowned himself in a river
  • Hudson river
  • Time Magazine art critic Robert Hughes
    , gas
  • Robin Hyde (1939), New Zealand writer and poet, benzedrin poisoning

I

  • Youssef Idilbi (2008), Dutch actor, jumped from the roof of a building

J

  • 9/11 attacks
  • Vittorio Jano (1965), Hungarian automobile design engineer
  • Alice de Janzé (1941), American heiress, gunshot
  • Johnny "J" (2008), American record producer, jumped from ledge
  • Anson Jones (1858), doctor, businessman, congressman, and the last president of the Republic of Texas, gunshot
  • Timothy Jordan II (2005), The All-American Rejects' touring keyboardist
  • Nafisa Joseph (2004), Femina India Universe 1997, Miss Universe 1997 semi-finalist and MTV VJ, hanging
  • Attila József (1937), Hungarian poet, jumped in front of train
  • Jung Da Bin
    (2007), South Korean Actress, hanging

K

  • Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin
    (1918), Russian Cossack leader during the Russian Civil War
  • Jörg Kalt
    (2007), Austrian film director and cinematographer
  • Dr. David Kelly
    (2003), British scientist, source of BBC story about the September Dossier, overdose and slashed wrist
  • Samuel Austin Kendall
    (1933), American congressman from Pennsylvania, gunshot
  • Kim Daul
    (2009), Korean model, hanged
  • Kim Kwang Suk
    (1996), South Korean Singer
  • Preston King (1865), American Senator from New York, leapt from ferryboat in New York Harbor
  • James Arthur Kjelgaard
    (1959), American outdoorsman and author of young adult literature
  • Jochen Klepper (1942), German writer, poet and journalist, gas
  • Günther von Kluge (1944), German Field Marshal, cyanide
  • Ivan Korade (2008), Croatian general and murder suspect, gunshot
  • Fletcher Knebel (1993), American novelist (Seven Days in May), sleeping pill overdose
  • William F. Knowland
    (1974), former American Senate Majority Leader, gunshot
  • Sarah Kofman (1994), French philosopher
  • Prince Fumimaro Konoe (1945), Japanese war criminal, cyanide
  • Alexandros Korizis
    (1941), Greek prime minister, gunshot
  • Philip Taylor Kramer (1995), American rock musician (Iron Butterfly) and physicist
  • Louis Krages (2001), German race car driver and businessman (raced under the name of "John Winter"), gunshot
  • Ivar Kreuger (1932) Swedish financier, entrepreneur and industrialist, "The Match King", gunshot
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger
    (1945), Nazi official during WWII, gunshot
  • Friedrich Alfred Krupp (1902), German industrialist, committed suicide when his homosexuality was revealed.

L

  • Robert M. La Follette Jr. (1953), American senator from Wisconsin, gunshot
  • Paul Lafargue (1911), French son-in-law of Karl Marx, communist theorist and author of The Right to Be Lazy
  • James H. Lane
    (1866), senator from Kansas, general in Civil War, gunshot
  • Napoleon Lapathiotis (1944), Greek writer, gunshot
  • Rod Lauren (2007), American actor and singer, jumped from balcony
  • George P. Lawrence (1917), American representative from Massachusetts, jumped out of building to death due to stress caused by World War I
  • Adam Ledwoń (2008), Polish footballer, hanging
  • Lee Kyung Hae
    (2003) South Korean farmer and activist, stabbed himself at a protest
  • Trent Lehman (1982), former American child actor (Nanny and the Professor), hanging
  • Norman van Lennep (1897), Dutch chess master, drowning in the North Sea
  • Mark Levy (2009), American attorney and former Clinton administration official, gunshot
  • Louis Lingg (1887), German anarchist scheduled to be hanged for his alleged role in the Haymarket Square riot bomb, committed suicide by holding a lit stick of dynamite in his mouth
  • Arthur Lipsett (1986), Canadian avant-garde filmmaker
  • Friedrich List (1846), German economist
  • Jesse Lauriston Livermore
    (1940), American stock trader, gunshot
  • Mikael Ljungberg (2004), Swedish wrestler, Olympic gold medalist
  • Peter Llewelyn-Davies
    (1960), British publisher who inspired J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, threw himself in front of a train
  • Ross Lockridge Jr. (1948), American novelist, author of Raintree County, asphyxiation via car fumes
  • Mark Lombardi (2000), American artist whose art described international white-collar crime networks, hanging
  • Terry Long (2005), former American NFL player, ingested antifreeze
  • Hans Loritz (1946), German concentration camp commandant at various times — Esterwegen, Dachau, Sachsenhausen
  • Noah Lottick
    (1990), American Scientologist, profiled in TIME article The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power
  • Gang Lu
    (1991), physics graduate student and mass murderer at the University of Iowa, gunshot
  • Gherasim Luca (1994), Romanian surrealist, jumped into the Seine
  • Ron Luciano (1995), American baseball umpire, carbon monoxide poisoning
  • Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov (1918), Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist, gunshot

M

N

  • Hisayasu Nagata (2009), Japanese politician, jumped from a building
  • Murat Nasyrov (2007), Russian-Kazakh singer, jumped from balcony
  • Oskar Nedbal (1930), Czech composer (The Tale of the Simply Johnny); jumped out a window on Christmas Eve
  • Gérard de Nerval (1855), French writer, hanging
  • Ni Min-jan (2005), Taiwanese actor and comedian, hanged.
  • Maresuke Nogi
    (1912), Japanese hero of Russo-Japanese war, committed seppuku with his wife following death of Meiji emperor

O

  • Lawrence Oates (1912), Antarctic explorer; he said "I am just going outside and may be some time" when he walked out of the tent to his death in the blizzard, leaving behind Robert Falcon Scott and the others in an unsuccessful attempt to save them
  • C. Y. O'Connor (1902), Irish engineer, gunshot
  • Hugh O'Connor (1995), American actor, gunshot
  • Luis Ocaña (1994), Spanish cyclist, Tour de France winner, gunshot
  • Yukiko Okada (1986), Japanese idol of the 1980s, jumped from a seven story building after failed wrist slashing and gas inhalation attempts

P

Q

  • Richard Quine (1989), American film director, gunshot
  • Richard Hell & the Voidoids
    ), overdose

R

  • Lynne Randell (2007), Australian singer, overdose
  • Kuljeet Randhawa (2006), Indian television actress, hanging
  • Danny Rapp (1983), American singer (Danny & the Juniors), gunshot
  • Abram Raselemane (2008), South African footballer
  • Alfred Redl (1913), Austrian army officer, spied for Russia, gunshot
  • George Reeves (1959), American actor, played Superman on television, death officially ruled as suicide by gunshot, but remains controversial to this day
  • John Reynolds
    (1966), American actor, played Torgo in the infamous cult classic "Manos" The Hands of Fate, gunshot or overdose
  • Thomas Caute Reynolds (1887), Confederate Governor of Missouri, jumped down elevator shaft
  • Thomas Reynolds
    (1844), American Governor of Missouri 1840-1844, shot himself
  • David Ritcheson
    (2007), American hate crime victim, jumped off cruise ship
  • René Rivkin
    (2005), Australian stockbroker and entrepreneur
  • Carlos Roberto Reina (2003), former president of Honduras, gunshot
  • Malachi Ritscher (2006), American anti-war protester, self-immolation at Chicago's Kennedy expressway
  • Angel Rivero Mendez
    (1930), Puerto Rican soldier for the Spanish Army, inventor, gunshot
  • John Robarts (1982), former Premier of the Canadian province of Ontario, 1961–1971; committed suicide with shotgun
  • Bill Robinzine (1982), American basketball player, carbon monoxide poisoning
  • Sue Rodriguez (1994), Canadian amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) victim and advocate for euthanasia, assisted suicide
  • Lukasz Romanek
    (2006), Polish Speedway rider, former World Under 21 champion. Found dead in his workshop
  • Samuel Romilly (1818), British prison reformer, slit own throat
  • Jacqueline Roque (1986) Second wife of Pablo Picasso, gunshot
  • Jacques Roux (1794), leader of the Enrages in the French Revolution, stabbed himself while facing execution
  • Thomas Jefferson Rusk (1857), American senator from Texas, gunshot
  • Michael Ryan
    (1987), British mass murderer at Hungerford; self-inflicted gunshot wound after killing many others
  • Jakub Jan Ryba (1815), Czech composer and teacher, slit own throat

S

T

  • Ronald Takaki (2009), American academic, historian, and author
  • Vlado Taneski (2008), Macedonian journalist and serial killer, drowning
  • Alberts Tarulis (1927), Latvian footballer, hanging
  • Sara Teasdale (1933), American poet, overdose
  • Luigi Tenco (1967), Italian singer-songwriter, gunshot
  • Tewodros II of Ethiopia
    (1868), Ethiopian Emperor, gunshot
  • Jason Thirsk (1996), American bassist of the band Pennywise, gunshot
  • Dan Thomas (1980), American baseball player, hanging
  • Jesse B. Thomas (1853), American Senator from Illinois
  • Georg Tintner (1999), Austrian-born conductor active in Canada and Australia; jumped 11 stories when he was no longer able to conduct due to illness
  • Mutsuo Toi (1938), Japanese mass murderer of 30 people in the Tsuyama massacre
    , gunshot
  • Mikhail Tomsky (1936), Russian revolutionary, gunshot
  • Wolfe Tone (1798), Irish independence leader, slit own throat
  • Tore Tønne (2002), Norwegian Minister of Health and Social Affairs
  • Georg Trakl (1914), Austrian poet, cocaine overdose
  • Metod Trobec (2006), Slovenian killer
  • Olaf Tryggvason
    (1000), king of Norway, leapt from his ship after losing in battle
  • Kokichi Tsuburaya
    (1968), Japanese Olympic marathon runner, slit own throat
  • Randy Turpin
    (1966), British world champion boxer, gunshot
  • Helen Twelvetrees (1958), American stage and film actress, overdose

U

  • Urmuz (1923), Romanian writer

V

W

Y

Z

  • Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1970), German composer (Die Soldaten)
  • George Zinkhan (2009), American academic and poet, shot himself after fleeing arrest for a triple murder
  • Mahmoud Zuabi
    (2000), Syrian prime minister, shot himself on May 21, two months after resigning over corruption charges
  • Lotte Zweig (1942), wife of Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig; barbital overdose
  • Szmul Zygielbojm (1943), Polish politician who committed suicide to protest the indifference of Allied governments in the face of the Holocaust, carbon monoxide poisoning

Forced suicide

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

  • Forty-seven Ronin
    , former retainers of Naganori, were also ordered to commit seppuku in 1703 after killing Yoshinaka.
  • 20th of July plot
    .
  • 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.
  • Hōjō Ujimasa (1590), lord of Odawara, after Toyotomi Hideyoshi successfully besieged him.
  • Hōjō Ujiteru (1590), brother of Hōjō Ujimasa
  • Li Tan (757), son of Emperor Suzong of China; forced to commit suicide after false accusations that he meant to kill his brother Li Chu.
  • Mori Ranmaru (1582), Oda Nobunaga's servant and close companion, forced to commit suicide along with him.
  • Qin Er Shi (207 BC), the second emperor of Qin dynasty China, forced to commit suicide by Zhao Gao.

Possible suicides

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

  • Neil Aggett (1982), South African worker's union leader, hanged in prison; murder is suspected by some
  • Aman Andom (1974), military ruler of Ethiopia; died while resisting troops sent to arrest him, but circumstances are unclear
  • Pier Angeli (1971), Italian-born actress, died of an overdose of barbiturates. Speculation that her death was a suicide has never been officially confirmed.
  • Diana Barrymore (1960), American stage and film actress, overdose of sleeping pills. It wasn't the first time she took sleeping pills for insomnia. Some historians speculate whether it was intentional.
  • John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset (1444), English nobleman, allegedly killed himself after being excluded from court.
  • Gertrude Bell (1926), British archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq", overdose, but unknown whether it was intentional
  • Gaetano Bresci (1901), Italian anarchist, assassin of King Umberto I (officially died as a result of suicide, but was found strangled)
  • Joseph Daniel 'Danny' Casolaro (1991), journalist, slashed wrists
  • Rudolf Diesel (1913), inventor of the Diesel engine, went overboard from a passenger ship, but circumstances were never established
  • Guru Dutt (1964), Indian actor and director; accidental or intentional overdose of sleeping pills
  • Zviad Gamsakhurdia (1993), former president of Georgia, gunshot
  • Jessie Gilbert (2006), British chess player, fell from 8th floor after drinking heavily, inquiry led to an open verdict
  • Odilo Globocnik (1945), Austrian Nazi leader; likely died by taking cyanide, but reports of his death are confused
  • Hong Xiuquan (1864), Chinese leader of the Taiping Rebellion, variously reported either to have poisoned himself or died of an illness
  • 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
  • Book of Acts suggests he died in an accidental fall, while the apocryphical Gospel of Judas
    suggests he was stoned to death by the other Apostles
  • 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.
  • David Kellerman (2009), Acting Chief Financial Officer of Freddie Mac
    . Reportedly committed suicide in his home in Reston, Virginia.
  • Levi Kereama
    (2008), Singer; Australian Idol contestant, fell from a highrise; suicide is disputed by his family
  • Sándor Kocsis (1979), Hungarian soccer player, jumped out of window, disputed
  • Alan Ladd (1964), U.S. film star, overdose of alcohol and pills, highly disputed for many years
  • 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.
  • Jack London (1916), U.S. novelist, overdose of morphine and atropine (disputed by his widow)
  • Malcolm Lowry (1957), British writer, sleeping pill overdose, disputed as to accidental
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • James Murray (1936), American silent film actor (The Crowd), drowned in the Hudson River, but it was never officially determined whether it was suicide or an accident
  • 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.
  • John Polidori
    (1821), Poet, doctor, writer, apparently drank prussic acid in his bedroom, however, the coroner recorded death by natural causes.
  • 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
  • Irv Rubin (2002), leader of the Jewish Defense League, cut throat and fell off balcony while in prison, disputed by his family
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Edie Sedgwick (1972), American socialite, Warhol superstar, overdose. The coroner ruled Sedgwick's death as "undetermined/accident/suicide".
  • 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
  • Silk Smitha, South Indian actress, found dead in her apartment
  • 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.
  • Crown Prince Rudolph
  • Peter Warlock (1930), UK composer (also known as Philip Heseltine); gas poisoning, but suicide was never established definitively
  • 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.
  • Alfredo Yabrán (1998), Argentine businessman, gunshot, sometimes alleged to have faked his death
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