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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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Confirmed suicides

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  • Chris Acland (1996), English drummer for the band Lush, hanging{{Cite web |title=Lush |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/lush-mn0000169099 |access-date=2024-05-31 |website=AllMusic |language=en}}
  • Art Acord (1931), American actor and rodeo champion, ingestion of poison{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_SciAAAAIBAJ&pg=4439,405584|title=Art Acord Of Screen Takes Poison, Dies|date=January 5, 1930|work=San Jose Evening News|page=1|access-date=May 23, 2013|archive-date=May 22, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522170321/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_SciAAAAIBAJ&pg=4439,405584|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Art Acord Called Suicide.; Ex-Cowboy Film Star, Working at Mining in Mexico, Takes Poison|date=January 5, 1931|work=The New York Times}}
  • Manuel Acuña (1873), Mexican poet, ingestion of potassium cyanide{{cite book|last1=Hills|first1=Elijah Clarence|last2=Morley|first2=S. Griswold|title=Modern Spanish Lyrics|chapter-url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16059/16059-h/16059-h.htm|access-date=June 3, 2009|year=1913|publisher=Holt|page=312|chapter=Notes|archive-date=January 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122154503/http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16059/16059-h/16059-h.htm|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://www.los-poetas.com/acuna/acbio.htm |title=Los Poetas |access-date=November 10, 2007 |author=Humberto Garza |date=October 10, 1998 |archive-date=October 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010061334/http://www.los-poetas.com/acuna/acbio.htm |url-status=live }}
  • George Washington Adams (1829), American politician, lawyer, and eldest son of John Quincy Adams, drowning in Long Island Sound{{cite book|last=Sellers|first=Charles|title=The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815–1846|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ru0RDAAAQBAJ&q=%22george%20washington%20adams%22%20suicide%20%22long%20island%20sound%22&pg=PA95|access-date=December 1, 2018|year=1991|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=95|isbn=978-0-19-508920-2}}
  • Marian Hooper Adams (1885), American socialite and photographer, potassium cyanide{{cite news|url=http://www.bu.edu/today/2012/a-gilded-and-heartbreaking-life/|title=A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life – Works of Clover Adams, socialite, society hostess, photographer|last=O'Rourke|first=John|newspaper=BU Today|date=March 13, 2012|access-date=December 1, 2018|archive-date=April 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401141621/http://www.bu.edu/today/2012/a-gilded-and-heartbreaking-life/|url-status=live}}
  • Phillip Adams (2021), American football player, gunshot{{Cite web|last=Peter|first=Josh|title=Ex-NFL player Phillip Adams' 'mental health degraded fast and terribly bad,' says sister|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2021/04/08/phillip-adams-football-ex-nfl-players-mental-health-degraded-fast/7146442002/|access-date=April 9, 2021|website=USA Today|archive-date=April 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210408235654/https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2021/04/08/phillip-adams-football-ex-nfl-players-mental-health-degraded-fast/7146442002/|url-status=live}}
  • Robert Adams Jr. (1906), Congressman from Pennsylvania, gunshot{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1906/06/02/archives/congressman-a-suicide-after-losses-at-bridge-stocks-too-had-gone.html|title=Congressman a Suicide After Losses at Bridge – Stocks, Too, Had Gone Against Robert Adams, Jr. – Planned End 2 Weeks Ago – Had Just Paid His Debts to Society Women – 'Bridge Whist' Should Be His Epitaph, Says a Colleague|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 2, 1906|access-date=August 30, 2009|archive-date=April 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401141845/https://www.nytimes.com/1906/06/02/archives/congressman-a-suicide-after-losses-at-bridge-stocks-too-had-gone.html|url-status=live}}
  • Stanley Adams (1977), American actor and screenwriter, gunshot wound.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/04/29/archives/stanley-adams-an-actor-62-coast-police-report-is-suicide.html|title=Stanley Adams, an Actor, 62; Coast Police Report Is Suicide|date=April 29, 1977|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 25, 2012|page=36|quote=...according to the authorities, who said there was a .22-caliber pistol in his hand and a note nearby and that he had been despondent recently.|archive-date=September 26, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160926033040/http://www.nytimes.com/1977/04/29/archives/stanley-adams-an-actor-62-coast-police-report-is-suicide.html?|url-status=live}}
  • 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{{Cite news|author=Williams, Janice|url=http://www.newsweek.com/stephanie-adams-playboy-suicide-son-939433 |title=Former Playboy model Stephanie Adams killed her son before plunging to her death |date=May 22, 2018|work=Newsweek|access-date=May 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180523111627/http://www.newsweek.com/stephanie-adams-playboy-suicide-son-939433 |archive-date=May 23, 2018 |url-status=live}}{{Cite news|author=Ray, Esha |url=https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/local/playboy-model-pushed-year-old-son-before-suicide-plunge-from-hotel/oQRtgRucRupUOoVyopfNgP/ |title=Ex-Playboy model pushed 7-year-old son before suicide plunge from hotel |work=The Palm Beach Post|date=May 22, 2018|access-date=May 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180523064355/https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/local/playboy-model-pushed-year-old-son-before-suicide-plunge-from-hotel/oQRtgRucRupUOoVyopfNgP/ |archive-date=May 23, 2018 |url-status=live}}
  • Francis William Lauderdale Adams (1893), English writer and poet, shot in head.{{Citation |last=Murray-Smith |first=S. |title=Francis William Adams (1862–1893) |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/adams-francis-william-2865 |access-date=2024-10-25 |place=Canberra |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |language=en}}
  • Stuart Adamson (2001), Scottish guitarist and singer for Big Country and Skids, hanging after alcohol ingestion{{Cite web |date=January 26, 2002 |title=Autopsy shows star was drunk at time of suicide |url=http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=50&id=94342002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050508031904/http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=50&id=94342002 |archive-date=May 8, 2005 |website=news.scotsman.com}}
  • Adrastus (c. 550s BC), exiled son of Gordias, king of Phrygia{{Cite web |title=Herodotus, The Histories, Book 1, chapter 45, section 3 |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126:book=1:chapter=45:section=3 |access-date=2024-05-31 |website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}
  • Vibulenus Agrippa (36 AD), Roman equestrian, poison{{Cite web |title=Cassius Dio |url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/58*.html |access-date=2024-05-31 |website=penelope.uchicago.edu}}
  • Ahn Jae-hwan (2008), South Korean actor, carbon monoxide poisoning{{Cite web |last=스타뉴스 |date=2008-09-09 |title=낸시 랭 "선희 언니가 너무 사랑했는데..." |url=https://www.starnewskorea.com/stview.php?no=2008090914424691007 |access-date=2024-05-31 |website=스타뉴스 |language=ko}}{{Cite web |date=2008-09-08 |title=Actor Ahn Dead in Apparent Suicide |url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/05/113_30755.html |access-date=2024-05-31 |website=koreatimes |language=en}}
  • Aizong of Jin (1234), Chinese emperor of the Jin dynasty{{cite book |last=Dillon |first=Michael |title=Encyclopedia of Chinese History |year=2017 |publisher=Routledge |page=331}}
  • Chantal Akerman (2015), Belgian film director{{cite news |last=Shoard |first=Catherine |date=October 6, 2015 |title=Chantal Akerman, pioneering Belgian film director and theorist, dies aged 65 |newspaper=The Guardian|location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/06/chantal-akerman-pioneering-belgium-film-director-and-theorist-dies-aged-65 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151008100923/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/06/chantal-akerman-pioneering-belgium-film-director-and-theorist-dies-aged-65 |archive-date=October 8, 2015 |access-date=October 8, 2015}}
  • Sergey Akhromeyev (1991), Marshal of the Soviet Union, hanging{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-08-26-mn-938-story.html|title=Friend's Suicide Saddens Retired Adm. Crowe – Military: 'We grew to be quite close,' former Joint Chiefs chairman says of Soviet Marshal Akhromeyev.|last=Jackson|first=Robert L.|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=August 16, 1991|access-date=August 30, 2009|archive-date=June 16, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616113447/http://articles.latimes.com/1991-08-26/news/mn-938_1_former-joint-chiefs|url-status=live}}
  • Stephen Akinmurele (1999), British suspected serial killer, hanging{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/aug/30/jamiewilson1 | title='Serial killer' found hanged | work=The Guardian | location=London | date=August 30, 1999 | access-date=November 16, 2013 | author=Wilson, Jamie | archive-date=April 2, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402182001/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/aug/30/jamiewilson1 | url-status=live }}
  • Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1927), Japanese writer, overdose of barbital{{Cite news |last=Peace |first=David |date=2007-09-08 |title=Last words |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/sep/08/featuresreviews.guardianreview13 |access-date=2024-05-31 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}
  • 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.{{Cite news |date=July 18, 2005 |title=Al Qaeda Suspect Walks Free in Germany |url=https://www.dw.com/en/al-qaeda-suspect-walks-free-in-germany/a-1652288 |work=DW}}{{Cite web |title=American who trained al Qaeda pilots still wonders, 'Why me?' |url=http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/03/al.qaeda.flight.school/index.html |access-date=2024-05-31 |website=CNN |language=en}}
  • Alcetas (320 BC), Hellenic general of Alexander the Great{{Cite web |title=The Library of History of Diodorus Siculus |url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/diodorus_siculus/18b*.html |access-date=2024-05-31 |website=penelope.uchicago.edu}}
  • Leelah Alcorn (2014), American transgender teenager, walked in front of a truck{{Cite web |last2= |last3= |last4= |first4= |title=Transgender teen Leelah Alcorn: 'My death needs to mean something' |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2014/12/31/transgender-teen-leelah-alcorn-death-needs-mean-something/4hw6uPd8NtjIbn8kAdyAbM/story.html |access-date=2024-05-31 |website=The Boston Globe |language=en-US}}
  • Leandro Alem (1896), Argentine politician, founder of the Radical Civic Union, gunshot to the head{{cite book|last=Ruggiero|first=Kristen|title=Modernity in the Flesh: Medicine, Law, and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LC3fScUIUqgC|access-date=August 30, 2009|year=2004|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-4871-1|page=165|chapter=Eliminating Threats to the State|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LC3fScUIUqgC&pg=PA165}}
  • Alexander (220 BC), Seleucid satrap of Persis.{{Cite web |title=Polybius, Histories, book 5, Defeat and Death of Molon |url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plb.+5.54&redirect=true |access-date=2024-05-31 |website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}
  • Henry Alexander (1894), American painter, swallowing oxalic acid.{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1894/05/16/archives/artist-alexander-commits-suicide-ends-his-life-with-poison.html | title=ARTIST ALEXANDER COMMITS SUICIDE.; Ends His Life with Poison -- Despondent Because Without Funds | work=The New York Times | date=May 16, 1894 }}
  • Ross Alexander (1937), American actor, gunshot to the head{{cite book|last=Donnelley|first=Paul |title=Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries|publisher=Omnibus Press|year=2005|page=38|isbn=978-1-84449-430-9}}
  • Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya (2020), Russian-Australian ice skater, jumped from window of her apartment{{cite news |url=https://www.5-tv.ru/news/304360/vkvartire-pogibsej-figuristki-aleksandrovskoj-nasli-zapisku/ |language=ru |script-title=ru:В квартире погибшей фигуристки Александровской нашли записку |trans-title=A note was found in the apartment of the deceased skater Alexandrovskaya |first=Igor |last=Ryazov |date=July 18, 2020 |publisher=5TV |access-date=July 17, 2020 |archive-date=August 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200809030549/https://www.5-tv.ru/news/304360/vkvartire-pogibsej-figuristki-aleksandrovskoj-nasli-zapisku/ |url-status=live }}
  • Ghazaleh Alizadeh (1996), Iranian poet and writer, hanging{{Cite web|title=ALIZADEH, Ghazaleh|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/alizadeh-ghazaleh-writer|website=Encyclopaedia Iranica|access-date=May 11, 2020|archive-date=December 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225225123/http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/alizadeh-ghazaleh-writer|url-status=live}}
  • Gia Allemand (2013), American actress and model, hanging{{cite news | url= http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gia-allemand-dead-29-bachelor-contestant-dies-undisclosed-medical-emergency-article-1.1426795 | title= Gia Allemand dead at 29: Former 'Bachelor' contestant dies in suicide by hanging | first1= Erik | last1= Badia | first2= Bill | last2= Hutchinson | first3= Margeret | last3= Eby | work= Daily News | location= New York | date= August 14, 2013 | access-date= August 15, 2013 | archive-date= April 2, 2019 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190402192958/https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gia-allemand-dead-29-bachelor-contestant-dies-undisclosed-medical-emergency-article-1.1426795 | url-status= live }}
  • Salvador Allende (1973), 28th president of Chile, gunshot{{cite news| url = http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/07/19/chile.allende/index.html| title = Former Chilean President Allende's death confirmed as suicide| publisher =CNN | date = July 19, 2011| access-date = February 23, 2017| archive-date = November 10, 2021| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211110120638/http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/07/19/chile.allende/index.html| url-status = live}}{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/20/salvador-allende-committed-suicide-autopsy | work=The Guardian | title=Chilean president Salvador Allende committed suicide, autopsy confirms | date=July 19, 2011 | access-date=February 23, 2017 | archive-date=October 16, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016083124/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/20/salvador-allende-committed-suicide-autopsy | url-status=live }}
  • Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1932), wife of Joseph Stalin, gunshot{{cite news|title=Stalin's women|date=June 29, 2003|url=http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/7244-12.cfm|work=The Sunday Times|access-date=March 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031121181425/http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/7244-12.cfm|archive-date=November 21, 2003}}
  • Jeff Alm (1993), American football player, gunshot{{Cite news |last=Verhovek |first=Sam Howe |date=1993-12-15 |title=PRO FOOTBALL; A Friend Dies, and Oiler Kills Himself |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/15/sports/pro-football-a-friend-dies-and-oiler-kills-himself.html |access-date=2024-05-31 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}
  • Jason Altom (1998), American Ph.D. student, potassium cyanide{{Cite news |date=1998-11-29 |title=Lethal Chemistry at Harvard |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/29/magazine/lethal-chemistry-at-harvard.html |access-date=2024-05-31 |work=NY Times |language=en}}
  • August Ames (2017), Canadian pornographic actress, hanging{{Cite magazine |date=2017-12-12 |title=Death of a Porn Star |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/death-of-a-porn-star-201939/ |access-date=2024-05-31 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}{{cite web|url=http://bnonews.com/news/index.php/news/id6821|title=Porn star August Ames found dead in suicide after online criticism|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171207015929/http://bnonews.com/news/index.php/news/id6821 |archive-date=December 7, 2017|publisher=BNO News|date=December 6, 2017|access-date=October 1, 2019}}
  • Jean Améry (1978), Austrian writer, overdose of sleeping pills{{cite book|last1=Améry|first1=Jean|others=Translated by Stella P. Rosenfeld and Sidney Rosenfeld|title=At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2UoP_7jdn5cC|access-date=August 30, 2009|year=1998|series=Indiana Holocaust Museum Reprint Series|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-21173-6|page=104|chapter=Afterword|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2UoP_7jdn5cC&pg=PA104|archive-date=May 23, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523010529/https://books.google.com/books?id=2UoP_7jdn5cC|url-status=live}}
  • Amphicrates of Athens (86 BC), Greek sophist and rhetorician, starved himself{{Cite web |title=Plutarch • Life of Lucullus |url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Lucullus*.html |access-date=2024-05-31 |website=penelope.uchicago.edu}}
  • Korechika Anami (1945), Japanese War Minister, stabbed himself as part of ritual seppuku disembowelmentMax Hastings (2008) Nemesis, The Battle for Japan, 1944–45, Harper Perennial p 557.Pacific War Research Society, Japan's Longest Day, pp. 88-89.
  • Adna Anderson (1889), General, U.S. Military Railroads during the American Civil War, railroad civil engineer/manager, gunshotNew-York Tribune. Thursday, May 16, 1889, n.p.{{Cite news |title=Dies By His Own Hand |url=https://nytimes.com/timesmachine/1889/05/16/100960828.pdf |archive-url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1889/05/16/100960828.pdf |archive-date=May 16, 1889 |work=The New York Times}}
  • Forrest Howard Anderson (1989), Governor of Montana, gunshot{{Cite news |last=Ap |date=1989-07-23 |title=Forrest Anderson, Ex-Governor Of Montana, Kills Himself at 76 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/23/obituaries/forrest-anderson-ex-governor-of-montana-kills-himself-at-76.html |access-date=2024-05-31 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}
  • Mary A. Anderson (1996), unidentified woman using an alias, cyanide poisoning{{cite news |author= |title=No Clues in October Suicide |url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/feb/18/no-clues-in-october-suicide-woman-may-be-buried/ |work=The Spokesman-Review |publisher=Associated Press |date=February 18, 1998 |access-date=February 7, 2020 |archive-date=November 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101133057/https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/feb/18/no-clues-in-october-suicide-woman-may-be-buried/ |url-status=live }}
  • Robert Leroy Anderson (2003), American murderer and self-proclaimed serial killer, hanging{{cite news|last=Jorgensen|first=Don|date=January 6, 2020|title='Duct Tape Killer' The crimes, the capture, and conviction of Robert Leroy Anderson|work=KELO-TV|url=https://www.keloland.com/news/eye-on-keloland/duct-tape-killer-the-crimes-the-capture-and-conviction-of-robert-leroy-anderson/|access-date=November 5, 2024|archive-url=https://archive.today/20241105195600/https://www.keloland.com/news/eye-on-keloland/duct-tape-killer-the-crimes-the-capture-and-conviction-of-robert-leroy-anderson/|archive-date=November 5, 2024|url-status=live}}
  • Keith Andes (2005), American actor, asphyxiation{{Cite web |title= Andes, leading man to Marilyn Monroe, dies at 85 |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-11-27-keith-andes-obit_x.htm |access-date=2024-05-31 |website=USA Today}}
  • Andragathius (388 AD), Roman general and Magister equitum who assassinated emperor Gratian, drowned in the sea{{cite book|last=Orosius|first=Paulus|title=Seven Books of History Against the Pagans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s49zf3smkwwC&q=Andragathius&pg=PA388|access-date=February 9, 2019|year=2010|page=388|publisher=Liverpool University Press|isbn=978-1-84631-239-7|archive-date=May 23, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523010420/https://books.google.com/books?id=s49zf3smkwwC&q=Andragathius&pg=PA388|url-status=live}}
  • Andromachus (364 BC). Eleian cavalry general{{Cite web |title=Xenophon, Hellenica, Book 7, chapter 4, section 19 |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0206:book=7:chapter=4:section=19 |access-date=2024-05-31 |website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}
  • Odysseas Angelis (1987), Greek general and head of the Hellenic Armed Forces during the Greek Junta, hanging{{cite news|newspaper=The Times-News|location=Hendersonville, North Carolina|title=Odysseas Angelis, 75|via=Google News|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1665&dat=19870324&id=Qc8dAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cCQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4166,6411733|date=March 24, 1987|access-date=January 9, 2023|archive-date=June 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210608150104/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1665&dat=19870324&id=Qc8dAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cCQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4166,6411733|url-status=live}}
  • Roger Angleton (1998), American murderer, cut himself over 50 times with a razorSmith, Carlton (July 15, 1999). Death in Texas: A True Story of Marriage, Money, and Murder. St. Martin's True Crime.{{Cite web |date=2011-08-29 |title=Texas Confidential |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-confidential/ |access-date=2024-05-31 |website=CBS News |language=en-US}}
  • Publius Rufus Anteius (67 AD), Roman politician, drank poison and cut his veinsTacitus, Annals, 16.14
  • Mark Antony (30 BC), Roman politician and general, stabbed with sword.{{Citation|last =Florus| author-link =Florus| title =Epitome of Roman History| volume =II |page=21}}
  • Kei Aoyama (2011), Japanese manga artist, hanging{{Cite web|author=Loo, Egon|title=Manga Creator Kei Aoyama Passes Away at 32|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-10-12/manga-creator-kei-aoyama-passes-away-at-32|date=October 12, 2011|access-date=October 3, 2020|website=Anime News Network|archive-date=December 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201208054140/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-10-12/manga-creator-kei-aoyama-passes-away-at-32|url-status=live}}
  • Marcus Gavius Apicius (before 40 AD), Roman socialite, gourmet and man of great wealth, poison{{Cite web |title=Of Consolation: To Helvia - Wikisource, the free online library |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Of_Consolation:_To_Helvia |access-date=2024-05-31 |website=en.wikisource.org |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=passtheflamingo |date=2017-12-06 |title=Ancient Eaters: Marcus Gavius Apicius, the Other Other One (Roman, 1st century CE) |url=https://passtheflamingo.com/2017/12/06/ancient-eaters-marcus-gavius-apicius-the-other-other-one-roman-1st-century-ce/ |access-date=2024-05-31 |website=Pass The Flamingo: Ancient Food History and Recipes |language=en}}
  • Marshall Applewhite (1997), American leader of the Heaven's Gate religious cult, poisoned himself as part of the cult's mass suicide that year{{cite news|publisher=CNN|title=One year later Heaven's Gate suicides leave a faint trail|url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9803/25/heavens.gate/|access-date=May 8, 2010|archive-date=February 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180214072645/http://www.cnn.com/US/9803/25/heavens.gate/|url-status=live}}
  • Araki Yukio (1945), Japanese kamikaze pilot{{cite web |author=Mōri, Tsuneyuki |year=2004 |url=http://www.kamikazeimages.net/books/japanese/yuki/index.htm |title=Yuki wa juunanasai tokkou de shinda (Yuki died at 17 in a kamikaze attack) |publisher=Kamikaze Images |access-date=March 24, 2018 |archive-date=December 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225172659/http://www.kamikazeimages.net/books/japanese/yuki/index.htm |url-status=live }}
  • Arbogast (394 AD), Roman general{{cite book |last=Frassetto |first=Michael |title=The Early Medieval World: From the Fall of Rome to the Time of Charlemagne, Volume 1: A-M |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6feKDfRM9sYC |access-date=August 6, 2018 |year=2013 |page=62 |chapter=Arbogast (d. 394) |publisher=Abc-Clio |isbn=978-1-59884-996-7 |archive-date=July 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230711181023/https://books.google.com/books?id=6feKDfRM9sYC |url-status=live }}
  • Diane Arbus (1971), American photographer, overdosed on pills and slashed wrists{{Cite news |last=Lubow |first=Arthur |date=2003-09-14 |title=Arbus Reconsidered |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/14/magazine/arbus-reconsidered.html |access-date=2024-05-31 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news |date=May 2004 |title=A Fresh Look at Diane Arbus |url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/arbus.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130203193618/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/arbus.html |archive-date=February 3, 2013 |work=smithsonianmag.com}}
  • Archias of Cyprus (between 158 and 154 BC), Ptolemaic governor of Cyprus, hangingPolybius, Histories, Book 33, Chapter 5. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0234%3Abook%3D33%3Achapter%3D5 "Suicide of Archias"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130020317/https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0234:book=33:chapter=5 |date=January 30, 2022 }}. Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  • Reinaldo Arenas (1990), Cuban-American artist and writer, drug and alcohol overdose{{Cite web |title=Montclair State University |url=https://www.montclair.edu/ |access-date=2024-05-31 |language=en-US}}
  • José María Arguedas (1969), Peruvian novelist and poet, gunshot{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/33981/Jose-Maria-Arguedas|title=José María Arguedas|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=August 30, 2009|archive-date=November 23, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123203941/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/33981/Jose-Maria-Arguedas|url-status=live}}
  • Pedro Armendáriz (1963), Mexican actor, gunshot{{cite book|last1=Roberts|first1=Randy|last2=Olson|first2=James Stuart|title=John Wayne: American|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S6XlR9_emRQC&pg=PA412|access-date=August 30, 2009|year=1995|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=978-0-02-923837-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/johnwayneamerica00robe/page/412 412]|chapter=That'll Be The Day|url=https://archive.org/details/johnwayneamerica00robe/page/412}}
  • Edwin Armstrong (1954), American inventor of FM radio, jumped from a 13th floor window{{cite news |title=Edwin H. Armstrong, Inventor, Dies in Plunge |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/887794342.html?dids=887794342:887794342&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&date=Feb+02%2C+1954&author=&pub=The+Hartford+Courant&desc=Edwin+H.+Armstrong%2C+Inventor%2C+Dies+in+Plunge&pqatl=google |work=The Hartford Courant |date=February 2, 1954 |access-date=November 21, 2008 |archive-date=February 24, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090224054621/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/887794342.html?dids=887794342:887794342&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&date=Feb+02%2C+1954&author=&pub=The+Hartford+Courant&desc=Edwin+H.+Armstrong%2C+Inventor%2C+Dies+in+Plunge&pqatl=google |url-status=dead}}{{cite magazine |title=Milestones, Feb. 8, 1954 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,860424,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114205201/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,860424,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 14, 2009 |quote=Died. Edwin Howard Armstrong, 63, electronics genius, one of the fathers of modern radio; by his own hand (a jump from his 13th floor apartment) after writing a note to his wife which concluded: "May God help you and have mercy on my soul"; in Manhattan. In 1913 he worked out the regenerative circuit, which outmoded crystal receiving sets with a sensitive vacuum tube system; his superheterodyne circuit, developed in 1918 while serving in France, is still the basic circuit of AM radio. In 1939, he perfected a method for eliminating static (now known as FM). A professor of electrical engineering at Columbia University for the last 20 years, the earnest, driving inventor earned millions of dollars in patent royalties, died a rich man. |magazine=Time |url-access=subscription |date= February 8, 1954 |access-date=June 21, 2008}}
  • Arria (42 AD), Roman wife of Caecina Paetus an alleged conspirator against Emperor Claudius, stabbed herself.{{Cite web |title=Pliny: Letters - Book 3 |url=http://www.attalus.org/old/pliny3.html#16 |access-date=2024-06-11 |website=www.attalus.org}}
  • Sei Ashina (2020) Japanese actress{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2020/film/asia/ashina-sei-dead-dies-japanese-actress-suicide-1234770126/|title=Japanese Actress Ashina Sei Dies at 36|author=Schilling, Mark|magazine=Variety|date=September 15, 2020|access-date=January 7, 2021|archive-date=September 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200915132725/https://variety.com/2020/film/asia/ashina-sei-dead-dies-japanese-actress-suicide-1234770126/}}
  • Süleyman Askerî (1915), Ottoman Army officier, gunshot{{Cite book |last=Rogan |first=Eugene |title=The Fall of The Ottomans |publisher=Basic Books |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-465-05669-9 |pages=301}}
  • Tore Asplund (1977) Swedish-born American painter, hangingMerkin, Robert (January 5, 1978). "Alone and depressed, artist couldn't face another year". The Miami News. p. [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-miami-news-alone-and-depressed-arti/166866985/ A1], [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-miami-news-artist-continued/166867198/ A10]. Retrieved 2025-02-28 – via Newspapers.com.
  • Ottilie Assing (1884), German writer, journalist, feminist and abolitionist, swallowing potassium cyanide{{cite news|title =Fatal Attraction |author=Faust, Drew Gilpin|newspaper=The New York Times|date =August 1, 1999 |access-date =June 7, 2021|url = https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/08/01/reviews/990801.01faustt.html |archive-date=May 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180523100911/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/08/01/reviews/990801.01faustt.html}}
  • John Atchison (2007), American federal prosecutor and alleged child sex offender, hanging{{cite web|author=Ward, Lee |date=October 5, 2007|title=Atchison Commits Suicide|url=http://wizbangblue.com/2007/10/05/atchison-commits-suicide.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140813224731/http://wizbangblue.com/2007/10/05/atchison-commits-suicide.php |archive-date=August 13, 2014}}{{cite news| title =Fed Caught In Sex Sting Found Dead In Cell| publisher =CBS News| date =October 5, 2007| url =https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fed-caught-in-sex-sting-found-dead-in-cell/| access-date =April 16, 2020| archive-date =October 20, 2012| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20121020000244/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/05/national/main3338397.shtml| url-status =live}}
  • Mohamed Atta (2001), Egyptian member of Al-Qaeda, and leader of the 9/11 hijackers, plane crash of American Airlines Flight 11.[http://www.sptimes.com/News/091501/Worldandnation/Names_of_hijackers.shtml "Names of hijackers"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161120020504/http://www.sptimes.com/News/091501/Worldandnation/Names_of_hijackers.shtml|date=November 20, 2016}}. St. Petersburg Times. September 15, 2001{{cite book |chapter-url=http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch7.htm |title=9/11 Commission Report |chapter=Chapter 7 |date=June 2004 |publisher=National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States |access-date=September 16, 2008 |archive-date=October 23, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023214223/http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch7.htm |url-status=live }}{{Cite book |title=Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It |author= McDermott, Terry |publisher=HarperCollins |year=2005 |page= 194 |isbn= 978-0-06-058469-6}}
  • Titus Pomponius Atticus (32 BC), Roman banker, businessman, editor, author and friend of Marcus Tullius Cicero, starving himself{{Cite web |title=Cornelius Nepos: Life of Atticus - translation |url=http://www.attalus.org/translate/atticus.html#21 |access-date=2024-06-11 |website=www.attalus.org}}
  • Pekka-Eric Auvinen (2007), Finnish Jokela High School shooter, gunshot to head{{cite web |quote= Petäjäniemi, Tuulikki (Chairman); Valonen, Kai (LL.M. Secretary, Chief Accident Investigator) |url= http://www.turvallisuustutkinta.fi/material/attachments/otkes/tutkintaselostukset/fi/poikkeuksellisettapahtumat/SbmrFqAo3/Jokela_School_Shooting_on_7_November_2007.pdf |title= Jokela School Shooting on 7 November 2007: Report of the Investigation Commission |publisher= Ministry of Justice |location= Helsinki |date= February 26, 2009 |access-date= May 19, 2017 |archive-date= July 3, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150703124414/http://www.turvallisuustutkinta.fi/material/attachments/otkes/tutkintaselostukset/fi/poikkeuksellisettapahtumat/SbmrFqAo3/Jokela_School_Shooting_on_7_November_2007.pdf |url-status= live }}{{cite news |url= http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/nine-dead-after-high-school-massacre/2007/11/08/1194329351154.html |title= Nine dead after Finland school shooting |access-date= November 7, 2007 |newspaper= The Age |location= Melbourne |date= November 8, 2007 |archive-date= September 25, 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170925181419/http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/nine-dead-after-high-school-massacre/2007/11/08/1194329351154.html |url-status= live }}
  • Avicii (2018), Swedish DJ and music producer, exsanguination from cuts{{cite web|title=Avicii died by suicide, his family confirms|url=http://metro.co.uk/2018/04/26/avicii-died-suicide-family-confirm-7501007/|date=April 26, 2018|access-date=April 29, 2018|archive-date=April 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180429075654/http://metro.co.uk/2018/04/26/avicii-died-suicide-family-confirm-7501007/|url-status=live}}
  • Mike Awesome (2007), American professional wrestler, hanging{{cite magazine|url=http://www.wrestlingobserver.com/wo/news/headlines/default.asp?aID=18705 |title=Former ECW champ Mike Awesome passes away|date=February 19, 2007|access-date=February 23, 2007|last=Meltzer|first=Dave|author-link=Dave Meltzer|magazine=Wrestling Observer |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071224020235/http://www.wrestlingobserver.com/wo/news/headlines/default.asp?aID=18705 |archive-date =December 24, 2007}}
  • Marion Aye (1951), American actress, ingestion of bi-chloride of mercury tablets{{cite web|url=http://www.lordheath.com/menu1_1385.html|title=Marion Aye|work=Lord Heath|access-date=March 10, 2018|archive-date=March 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311141859/http://www.lordheath.com/menu1_1385.html|url-status=live}}
  • May Ayim (1996), German author, jumped from 13th floor of a Berlin building{{cite book|last=Ayim|first=May|editor1-first=Deniz|editor1-last=Göktürk|editor2-first=David|editor2-last=Gramling|editor3-first=Anton|editor3-last=Kaes|title=Germany in Transit: Nation and Migration, 1955–2005|series=Weimar and Now:German Cultural Criticism|volume=40|year=2007|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-24894-6|page=126|chapter=The Year 1990: Homeland and Unity From an Afro-German Perspective}}
  • Albert Ayler (1970), American jazz saxophonist, jumped into New York City's East River{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90627436|title=Albert Ayler's Fiery Sax, Now on Film|last=Mandel|first=Howard|publisher=NPR|date=June 7, 2008|access-date=August 30, 2009|archive-date=August 27, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090827031734/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90627436|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title="Albert Ayler" by Jeff Schwarz, Chapter 6 |url=http://www.geocities.com/jeff_l_schwartz/chpt6.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091021191513/http://geocities.com/jeff_l_schwartz/chpt6.html |archive-date=October 21, 2009|url-status=dead}}

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  • Andreas Baader (1977), German RAF terrorist, gunshot.{{cite book|last=Aust|first=Stefan|author-link=Stefan Aust|title=Baader-Meinhof: The Inside Story of the R.A.F.|year=2009|publisher=The Bodley Head}}
  • Yevgeni Babich (1972), Sovjet ice hockey player, hanging https://web.archive.org/web/20200417223542/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/yevgeny-babich-1.html
  • Pamela Bach (2025), American actress, gunshotLenthang, Marlene (March 6, 2025). [https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/pamela-bach-hasselhoff-baywatch-actor-david-hasselhoffs-ex-wife-dies-6-rcna195182 "Pamela Bach-Hasselhoff, 'Baywatch' actor and David Hasselhoff's ex-wife, dies at 62 "]. NBC News. Retrieved March 16, 2025.
  • Nikki Bacharach (2007), American daughter of Burt Bacharach and Angie Dickinson, suffocation using plastic bag and helium{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/05/AR2007010501705.html|title=Burt Bacharach's daughter commits suicide|publisher=Reuters|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=January 5, 2007|access-date=August 22, 2017|archive-date=October 17, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111017085435/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/05/AR2007010501705.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/burt-bacharach-angie-dickinsons-daughter-commits-suicide |title=Burt Bacharach, Angie Dickinson's Daughter Commits Suicide|publisher=Fox News|date=January 8, 2007|access-date=January 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070112020132/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C242387%2C00.html|archive-date=January 12, 2007|url-status=live}}
  • Josef Bachmann (1970), German anti-communist, who made an assassination attempt on the German student movement-leader Rudi Dutschke, asphyxiation with plastic bag{{cite news|newspaper=Junge Welt|title=Ein Opfer der Hetze|url=https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/330376.ein-opfer-der-hetze.html|date=April 7, 2018|author=Hanloser, Gerhard|access-date=April 27, 2018|archive-date=April 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180428011748/https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/330376.ein-opfer-der-hetze.html|url-status=live}}
  • Faith Bacon (1956), American burlesque dancer and actress, jumped from hotel window{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zDEsAAAAIBAJ&pg=1239,3670866|title=Famed Stripper Leaps To Death|date=September 27, 1956|work=Spartanburg Herald-Journal|access-date=April 12, 2016|archive-date=May 22, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522170322/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zDEsAAAAIBAJ&pg=1239,3670866|url-status=live}}
  • Jeff Baena (2025), American screenwriter and film director, hanging{{cite web|title=Jeffreey Baena|url=https://me.lacounty.gov/case-detail/?caseNumber=2025-00131#|author=Hunt, Brice|publisher=County of Los Angeles Medical Examiner|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=January 2025|access-date=January 7, 2025|archive-date=January 7, 2025|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250107191654/https://me.lacounty.gov/case-detail/?caseNumber=2025-00131%23}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/cause-death-revealed-aubrey-plaza-husband-jeff-baena-b1202989.htm|author=Quadri, Sami|title=Cause of death revealed for Aubrey Plaza's husband Jeff Baena after tragic loss|newspaper=Evening Standard|date=January 5, 2025|access-date=January 7, 2025|archive-date=January 7, 2025|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250107191603/https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/cause-death-revealed-aubrey-plaza-husband-jeff-baena-b1202989.html}}
  • 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{{cite news|author1=Safi, Michael|author2=Chulov, Martin|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/27/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-isis-leader-killed-us-donald-trump|title=Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed in US raid, Trump confirms|date=October 27, 2019|work=The Guardian|access-date=October 28, 2019|archive-date=October 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191027175053/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/27/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-isis-leader-killed-us-donald-trump|url-status=live}}
  • Bai Qi (257 BC), Chinese general and commander of the Qin army, cut his throat with a swordSima Qian (94 BCE). Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 73: Biographies of Bai Qi and Wang Jian
  • David Bairstow (1998), English cricketer, hanging{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/8954.html|title=David Bairstow – England Cricket|work=ESPN – Cricket Info|access-date=September 5, 2014|archive-date=March 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210326132638/https://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/8954.html|url-status=live}}
  • James Robert Baker (1997), American writer, asphyxiation{{cite news|newspaper=The New York Times|title=Obituaries:Robert Baker, Satirical Novelist, 50|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E1D8113BF937A15752C1A961958260|date=November 24, 1997|page=7|access-date=February 10, 2017|archive-date=May 23, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523010421/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/24/arts/james-robert-baker-satirical-novelist-50.html|url-status=live}} Section B
  • Mark Balelo (2013), American cast member on the reality TV series Storage Wars, carbon monoxide asphyxiationMaresca, Rachel (February 12, 2013). [http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/storage-wars-star-mark-balelo-apparent-suicide-report-article-1.1261894 "TV & Movies 'Storage Wars' star Mark Balelo in apparent suicide just days after arrest for drug charges: report"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215173428/https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/storage-wars-star-mark-balelo-apparent-suicide-report-article-1.1261894 |date=December 15, 2018 }}. Daily News (New York).{{Cite web |date=2013-02-12 |title=Storage Wars Death: Mark Balelo Suicide Confirmed |url=https://www.eonline.com/news/387768/storage-wars-death-mark-balelo-suicide-confirmed |access-date=2024-06-11 |website=E! Online}}{{Cite web |title=Storage Wars Star Mark Balelo Death a Suicide |url=https://people.com/people/article/0,,20673089,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816025345/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20673089,00.html |archive-date=August 16, 2016 |website=People}}
  • Joe Ball (1938), American serial killer, gunshot[http://www.texasmonthly.com/content/two-barmaids-five-alligators-and-butcher-elmendorf/page/0/3 "Two Barmaids, Five Alligators, and the Butcher of Elmendorf"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027185559/http://www.texasmonthly.com/content/two-barmaids-five-alligators-and-butcher-elmendorf/page/0/3 |date=October 27, 2014 }}. Texas Monthly. July 2002.
  • José Manuel Balmaceda (1891), President of Chile, gunshot{{cite book|last1=Collier|first1=Simon|last2=Sater|first2=William F.|title=A History of Chile, 1808–2002|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y2h3KuCIQI4C&pg=PA156|access-date=August 29, 2009|series=Cambridge Latin American Studies|year=2004|orig-date=1996|edition=Second|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-53484-0|pages=156–157|chapter=Santa Maria and Balmaceda}}
  • Lou Bandy (1959), Dutch singer and comedian{{cite web |url=http://www.geschiedenis.nl/nieuws/artikel/1101/lou-bandy-entertainer |title=Lou Bandy: Entertainer |publisher=Geschiedenis.nl |date=June 28, 2006 |access-date=February 18, 2012 |archive-date=June 30, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630134449/http://www.geschiedenis.nl/nieuws/artikel/1101/lou-bandy-entertainer |url-status=live }}
  • Pratyusha Banerjee (2016), Indian actress, hanging{{cite web|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/television/who-is-pratyusha-banerjee-balika-vadhu-suicide|title=Balika Vadhu star Pratyusha Banerjee dead, here is all about the actress|newspaper=The Indian Express|date=April 2, 2016|access-date=April 5, 2016|archive-date=April 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404080934/http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/television/who-is-pratyusha-banerjee-balika-vadhu-suicide/|url-status=live}}
  • Somen "Steve" Banerjee (1994), Indian American entrepreneur, co-founder of Chippendales and convicted criminal, hangingWeinstein, Henry (October 25, 1994). [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-10-25-me-54430-story.html "Chippendale Club Owner Kills Himself: Crime: Somen Banerjee, founder of the male-stripper nightspot, is found dead in his cell. He was to be sentenced in the murder-for-hire of his former business partner"] . Los Angeles Times
  • Bantcho Bantchevsky (1988), Bulgarian American singer, jump from New York Metropolitan Opera balcony{{cite news|author=McFadden, Robert D.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/25/nyregion/metro-datelines-man-s-death-at-opera-is-called-a-suicide.html|title=Opera Patron Dies in Plunge From a Balcony at the Met|newspaper=The New York Times|url-status=live|date=January 25, 1988|archive-date=October 19, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019211649/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/25/nyregion/metro-datelines-man-s-death-at-opera-is-called-a-suicide.html}}
  • Herculine Barbin (1868), French intersex memoirist, gas{{cite book |author1=Michel Foucault |author2=Herculine Barbin|year=1980 |title=Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite |publisher=Pantheon Books}}
  • Erich Bärenfänger (1945), German general{{cite book|last=Beevor|first=Antony|title=Berlin: The Downfall: 1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qiP1dfaT1fcC&q=antony%20beevor&pg=PT575|access-date=June 20, 2018|year=2002|publisher=Penguin Books|page=575|isbn=978-0-14-190302-6|archive-date=May 23, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523011455/https://books.google.com/books?id=qiP1dfaT1fcC&q=antony%20beevor&pg=PT575|url-status=live}}
  • Robert Hayward Barlow (1951), American writer and anthropologist, barbiturate overdose{{cite book |author1=Herculine Barbin |author-link=S. T. Joshi |author2=Schultz, David E.|year=2007 |title=O Fortunate Floridian: H. P. Lovecraft's Letters to R. H. Barlow |location=Tampa, Florida |publisher=University of Tampa Press|isbn=978-1-59732-034-4}}
  • Aziza Barnes (2024), American poet, screenwriter, and playwright[https://deadline.com/2024/12/aziza-barnes-dies-32-snowfall-a-knight-of-seven-kingdoms-writer-1236240151/ Aziza Barnes Dies: 'Snowfall' & 'A Knight of Seven Kingdoms' Writer Was 32]. deadline.com, December 21, 2024. Retrieved December 22, 2024.
  • Boris Barnet (1965), Russian film director, hangingKehr, Dave (December 11, 2009). [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/movies/homevideo/13dvds.html "All-American Soviet Heroine"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925230554/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/movies/homevideo/13dvds.html |date=September 25, 2017 }}. The New York Times.Wilmington, Michael (February 6, 2004). [https://www.chicagotribune.com/2004/02/06/boris-barnet-series-reveals-a-neglected-russian-talent/ "Boris Barnet series reveals a neglected Russian talent"] . Chicago Tribune.
  • Uwe Barschel (1987), German politician, ingested five sleeping potions{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/16/world/german-s-death-seen-as-suicide.html|title=German's Death Seen As Suicide|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 16, 1987|access-date=February 2, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524211720/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/16/world/german-s-death-seen-as-suicide.html|archive-date=May 24, 2015|url-status=live}}
  • Mark O. Barton (1999), American spree killer, gunshot{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/31/us/shootings-in-atlanta-the-overview-killer-confessed-in-a-letter-spiked-with-rage.html|title=Shootings in Atlanta: The Overview; Killer Confessed in a Letter Spiked With Rage|author=Sack, Kevin|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|date=July 31, 1999|access-date=January 1, 2023|archive-date=May 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527110223/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/31/us/shootings-in-atlanta-the-overview-killer-confessed-in-a-letter-spiked-with-rage.html}}
  • Ralph Barton (1931), American artist, gunshot{{cite web|url=http://www.npg.si.edu/cexh/eye/html/l_barton.htm |title=Ralph Barton: Self-portrait |publisher=National Portrait Gallery |access-date=January 29, 2008|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080529123808/http://www.npg.si.edu/cexh/eye/html/l_barton.htm |archive-date=May 29, 2008}} from the exhibition Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery.
  • Johanna Bassani (2020), Austrian combined Nordic skier and ski jumper{{Cite web|title=Chockbeskedet: 18-åriga stortalangen är död – skidvärlden i sorg: "En tragedi"|url=https://www.sportbibeln.se/skidor/chockbeskedet-18-ariga-stortalangen-ar-dod-skidvarlden-i-sorg-en-tragedi/|date=May 12, 2020|website=Sportbibeln|language=sv-SE|access-date=May 30, 2020|archive-date=October 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001000740/https://www.sportbibeln.se/skidor/chockbeskedet-18-ariga-stortalangen-ar-dod-skidvarlden-i-sorg-en-tragedi/|url-status=live}}
  • Pierre Batcheff (1932), French actor, overdose of barbital{{cite book |last1=Dalton |first1=Phillip |last2=Kramer |first2=Eric Mark |year=2012 |title= Coarseness in U.S. Public Communication|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K7GDBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA146 |publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson |page=146 |isbn=978-1-61147-504-3}}
  • Simone Battle (2014), American pop singer and member of the band G.R.L., hanging{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/simone-battle-death-ruled-suicide-coroner-article-1.1933130|title=Simone Battle death ruled suicide|newspaper=Daily News|date=September 9, 2014|location=New York|access-date=September 12, 2014|archive-date=September 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912183630/http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/simone-battle-death-ruled-suicide-coroner-article-1.1933130|url-status=live}}
  • Herb Baumeister (1996), American serial killer, gunshot{{cite news |title=Seven Skeletons, and a Suburb in Shock |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/16/us/seven-skeletons-and-a-suburb-in-shock.html |work=The New York Times |location=Indianapolis, USA |date=October 16, 1996 |access-date=February 10, 2017 |archive-date=June 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606172906/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/16/us/seven-skeletons-and-a-suburb-in-shock.html |url-status=live }}
  • J. Clifford Baxter (2002), American Enron Corporation executive, gunshot[https://www.usatoday.com/money/energy/2002-01-25-enron-suicide.htm "Former Enron executive's death ruled a suicide"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219020330/http://www.usatoday.com/money/energy/2002-01-25-enron-suicide.htm |date=February 19, 2012 }}. USA Today. January 26, 2002.
  • Sarah Becker (2024), American reality television personality, known for her appearances on The Real World: Miami{{cite web |url= https://www.thedailybeast.com/cast-members-speak-out-after-mtvs-the-real-world-miami-star-sarah-becker-dies-at-52|title=Cast Members Speak Out After 'The Real World' Star Dies by Suicide at 52|author=Young, Matt|publisher=Daily Beast|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=June 23, 2024|access-date=June 23, 2024 |archive-date=June 24, 2024|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240624034653/https://www.thedailybeast.com/cast-members-speak-out-after-mtvs-the-real-world-miami-star-sarah-becker-dies-at-52}}
  • Amelie "Melli" Beese (1925), German pioneer aviator, gunshotNaughton, Russell (1999). [http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/beese.html "Amelie 'Melli' Hedwig Beese-Boutard (1886–1925)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110302172706/http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/beese.html |date=March 2, 2011 }}. Monash University.
  • Ari Behn (2019), Norwegian author and painter{{Cite web|url=https://bnonews.com/index.php/2019/12/norway-ari-behn-dies-by-suicide/|title=Norway's Ari Behn, ex-royal and Kevin Spacey accuser, dies by suicide|date=December 25, 2019|website=BNO News|access-date=December 28, 2019|archive-date=December 26, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191226155213/https://bnonews.com/index.php/2019/12/norway-ari-behn-dies-by-suicide/|url-status=live}}
  • Jovan Belcher (2012), American football player, gunshot, murder-suicide{{cite web|author1=Schefter, Adam|author2=Merrill, Elizabeth|title=Jovan Belcher kills girlfriend, himself|url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/8697360/kansas-city-chiefs-jovan-belcher-kills-girlfriend-commits-suicide-police-say|publisher=ESPN/Associated Press|date=December 1, 2012|access-date=December 1, 2012|archive-date=December 1, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121201194020/http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8697360/kansas-city-chiefs-jovan-belcher-kills-girlfriend-commits-suicide-police-say|url-status=live}}
  • Peter Bellamy (1991), English folk musician and member of the band The Young Tradition{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/26/arts/peter-bellamy-47-british-folk-singer-who-wrote-opera.html | title=Peter Bellamy, 47; British Folk Singer Who Wrote Opera | first=Jon | last=Pareles | date=September 26, 1991 | newspaper=The New York Times | access-date=August 29, 2010 | archive-date=November 26, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126033200/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/26/arts/peter-bellamy-47-british-folk-singer-who-wrote-opera.html | url-status=live }}
  • Malik Bendjelloul (2014), Swedish documentary filmmaker, jumped in front of moving train{{cite news |title=Filmskaparen Malik Bendjelloul har avlidit |url=http://www.svd.se/kultur/filmskaparen-malik-bendjelloul-har-avlidit_3556830.svd |work=Svenska Dagbladet |date=May 13, 2014 |access-date=May 13, 2014 |language=sv |archive-date=May 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514220411/http://www.svd.se/kultur/filmskaparen-malik-bendjelloul-har-avlidit_3556830.svd |url-status=live }}{{cite news |first1=Johan |last1=Lindberg |first2=Emelie |last2=Nyman |title=Filmskaparen Malik Bendjelloul har avlidit |url=http://www.svd.se/kultur/filmskaparen-malik-bendjelloul-har-avlidit_3556830.svd |work=Svenska Dagbladet |date=May 13, 2014 |access-date=May 13, 2014 |language=sv |archive-date=May 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514220411/http://www.svd.se/kultur/filmskaparen-malik-bendjelloul-har-avlidit_3556830.svd |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/movies/malik-bendjelloul-36-dies-directed-sugar-man-movie.html |title=Malik Bendjelloul, 36, Oscar Winner for 'Sugar Man' Documentary, Dies |author=Bruce Weber |date=May 13, 2014 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=May 15, 2014 |archive-date=August 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170801040428/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/movies/malik-bendjelloul-36-dies-directed-sugar-man-movie.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |first=Georg |last=Cederskog |title=Han hade varit deprimerad |url=https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/film-tv/han-hade-varit-deprimerad/ |work=Dagens Nyheter |date=May 14, 2014 |access-date=May 15, 2014 |language=sv}}
  • Brenda Benet (1982), American television and film actress, gunshot{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/09/obituaries/brenda-benet-actress-called-suicide-victim.html|title=Brenda Benet, Actress, Called Suicide Victim|publisher=Associated Press|via=The New York Times|date=April 9, 1982|access-date=March 11, 2020|archive-date=December 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201207092410/https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/09/obituaries/brenda-benet-actress-called-suicide-victim.html|url-status=live}}
  • Walter Benjamin (1940), German-Jewish literary critic and culture theorist, morphine overdoseLeslie, Esther (2000). "Benjamin's Finale". Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism. Modern European Thinkers. Pluto Press. p. 215. {{ISBN|978-0-7453-1568-3}}. Retrieved August 28, 2009.
  • Jill Bennett (1990), English actress, secobarbital overdoseUpton, Julie (2004) Fallen Stars: Tragic Lives & Lost Careers. Critical Vision. {{ISBN|978-1-90-048638-5}}. Retrieved August 16, 2016.
  • Chester Bennington (2017), American lead singer of Linkin Park, hanging{{cite magazine|last1=Grow|first1=Cory|title=Chester Bennington, Linkin Park Singer, Dead at 41|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/chester-bennington-linkin-park-singer-dead-at-41-w493387|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=July 20, 2017|access-date=August 22, 2017|archive-date=July 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170720190456/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/chester-bennington-linkin-park-singer-dead-at-41-w493387|url-status=dead}}
  • Louis Bennison (1929), American actor, gunshot[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=koRRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wmgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2316%2C6559534 "Noted Stage Stars in Murder-Suicide"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211202120531/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=koRRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wmgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2316,6559534 |date=December 2, 2021 }}. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. June 10, 1929, p. 1. Archived at Google News. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
  • Chris Benoit (2007), Canadian professional wrestler, hangingSherwood, Roxanna (September 5, 2007). [https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Story?id=3562665&page=1 "Benoit's Dad, Doctors: Multiple Concussions Could Be Connected to Murder-Suicide"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612050932/http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Story?id=3562665&page=1 |date=June 12, 2010 }}. ABC News.
  • Pierre Bérégovoy (1993), French politician and Prime Minister (1992–93), gunshot{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/04/world/in-french-ex-premier-s-suicide-cries-of-j-accuse.html|title=In French Ex-Premier's Suicide, Cries of 'J'Accuse'|last=Simons|first=Marlise|work=The New York Times|date=May 4, 1993|access-date=May 29, 2016|archive-date=June 22, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622080241/http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/04/world/in-french-ex-premier-s-suicide-cries-of-j-accuse.html|url-status=live}}
  • Mary Kay Bergman (1999), American voice actress, gunshotKemmerman, Kristin (November 17, 1999). [http://articles.cnn.com/1999-11-17/entertainment/9911_17_obit.bergman.poss_1_rita-vennari-voice-characters "Mary Kay Bergman, voiceover actress, dead"] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130119112044/http://articles.cnn.com/1999-11-17/entertainment/9911_17_obit.bergman.poss_1_rita-vennari-voice-characters|date=January 19, 2013|publisher=CNN}}
  • Marty Bergen (1900), American baseball player, cut throat with a razor after killing his family with an ax{{cite web|url=https://sabr.org/journal/article/boston-baseball-tragedy-the-sad-tale-of-marty-bergen/|publisher=Society for American Baseball Research|title=Boston Baseball Tragedy: The Sad Tale of Marty Bergen|author=Keene, Kerry|url-status=live|date=2002|access-date=March 30, 2022|archive-date=January 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220115110949/https://sabr.org/journal/article/boston-baseball-tragedy-the-sad-tale-of-marty-bergen/}}
  • David Berman (2019), American musician and poet, hanging{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/07/arts/music/david-berman-silver-jews-dead.html|title=David Berman, Silver Jews Leader and Indie-Rock Poet, Dies at 52|first1=Joe|last1=Coscarelli|first2=Ben|last2=Sisario|date=August 7, 2019|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=August 12, 2019|archive-date=August 8, 2019|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190808084557/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/07/arts/music/david-berman-silver-jews-dead.html|url-status=live}}
  • John Berryman (1972), American poet, jumped off the Washington Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis, MinnesotaHealy, Steve (September 9, 1998). [http://www.citypages.com/1998-09-09/feature/john-berryman/ "John Berryman: The Dreamer Awakes."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100520044308/http://www.citypages.com/1998-09-09/feature/john-berryman/ |date=May 20, 2010}} City Pages.
  • Bruno Bettelheim (1990). Austrian-born U.S. psychologist and writer, asphyxiation with plastic bagOsgood, Nancy J. (July 1992). Suicide in Later Life: Recognizing the Warning Signs. Lexington Books. p. 4. {{ISBN|978-0-669-21214-3}}.
  • Paul Bhattacharjee (2013), British actor, jumped from a clifftopSacks, Ethan (November 14, 2013), [http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/actor-committed-suicide-bankruptcy-article-1.1517521 "Actor Paul Bhattacharjee may have committed suicide over bankruptcy, girlfriend testifies"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131116151823/http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/actor-committed-suicide-bankruptcy-article-1.1517521 |date=November 16, 2013 }}. Daily News (New York).
  • Brian Bianchini (2004), American model, hangingUsborne, Simon (November 21, 2009). [https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/depressed-and-lonely-model-is-found-hanged-1824938.html "'Depressed and lonely' model is found hanged"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200720052624/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/depressed-and-lonely-model-is-found-hanged-1824938.html |date=July 20, 2020 }}. The Independent.
  • Steve Bing (2020), American businessman and film producer, jumped from 27th floor of apartment building{{cite web|url=https://abc7.com/steve-bing-suicide-century-city-elizabeth-hurley/6260811/|title=Hollywood producer, philanthropist Steve Bing dies of apparent suicide|publisher = WABC-TV|date=June 23, 2020|access-date=June 27, 2020|archive-date=June 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200625003628/https://abc7.com/steve-bing-suicide-century-city-elizabeth-hurley/6260811/}}
  • Bob Birch (2012), American musician, gunshot{{cite web|author=Oldenburg, Ann|date=August 16, 2012|url=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2012/08/bass-player-bob-birch-elton-john-band-member-dies-at-56/1|title=Elton John bassist Bob Birch, 56, found dead in L.A.|newspaper=USA Today|access-date=August 22, 2012|archive-date=August 19, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819022559/http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2012/08/bass-player-bob-birch-elton-john-band-member-dies-at-56/1|url-status=live}}
  • David Birnie (2005), Australian serial killer and rapist, hangingHayward, Andrea (April 16, 2008). {{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20130219120216/http://m.perthnow.com.au/news/birnie-care-not-good-enough/story-e6frg12c-1111116078219 "Care for David Birnie not good enough, says coroner"]}}. Perth Now.
  • Maggy Biskupski (2018), French police officer and president of Movement of Angry Police Officers (MPC), gunshot{{Cite news |date=November 13, 2018 |title=Maggy Biskupski: France's 'angry police' leader found dead |agency=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46193729 |access-date=September 21, 2023 |archive-date=September 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230918084950/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46193729 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=November 13, 2018 |title=Leader of 'angry police' in France found dead in suspected suicide |url=https://www.france24.com/en/20181113-leader-angry-police-france-found-dead-suspected-suicide |access-date=September 21, 2023 |website=France 24 |archive-date=October 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231003042109/https://www.france24.com/en/20181113-leader-angry-police-france-found-dead-suspected-suicide |url-status=live }}
  • Jens Bjørneboe (1976), Norwegian novelist, hangingCody, Gabrielle H.; Sprinchorn, Evert (2007). "Bjørneboe, Jens Ingvald (1920–1976)". The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. 1. Columbia University Press. pp. 161–162. {{ISBN|978-0-231-14422-3}}. Retrieved August 28, 2009.
  • Eli M. Black (1975), CEO of United Fruit Co., jumped out of a buildingCole, Robert J. (May 17, 1975). [https://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/17/archives/direct-bribe-bid-is-laid-to-black-honduran-says-expresident.html "DIRECT BRIBE BID IS LAID TO BLACK"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171220221930/http://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/17/archives/direct-bribe-bid-is-laid-to-black-honduran-says-expresident.html? |date=December 20, 2017 }}. The New York Times.
  • Junius Blaesus (31 AD), Roman consul, general and governor of Africa, fell on a swordTacitus (29-31 AD). [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Annals_(Tacitus)/Book_5#7 Book 5, V.7] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190214174229/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Annals_(Tacitus)/Book_5#7 |date=February 14, 2019 }}, Annals. Translation based on Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb, Wikisource. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
  • Jeremy Blake (2007), American artist, drowningKennedy, Randy (August 1, 2007). [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/arts/design/01blake.html "Jeremy Blake, 35, Artist Who Used Lush-Toned Video, Dies"]. The New York Times. Retrieved December 29, 2007.
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  • Vasily Blokhin (1955), Soviet general and NKVD executioner{{cite book|author=David Remnick|title=Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dyzuvbUwX-sC&pg=PA6|access-date=August 15, 2021|year=1994|publisher=Random House Digital, Inc.|isbn=978-0-679-75125-0|pages=6–7|archive-date=October 19, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231019215048/https://books.google.com/books?id=dyzuvbUwX-sC&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
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  • Gaius Blossius (c. 129 BC), Roman philosopher and adviser to Tiberius Gracchus and Eumenes IIIPlutarch, The Life of Tiberius Gracchus [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Tiberius_Gracchus*.html 20] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523013047/https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Tiberius_Gracchus%2A.html |date=May 23, 2024 }}. 1921. Loeb Classical Library. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
  • Isabella Blow (2007), English magazine editor, and muse to fashion designer Alexander McQueen, poisoning{{cite web|url=https://nymag.com/news/features/34732/|title=The Sad Hatter|last=Larocca|first=Amy|date=July 16, 2007|newspaper=New York|access-date=April 16, 2020|archive-date=August 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806014010/https://nymag.com/news/features/34732/|url-status=live}}
  • Joe Bodolai (2011), American film and television producer and writer, poisoning{{cite web|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/joe-bodolai-s-regret-filled-suicide-note-goes-viral/article_4bf72359-cbb4-54f3-aea5-ad7a2607a2b7.html/|title=Joe Bodolai's regret-filled suicide note goes viral|last=Ciarula Taylor|first=Leslie|date=December 28, 2011|newspaper=Toronto Star|access-date=February 1, 2025}}
  • Ludwig Boltzmann (1906), Austrian physicist, known for thermodynamics and atomic theory, hangingBoltzmann, Ludwig (1995). "Conclusions". in Blackmore, John T. [https://books.google.com/books?id=apip-Jm9WuwC&pg=PA207 Ludwig Boltzmann: His Later Life and Philosophy, 1900–1906. Book Two: The Philosopher]. Springer. pp. 206–207. {{ISBN|978-0-7923-3464-4}}.
  • Bonosus (280 AD), Roman usurper, hangingAugustan History, The Lives of Firmus, Saturninus, Proculus and Bonosus [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Firmus_et_al*.html Chapter 15] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523013058/https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Firmus_et_al%2A.html |date=May 23, 2024 }}. University of Chicago. Retrieved June 17, 2018.
  • Eduardo Bonvallet (2015), Chilean World Cup footballer and pundit, hanging{{cite news|url=http://laprensa.peru.com/deportes/noticia-eduardo-bonvallet-muerte-chile-51470|title=Eduardo Bonvallet: investigan muerte del polémico comentarista deportivo en Chile|work=La Prensa|date=September 18, 2015|access-date=November 2, 2015|archive-date=May 23, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523013047/https://laprensa.peru.com/deportes/noticia-eduardo-bonvallet-muerte-chile-51470|url-status=live}}
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  • Éric Borel (1995), French high school student and spree killer, gunshot{{Cite web|title=Tuerie de Cuers : retour sur la folie meurtrière d'un lycéen qui a fait 16 morts|url=https://www.rtl.fr/actu/debats-societe/tuerie-de-cuers-dans-le-var-en-1995-16-victimes-tuees-par-un-adolescent-7799818608|website=RTL.fr|date=January 8, 2020|language=fr-FR|access-date=May 30, 2020|archive-date=January 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200109144353/https://www.rtl.fr/actu/debats-societe/tuerie-de-cuers-dans-le-var-en-1995-16-victimes-tuees-par-un-adolescent-7799818608|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|title=A black day in Provence|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/a-black-day-in-provence-1603338.html|date=September 29, 1995|website=The Independent|access-date=May 30, 2020|archive-date=February 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200216035404/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/a-black-day-in-provence-1603338.html|url-status=live}}
  • Adrian Borland (1999), English singer-songwriter (The Outsiders, The Sound), jumped in front of a moving train{{cite news |date=May 17, 1999 |title=Obituary: Adrian Borland |author=Pierre Perrone |newspaper=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-adrian-borland-1094299.html |access-date=June 19, 2017 |archive-date=December 21, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171221214200/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-adrian-borland-1094299.html |url-status=live }}
  • Martin Bormann (1945), German head of the Nazi Party Chancellery, cyanide poisoning.{{cite news |date=May 3, 1998 |title=DNA test closes book on mystery of Martin Bormann |author=Karacs, Imre |newspaper=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/dna-test-closes-book-on-mystery-of-martin-bormann-1161449.html |access-date=September 17, 2017 |archive-date=November 7, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107013555/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/dna-test-closes-book-on-mystery-of-martin-bormann-1161449.html |url-status=live }}
  • Jean-Louis Bory (1979), French writer, gunshot to the chest{{cite news|date=December 13, 2011|title=Jean-Louis Bory, le suicidé de la critique|author=Germain, Thierry|url=http://www.lesinfluences.fr/Jean-Louis-Bory-le-suicide-de-la.html|publisher=Les influences|access-date=October 31, 2018|archive-date=October 31, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031173851/http://www.lesinfluences.fr/Jean-Louis-Bory-le-suicide-de-la.html|url-status=live}}
  • Yevgenia Bosch (1925), Soviet Bolshevik revolutionary and politician, gunshot{{cite book|last=Fairfax|first=Kathy|title=Comrades in Arms: Bolshevik Women in the Russian Revolution|year=1999|publisher=Resistance Books|isbn=978-0-909196-94-3|pages=29–30}}{{cite web|last=D'Atri|first=Andrea|title=El rol de las mujeres socialistas al inicio de la revolución rusa|url=http://www.archivochile.com/Mov_sociales/mov_mujeres/doc_muj_otros/MSdocmujotros0022.pdf|publisher=Archivo Chile, Centro Estudios "Miguel Enríquez"|access-date=October 24, 2011|archive-date=April 25, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425091437/http://www.archivochile.com/Mov_sociales/mov_mujeres/doc_muj_otros/MSdocmujotros0022.pdf|url-status=live}}
  • Novak Bošković (2019), Serbian handball player, gunshot[https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israeli-handball-rocked-by-death-of-Rishons-Boskovic-579555 Israeli handball rocked by death of Rishon's Boskovic"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190204093318/https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israeli-handball-rocked-by-death-of-Rishons-Boskovic-579555 |date=February 4, 2019 }}. The Jerusalem Post. February 3, 2019. Retrieved February 7, 2019.
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  • Stephen "tWitch" Boss (2022), American hip hop dancer and DJ, gunshot{{cite news |date=December 14, 2022 |title=Stephen 'tWitch' Boss' Autopsy Complete, Cause Of Death Confirmed As Gunshot Wound To Head |author=Whitney Vasquez |newspaper=Radar Online |url=https://radaronline.com/p/stephen-twitch-boss-gunshot-wound-head-autopsy/ |access-date=February 14, 2024 |archive-date=December 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221230134329/https://radaronline.com/p/stephen-twitch-boss-gunshot-wound-head-autopsy/ |url-status=live }}
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  • Boudica (61 AD), Queen of the Iceni, poisonTacitus (59-62 AD). [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Tac.+Ann.+14.37 Book 14, Chapter 37] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523013102/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Tac.+Ann.+14.37&redirect=true |date=May 23, 2024 }}, Annals. Perseus Project. Tufts University. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  • Georges Ernest Boulanger (1891), French general and politician, gunshot{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/75487/Georges-Ernest-Jean-Marie-Boulanger|title=Georges Boulanger|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=August 28, 2009|archive-date=May 23, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523013012/https://ow.pubmatic.com/setuid?bidder=amx&uid=afe4b5e8-f738-4f6f-92b9-2cc8e2915f9d&do=www.britannica.com|url-status=live}}
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  • Anthony Bourdain (2018), American chef, author, and television personality, hanging{{cite news|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/08/us/anthony-bourdain-obit/index.html|title=CNN's Anthony Bourdain dead at 61|date=June 8, 2018|publisher=CNN|access-date=June 8, 2018|archive-date=June 8, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180608135218/https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/08/us/anthony-bourdain-obit/index.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/anthony-bourdain-has-died-in-an-apparent-suicide-by-hanging-at-61-2018-6|title=Anthony Bourdain has died in an apparent suicide by hanging at 61|date=June 8, 2018|magazine=Business Insider|access-date=June 9, 2018|archive-date=June 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180609070917/http://www.businessinsider.com/anthony-bourdain-has-died-in-an-apparent-suicide-by-hanging-at-61-2018-6|url-status=live}}
  • Tommy Boyce (1994), American songwriter, gunshot{{cite news |title=Tommy Boyce; Co-Wrote Hit Songs in '60s |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-11-26-mn-1559-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |issue=1994 |access-date=July 3, 2019 |archive-date=July 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190703135520/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-11-26-mn-1559-story.html |url-status=live }}
  • Karin Boye (1941), Swedish writer[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karin-Boye "Karin Boye"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812155655/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karin-Boye |date=August 12, 2017 }}. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved August 12, 2017.
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  • Thomas Lynn Bradford (1921), American spiritualist lecturer and psychic investigator, gas inhalation{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/02/08/103543854.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0|title=Dead Spiritualist Silent.|date=February 8, 1921|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 9, 2024|archive-date=May 23, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523013542/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/02/08/103543854.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0|url-status=live}}
  • Jonathan Brandis (2003), American actor, hanging{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/actor-brandis-committed-suicide/|title=Actor Brandis Committed Suicide|last=Cosgrove-Mather|first=Bootie|date=November 25, 2003|publisher=CBS News|access-date=October 8, 2010|archive-date=November 11, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101111165611/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/21/entertainment/main585045.shtml|url-status=live}}
  • Cheyenne Brando (1995), Tahitian model/actress, hanging{{cite magazine|last=Gliatto|first=Tom|date=May 1, 1995|title=Paradise Lost|magazine=People|volume=43|issue=17|issn=0093-7673|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20105629,00.html|access-date=August 7, 2013|archive-date=May 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160515232838/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20105629,00.html|url-status=dead}}McGasko, Joe (June 18, 2013). [http://www.biography.com/blog/the-superman-curse-21259185 "The Superman Curse"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315202516/http://www.biography.com/blog/the-superman-curse-21259185 |date=March 15, 2014}}. Biography.com.
  • Charlie Brandt (2004), American serial killer, hanging{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/deadly-obsession/|title=Deadly Obsession|publisher=CBS News|date=May 25, 2006|access-date=April 4, 2020|author=Reiner, Steven|archive-date=March 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200313173718/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/deadly-obsession/|url-status=live}}
  • Mike Brant (1975), Israeli pop starBrown, Hannah (September 10, 2014). [http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Mike-Brants-life-story-to-hit-the-silver-screen-374991 "Mike Brant's life story to hit the silver screen "] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214072941/http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Mike-Brants-life-story-to-hit-the-silver-screen-374991 |date=December 14, 2017 }}. The Jerusalem Post. jumped from his Paris apartment buildingCohen, Karine (June 13, 2003). [https://forward.com/articles/7479/a-celebrity-s-death-explored/ "A Celebrity's Death Explored"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214072259/https://forward.com/articles/7479/a-celebrity-s-death-explored/ |date=December 14, 2017 }}. The Forward.
  • Robert Eugene Brashers (1999), American serial killer, gunshot{{Cite web|url=https://www.kfvs12.com/2018/10/04/year-old-southeast-mo-cold-case-solved/|title=20-year-old southeast MO cold case solved|last=Sweeney|first=Kathy|date=October 5, 2018|publisher=KFVS-TV|access-date=April 4, 2020|archive-date=August 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803090200/https://www.kfvs12.com/2018/10/04/year-old-southeast-mo-cold-case-solved/|url-status=live}}
  • Eva Braun (1945), German wife of Adolf Hitler, cyanide poisoningJoachimsthaler, Anton (1999) [1995] The Last Days of Hitler: The Legends, the Evidence, the Truth, pp. 172, 173, 181.{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-eva-braun-story-behind-every-evil-man-469532.html| title=The Eva Braun story: Behind every evil man...| work=The Independent| date=March 12, 2006| access-date=November 7, 2013| archive-date=April 13, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413170918/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-eva-braun-story-behind-every-evil-man-469532.html| url-status=live}}
  • Richard Brautigan (1984), American writer, gunshot{{cite book | last=Brautigan | first=Ianthe | title=You Can't Catch Death: A Daughter's Memoir | publisher=St. Martin's Press | year=2000 | isbn=978-1-84195-025-9}}
  • Brennus (279 BC), Gallic tribal leader and general, stabbed himselfJunianus Justinus (1st century BC – 1st century AD). [http://www.attalus.org/translate/justin3.html#24.8 Epitome of Pompeius Trogus' Philippic Histories: Book 24, Verse 8] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908064128/http://www.attalus.org/translate/justin3.html#24.8 |date=September 8, 2008 }}. Translated by Rev. J.S.Watson (1853). Attalus. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
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  • James E. Brewton (1967), American painter and printmaker, gunshotGrafly, Dorothy (May 28, 1967). "Artist's Suicide Gives Tragic Overtone to Exhibit". Philadelphia Bulletin.
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  • Molly Brodak (2020), American poet, writer, and baker{{cite web|author1=Slotnik, Daniel|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/books/molly-brodak-dies.html|title=Molly Brodak, Poet and Memoirist of Her Father's Crimes, Dies at 39|website=The New York Times|date=March 19, 2020|access-date=May 18, 2020|archive-date=June 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200613102008/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/books/molly-brodak-dies.html|url-status=live}}
  • Herman Brood (2001), Dutch rock musician and painter, jumped from hotel roof{{cite web|title = Herman Brood (54) pleegt zelfmoord|publisher = Nederlandse Omroep Stichting|date = July 11, 2001|url = http://www.nos.nl/archief/2004/nieuws/index.html#@http://www.nos.nl/archief/2004/nieuws/dossiers/brood_herman/2001/juli/1107_brood_dood.html|access-date = April 8, 2009|archive-date = July 21, 2009|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090721194924/http://www.nos.nl/archief/2004/nieuws/index.html#@http://www.nos.nl/archief/2004/nieuws/dossiers/brood_herman/2001/juli/1107_brood_dood.html|url-status = live}}[http://www.nieuwsdossier.nl/dossier/2001-07-11/Herman+Brood+van+het+Hilton+gesprongen "Herman Brood van het Hilton gesprongen"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006205059/http://www.nieuwsdossier.nl/dossier/2001-07-11/Herman+Brood+van+het+Hilton+gesprongen |date=October 6, 2011}}. Nieuws Dossier. July 11, 2011
  • Joseph Brooks (2011), American screenwriter, director, producer, and composer, asphyxiation{{cite news|last=Long|first=Colleen|title=Joseph Brooks Suicide: Medical Examiner Rules Songwriter Killed Himself|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/24/joseph-brooks-suicide_n_866095.html|newspaper=HuffPost|publisher=Associated Press|date=May 24, 2011|access-date=November 15, 2011|archive-date=August 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110819093601/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/24/joseph-brooks-suicide_n_866095.html|url-status=live}}
  • May Brookyn (1894), British stage actress, overdose of carbolic acid[https://www.nytimes.com/1894/02/17/archives/may-brookyn-mourned-for-lovecraft-cause-of-the-suicide-of-the.html "May Brooklyn Mourned for Lovecraft – Cause of the Suicide of the Actress in San Francisco"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613133953/https://www.nytimes.com/1894/02/17/archives/may-brookyn-mourned-for-lovecraft-cause-of-the-suicide-of-the.html |date=June 13, 2018 }} The New York Times. February 17, 1894. Retrieved April 21, 2017.[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/02/17/106094018.pdf "May Brooklyn Mourned for Lovecraft – Cause of the Suicide of the Actress in San Francisco"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220629012057/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/02/17/106094018.pdf |date=June 29, 2022 }}. The New York Times (PDF of full article). Retrieved April 21, 2017.
  • John Munro Bruce (1901), Australian businessman, father of Prime Minister S. M. Bruce{{cite news|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bruce-john-munro-3093|first=Ann|last=Hone|year=1969|title=Bruce, John Munro (1840–1901)|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|volume=3|access-date=November 15, 2020|archive-date=November 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117070814/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bruce-john-munro-3093|url-status=live}}
  • Jürgen Brümmer (2014), German Olympic gymnast, jumped from the Körsch Viaduct after suffocating his sonWöckener, Lutz (February 26, 2014). [https://www.welt.de/sport/olympia/article125209439/Olympia-Turner-toetet-seinen-Sohn-und-sich-selbst.html "Olympia-Turner tötet seinen Sohn und sich selbst"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201134828/https://www.welt.de/sport/olympia/article125209439/Olympia-Turner-toetet-seinen-Sohn-und-sich-selbst.html |date=December 1, 2016}}. Die Welt. {{in lang|de}}
  • Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger (42 BC), Roman politician and conspirator to assassinate Julius Caesar, ran into his swordPlutarch (2nd century AD). "Life of Brutus", Parallel Lives. chapter 48
  • Roy Buchanan (1988), American guitarist and blues musician, hanging{{Cite news|last1=Davis|first1=Patricia|last2=Evans|first2=S and ra|date=August 17, 1988|title=ROY BUCHANAN, GUITARIST, FOUND HANGED IN VA. JAIL|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1988/08/17/roy-buchanan-guitarist-found-hanged-in-va-jail/037fc6c0-1e0c-46b1-9c57-1f169b9a4928/|access-date=January 13, 2021|issn=0190-8286}}
  • David Buckel (2018), American LGBT rights lawyer and environmental activist, self-immolation in Prospect Park, Brooklyn{{cite news|title = David Buckel: friends mourn LGBT lawyer who self-immolated|newspaper = The Guardian|date = April 20, 2018|url = https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/20/david-buckel-lgbt-lawyer-self-immolation-new-york|access-date = June 9, 2018|archive-date = May 23, 2024|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240523013559/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/20/david-buckel-lgbt-lawyer-self-immolation-new-york|url-status = live}}
  • Randy Budd (2016), American businessman whose wife, Sharon, was critically injured and disfigured by rocks thrown at their car from an overpass, gunshot{{Cite news|url=http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/oh-stark/randy-budd-husband-of-sharon-budd-dead-at-55|title=Randy Budd, husband of Sharon Budd, dead at 55|date=August 7, 2016|access-date=January 1, 2020|archive-date=September 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922113315/https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/oh-stark/randy-budd-husband-of-sharon-budd-dead-at-55|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/08/08/a-double-tragedy-man-ends-life-2-years-after-wifes-skull-crushed-by-rock-throwing-teens/|title='A double tragedy': Man shoots himself two years after wife's skull was crushed by thrown rock|last=Wang|first=Amy|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=August 8, 2016|access-date=January 1, 2020|archive-date=January 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101130710/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/08/08/a-double-tragedy-man-ends-life-2-years-after-wifes-skull-crushed-by-rock-throwing-teens/|url-status=live}}
  • Eustace Budgell (1737), English writer and politician, drowning in the Thames{{cite book|last=Colt|first=George Howe|title=The Enigma of Suicide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DOz3hStePfYC&pg=PA169|access-date=March 18, 2018|year=1992|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-0-671-76071-7|page=169}}
  • Brad Bufanda (2017), American actor, jumped from buildingRubin, Rebecca (November 3, 2017). [https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/brad-bufanda-dead-dies-veronica-mars-1202606441/ "'Veronica Mars' Actor Brad Bufanda Dies by Suicide at 34"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171219090142/http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/brad-bufanda-dead-dies-veronica-mars-1202606441/ |date=December 19, 2017 }}. Variety
  • Dale Buggins (1981), Australian stunt motorcyclist, gunshot{{Cite web|url=https://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/4160615/remembering-our-troubled-daredevil-35yrs-after-his-tragic-death/|title=Remembering Australia's forgotten showman, motorcycle daredevil Dale Buggins|work=The Illawarra Mercury|date=September 13, 2016|access-date=March 9, 2020|archive-date=March 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303124745/https://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/4160615/remembering-our-troubled-daredevil-35yrs-after-his-tragic-death/|url-status=live}}
  • Wilhelm Burgdorf (1945), German general, Chief of the Heerespersonalamt and Chief Adjutant to Adolf Hitler, gunshot.{{cite book|last=Beevor|first=Antony|title=Berlin: The Downfall: 1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qiP1dfaT1fcC&q=antony%20beevor&pg=PT580|access-date=June 20, 2018|year=2002|publisher=Penguin|page=580|isbn=978-0-14-190302-6|archive-date=May 23, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523014021/https://books.google.com/books?id=qiP1dfaT1fcC&q=antony%20beevor&pg=PT580|url-status=live}}
  • Dan Burros (1965), Jewish American neo-Nazi activist and member of the Ku Klux Klan, gunshot to the head{{cite news|last=Bryk|first=William|title=Old Smoke: The Death of Daniel Burros: A Jewish Klansman who did more than just hate himself|url=http://www.nypress.com/old-smoke-the-death-of-daniel-burros-a-jewish-klansman-who-did-more-than-just-hate-himself/|date=February 25, 2003|access-date=February 11, 2019|newspaper=New York Press|archive-date=February 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220114333/http://www.nypress.com/old-smoke-the-death-of-daniel-burros-a-jewish-klansman-who-did-more-than-just-hate-himself|url-status=live}}
  • August Anheuser Busch Sr. (1934), American CEO of Anheuser-Busch, gunshotFrankel, Todd C. (December 26, 2010). [https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/article_2efd8b6d-b179-53dc-a6b9-dc9ae1c4e929.html "For Busch family, woman's death is latest in tragic history"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201207163215/https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/article_2efd8b6d-b179-53dc-a6b9-dc9ae1c4e929.html |date=December 7, 2020 }}. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved April 21, 2018.
  • Germán Busch (1939), Bolivian military officer and 41st and 43rd President of Bolivia, gunshot{{cite book|author=Newton, Michael|title=Famous Assassinations in World History: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F4-dAwAAQBAJ&q=%22Germ%C3%A1n+Busch%22%2C+shot+himself&pg=PA615|date=April 17, 2014|publisher=ABC-CLIO|page=615|isbn=978-1-61069-286-1|access-date=October 19, 2020|archive-date=May 23, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523014027/https://books.google.com/books?id=F4-dAwAAQBAJ&q=%22Germ%C3%A1n+Busch%22%2C+shot+himself&pg=PA615|url-status=live}}{{cite book|last=Morales|first=Waltraud Q.|title=A Brief History of Bolivia|year=2003|publisher=Lexington Associates|page=117}}
  • Aaron Bushnell (2024), American member of the United States Air Force, self-immolation{{Cite news|date=February 26, 2023|title=Who was Aaron Bushnell? US Air Force member died setting himself on fire outside Israeli Embassy|url=https://nypost.com/2024/02/26/us-news/who-was-aaron-bushnell-us-air-force-member-who-set-himself-on-fire|newspaper=New York Post|access-date=March 4, 2024|archive-date=March 2, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240302130647/https://nypost.com/2024/02/26/us-news/who-was-aaron-bushnell-us-air-force-member-who-set-himself-on-fire/|url-status=live}}
  • Zvonko Bušić (2013), Croatian hijacker responsible for hijacking TWA Flight 355 in 1976, gunshot{{Cite news|date=September 7, 2013|title=Zvonko Busic dies at 67; served U.S. prison time for '76 TWA hijacking|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-zvonko-busic-20130907-story.html|access-date=January 3, 2022|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|archive-date=January 2, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102010549/https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-zvonko-busic-20130907-story.html|url-status=live}}

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  • Cai Lun (121 AD), Chinese eunuch court official, imperial adviser, inventor of paper and the modern papermaking process, poison{{cite book|last=de Crespigny|first=Rafe|title=A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23-220 AD)|year=2007|publisher=Brill|location=Leiden, Boston|page=27|isbn=9789047411840|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=49OvCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA27|access-date=November 10, 2022|archive-date=November 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221110225433/https://books.google.com/books?id=49OvCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA27|url-status=live}}
  • Calanus (323 BC), Indian gymnosophist and companion of Alexander the Great, self-immolationArrian, The Anabasis of Alexander [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Anabasis_of_Alexander/Book_VII/Chapter_III VII.3.4] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201207123821/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Anabasis_of_Alexander/Book_VII/Chapter_III |date=December 7, 2020 }}. Wikisource. Retrieved April 22, 2020.
  • Novius Calavius (314 BC), Campanian nobleman, leader of an anti-Roman insurrection.Livy, From the Founding of the City [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/From_the_Founding_of_the_City/Book_9#26 IX.26] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180805082740/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/From_the_Founding_of_the_City/Book_9#26 |date=August 5, 2018 }}. Wikisource. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
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  • Donald Cammell (1996), Scottish film director, gunshotParkin, Michael (May 8, 1996). [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-cammell-obituary-1346221.html "Donald Cammell: Obituary"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201207001144/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-cammell-obituary-1346221.html |date=December 7, 2020 }}. The Independent.
  • Homaro Cantu (2015), American chef, hangingWells, Pete (April 15, 2015). [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/dining/homaro-cantu-science-minded-chicago-chef-dies-at-38.html "Chef Homaro Cantu dies at 38"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105233750/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/dining/homaro-cantu-science-minded-chicago-chef-dies-at-38.html |date=January 5, 2018 }}. The New York Times.
  • Capital Steez (2012), American hip-hop artist, jumped off the rooftop of the Cinematic Music Group headquarters in ManhattanRosenberg, Eli (December 2013/January 2014). [http://www.thefader.com/2013/11/26/capital-steez-king-capital/ "Capital Steez: King Capital"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508170111/http://www.thefader.com/2013/11/26/capital-steez-king-capital |date=May 8, 2015 }}.The Fader #89.Goggans, Louis (December 12, 2013). [http://www.ahumblesoul.com/1/post/2013/12/details-emerge-regarding-the-death-of-capital-steez.html "Details Emerge Regarding The Death Of Capital Steez"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923081809/https://ahumblesoul.com/1/post/2013/12/details-emerge-regarding-the-death-of-capital-steez.html |date=September 23, 2018 }}. AHumbleSoul.com.
  • Capucine (1990), French actress and model, jumped from an eighth-floor apartment{{cite web|url=https://www.deseret.com/1990/3/20/18852167/french-actress-capucine-leaps-to-her-death/|title=French Actress, Capucine, Leaps to Her Death|date=March 20, 1990|newspaper=Deseret News|access-date=December 25, 2014|archive-date=December 25, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225075755/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/92626/FRENCH-ACTRESS-CAPUCINE-LEAPS-TO-HER-DEATH.html|url-status=live}}
  • George Caragonne (1995), American comic book writer, jumped from the 45th floor of the Marriott Marquis Hotel in ManhattanLambiet, Jose, Laurie C. Merrill and Corky Siemaszko (July 21, 1995). [http://personals.nydailynews.com/archives/news/1995/07/21/1995-07-21_stunned_tourists_see_man_plu.html "Stunned Tourists See Man Plunge To Death"]. Daily News (New York). {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111016123706/http://personals.nydailynews.com/archives/news/1995/07/21/1995-07-21_stunned_tourists_see_man_plu.html |date=October 16, 2011}}
  • Robert Card (2023), American former Army Reservist and perpetrator of the 2023 Lewiston shootings, gunshot{{Cite web|url=https://abc13.com/lewiston-maine-mass-shooting-shooter-robert-card-dead/13980715/|title=Maine shooting suspect Robert Card found dead of self-inflicted gunshot wound, Gov. Mills confirms|date=October 27, 2023|website=ABC13 Houston|access-date=October 28, 2023|archive-date=October 28, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231028045301/https://abc13.com/lewiston-maine-mass-shooting-shooter-robert-card-dead/13980715/|url-status=live}}
  • Wallace Carothers (1937), American inventor of nylon, cyanide poisoningHermes, Enough for One Lifetime p.291, which cites the Wilmington Morning News and The New York Times. April 30, 1937
  • Dora Carrington (1932), English artist, gunshotHaycock, David Boyd (June 1, 2010). A Crisis of Brilliance, Old Street Publishing, p. 313
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  • Tim Carter (2008), English footballer, hanging[http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/3761364.tragic_footballer_was_upset_over_son__inquest_told/ "Tragic footballer was upset over son, inquest told"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925181411/http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/3761364.tragic_footballer_was_upset_over_son__inquest_told/ |date=September 25, 2017 }}. The Northern Echo. October 15, 2008.{{cite news|url=http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/local/all-news/suicide-safc-coach-had-a-difficult-time-1-1054049|title=Suicide SAFC coach had a 'difficult time'|newspaper=Sunderland Echo|date=October 16, 2008|access-date=May 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713191940/http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/local/all-news/suicide-safc-coach-had-a-difficult-time-1-1054049|archive-date=July 13, 2015|url-status=dead}}
  • Justina Casagli (1841), Swedish opera singer, jumped out a windowHerman Hofberg: Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon (Swedish biographical dictionary) (1906) (Swedish)Arvid Ahnfelt: Europas konstnärer (The artists of Europe) (Swedish)
  • Finn M. W. Caspersen (2009), American financier and philanthropist, gunshotCohan, William D (February 2010). [https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/02/caspersen-suicide-201002 "The Shot Heard 'Round the Clubs"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150107003904/http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/02/caspersen-suicide-201002 |date=January 7, 2015 }}. Vanity Fair. Retrieved October 28, 2013.Browning, Lynnley (September 15, 2009). [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/business/16suicide.html "Suicide Victim May Have Hidden Millions Abroad"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161206002821/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/business/16suicide.html |date=December 6, 2016 }}. The New York Times. Retrieved October 28, 2013.
  • Gaius Cassius Longinus (42 BC), Roman politician, general and conspirator to assassinate Julius Caesar, fell on his sword{{cite book|last=Holland|first=Tom|title=Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic|year=2003|publisher=Little, Brown|location=London|chapter=Chapter 11 – The Death of the Republic}}
  • Camilo Castelo Branco (1890), Portuguese novelist, gunshot to the head{{cite encyclopedia|author=Cunningham, John M.|url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/98505/Camilo-Castelo-Branco|title=Camilo Castelo Branco|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=November 22, 2021|archive-date=June 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150617212656/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Camilo-Castelo-Branco}}
  • Carlos Castilho (1987), Brazilian footballer and manager.
  • Ariel Castro (2013), Puerto Rican-American kidnapper, rapist and murderer, hanging[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ariel-castro-captor-3-cleveland-women-hangs-article-1.1445149 "Ariel Castro dead: Brutal kidnapper and rapist of 3 women in Cleveland sex slave horror house hangs himself in prison"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130907010531/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ariel-castro-captor-3-cleveland-women-hangs-article-1.1445149 |date=September 7, 2013 }}. Daily News (New York). September 4, 2013.
  • Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart (2018), Cuban nuclear physicist, son of Fidel Castro{{cite news|last1=Boyle|first1=Danny|title=Fidel Castro's son 'takes own life': Late Cuban leader's eldest child found dead in Havana|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/02/fidel-castros-son-takes-life-late-cuban-leaders-eldest-child/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/02/fidel-castros-son-takes-life-late-cuban-leaders-eldest-child/ |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|website=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=February 15, 2018|date=February 2, 2018}}{{cbignore}}
  • Kelly Catlin (2019), American cycling champion{{cite web|last1=Dreier|first1=Fred|title=Kelly Catlin passes away at 23|url=http://www.velonews.com/2019/03/news/kelly-catlin-passes-away-at-23_488197|magazine=VeloNews|access-date=March 11, 2018|date=February 2, 2018|archive-date=May 23, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523014130/https://velo.outsideonline.com/road/kelly-catlin-passes-away-at-23/?scope=anon|url-status=live}}
  • Cato the Younger (46 BC), Roman statesman and politician, stabbed with sword[https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/99972/Marcus-Porcius-Cato "Marcus Porcius Cato"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150502231823/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/99972/Marcus-Porcius-Cato |date=May 2, 2015 }}. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
  • Paul Celan (1970), Romanian poet, drowning in the Seine{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/31/reviews/001231.31anderst.html|title=A Poet at War With His Language|last=Anderson|first=Mark A.|work=The New York Times|date=December 31, 2000|access-date=April 21, 2018|archive-date=January 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120164341/http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/31/reviews/001231.31anderst.html|url-status=live}}
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  • Champignon (2013), Brazilian musician, bassist for Charlie Brown Jr., gunshot[https://veja.abril.com.br/entretenimento/champignon-do-charlie-brown-jr-morre-em-sao-paulo/ "Champignon, do Charlie Brown Jr., morre em São Paulo"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929203555/https://veja.abril.com.br/entretenimento/champignon-do-charlie-brown-jr-morre-em-sao-paulo/ |date=September 29, 2019 }}. Veja. September 2013. {{in lang|pt}}
  • Joseph Newton Chandler III (2002), formerly{{cite web |title=Mystery of Joseph Newton Chandler III's true identity to be revealed |date=June 20, 2018 |url=https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/crime/mystery-of-joseph-newton-chandler-iiis-true-identity-to-be-revealed/95-565963729 |publisher=WKYC |access-date=June 24, 2018 |archive-date=August 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220803141433/https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/crime/mystery-of-joseph-newton-chandler-iiis-true-identity-to-be-revealed/95-565963729 |url-status=live }} unidentified identity thief, gunshot{{cite web|last1=Goldston|first1=Hillary|title=Cold Case: Why did dead Eastlake man steal young boy's identity?|url=http://legacy.wkyc.com/story/news/local/lake-county/2015/09/22/eastlake-man-steals-boy-identity/72599974/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20160809091050/http://legacy.wkyc.com/story/news/local/lake-county/2015/09/22/eastlake-man-steals-boy-identity/72599974/|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 9, 2016|website=wkyc.com|publisher=WKYC|access-date=August 22, 2017}}
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  • Iris Chang (2004), American historian and author of The Rape of Nanking, gunshot to head{{cite web|author=Benson, Heidi|url=https://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Historian-Iris-Chang-won-many-battles-The-war-2679354.php|title=Historian Iris Chang won many battles / The war she lost raged within|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|date=April 17, 2005|access-date=January 9, 2021|archive-date=March 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311180212/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/04/17/CMGCNBQRRP1.DTL|url-status=live}}
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  • Seung-Hui Cho (2007), American university student who perpetrated the Virginia Tech shooting, gunshotPotter, Ned (April 28, 2007). [https://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=3048108 "Killer's Note: 'You Caused Me to Do This'"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201207092535/https://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=3048108 |date=December 7, 2020 }}. ABC News.
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  • Choi Sung-bong (2023), South Korean singer{{cite magazine|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/korea-singer-choi-sung-bong-dies-at-33-1235520376/|title=Korean Singer Choi Sung-bong Dies at 33|url-status=live|magazine=The Hollywood Reporter|author=Brzeski, Patrick|date=June 20, 2023|access-date=June 26, 2023|archive-date=June 26, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230626191127/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/korea-singer-choi-sung-bong-dies-at-33-1235520376/}}
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  • Cleopatra (30 BC), Queen of Egypt, inducing an asp to bite her.
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  • Jack Cole (1958), American cartoonist known as the creator of Plastic Man, gunshot to the headHo, Oliver (February 11, 2010). [https://www.popmatters.com/120702-borderland-speakeasy-3-needle-in-the-eye-2496164660.html "Borderland Speakeasy #3: Needle in the Eye"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924185744/https://www.popmatters.com/120702-borderland-speakeasy-3-needle-in-the-eye-2496164660.html |date=September 24, 2018 }}. PopMatters. Retrieved September 24, 2018. with a rifleGravett, Paul (August 31, 2008). [http://www.paulgravett.com/articles/article/jack_cole "Jack Cole: Stretched To His Limits"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924190141/http://www.paulgravett.com/articles/article/jack_cole |date=September 24, 2018 }}. Paul Gravett. Reprinted from Comic Book Marketplace (2001). Retrieved September 24, 2018.
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  • Camila María Concepción (2020), American screenwriter and transgender rights activist{{Cite web|url=https://people.com/tv/gentefied-writer-trans-activist-camila-maria-concepcion-dead-28/|title=Gentefied Writer and Trans Activist Camila María Concepción Dies at 28|website=People|date=February 26, 2020|access-date=March 3, 2020|archive-date=March 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301113041/https://people.com/tv/gentefied-writer-trans-activist-camila-maria-concepcion-dead-28/|url-status=live}}
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  • Adolfo Constanzo (1989), American serial killer, drug dealer, warlock and cult leader, ordered a follower to shoot him{{cite web|url=http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/weird/constanzo/7.html|title=Adolfo Constanzo|last=Newton|first=Michael|work=Crime Library|page=7|access-date=April 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210035455/http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/weird/constanzo/7.html|archive-date=February 10, 2015}}
  • Tarka Cordell (2008) British musician, hanging{{Cite web|author=Jonze, Tim|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/feb/19/tarka-and-friends-life-cordell-album|title=Tarka Cordell: a musical talent distracted by the party circuit|date=February 19, 2014|website=The Guardian|access-date=January 5, 2021|archive-date=May 23, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523014616/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/feb/19/tarka-and-friends-life-cordell-album|url-status=live}}
  • Don Cornelius (2012), American television producer, best known as the creator and host of Soul Train, gunshotMcKinley, James C. (February 1, 2012). [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/arts/music/don-cornelius-soul-train-creator-is-dead-at-75.html "Don Cornelius, 'Soul Train' Creator, Is Dead at 75"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215224004/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/arts/music/don-cornelius-soul-train-creator-is-dead-at-75.html |date=February 15, 2022 }}. The New York Times.
  • Chris Cornell (2017), American musician, singer/songwriter, and member of the bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, hanging after a performance{{cite web|author1=Aswad, Jem|author2=Halperin, Shirley|url=https://variety.com/2017/music/news/chris-cornell-dead-dies-soundgarden-frontman-dies-at-52-1202432798/|title=Chris Cornell, Soundgarden Frontman, Dies at Age 52|website=Variety|date=May 18, 2015|access-date=October 30, 2019|archive-date=May 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170526140019/http://variety.com/2017/music/news/chris-cornell-dead-dies-soundgarden-frontman-dies-at-52-1202432798/|url-status=live}}
  • Marcus Caecilius Cornutus (43 BC), Roman politician and general{{Cite web |title=Appian - The Civil Wars |url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/appian/civil_wars/3*.html |access-date=2024-06-11 |website=penelope.uchicago.edu}}
  • Tony Costa (1974), American serial killer, hanging{{Cite web|url=https://the-line-up.com/tony-costa-garden-of-horror|title=The Creepy Case of Serial Killer Tony Costa and His Garden of Horrors|author=Townsend, Catherine|website=The Lineup|date=September 14, 2017|access-date=May 15, 2020}}
  • John Coughlin (2019), American figure skater,{{cite news |last1=Silverstein |first1=Jason |title=Coughlin kills self after being suspended for allegations.|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/john-coughlin-figure-skater-dead-one-day-suspended-allegations-cause-of-death/|publisher=CBS News|date=January 19, 2019}} hanging{{Cite news |url= https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2019/01/30/police-say-figure-skater-john-coughlin-died-by-hanging/2727268002/ |title=Police: Former U.S. figure skater John Coughlin died by hanging |last=Brennan |first=Christine |date=January 30, 2019|website=USA Today|access-date=February 2, 2019}}
  • Hart Crane (1932), American poet, jumped off ship{{Cite web |last=Foundation |first=Poetry |date=2024-06-10 |title=Hart Crane |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/hart-crane |access-date=2024-06-11 |website=Poetry Foundation |language=en}}
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  • Publius Licinius Crassus (53 BC), Roman general, ordered shieldbearer to stab himPlutarch, Crassus 25.11.
  • René Crevel (1935), French writer, gas asphyxiation
  • Robert W. Criswell (1905), American humorist and newspaperman, jumped in front of subway train{{cite news|title=Dies Under the Wheels of a Train|work=The San Francisco Call|date=August 4, 1905|page=1|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1905-08-04/ed-1/seq-1/}}
  • Dennis Crosby (1991), American singer and actor, son of Bing Crosby, gunshot{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1991/05/08/bing-crosbys-son-dennis-an-apparent-suicide-at-56/a7acada1-1be2-4384-8c67-e1a1c01ada47/|title=BING CROSBY'S SON, DENNIS, AN APPARENT SUICIDE AT 56|date=March 1991|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=May 15, 2020}}
  • Harry Crosby (1929), American poet and publisher, gunshot{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1929/12/11/archives/couple-shot-dead-in-artists-hotel-suicide-compact-is-indicated.html?sq=harry%2520crosby&scp=7&st=cse|title=COUPLE SHOT DEAD IN ARTISTS' HOTEL; Suicide Compact Is Indicated Between Henry Grew Crosby and Harvard Man's Wife. BUT MOTIVE IS UNKNOWN He Was Socially Prominent in Boston--Bodies Found in Friend's Suite.|pages=1|newspaper=The New York Times|url-status=live|date=December 11, 1929|access-date=February 14, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605134243/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60613FF3F5D117A93C3A81789D95F4D8285F9&scp=7&sq=harry%20crosby&st=cse|archive-date=June 5, 2011}}
  • Lindsay Crosby (1989), American singer and actor, youngest of Bing Crosby's four sons from his first marriage, gunshot{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-13-me-242-story.html|title=Lindsay Crosby Suicide Laid to End of Inheritance Income|date=December 13, 1989|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=April 17, 2020}}
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  • Charles Crumb (1992), American comics writer and artist and brother of cartoonist Robert Crumb, overdosed on pills{{Cite web|title=Crumb On Others Part 8|url=https://www.crumbproducts.com/Crumb-On-Others-Part-8_ep_64.html|access-date=September 26, 2020|website=The Official Crumb Site}}
  • Andrew Cunanan (1997), American spree killer, gunshot{{cite web |url = https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2014/march/serial-killers-part-6-andrew-cunanan-murders-a-fashion-icon |title = Serial Killers Part 6: Andrew Cunanan Murders a Fashion Icon|publisher =Federal Bureau of Investigation|location=Washington, D.C.|date=March 14, 2014|url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160702022814/https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2014/march/serial-killers-part-6-andrew-cunanan-murders-a-fashion-icon |archive-date = July 2, 2016}}
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  • Patricia Cutts (1974), English film and television actress, barbiturate overdose{{cite book|first=David K.|last=Frasier|title=Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth Century Cases|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3rmJCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA73|date=2005|publisher=McFarland & Company|isbn=978-1-4766-0807-5|page=73}}
  • Adam Czerniaków (1942), Polish-Jewish senator and head of the Warsaw Ghetto Judenrat, cyanide poisoning{{Cite web |title=Information Services |url=http://www.diapozytyw.pl/en/site/ludzie/adam_czerniakow |website=diapozytyw.pl}}

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  • Ali-Akbar Davar (1937), Iranian politician, judge and the founder of the modern judicial system of Iran, overdose of opium{{Cite web|title=DĀVAR, ʿALĪ-AKBAR – Encyclopaedia Iranica|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/davar-ali-akbar|website=Encyclopaedia Iranica|access-date=May 11, 2020}}
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  • Alice de Janzé (1941), American heiress, gunshot[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xdkOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CGoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4740,3175030 "Buffalo Woman Suicide in Africa"]. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 22, 1942
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  • Guy Debord (1994), French philosopher and founder of the Situationists International, gunshotHussey, Andrew (July 27, 2001). [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/jul/28/biography.artsandhumanities "Situation abnormal"]. The Guardian (London).
  • Jeanine Deckers (1985), Belgian musician known as the Singing Nun, overdose of sedatives{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/02/world/belgium-s-singing-nun-is-reported-a-suicide.html | title=Belgium's Singing Nun Is Reported a Suicide|newspaper=The New York Times | date=April 2, 1985 | access-date=September 21, 2013}}
  • Albert Dekker (1968), actor known for the science fiction film Dr. Cyclops, autoerotic asphyxiation.{{cite book|last=Hare|first=William |title=L.A. Noir: Nine Dark Visions of the City of Angels|year=2008|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-3740-5|page=143}}{{cite book|last=Parish|first=James Robert|title=The Hollywood Book of Death: The Bizarre, Often Sordid, Passings of More Than 125 American Movie and TV Idols|publisher=Contemporary Books|year=2002|page=260|isbn=0-8092-2227-2}}
  • Gilles Deleuze (1995), French philosopher, self-defenestration"Gilles Deleuze". Encyclopædia Britannicaa.
  • Jeremy Wade Delle (1991), American high school student who inspired the Pearl Jam song "Jeremy", gunshot{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evansville-press-jeremy-wade-delle/157033193/ |title=Jeremy Delle |newspaper=Evansville Press|page=30| date=January 9, 1991}}
  • Peter Delmé (1770), English politician, gunshot{{cite web|url=http://www.londononline.co.uk/features/grosvenor_square/15/|title=Peter Delmé (Peter the Czar)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111011190202/http://www.londononline.co.uk/features/grosvenor_square/15/ |archive-date=October 11, 2011|website=London Online|date=January 15, 2013}}
  • Brad Delp (2007), American singer-songwriter for the bands Boston and RTZ, carbon monoxide poisoning{{cite web|title=Police Report On Delp's Death Reveals His Final Message |url=http://www.wmur.com/entertainment/11253135/detail.html |publisher=WMUR |access-date=December 9, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522142855/http://www.wmur.com/entertainment/11253135/detail.html |archive-date=May 22, 2011}}
  • Penelope Delta (1941), Greek writer, poison.Battersby, Eileen (January 25, 2014). [https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/a-visit-to-the-court-of-king-witless-1.1663061 "A visit to the court of King Witless"]. The Irish Times. Retrieved April 27, 2019.[https://www.bibalex.org/en/news/details?documentid=2541&keywords=penelope%20delta "Conference about Penelope Delta at the BA"]. Bibliotheca Alexandrina. April 5, 2009. Retrieved April 27, 2019.{{cite web|title=Biography of Penelope Delta |url=http://www.benaki.gr/index.asp?id=4010201&lang=en |publisher=Benaki Museum |access-date=May 25, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614140918/http://www.benaki.gr/index.asp?id=4010201&lang=en |archive-date=June 14, 2011}}
  • Demonax (c. 170 AD), Greek Cypriot Cynic philosopher, starved himself to deathLucian, Demonax, 65
  • Demosthenes (322 BC), Greek statesman, poison.{{Cite web |title=Plutarch, Demosthenes, chapter 29, section 1 |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0039:chapter=29:section=1 |access-date=2024-06-11 |website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}
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  • Julius Dettmann (1945, Nazi Germany Schutzstaffel (SS) officer who had Anne Frank and her relatives and friends arrested and deported, hanging{{cite web|url=http://www.verraadannefrank.nl/silberbauer.html|title=Karl Josef Silberbauer (Dutch)|publisher=Het verraad van Anne Frank |language=nl|url-status=live|access-date=5 August 2024|archive-date=5 August 2024|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240805163653/https://www.verraadannefrank.nl/silberbauer.html}} ("The Betrayal of Anne Frank"){{cite web|url=https://www.oorlogsslachtoffers.nl/en/julius-dettmann-3/|title=Julius Dettmann|author=Schoutissen, Richard|publisher=Stichting Oorlogsslachtoffers|language=en-NL|url-status=live|date=January 26, 2022|access-date=August 5, 2024|archive-date=August 5, 2024|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240805164025/https://www.oorlogsslachtoffers.nl/en/julius-dettmann-3/}}
  • Patrick Dewaere (1982), French actor, gunshot{{cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/18880/Patrick-Dewaere/biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120719000722/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/18880/Patrick-Dewaere/biography|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 19, 2012|title=Patrick Dewaere|last=German|first=Yuri|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|year=2012|access-date=July 8, 2009}}
  • Diaeus (146 BC), Greek strategos of the Achaean League, poison{{cite book|last=Malkin|first=Frederick|title=History of Greece from the Earliest Times to Its Final Subjection to Rome|url=https://archive.org/details/annualreportpre15univgoog|year=1829|publisher=Baldwin and Cradock|page=260}}
  • Joseph Di Mambro (1994), French religious leader and co-founder of Order of the Solar Temple{{cite news |title=Swiss Police Identify Cult Leader's Body; Cause of Death Unknown |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-10-14-mn-50297-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=October 14, 1994|access-date=December 13, 2017}}
  • Ding Ruchang (1895), Chinese admiral, opium overdose{{cite book|last1=Elleman|first1=Bruce A.|last2=Paine|first2=Sarah C. M.|title=Naval Blockades and Seapower: Strategies and Counter-Strategies, 1805–2005|url=https://archive.org/details/navalblockadesse00libg|url-access=limited|year=2006|publisher=Routledge|page=[https://archive.org/details/navalblockadesse00libg/page/n96 74]|isbn=978-0-415-35466-0}}
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  • Thomas M. Disch (2008), American writer, gunshot{{cite news |first=Matt |last=Schudel |title=Thomas Disch; sci-fi writer was part of 'New Wave' |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/07/09/ST2008070901926.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |page=B05 |date=July 9, 2008 |access-date=July 12, 2008}}
  • Adriaan Ditvoorst (1987), Dutch film director and screenwriter, drowningJonkers, J. J. [http://www.thuisinbrabant.nl/personen/d/ditvoorst,-adriaan Adriaan Ditvoorst (1940–1987)] Thuis in Brabant. Retrieved December 13, 2011.
  • Julia Domna (217 AD), Roman empress, second wife of Emperor Septimius SeverusBirley, Anthony (1999). Septimius Severus: The African Emperor, Routledge, p. 192. {{ISBN|0-203-02859-7}}.
  • Christopher Dorner (2013), former American police officer and mass shooter, gunshot{{cite web|author=Lloyd, J., Ebright, O., Pamer, M., & Tata, S.|url=http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Christopher-Dorner-LAPD-Manhunt-Search-Big-Bear-190902721.html|title=Charred Human Remains Found in Rubble of Burned-Out Cabin|publisher=KNBC (NBC Los Angeles)|date=February 28, 2013|access-date=February 5, 2022|archive-date=January 30, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130082951/https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/christopher-dorner-lapd-manhunt-search-big-bear/2055609/}}
  • Michael Dorris (1997), American novelist, overdose of sleeping pills with vodka and asphyxiationStreitfeld, David (July 29, 1997). [https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19970729/2551917/a-writers-descent----a-dark-cloud-of-suspicion-hung-over-the-final-pages-of-novelist-michael-dorris-life-suicide-may-have-been-his-only-possible-ending "A Writer's Descent -- A Dark Cloud Of Suspicion Hung Over The Final Pages Of Novelist Michael Dorris' Life; Suicide May Have Been His Only Possible Ending"]. The Seattle Times.
  • Jon Dough (2006), American pornographic actor, hanging{{cite news|title=Monique Demoan back working |url=http://www.adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=22034 |access-date=December 18, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081212030021/http://www.adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=22034 |archive-date=December 12, 2008}}
  • Francis Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrig (1894), British nobleman and Liberal politician, gunshotMcKenna, Neil: "The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde" (2003){{cite web|url=http://www.lexscripta.com/articles/wilde6.html|title=The Importance of Being Wilde Part VI: Why was Wilde Persecuted?|url-status=live|newspaper=Queensland Bar News|via=Lexscripta|date=December 2003|access-date=March 13, 2023|archive-date=September 25, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220925020024/http://www.lexscripta.com/articles/wilde6.html}}
  • Edward Downes (2009), English conductor, assisted double suicide with wife Lady Joan Downes at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland{{cite news|title=With Help, Conductor and Wife Ended Lives|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/world/europe/15britain.html|first=John F.|last=Burns|work=The New York Times|date=July 14, 2009|access-date=September 1, 2020}}
  • Scott Dozier (2019), American murderer, hanging{{cite news|author=Newberg, Katelyn |author2=Ferrara, David |title=Nevada death row inmate Scott Dozier dead from apparent suicide |url=https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-nevada/nevada-death-row-inmate-scott-dozier-dead-from-apparent-suicide-1566659/ |work=Las Vegas Review-Journal|date=January 5, 2019 |access-date=January 9, 2019}}
  • Charmaine Dragun (2007), Australian television newsreader, jumped off The Gap[http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/tv-newsreader-found-dead/story-e6frg6nf-1111114790454 "TV newsreader found dead"]. The Australian. November 2, 2007
  • Lynwood Drake (1992), American spree killer, gunshot{{Cite web|title=Central California Man Kills Six Before Suicide|url=https://apnews.com/article/511e2aae582814b2dc3fb2a684d39d46|date=November 8, 1992|access-date=June 8, 2021|publisher=AP News}}
  • Nick Drake (1974), English singer-songwriter, overdose of amitriptyline tablets{{cite news|last=Brown|first=Mick|title=Nick Drake: the fragile genius|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/worldfolkandjazz/11250728/Nick-Drake-the-fragile-genius.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/worldfolkandjazz/11250728/Nick-Drake-the-fragile-genius.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=March 11, 2018|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=November 25, 2014|location=London}}{{cbignore}}
  • Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus (42 BC), Roman senatorVelleius Paterculus, History of Rome [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Velleius_Paterculus/2C*.html Book 2, Chapter 71]. University of Chicago.
  • Pete Duel (1971), American actor, gunshot{{Cite web|first=Jaimie-Lee|last=Prince|title=Pete Duel's Unexpected Suicide: The End of 'Alias Smith and Jones'|url=https://news.amomama.com/154681-pete-duels-unexpected-suicide-the-end-al.html|date=June 4, 2019|access-date=June 29, 2021|website=Amo Mama}}
  • Dave Duerson (2011), American football safety for the Chicago Bears, New York Giants, and Phoenix Cardinals, gunshot to the chest{{cite news|last=Foley|first=Stephen|title=Tragic NFL star's last wish could shed new light on game's risks|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tragic-nfl-stars-last-wish-could-shed-new-light-on-games-risks-2221722.html|access-date=February 26, 2011|newspaper=The Independent|date=February 22, 2011|location=London}}
  • Theresa Duncan (2007), American video game designer, blogger, filmmaker and critic, ingestion of Tylenol and alcohol{{Cite web|last=Sales|first=Nancy Jo|title=The Golden Suicides|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/01/suicides200801|access-date=June 24, 2020|website=Vanity Fair|date=December 11, 2007|archive-date=February 12, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150212061919/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/01/suicides200801}}
  • R. Budd Dwyer (1987), American politician, gunshot to mouth{{cite web|url=https://www.pennlive.com/crime/2022/01/budd-dwyers-suicide-becomes-media-dilemma-to-show-or-not-to-show-photos-video.html|title=Budd Dwyer's suicide becomes media dilemma: To show or not to show photos, video?|author=Luciew, John|newspaper=The Patriot-News|date=January 20, 2022|access-date=February 14, 2022|archive-date=January 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120141644/https://www.pennlive.com/crime/2022/01/budd-dwyers-suicide-becomes-media-dilemma-to-show-or-not-to-show-photos-video.html}}

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  • George Eastman (1932), American inventor and philanthropist, gunshot to heartLindsay, David [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eastman/sfeature/finalshot.html "George Eastman: The Final Shot"]. American Experience. PBS. Retrieved August 30, 2013.
  • Volker Eckert (2007), German serial killer, hanging{{cite news|title=At first he just toyed with the idea of killing|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/07/crime|access-date=July 19, 2018|work=The Guardian |date=June 8, 2008|last=Davies|first=Nick}}
  • Edward I. Edwards (1931), American politician, gunshot to head{{cite news|publisher=United Press International|title=Ex-N. J. Governor Is Found Suicide|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=HT19310126.2.51&srpos=40&e=--1929---1931--en--20--21--txt-txIN-%22suicide%22-------1|access-date=April 13, 2017|work=Healdsburg Tribune|issue=70|date=January 26, 1931|location=Healdsburg, California|page=4}}
  • Mack Ray Edwards (1971), American serial killer, hanging{{Cite web|url=https://www.laweekly.com/a-pasadena-author-researching-jogging-trails-cracks-an-old-serial-killer-case/|title=A Pasadena Author Researching Jogging Trails Cracks an Old Serial-Killer Case|last=Pelisek|first=Christine|date=October 6, 2008|website=LA Weekly|access-date=April 4, 2020}}
  • James Dallas Egbert III (1980), American university student, gunshot{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-arizona-republic-james-dallas-egbert/157412633/ |title=Lonely genius ended his life's odyssey with suicide |newspaper=The Arizona Republic|page=112| date=August 31, 1980}}
  • Paul Ehrenfest (1933), Austrian theoretical physicist, murder-suicide by shooting his son and himself{{Cite web|url=https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/paul-ehrenfest-forgotten-physicist/|title=The Perils of Being Paul Ehrenfest, a Forgotten Physicist and Peerless Mentor|last=Johnson|first=Eric|date=July 1, 2019|website=MIT Press|access-date=March 30, 2024}}
  • Naima El Bezaz (2020), Moroccan-Dutch writer{{Cite web|last=Kasraoui|first=Safaa|date=August 9, 2020|title=Moroccan-Dutch Writer Naima El Bezaz Ends Her Life at Age 46|url=https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2020/08/314877/moroccan-dutch-writer-naima-el-bezaz-ends-her-life-at-age-46/|access-date=August 12, 2020|website=Morocco World News|archive-date=August 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812143912/https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2020/08/314877/moroccan-dutch-writer-naima-el-bezaz-ends-her-life-at-age-46/}}
  • Keith Emerson (2016), English rock musician, keyboardist, and composer for the bands The Nice and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, gunshot to the head{{cite news|last1=Grinberg|first1=Emanuella|title=Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake & Palmer Dead at 71|url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/11/entertainment/keith-emerson-dies-feat/|publisher=CNN|date=March 12, 2016 |access-date=September 5, 2017}}
  • Martin Emond (2004), New Zealand cartoonist and painter, hanging{{Cite web|url=http://listener.co.nz/issue/3340/artsbooks/1952/goodbye_to_the_jungle.html|title=Books: Goodbye to the jungle|author=Hill, Julie|newspaper=New Zealand Listener|date=October 21, 2008|access-date=September 18, 2021|archive-date=October 21, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021153632/http://listener.co.nz/issue/3340/artsbooks/1952/goodbye_to_the_jungle.html}}
  • Empedocles (c. 430 BC), Greek philosopher, leapt into Mount EtnaDiogenes Laërtius, Life of Empedocles, translated by Robert Drew Hicks (1925) viii. 69Horace (19 BC). Ars Poetica, 465–466
  • Robert Enke (2009), German footballer, struck by train{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/8353733.stm |title=Suicide keeper battled depression|publisher=BBC News|date=November 11, 2009}}
  • Gudrun Ensslin (1977), German RAF terrorist, hanging.
  • Peg Entwistle (1932), Welsh-born American actress, jumped from the "H" in the Hollywood SignWilkins, Frank. [http://www.franksreelreviews.com/shorttakes/hollywoodland.htm "Suicide and the Hollywood Sign: The Girl Who Jumped from the Hollywood Sign"]. Reel Reviews. Retrieved May 23, 2015.{{efn|At the time, the sign read "Hollywoodland".}}
  • Epicharis (65 AD), Roman leading member of the Pisonian conspiracy, strangled herself with a band of clothTacitus (62-65 AD). [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Annals_(Tacitus)/Book_15#57 Book 15, Chapter 57], Annals. Wikisource. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
  • Eratosthenes (194 BC), Greek polymath and chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria, voluntary starvation[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eratosthenes "Eratosthenes"]. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved April 22, 2018.
  • Ermanaric (376 AD), king of the GreuthungiAmmianus Marcellinus (380s AD). Res Gestae, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ammian/31*.html Book 31, Chapter 3, Section 2]. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
  • Florbela Espanca (1930), Portuguese poet, barbiturates overdose
  • Etika (2019), American YouTuber and streamer, drowned after jumping from the Manhattan Bridge{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/01/us/youtube-etika-desmond-amofah-suicide-trnd/index.html|title=YouTuber Etika died by suicide, medical examiner says|author=Orjoux, Alanne|date=July 2019|publisher=CNN|access-date=August 5, 2019}}
  • Euphrates the Stoic (118 AD), Roman Stoic philosopher, hemlock poisoningCassius Dio, Roman History, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/69*.html Book 69, Chapter 8]. University of Chicago.
  • Eurydice II of Macedon (317 BC), Queen of Macedon, hangingDiodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica, Book 19, 11
  • Tom Evans (1983), English musician and songwriter for the group Badfinger, hanging.Clark, Nick (April 26, 2013). [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/badfinger-last-act-in-a-rocknroll-tragedy-8590656.html "Badfinger: last act in a rock'n'roll tragedy"]. The Independent.
  • Richard Evonitz (2002), American serial killer and kidnapper{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2002/08/14/3-slain-girls-cases-closed/d4ce0ccb-befc-48c0-8c24-dbafe51d7b72/|title=3 Slain Girls' Cases Closed|first=Maria|last=Glod|newspaper=The Washington Post|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=August 14, 2002|access-date=September 14, 2024|archive-date=June 25, 2024|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240625181937/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2002/08/14/3-slain-girls-cases-closed/d4ce0ccb-befc-48c0-8c24-dbafe51d7b72/}}

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  • Angus Fairhurst (2008), English artist, hanging{{cite web | date=February 7, 2009|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/angus-fairhurst-the-forgotten-man-1570775.html|title=Angus Fairhurst: The forgotten man |newspaper=The Independent|access-date=October 18, 2019}}
  • Enevold de Falsen (1808), Norwegian Supreme Court Justice, drowning{{cite encyclopedia |author=Thyness, Paul |date=February 13, 2009|url=https://nbl.snl.no/Envold_De_Falsen|title=Envold De Falsen |encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|language=no|access-date=November 25, 2018}}
  • Moni Fanan (2009), Israeli basketball executive Maccabi Tel Aviv, hanging{{cite web|url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/former-basketball-executive-moni-fanan-commits-suicide-1.5849|title=Former basketball executive Moni Fanan commits suicide|date=October 19, 2009|newspaper=Haaretz}}
  • Gaius Fuficius Fango (40 BC), Roman general and politician{{cite book |author=Appian|title=The Civil Wars |chapter=Book 5, Chapter 26 |url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/appian/civil_wars/5*.html|date=1913|publisher=Loeb Classical Library |via=University of Chicago}}
  • Fausto Fanti (2014), Brazilian humorist known as a member of the comedy troupe Hermes & Renato, and guitarist for Massacration, hanging{{cite web|url=http://g1.globo.com/pop-arte/noticia/2014/07/fausto-fanti-humorista-do-hermes-renato-morre-em-sao-paulo.html|title=Fausto Fanti, humorista do Hermes & Renato, é encontrado morto em SP|work=G1|date=July 30, 2014|access-date=July 26, 2020|language=Portuguese}}
  • Richard Farnsworth (2000), American actor, gunshot{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,618509,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091213040038/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,618509,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 13, 2009|title=Richard Farnsworth: Suicide|last=Silverman|first=Stephen M.|newspaper=People|date=July 16, 1998}}
  • Hazel Farris (1906), American mass murderer, outlaw and fugitive whose mummy became a tourist attraction, alcohol and arsenic poisoning{{cite web|title=The Mummy Of Bessemer Hall: Strange Life Story Of Hazel Farris|website=Planet Today|url=https://www.planet-today.com/2020/04/the-mummy-of-bessemer-hall-strange-life.html|date=April 30, 2020|access-date=April 4, 2024}}
  • Justin Fashanu (1998), British footballer, hanging{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/167715.stm | title=Suicide verdict on footballer Fashanu|publisher=BBC News|date=September 9, 1998 | access-date=July 14, 2013}}
  • René Favaloro (2000), Argentine cardiac surgeon (created technique for coronary bypass surgery), gunshot to the heart{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/aug/03/guardianobituaries|title=René Favaloro | work=The Guardian |location=London|first=Pearce|last=Wright|date=August 3, 2000}}
  • José Feghali (2014), Brazilian pianist, winner of the 1985 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, gunshot to head{{cite web|author=Ahles, Andrea|title=Cliburn gold medalist José Feghali dies|date=December 10, 2014|newspaper=Fort Worth Star-Telegram|url=http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/fort-worth/article4405388.html}}
  • Malevo Ferreyra (2008), Argentine police chief accused of multiple murders and acts of torture during the 1970s, gunshot to the headElsinger, Rubén [http://edant.clarin.com/diario/2008/11/22/elpais/p-01807909.htm "Se suicidó el "Malevo" Ferreyra, símbolo de la represión en Tucumán"], Clarín, Buenos Aires, 21 November 2008.
  • Anton Fier (2022), American drummer, composer and bandleader, assisted suicide{{cite web|last=Hurley|first=Bevan|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/anton-fier-assisted-suicide-drummer-switzerland-b2201319.html|title=Renowned NYC musician dies by assisted suicide in Switzerland after having 'completed life'|work=The Independent|date=October 13, 2022|access-date=October 16, 2022}}{{cite web|last=Williams|first=Alex|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/arts/music/anton-fier-dead.html|title=Anton Fier, Drummer Who Left Stamp on a Downtown Scene, Dies at 66|work=The New York Times|date=October 7, 2022|access-date=October 16, 2022|archive-date=October 14, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221014170947/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/arts/music/anton-fier-dead.html|url-status=live}}
  • Hans Fischer (1945), German organic chemist and recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry{{cite book |title=Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, 1901–1992 |last=Laylin|first=James K. |year=1993 |publisher=American Chemical Society |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jEy67gEvIuMC&q=Hans+Fischer+chemist&pg=PA187|access-date= July 19, 2018|page=190|isbn=978-0-8412-2690-6}}
  • Hermann Emil Fischer (1919), German chemist and recipient of the 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry{{cite web|url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/emil-fischer|title=Emil Fischer|date=June 2016|publisher=Science History Institute|access-date=July 19, 2018}}
  • Mark Fisher (2017), English writer and political theorist, hanging{{Cite web |date=19 July 2017 |title=Renowned writer and K-Punk blogger Mark Fisher from Felixstowe took own life after battle with depression |url=https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/22060765.renowned-writer-k-punk-blogger-mark-fisher-felixstowe-took-life-battle-depression/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230120132443/https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/22060765.renowned-writer-k-punk-blogger-mark-fisher-felixstowe-took-life-battle-depression/ |archive-date=20 January 2023 |access-date=21 January 2023 |website=Ipswich Star}}
  • Mathieu Fischer (2021), Belgian survivor of the 2016 Brussels bombings.{{Cite web |last=de Thier |first=Victor |date=2023-07-25 |title=Procès des attentats de Bruxelles: le bilan officiel du nombre de victimes revu à la hausse |url=https://www.rtbf.be/article/proces-des-attentats-de-bruxelles-le-bilan-officiel-du-nombre-de-victimes-revu-a-la-hausse-11232684 |access-date=2025-01-06 |website=RTBF |language=fr}}
  • 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,{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/208939/Robert-Fitzroy|title=Robert Fitzroy|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=June 15, 2009}} slit throat{{cite book|last=Browne |first=E. Janet|author-link=Janet Browne |title=Charles Darwin: The Power of Place |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o0CeYRJnWmYC&q=%22Robert+FitzRoy%22+suicide+cut&pg=PA264 |volume=2 |date=2002 |publisher=Princeton University Press|via=Google Books|isbn=0-691-11439-0|page=264}}
  • Quintus Fulvius Flaccus (172 BC), Roman consul, hangingLivy, From the Founding of the City, [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/From_the_Founding_of_the_City/Book_42#28 42.28]. Wikisource. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  • Caroline Flack (2020), English radio and television presenter, hanging{{cite news |title='No doubt' Flack intended to take own life |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-53676793|publisher=BBC News|date=August 6, 2020 |access-date=November 15, 2021|archive-date=January 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127114200/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-53676793 |url-status=live}}
  • Mike Flanagan (2011), American baseball player and 1979 American League Cy Young Award winner{{cite news|url=https://www.wbaltv.com/article/mike-flanagan-found-dead/7069999|title=Mike Flanagan Found Dead|publisher=WBAL-TV|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=August 24, 2011|access-date=November 21, 2023|archive-date=September 23, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110923133114/http://www.wbaltv.com/sports/28967968/detail.html}} shotgun wound to the head{{cite web|title=Mike Flanagan's death ruled suicide by medical examiner |url=https://www.nj.com/yankees/2011/08/mike_flanagans_death_ruled_sui.html|publisher=Associated Press|via=NJ.com|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=August 25, 2011|access-date=November 21, 2023|archive-date=November 21, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20231121154301/https://www.nj.com/yankees/2011/08/mike_flanagans_death_ruled_sui.html}}
  • Vester Flanagan (2015), American television news reporter responsible for killing Alison Parker and Adam Ward, gunshot to the head{{cite news |author1=Spencer, Hawes |author2=Rogers, Katie |author3=Blinder, Alan |author4=Pérez-Peña, Richard |date=August 26, 2015 |title=Suspect in Virginia shooting of news team commits suicide |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/us/wdbj7-virginia-journalists-shot-during-live-broadcast.html?_r=0|access-date=August 26, 2015}}
  • Ed Flanders (1995), American actor, gunshotGliatto, Tom (March 20, 1995). [http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20105320,00.html "From Elsewhere to Nowhere: Tortured by Depression, Alcoholism and Ill Health, Actor Ed Flanders Fell from Elsewhere to Nowhere"]. People, Vol. 43 No. 11.
  • John Bernard Flannagan (1942), American sculptor[https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/209515/John-Bernard-Flannagan "John Bernard Flannagan"]. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved May 23, 2015.
  • Frederick Fleet (1965), English sailor and lookout on the RMS Titanic who first spotted the iceberg that struck the vessel, hangingEdmonds, Robert (2009). [http://www.maritimequest.com/liners/titanic/crew/fleet_frederick.htm "Frederick Fleet(1887–1965)"]. Maritime Quest. Retrieved August 12, 2018.
  • Mark Fleischman (2022), American businessman and onetime owner of Studio 54, assisted suicide with the aid of the assisted dying non-profit Dignitas{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/07/13/studio-54-mark-fleischman-suicide-dies/|title=Mark Fleischman, Studio 54 owner, dies by assisted suicide at 82|newspaper=The Washington Post|author=Schudel, Matt|url-status=live|date=July 13, 2022|access-date=July 14, 2022|archive-date=July 14, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220714121757/https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/07/13/studio-54-mark-fleischman-suicide-dies/}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/mark-fleischman-studio-54-assisted-suicide-b2110294.html|title=Former Studio 54 owner Mark Fleischman announces plan to die by assisted suicide|date=June 27, 2022|website=The Independent}}
  • Keith Flint (2019), English singer and dancer for The Prodigy,Marshall, Alex (2019). [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/obituaries/keith-flint-dead.html "Keith Flint, 49, Mohawked Frontman of the Prodigy, Dies"]. The New York Times. Retrieved March 4, 2019. hanging{{Cite web|title=Zanim się powiesił, Keith Flint błagał żonę, by do niego wróciła|url=https://www.kozaczek.pl/zanim-sie-powiesil-keith-flint-blagal-zone-by-do-niego-wrocila/|date=March 6, 2019|access-date=March 9, 2019|work=Kozaczek|language=pl}}
  • Charley Ford (1884), American outlaw, gunshot{{cite book |last=Miller |first=Wilbur R. |title=The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: A-De |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tYME6Z35nyAC&pg=PA874 |publisher=SAGE Publications |date=June 19, 2012 |page=874 |isbn=978-1-4129-8876-6}}{{cite web |url=http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/FORD/2006-02/1141100758 |title=[Ford] Robert and Charles Ford ancestors |last=Mault |first=Deena |work=RootsWeb |publisher=Ancestry.com |date=February 27, 2006 |access-date=June 3, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903075619/http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/FORD/2006-02/1141100758 |archive-date=September 3, 2017}}{{cite journal |title=Charlie Ford's Funeral |date=May 8, 1884 |journal=St. Louis Globe-Democrat}}
  • Tom Forman (1926), American actor, director and producer, gunshotKlepper, Robert K. Silent Films, 1877–1996: A Critical Guide to 646 Movies p. 93. McFarland & Company, 2005. {{ISBN|9-78147-6604-848}}
  • André "Dédé" Fortin (2000), Canadian songwriter, singer and guitarist (Les Colocs), stabbing{{cite news|last1=Gagnon|first1=Lysiane|title=He must have suffered greatly before dying|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/he-must-have-suffered-greatly-before-dying/article767840/ |website=The Globe and Mail|access-date=February 16, 2018|date=May 22, 2000}}
  • Vince Foster (1993), American attorney and Deputy White House Counsel to Bill Clinton, gunshot to mouth{{cite news|author=Steinberg, Jacques| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/11/nyregion/robert-l-bartley-66-dies-led-journal-editorial-page.html| title=Robert L. Bartley, 66, Dies; Led Journal Editorial Page|newspaper=The New York Times| date=December 11, 2003| access-date=April 17, 2012}}{{cite book| chapter-url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/whitewater/docs/fosterix.htm |chapter= IX. State of Mind|title=Whitewater: The Foster Report | publisher=United States Office of the Independent Counsel/The Washington Post|date=October 11, 1997|access-date=December 30, 2011}}
  • Jason David Frank (2022), American actor known for the TV series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, hanging{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2022/12/jason-david-frank-cause-of-death-revealed-1235185829/|work=Deadline Hollywood|title='Power Rangers' Star Jason David Frank's Cause Of Death Revealed|author=Tartaglione, Nancy|url-status=live|date=December 1, 2023|access-date=January 26, 2023|archive-date=January 26, 2023|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20230126200106/https://deadline.com/2022/12/jason-david-frank-cause-of-death-revealed-1235185829/}}
  • Wade Frankum (1991), Australian mass murderer who perpetrated the Strathfield massacre, gunshotHabib, Rashell (August 22, 1911). [http://inner-west-courier.whereilive.com.au/news/story/twenty-years-since-the-strathfield-massacre/ "Twenty years since the Strathfield Massacre"]. Inner West Courier
  • Kelly Fraser (2019), Canadian pop singer and songwriter{{Cite web|url=https://globalnews.ca/news/6347384/kelly-fraser-cause-of-death-suicide/|title=Inuk singer Kelly Fraser died by suicide amid 'hard' fight with PTSD, family says|website=Global News|access-date=January 17, 2020}}
  • Ryan Freel (2012), American professional baseball player, gunshot{{cite news|last1=Rosencrans|first1=C. Trent|title=Report: Ryan Freel suffered from CTE when he committed suicide|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2013/12/15/ryan-freel-cte-suicide-chronic-traumatic-encephalopathy/4032887/|access-date=October 18, 2017|work=USA Today|date=December 15, 2013}}
  • Sigmund Freud (1939) Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis, assisted suicide with morphine overdose.
  • John Friedrich (1991), Australian fraudster, gunshot{{cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |last=Bongiorno|first=Frank|title=Friedrich, John (1950–1991)|id2=friedrich-john-15506|access-date=May 5, 2020}}
  • Beşir Fuad (1887), Ottoman intellectual, cutting his wrists{{cite news |last1=Bardakçı |first1=Murat |date=11 January 1998 |title=İstanbul'da intihar salgını |url=https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/gundem/istanbul-da-intihar-salgini-39283148 |access-date=8 January 2024 |work=Hürriyet |language=tr}}
  • Emil Fuchs (1929), Austrian-American sculptor, gunshotCool, Thomas. [http://thomascool.eu/Painting/TC1851-EmilFuchs.html "Emil Fuchs 1866–1929"]. Website of Thomas Cool. Retrieved March 22, 2014.[https://www.nytimes.com/1929/01/23/archives/fuchs-left-500000-and-art-to-public-will-of-artist-who-ended-life.html "Fuchs left $500,000 and Art to Public"]. The New York Times. January 23, 2013. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
  • Fujimura Misao (1902), Japanese philosophy student and poet, jumped from the Kegon Falls[http://www.japanpen.or.jp/e-bungeikan/guest/essay/fujimuramisao.html "主権在民史料 藤村 操" ("Sovereign residents' historical materials: Fujimura operation")] February 9, 2005 {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141226102500/http://www.japanpen.or.jp/e-bungeikan/guest/essay/fujimuramisao.html|date=December 26, 2014}}
  • Travis Fulton (2021), American boxer and mixed martial artist fighter, hanging{{cite news|title=Update: Inmate identity released as jail investigates apparent suicide |url=https://kwwl.com/2021/07/11/update-inmate-identity-released-as-jail-investigates-apparent-suicide/|publisher=KWWL News|url-status=live|date=July 11, 2021|access-date=March 1, 2023|archive-date=April 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220416075249/https://www.kwwl.com/news/cedar-rapids/update-inmate-identity-released-as-jail-investigates-apparent-suicide/article_38bf0af2-f03e-560e-95da-022155751739.html}}{{cite web|title=All-time MMA fights leader Travis Fulton dies in jail cell of apparent suicide|url=https://sports.yahoo.com/police-all-time-mma-fights-leader-travis-fulton-dies-in-jail-cell-of-apparent-suicide-000045406.html|publisher=Yahoo! Sports|author=Ownes, Jason|url-status=live|date=July 11, 2021|access-date=March 1, 2023|archive-date=November 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211108143818/https://sports.yahoo.com/police-all-time-mma-fights-leader-travis-fulton-dies-in-jail-cell-of-apparent-suicide-000045406.html}}
  • Anton Furst (1991), English production designer on Batman (1989), jump from an eighth story parking garage[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE7DA163DF935A15752C1A967958260 "Anton Furst, 47, Dies; Designer of 'Batman'"]. The New York Times. November 26, 1991
  • Fusu (210 BC), Chinese prince and heir apparent of the Qin dynasty{{Cite book|last=Kerr|first=Gordon|title=A Short History of China|publisher=Oldcastle Books|year=2013|page=34|chapter=The Second Emperor}}

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  • Anthony Galindo (2020), Venezuelan singer{{Cite web|last=Semana|date=October 4, 2020|title=Falleció Anthony Galindo, exintegrante del Grupo Menudo|url=https://www.semana.com/gente/articulo/fallecio-exintegrante-del-grupo-menudo/202050/|access-date=October 6, 2020|website=Semana.com Últimas Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo|language=es}}
  • 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{{Cite web|url=https://www.thesignaturespot.com/articles/ed-gantner-a-cautionary-tale?format=amp |access-date=July 28, 2024 |title=Ed Gantner: A Cautionary Tale |publisher=The Signature Spot}}
  • Alan García (2019), Peruvian politician who served as President of Peru from 1985 to 1990 and again from 2006 to 2011, gunshot{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-47965867|title=Alan García: Peru's former president kills himself ahead of arrest|publisher=BBC News|date=April 17, 2019|access-date=April 17, 2019}}
  • Jamir Garcia (2020), Filipino singer, vocalist of the band Slapshock, hanging{{cite web|url=https://www.manilatimes.net/2020/11/26/news/latest-stories/slapshock-frontman-jamir-garcia-found-dead/801855/|author=Iglesias, Iza|newspaper=The Manila Times|title=Slapshock frontman Jamir Garcia found dead|date=November 26, 2020|access-date=November 29, 2020|archive-date=November 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126215606/https://www.manilatimes.net/2020/11/26/news/latest-stories/slapshock-frontman-jamir-garcia-found-dead/801855/}}
  • Santiago García (2021), Uruguayan soccer player, gunshot{{Cite web|title=Se suicidó el Morro García – TyC Sports|url=https://www.tycsports.com/liga-profesional-de-futbol/se-suicido-el-morro-garcia-godoy-cruz-id319741.html|access-date=February 6, 2021|website=TyC Sports|language=es}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.clarin.com/deportes/muerte-santiago-morro-garcia-murio-jueves-participacion-terceros-_0_xj9CWQRLW.html|title=La muerte de Santiago Morro García: "Murió el jueves" y "no hubo participación de terceros"|website=Clarín|language=es|access-date=February 8, 2021}}
  • Romain Gary (1980), French novelist, diplomat, and film director, gunshot{{cite news|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/12/03/Author-Romain-Gary-who-shot-himself-to-death-Tuesday/2567344667600/ | title = Author Romain Gary, who shot himself to death Tuesday... |date = December 3, 1980|access-date = September 19, 2024|publisher = UPI}}
  • Arturo Gatti (2009), Canadian professional boxer, hanging{{cite web

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  • Danny Gatton (1994), American guitarist, gunshot{{Cite news|last=Harrington|first=Richard|date=October 16, 1994|title=GATTON DEAD OF GUNSHOT WOUND|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1994/10/06/gatton-dead-of-gunshot-wound/b1cfae12-39d5-4e13-a19f-ea9f4a599254/|access-date=January 14, 2021|issn=0190-8286}}
  • John Geddert (2021), American gymnastics coach, gunshot{{cite news|url =https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-john-geddert-reportedly-dies-by-suicide-after-being-charged-20210225-gqp4csfhi5fpvnty6lagjmuoze-story.html|title = Ex-Olympics gymnastics coach John dies by suicide after being charged with sex crimes, human trafficking|author = Oliveira, Nelson|date = February 25, 2021|access-date = February 26, 2021|work = Daily News|location=New York|archive-date=February 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226182728/https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-john-geddert-reportedly-dies-by-suicide-after-being-charged-20210225-gqp4csfhi5fpvnty6lagjmuoze-story.html}} shortly after being charged with 24 felony counts related to sexual abuse of his trainees{{cite news|url =https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/us/john-geddert-usa-gymnastics-coach-charged/index.html | title = John Geddert, who had ties to Larry Nassar, found dead after being charged with human trafficking and sex crimes, officials say|date = February 25, 2021|access-date = February 25, 2021|publisher = CNN |author=Simko-Bednarski, Evan |author2=Vera, Amir}}
  • Richard Gerstl (1908), Austrian painter, stabbing and hanging{{Cite magazine|last=Ross|first=Alex|title=The Final, Shocking Self-Portrait of Richard Gerstl|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-final-shocking-self-portrait-of-richard-gerstl|magazine=The New Yorker|date=June 22, 2017|access-date=June 19, 2022}}
  • Babak Ghorbani (2014), Iranian wrestler, overdose{{Cite news|title=بابک قربانی، کشتیگير محکوم به اعدام، در زندان خودکشی کرد|url=https://www.radiofarda.com/a/26694638.html|website=رادیو فردا|language=fa|access-date=May 18, 2020}}
  • Jeremy Giambi (2022), American retired baseball player, gunshot to chest{{Cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2022/02/11/jeremy-giambi-former-mlb-outfielder-died-suicide-coroner/6748824001/|title=Former major league outfielder Jeremy Giambi died by suicide, according to coroner's report|last=Lacques|first=Gabe|newspaper=USA Today |access-date=February 12, 2022|archive-date=February 11, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220211230244/https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2022/02/11/jeremy-giambi-former-mlb-outfielder-died-suicide-coroner/6748824001/}}
  • Karl Giese (1938), German archivist, museum curator and life partner of Magnus Hirschfeld{{cite web | url = https://magnus-hirschfeld.de/institute-for-sexual-science-1919-1933/personnel/institute-employees-and-domestic-personnel/|title = Institute for Sexual Science (1919–1933): Institute Employees and Domestic Personnel| publisher = Magnus Hirschfeld Society| access-date = January 29, 2019}}
  • Paul Gilbert (1976), American film and television actor, gunshot{{cite web | url = https://www.huffpost.com/entry/melissa-gilbert-father-death_n_6095584|title = How Melissa Gilbert Learned The Painful Truth About Her Father's Death| date=November 4, 2014 | publisher = HuffPost| access-date = December 2, 2023}}
  • Gildo (398 AD), Roman Berber general and rebel leader, hangingZosimus, New History [http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/zosimus05_book5.htm Book 5, Chapter 140], London: Green and Chaplin (1814). Transcribed by Roger Pearse (2002). Retrieved February 19, 2019.
  • Rex Gildo (1999), German singer and actor, jump from his third-floor apartment window{{cite news|title=German pop singer Gildo dies|work=Associated Press Archive|agency = Associated Press|date=October 28, 1999|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=APAB&p_theme=apab&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=%22rex%20gildo%22&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(%22rex%20gildo%22)Êl_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:DÊl_useweights=no|access-date=August 30, 2019}}
  • Richard Gilkey (1997), American painter, gunshot{{cite web|url=https://spl.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16118coll31/id/66/|title=Richard Gilkey Interview, June 14, 1986|website=The Seattle Public Library|date=June 14, 1986|access-date=June 25, 2023}}
  • Sam Gillespie (2003), philosopher whose writings and translations were crucial to the initial reception of Alain Badiou's work in the English-speaking world{{cite journal|url = http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/32/64|title = Introduction to Sam Gillespie|publisher = Open Humanities Press|year = 2006|journal = Cosmos and History|volume = 2|issue = 1–2|pages = 159–160|access-date = November 28, 2010|last1 = Jöttkandt|first1 = Sigi|archive-date = July 22, 2011|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110722002348/http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/32/64|url-status = dead}}
  • Claude Gillingwater (1939), American actor, gunshotFrasier, David K. (January 1, 2005). [https://books.google.com/books?id=97WJCgAAQBAJ&q=claude+gillingwater+suicide+google+book&pg=PA397 Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth Century Cases]. McFarland & Company. p. 120. {{ISBN|0786423331}}
  • Virginia Giuffre (2025), American-Australian advocate for survivors of sex trafficking, and accuser of child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Britain's Prince Andrew{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/virginia-roberts-giuffre-obit-778c4fdd6fac2522133ca3d79244bccd|title=Virginia Giuffre, who accused Britain’s Prince Andrew in Epstein sex trafficking scandal, has died|publisher=Associated Press|author=Peltz, Jennifer; Golden, Hallie|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=April 26, 2025|access-date=April 27, 2025|archive-date=April 26, 2025|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250426021815/https://apnews.com/article/virginia-roberts-giuffre-obit-778c4fdd6fac2522133ca3d79244bccd}}
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935), American writer, chloroform overdoseKnight, Denise D. (1994). The Diaries of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 2 Vols. Ed. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, p 813.
  • Kurt Gloor (1997), Swiss film director, screenwriter and producer{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z7gFT_Duq1cC&q=%22Kurt+Gloor%22+suicide&pg=PA161 |year=2009 |title=The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema |access-date=March 11, 2019|last1=Bock|first1=Hans-Michael|last2=Bergfelder|first2=Tim|publisher=Berghahn Books|page=161|isbn=978-0-85745-565-9}}
  • John Wayne Glover (2005), Australian serial killer, hanging[https://www.smh.com.au/national/granny-killer-found-dead-in-cell-20050910-gdm1ec.html "Granny killer found dead in cell"]. The Sydney Morning Herald. September 10, 2005. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
  • 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{{cite web|url=http://www.missingkids.com/poster/NCMU/1104264/1|title=Jane Doe 1987|website=missingkids.com|publisher=National Center for Missing and Exploited Children|access-date=August 12, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140813085643/http://www.missingkids.com/poster/NCMU/1104264/1|archive-date=August 13, 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://doenetwork.org/cases/23ufca.html|title=Case File: 23UFCA|website=doenetwork.org|publisher=The Doe Network|access-date=July 12, 2014}}
  • Jean-Luc Godard (2022), French-Swiss film director and film critic, assisted suicide procedure.{{Cite web |title=Jean-Luc Godard a eu recours au suicide assisté: "Il n'était pas malade, il était simplement épuisé" |url=https://www.liberation.fr/culture/jean-luc-godard-est-mort-20220913_LLEGXZFQSFDC3FBJCP7AWXSYWI/ |access-date=September 13, 2022 |website=Libération |language=fr}}{{cite news | url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/le-cin%C3%A9aste-jean-luc-godard-est-d%C3%A9c%C3%A9d%C3%A9-%C3%A0-l-%C3%A2ge-de-91-ans/47896180 | title=Le cinéaste Jean-Luc Godard est décédé à l'âge de 91 ans |publisher=Swissinfo |date=13 September 2022}}
  • Joseph Goebbels (1945), Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister, gunshot or cyanide poisoning.{{cite book|last = Joachimsthaler | first = Anton |author-link=Anton Joachimsthaler|others = Trans. Helmut Bögler | title = The Last Days of Hitler: The Legends, the Evidence, the Truth|year = 1999|orig-year = 1995|publisher = Brockhampton Press|location = London|isbn = 978-1-86019-902-8 |page=52}}{{cite book|title = Berlin: The Downfall 1945| last = Beevor|first = Antony | author-link = Antony Beevor | year = 2002 | publisher = Viking-Penguin Books|location = London|isbn = 978-0-670-03041-5|page=381}}
  • Magda Goebbels (1945), German wife of Joseph Goebbels, assisted suicide by gunshot or cyanide poisoning.
  • Gongsun Zan (199 AD), Chinese general and warlord, setting himself and his family on fireChen Shou (3rd century). Records of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Wei, Volume 8: Biographies of the two Gongsuns, Tao, and the four Zhangs.
  • David Goodall (2018), English-born Australian botanist and ecologist, physician-assisted suicide{{cite news|last=Agence France-Presse|title=104-year-old Australian scientist dies after flying to Switzerland to end his life|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/10/australias-oldest-scientist-104-dies-flying-switzerland-end/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/10/australias-oldest-scientist-104-dies-flying-switzerland-end/ |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=February 19, 2019|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=May 10, 2018}}{{cbignore}}
  • Dickie Goodman (1989) American novelty musician and record producer, gunshot{{Cite web|author=Levin, Barry|title=Large number of musicians took their own lives |url=https://www.albanyherald.com/news/local/barry-levine-large-number-of-musicians-took-their-own-lives/article_9d999cfe-b06a-5137-84ed-8dcf96e3c511.html|newspaper=Albany Herald|url-status=live|date=June 24, 2017|access-date=June 26, 2023|archive-date=June 26, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230626191403/https://www.albanyherald.com/news/local/barry-levine-large-number-of-musicians-took-their-own-lives/article_9d999cfe-b06a-5137-84ed-8dcf96e3c511.html}}
  • Gordian I (238 AD), Roman emperor, hangingHistoria Augusta, The Three Gordians 16.3
  • Adam Lindsay Gordon (1870), Australian poet, gunshot{{cite news |url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/to-some-gordon-legend-stands-like-stone-20060624-ge2l1q.html|title=To some, Gordon legend stands like stone| newspaper=The Age| last=Webb|first=Carolyn|date=June 24, 2006|archive-date=June 26, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230626191403/https://www.albanyherald.com/news/local/barry-levine-large-number-of-musicians-took-their-own-lives/article_9d999cfe-b06a-5137-84ed-8dcf96e3c511.html}}
  • Lucy Gordon (2009), English actress and model, hanging{{cite web|url=http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/British-Actress-Lucy-Gordon-In-Paris-Suicide-Spider-Man-3-Star-Takes-Her-Own-Life/Article/200905315285957 |title=Spider-Man's Lucy Gordon In Paris Suicide |publisher=Sky News|date=May 21, 2009 |access-date=July 5, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603202221/http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/British-Actress-Lucy-Gordon-In-Paris-Suicide-Spider-Man-3-Star-Takes-Her-Own-Life/Article/200905315285957 |archive-date=June 3, 2011}}
  • Gōri Daisuke (2010), Japanese voice actor, narrator and actor, cut his wrist{{cite news|author=Loo, Egon |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-01-18/dragon-ball-actor-daisuke-gouri-reportedly-passes-away |title=Dragon Ball Actor Daisuke Gouri Passes Away |date=January 18, 2010 |work=Anime News Network|access-date=March 24, 2018}}
  • Hermann Göring (1946), German politician, military leader, major figure in Nazi Party, potassium cyanideKershaw, Ian (2008). Hitler: A Biography. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company. {{ISBN|978-0-393-06757-6}}, p. 964.
  • Arshile Gorky (1948), Armenian American painter; hanging[http://arshilegorkyfoundation.org/gorkys-life "Gorky's Life"]. Arshile Gorky Foundation. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
  • Joachim Gottschalk (1941), German stage and film actor, gas inhalation{{cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-this-day-family-commit-suicide-1.5285669|title=This Day in Jewish History / Gottschalk Family Commits Suicide Rather Than Let Nazis Split Them Apart|author=Green, David B.|work=Haaretz|date= November 6, 2013|access-date=July 19, 2018}}
  • Gaius Gracchus (121 BC), Roman politician, reformer and tribune, ordered a slave to kill himAppian, Civil Wars, Book [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/appian/civil_wars/1*.html Book 1, Chapter 26]. University of Chicago.
  • Eddie Graham (1985), American professional wrestler, gunshot{{Cite web|last=Selman|first=Jim|title=Self-inflicted gunshot kills Eddie Graham|url=https://www.wrestling-titles.com/personalities/graham_eddie/death.html|newspaper=Tampa Bay Tribune|via=Wrestling-Titles.com|url-status=live|date=January 22, 1985|access-date=November 20, 2022|archive-date=December 29, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051229230130/https://www.wrestling-titles.com/personalities/graham_eddie/death.html}}
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  • Mike Graham (2012), American professional wrestler, gunshot{{cite web|last=Harris|first=Keith|date=October 22, 2012|title=Mike Graham tragedy - commits suicide like father and son before him|url=https://www.cagesideseats.com/2012/10/22/3536446/mike-graham-tragedy-commits-suicide-like-father-and-son-before-him|access-date=November 30, 2021|website=Cageside Seats}}
  • Phil Graham (1963), American newspaper publisher, shotgun{{cite news|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/02/09/reviews/graham-philip.html|title=Philip Graham, 48, Publisher, a Suicide|newspaper=The New York Times|url-status=live|date=August 4, 1963|access-date=October 27, 2018|archive-date=January 17, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230117082149/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/02/09/reviews/graham-philip.html}}
  • Sophie Gradon (2018), English model and television personality, hanging{{Cite news|title=Love Island star killed herself after mixing drugs and alcohol, inquest finds|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/18/sophie-gradon-love-island-star-killed-herself-after-mixing-drugs-and-alcohol-inquest-finds|newspaper=The Guardian|url-status=live|date=April 18, 2019|access-date=December 10, 2020|archive-date=April 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418123545/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/18/sophie-gradon-love-island-star-killed-herself-after-mixing-drugs-and-alcohol-inquest-finds}}
  • Wolfgang Grams (1993), German Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF) terrorist, gunshot{{cite news |url=https://www.welt.de/geschichte/article117494112/Bad-Kleinen-die-Exekution-war-ein-Medienskandal.html |title=Bad Kleinen – die 'Exekution' war ein Medienskandal|author=Kellerhoff, Sven Felix|newspaper=Die Welt|date= June 27, 2013|access-date=April 24, 2018}}
  • Bob Grant (2003), English actor, carbon monoxide poisoning{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3283503.stm |title=Entertainment {{pipe}} On the Buses TV star found dead|publisher=BBC News|date=November 19, 2003|access-date=April 4, 2019}}
  • Shauna Grant (1984), American porn actress, gunshot{{cite news|last1=Goodman|first1=Walter|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/09/movies/frontline-documentary-death-of-a-porn-queen.html|title=Death of a Porn Queen|newspaper=The New York Times|url-status=live|date=June 9, 1987|access-date=September 12, 2014|archive-date=January 30, 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130130140133/http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/09/movies/frontline-documentary-death-of-a-porn-queen.html}}
  • Spalding Gray (2004), American actor, playwright, screenwriter, performance artist, and monologuist, jumped off the Staten Island FerryDewan, Shaila K.; McKinley, Jesse (March 9, 2004). [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/09/nyregion/body-of-spalding-gray-found-monologuist-and-actor-was-62.html "Body of Spalding Gray Found; Monologuist and Actor Was 62"]. The New York Times.
  • Mark Green (2004), American record-setting minor league hockey star, hanging{{cite web| url = http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20090713/SPORTS01/307139965/-1/SPORTS| title = Green scored goals wherever he was| newspaper = Watertown Daily Times| date = July 13, 2009| access-date = September 18, 2010| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160602222751/http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20090713/SPORTS01/307139965/-1/SPORTS| archive-date = June 2, 2016| url-status = dead}}[http://www.azhockey.com/Gr.htm "-Gr"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923181248/http://www.azhockey.com/Gr.htm |date=September 23, 2015}}. A to Z Encyclopaedia Of Ice Hockey. October 27, 2008
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  • Walter Groß (1945), German physician, politician, eugenicist and race theorist{{cite book|last = Koonz| first = Claudia| title = The Nazi Conscience|year = 2003|publisher = Harvard University Press|page=106}}
  • Carl Großmann (1922), German serial killer, hanging[http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87065609/1922-07-14/ed-1/seq-7/#date1=1921&index=5&rows=20&words=Grossmann+Karl&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1922&proxtext=Karl++Gro%C3%9Fmann&y=9&x=10&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 "German Bluebeard Takes Own Life"]. East Mississippi Times (Starkville, Mississippi), July 14, 1922, Image 7. Archived at the Library of Congress. Retrieved April 22, 2018.
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  • Paul Gruchow (2004), American writer, drug overdoseGrossmann, Mary Ann (November 28, 2012). [http://www.twincities.com/bestlocalblogs/ci_22077932/minnesota-writer-paul-gruchows-posthumous-memoir-details-weight "Minnesota writer Paul Gruchow's posthumous memoir details the weight of depression"]. TwinCities.com, St. Paul Pioneer Press.

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  • Charles Haddon (2010), English lead singer of pop-synth band Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, hanging{{Cite magazine |last=Murray |first=Robin|title=Ou Est Le Swimming Pool Inquest|url=https://www.clashmusic.com/news/ou-est-le-swimming-pool-inquest/|magazine=Clash|url-status=live|date=June 24, 2011|access-date=March 1, 2023|archive-date=February 28, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230228124235/https://www.clashmusic.com/news/ou-est-le-swimming-pool-inquest/}}
  • Charlie Haeger (2020), American baseball player, gunshot{{Cite news|title=Charlie Haeger, the former Chicago White Sox pitcher who was sought as a suspect in his ex-girlfriend's killing, is found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police say|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/white-sox/ct-chicago-white-sox-charles-haeger-shooting-death-20201004-3huijviowfgj3kl6wbwcecwx34-story.html|access-date=October 6, 2020|publisher=Associated Press|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=October 3, 2020}}
  • Jason Hairston (2018), American football player{{cite news |last1=Davidson |first1=Joe |title=Jason Hairston, KUIU hunting gear CEO and former UC Davis football star, has died |url=https://www.sacbee.com/sports/outdoors/article217920125.html |access-date=September 6, 2018 |newspaper=The Sacramento Bee|date=September 6, 2018}}
  • Lillian Hall-Davis (1933), English actress, carbon monoxide poisoning and cut throat{{cite news |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/463219/index.html|title=Hall-Davis, Lilian (1897–1933)|author=McCallum, Simon|year=2013|work=BFI Screenonline|access-date=March 15, 2015}}
  • Ryan Halligan (2003), bullied American middle school student, hanging{{cite news|author=Flowers, John|url=http://www.addisonindependent.com/node/280|title=Cyber-Bullying hits community|newspaper=Addison County Independent|access-date=November 30, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090403204142/http://www.addisonindependent.com/node/280|archive-date=April 3, 2009|url-status=dead}}
  • Pete Ham (1975), Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist for the band Badfinger, hanging.
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  • Bernardine Hamaekers (1912), Belgian opera singer, cut throat with shattered drinking glassFleischmann, Hector (1913). [https://archive.org/stream/napoloniiietle00fleiuoft#page/294/mode/2up/search/Bernardine Napoléon III et les femmes], pp. 295–299. Bibliothèque des curieux.
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  • 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 rapeBar, Roni (December 6, 2016). [https://www.haaretz.com/life/.premium-the-can-of-worms-left-after-accused-photographer-s-suicide-1.5469514 "The Can of Worms Opened After Iconic Photographer Accused of Rape Commits Suicide"]. Haaretz.Merlan, Anna (November 28, 2016). [https://jezebel.com/photographer-david-hamilton-dies-by-suicide-after-sever-1789422483 "Photographer David Hamilton Dies By Suicide After Several Women Say He Raped Them as Teenagers"]. Jezebel.
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  • Tony Hancock (1968), English comedian, overdose by vodka and amphetamines{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3626969/Laugh-at-Tony-I-very-nearly-died.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3626969/Laugh-at-Tony-I-very-nearly-died.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022|url-access=subscription|url-status=live|title=Laugh at Tony? I very nearly died|author=Craig, Olga|date=November 10, 2004|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=July 5, 2010|location=London}}{{cbignore}}
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  • Goo Hara (2019), South Korean singer{{cite news |last1=Park |first1=So-jung |title=가수 구하라 자택서 숨진 채 발견...전날 SNS에 "잘자" 셀카 남겨 |url=http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2019/11/24/2019112401360.html |access-date=November 24, 2019 |work=Chosun Ilbo |date=November 24, 2019 |language=ko}}{{cite news |title=가수 구하라 자택서 숨진 채 발견...경찰 "조사중" |url=http://www.yonhapnewstv.co.kr/MYH20191124013300038/?did=1825m |access-date=November 24, 2019 |work=Yonhap News |date=November 24, 2019 |language=ko}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50535937|title=K-Pop artist Goo Hara found dead at home aged 28|publisher=BBC News|date=November 24, 2019|access-date=March 3, 2020}}
  • James Harden-Hickey (1898), Franco-American author, newspaper editor, duellist, adventurer and self-proclaimed Prince of Trinidad, overdose of morphine{{cite web|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C0DE4D7123CE433A25752C1A9649C94699ED7CF|title=Harden-Hickey a Suicide.; The "Baron," Who Proclaimed Himself Dictator of Trinidad, Dies in a Texas Hotel.|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 11, 1898|access-date=August 13, 2018}}
  • Marlia Hardi (1984), Indonesian actress, hanging{{cite journal|title=Meninggal Dunia Bu Mar, Bukan Sandiwara|trans-title=Death of Bu Mar: No Act|language=id|journal=Tempo|url=https://majalah.tempo.co/konten/1984/06/23/OBI/40818/Meninggal-dunia--bu-mar-bukan-sandiwara/17/14|date=June 23, 1984|page=69}}
  • Eric Harris (1999), one of the two American high school seniors who committed the Columbine High School massacre, gunshot.{{cite episode| title =Columbine | series = The Final Report|network=National Geographic Channel|air-date =2006| season =1|number=9}}[http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/pdf/900columbinedocs.pdf "Columbine Documents"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080910091713/http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/pdf/900columbinedocs.pdf |date=September 10, 2008}} JC-001-025923 through JC-001-026859; Jefferson County Sheriff's Office; Rocky Mountain News
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  • Elizabeth Hartman (1987), American actress, leapt out of fifth floor windowKonte, Sandra Hansen (November 22, 1987). "[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-11-22-ca-23600-story.html The Short Life of Elizabeth Hartman : Instant Stardom in 'Patch of Blue,' Then Unemployment, Then Suicide]." Los Angeles Times.
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  • Neda Hassani (2003), Iranian protester, self-immolation in front of French embassy in London{{Cite news|last=Vasagar|first=Jeevan|date=June 25, 2003|title=Parents mourn 'brave girl' who set herself on fire in memory of uncle|work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/jun/25/world.iran|access-date=May 18, 2020|issn=0261-3077}}
  • Charles Ray Hatcher (1984), American serial killer, hanging{{Cite web|url=https://siouxcityjournal.com/charles-ray-hatcher/image_6559e3d1-d94a-5488-9b80-66c946da798b.html|title=Charles Ray Hatcher|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|date=March 20, 2017|access-date=July 14, 2020|archive-date=July 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200714151414/https://siouxcityjournal.com/charles-ray-hatcher/image_6559e3d1-d94a-5488-9b80-66c946da798b.html}}
  • Donny Hathaway (1979), American musician, jumped from the 15th floor window of his hotel room{{cite web | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/donny-hathaway/biography | title=Donny Hathaway |magazine=Rolling Stone| access-date=October 3, 2013}}
  • Phyllis Haver (1960), American silent film actress, barbiturate overdose{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=i8MxAAAAIBAJ&pg=7012,4119255|title=Kansas Silent Film Star Phyllis Haver is Dead|publisher=Associated Press|newspaper=Lawrence Journal-World|date=November 21, 1960|page=5|via=Google Books|archive-date=June 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627184642/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=i8MxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=buUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=7012,4119255}}
  • Jeanne Hébuterne (1920), French painter, jumped from window of fifth-floor apartment{{cite book|first=William|last=Fifield|title=Modigliani|date=1976|pages=[https://archive.org/details/modigliani00fifirich/page/281 281]–282|publisher=William Morrow and Company|location=New York|isbn=0688080391|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/modigliani00fifirich|access-date=June 24, 2023}}
  • Sadegh Hedayat (1951), Iranian writer, carbon monoxide poisoning{{Cite web|last=Dohni|first=Niloufar|date=April 13, 2013|title=A Man Out Of Place|url=https://eng.majalla.com/2013/04/article55240353/a-man-out-of-place|access-date=June 24, 2020|website=Majalla|archive-date=June 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627184726/https://eng.majalla.com/2013/04/article55240353/a-man-out-of-place}}{{Cite web|editor=Kuiper, Kathleen|title=Sadeq Hedayat: Iranian author|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sadeq-Hedayat|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=June 27, 2020|archive-date=July 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150719010453/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sadeq-Hedayat}}
  • Marvin Heemeyer (2004), American welder who went on a rampage with a modified bulldozer, gunshot{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna5139598| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023065604/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5139598/|archive-date=October 23, 2013|publisher=NBC News|title=Man who bulldozed through Colo. town is dead |url-status=live| date=June 5, 2004}}
  • Sarah Hegazi (2020), Egyptian LGBT activist{{Cite web|title=Egyptian LGBT rights activist dies by suicide in Canada after 'failing to survive'|url=http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/88586/Egyptian-LGBT-rights-activist-dies-by-suicide-in-Canada-after|date=June 14, 2020|access-date=June 17, 2020|website=Egypt Today}}
  • Claudia Heill (2011), Austrian judoka, jump from a sixth story window{{Cite web|title=Austrian judo medalist Heill, 29, jumps to death|url=https://www.espn.com/olympics/judo/news/story?id=6276192|via=Associated Press|publisher=ESPN|url-status=live|date=March 31, 2011|access-date=January 24, 2023|archive-date=January 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124041553/https://www.espn.com/olympics/judo/news/story?id=6276192}}
  • Ernest Hemingway (1961), American writer and journalist, gunshot to head{{cite book |title=The Young Hemingway |last=Reynolds|first=Michael S.|year=1998|publisher=Norton|location=New York|isbn=978-0-393-31776-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yBeqWnz3_JMC&q=reynolds+hemingway+early+years|access-date=January 30, 2010 |page=16}}
  • Margaux Hemingway (1996), American fashion model, actress; overdose of phenobarbital{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/21/us/coroner-says-death-of-actress-was-suicide.html | newspaper=The New York Times | title=Coroner Says Death of Actress Was Suicide | date=August 21, 1996}}
  • Benjamin Hendrickson (2006), American actor, gunshot{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/08/arts/television/08hendrickson.html|title=Benjamin Hendrickson, 'As the World Turns' Actor, 55, Is Dead|via=Associated Press|date=July 8, 2006|access-date=July 14, 2020|newspaper=The New York Times}}
  • George Hennard (1991), American mass murderer who perpetrated the Luby's shooting, gunshot{{Cite web|date=October 16, 2019|title=28 years later: Remembering the Luby's massacre|url=https://abc13.com/5623220/|access-date=July 14, 2020|publisher=KTRK-TV|archive-date=July 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200714150228/https://abc13.com/5623220/}}
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  • Aaron Hernandez (2017), American football player and convicted murderer, hanging in prison cell, five days after his acquittal from a separate murder charge.Ortiz, Aimee; Ellement, John R. (April 19, 2017). "Aaron Hernandez kills himself in prison". The Boston Globe. Hernandez was posthumously diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which has led to speculation over how the condition may have affected his behavior.{{cite news|url=https://apps.bostonglobe.com/spotlight/gladiator/cte/|title = A terrible thing to waste|first1=Bob|last1=Hohler|first2=Beth|last2= Healy|first3 = Sacha|last3= Pfeiffer|first4= Andrew|last4=Ryan|first5=Patricia|last5=Wen|date=October 18, 2018|newspaper=The Boston Globe|language=en-US|url-status=live|access-date=November 26, 2018|archive-date=February 1, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230201175947/https://apps.bostonglobe.com/spotlight/gladiator/cte/}}
  • Wolfgang Herrndorf (2013), German writer, gunshot[https://www1.wdr.de/stichtag/stichtag-wolfgang-herrndorf-100.html 26. August 2013 – Todestag von Wolfgang Herrndorf.] wdr.de, 26 August 2018 (in German). Retrieved 1 March 2025.
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  • Virginia Hill (1966), American mobster, sedative overdose{{Cite web|title=Virginia Hill|url=https://themobmuseum.org/notable_names/virginia-hill/|access-date=January 17, 2022|publisher=The Mob Museum}}
  • Himilco (396 BC), Carthaginian general, starving himselfDiodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0084%3Abook%3D14%3Achapter%3D75 Book 14, Chapter 75]-[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0084%3Abook%3D14%3Achapter%3D76 Chapter 76]. Perseus Project. Tufts University. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  • Heinrich Himmler (1945), German Nazi leader, cyanide{{cite book | last = Longerich | first = Peter | author-link = Peter Longerich | year = 2012 | title = Heinrich Himmler: a life | url = https://archive.org/details/heinrichhimmlerl00long | url-access = limited | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford; New York | isbn = 978-0-19-959232-6|pages=[https://archive.org/details/heinrichhimmlerl00long/page/n21 1]–3}}
  • Ludwig Hirsch (2011), Austrian singer, songwriter and actor, jumped from the second floor of a hospital window{{cite news|url=https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/prominente/article13734209/Der-tragische-Tod-des-Saengers-Ludwig-Hirsch.html|title=Der tragische Tod des Sängers Ludwig Hirsch|date=November 24, 2011|access-date=June 17, 2020|newspaper=Die Welt|language=de}}
  • Leo Hirschfield (1922), Austrian-American candymaker known as the inventor of the Tootsie Roll, gunshot to the head{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1922/01/14/archives/kills-himself-in-hotel-illness-and-wifes-breakdown-are-blamed-for.html|title=Kills Himself in Hotel: Illness and Wife's Breakdown Are Blamed for Candy Man's Suicide|newspaper=The New York Times|language=en-US|url-status=live|url-access=subscription|date=January 14, 1922|access-date=August 5, 2024|archive-date=September 28, 2022|archive-url=https://archive.today/20220928150656/https://www.nytimes.com/1922/01/14/archives/kills-himself-in-hotel-illness-and-wifes-breakdown-are-blamed-for.html}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52702201/kills-himself-in-hotel/|title=Kills Himself in Hotel: Illness and Wife's Breakdown Are Blamed for Candy Man's Suicide|page=13 (S 22)|newspaper=The New York Times|via=Newspapers.com|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=January 14, 1922|access-date=August 5, 2024|archive-date=August 5, 2024|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240805170536/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-new-york-times-kills-himself-in-hote/52702201/}}
  • Adolf Hitler (1945), Austrian-born Nazi Germany dictator, gunshotKershaw, Ian (2008) Hitler, p. 955.Joachimsthaler, Anton (1999) [1995] The Last Days of Hitler: The Legends, the Evidence, the Truth, pp. 160–182. (possibly while biting down on a cyanide capsule at the same time)O'Donnell, James P. (2001) [1978] The Bunker, pp. 322–323.
  • Abbie Hoffman (1989), American political and social activist, phenobarbital overdoseKing, Wayne (April 19, 1989). [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE7D61F38F93AA25757C0A96F948260 "Abbie Hoffman Committed Suicide Using Barbiturates, Autopsy Shows"]. The New York Times.
  • Richard Holden (2005), Canadian politician, leapt from 8th-floor balcony{{cite web|url=http://lcn.canoe.com/lcn/national/archives/2005/09/20050920-081844.html|title=L'ancien député Richard Holden s'enlève la vie|language=French|author=Le Canal Nouvelles|author-link=Le Canal Nouvelles|date=2005-09-20|access-date=2008-09-13|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120714125813/http://lcn.canoe.com/lcn/national/archives/2005/09/20050920-081844.html|archive-date=2012-07-14}}
  • Crash Holly (2003), American wrestler, asphyxia due to pulmonary aspiration as a result of an alcohol and drug overdose{{cite web|url=https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1156356-in-memory-professional-wrestlers-that-died-under-40|author=Featherstone, Chris|title=In Memory: Professional Wrestlers Who Died Under 40|publisher=Bleacher Report|date= April 23, 2012|access-date=March 2, 2021|archive-date=March 3, 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210303030036/https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1156356-in-memory-professional-wrestlers-that-died-under-40}}
  • Libby Holman (1971), American singer and actress, carbon monoxide poisoning{{Cite book|last=Nash|first=Jay Robert |title=The Great Pictorial History of World Crime|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2004|page=1246|isbn=978-1-928831-22-8}}{{Cite book|last=Frasier|first=David K. |title=Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth Century Cases|publisher=McFarland & Company|year=2002|page=147|isbn=978-0-7864-1038-5}}
  • Alec Holowka (2019), Canadian video game programmer, designer, and musician{{Cite web|author=Hassell, Jocelyn|title=Zoe Quinn and the suicide of Alec Holowka|url=https://videogamelaw.allard.ubc.ca/2019/11/09/zoe-quinn-and-the-suicide-of-alec-holowka/|access-date=March 2, 2021|publisher=Peter A. Allard School of Law}}
  • Tyler Honeycutt (2018), American basketball player (Sacramento Kings, Khimki), gunshot{{cite news |title=Former UCLA star and NBA Player Tyler Honeycutt found dead following shootout with police |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/former-ucla-star-nba-player-tyler-honeycutt-found-dead-following-shootout-police-175759738.html |access-date=July 7, 2018 |work=Yahoo! Sports |date=July 7, 2018 |publisher=Yahoo! |last=Pereles |first=Zach}}{{cite news |title=Tyler Honeycutt dies following gunfire exchange with police |url=http://www.espn.com/espnw/sports/article/24029399/tyler-honeycutt-dies-following-gunfire-exchange-police |access-date=July 7, 2018 |publisher=ESPN |date=July 7, 2018}}
  • Doug Hopkins (1993), American songwriter and lead guitarist for the band Gin Blossoms, gunshot{{cite magazine| title = The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster Wallace| magazine = Rolling Stone|author = Lipsky, Dave |date = October 30, 2008| url = https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23638511/the_lost_years__last_days_of_david_foster_wallace| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090503103755/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23638511/the_lost_years__last_days_of_david_foster_wallace| archive-date = May 3, 2009| url-status = dead| access-date = April 2, 2012}}
  • Brita Horn (1791), Swedish countess and courtier, drowningErdmann, Nils, Vid hovet och på adelsgodsen i 1700-talets Sverige: en tidskrönika, Wahlströms, Stockholm, 1926
  • Harry Horse (2007), English author, illustrator, cartoonist and musician, stabbed himself 47 times in a murder-suicide{{Cite news|author=Riddell, Paul|date=July 18, 2008|title=Mandy's death was murder, not suicide, says her father|url=https://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2008/07/18/mandys-death-was-murder-not-suicide-says-her-father|access-date=June 16, 2021|newspaper=The Shetland Times|archive-date=April 10, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150410124443/https://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2008/07/18/mandys-death-was-murder-not-suicide-says-her-father}}
  • Silvio Horta (2020), American screenwriter and television producer, gunshot{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/silvio-horta-dead-dies-ugly-betty-1203459934/|title=Silvio Horta, 'Ugly Betty' Creator, Found Dead in Apparent Suicide|author1=Stuart Oldham|author2=Will Thorne|date=January 7, 2020|website=Variety|access-date=January 17, 2020}}
  • Robert E. Howard (1936), American author known for his character Conan the Barbarian, gunshot to the head{{cite web|last=Burke|first=Rusty|title=A Short Biography of Robert E. Howard|url=http://www.rehfoundation.org/a-short-biography/|publisher=The Robert E. Howard Foundation|access-date=October 6, 2012|archive-date=December 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216095805/http://www.rehfoundation.org/a-short-biography/|url-status=dead}}
  • Mike Howe (2021), American singer, and member of the heavy metal band Metal Church{{cite magazine|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/metal-church-singer-mike-howes-death-ruled-as-suicide-3007570|title=Metal Church singer Mike Howe's death ruled as suicide|author=Neale, Matthew|url-status=live|magazine=NME|date=July 30, 2021|access-date=December 15, 2022|archive-date=April 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407152400/https://www.nme.com/news/music/metal-church-singer-mike-howes-death-ruled-as-suicide-3007570}}
  • Hsu Kun-yuan (2020), Taiwanese politician, jumped off his home{{Cite web|author=Yang, Sophia|title=City council speaker commits suicide after pro-China mayor ousted in Taiwan's Kaohsiung|url=https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3945145|access-date=June 9, 2020|website=Taiwan News|date=June 6, 2020 |archive-date=June 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607165512/https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3945145}}
  • Hu Bo (2017), Chinese novelist and director{{cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/tragedy-looms-over-the-epically-depressive-debut-swan-s-1833057591|author=D'Angelo, Mike|title=Tragedy looms over the epically depressive debut/swan song An Elephant Sitting Still|publisher=The A.V. Club|date=March 5, 2019|access-date=October 17, 2020|archive-date=March 6, 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306042527/https://film.avclub.com/tragedy-looms-over-the-epically-depressive-debut-swan-s-1833057591}}{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2019/03/an-elephant-sitting-still-review-1202049702/|author=Ehrlich, David|title='An Elephant Sitting Still' Review: The First and Last Masterpiece of a Great Filmmaker Gone Too Soon|publisher=IndieWire|date=March 8, 2019|access-date=October 17, 2020|archive-date=March 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190309035134/https://www.indiewire.com/2019/03/an-elephant-sitting-still-review-1202049702/}}
  • Huang Zhiheng (1986), Chinese mass murderer, cutting his wrists with a can lid{{cite news|url=https://www.plataformamedia.com/en/2020/08/04/one-of-macaus-most-macabre-crimes-occurred-35-years-ago/|title=One of Macau's most macabre crimes occurred 35 years ago|publisher=Plataforma|date=April 8, 2020|url-status=live|access-date=July 13, 2023|archive-date=July 13, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230713184807/https://www.plataformamedia.com/en/2020/08/04/one-of-macaus-most-macabre-crimes-occurred-35-years-ago/}}
  • Quentin Hubbard (1976), son of L. Ron Hubbard, gas{{cite book | author=Miller, Russell | title=Bare-faced Messiah, The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard | publisher=Henry Holt & Co|location=New York|edition=First American | year=1987 | isbn=978-0-8050-0654-4 | url=https://archive.org/details/barefacedmessiah00mill_0}}
  • Nicholas Hughes (2009), fisheries biologist, son of renowned poet Sylvia Plath, hanging{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/books/24hughes.html"|title=Nicholas Hughes, 47, Sylvia Plath's Son, Dies|access-date=September 12, 2014|newspaper=The New York Times}}
  • Rodney Hulin (1996), American prison inmate who had been raped, hanging{{cite news|author=Berryhill, Michael|url=http://www.houstonpress.com/news/what-really-happened-to-rodeny-hulin-6570750|title=What Really Happened To Rodeny Hulin?|newspaper=Houston Press|date=August 7, 1997|access-date=December 17, 2016}}
  • Lester C. Hunt (1954), United States Senator, gunshot{{cite book |last= McDaniel |first= Rodger |date= 2013 |title= Dying for Joe McCarthy's Sins |publisher= WordsWorth |isbn= 978-0-9830275-9-1}}
  • Michael Hutchence (1997), Australian singer and songwriter (INXS), hanging{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-death-of-a-rock-star-1154565.html |title=The Death of a Rock Star |newspaper=The Independent|date=April 5, 1998| first=Robert | last=Milliken}}
  • Phyllis Hyman (1995), American singer-songwriter and actress, overdose of phenobarbital{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/02/obituaries/phyllis-hyman-jazz-singer-45.html | title=Phyllis Hyman; Jazz Singer, 45|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 2, 1995|access-date=August 22, 2012}}

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  • Imai Kanehira (1184), Japanese general, jump from his horse onto a sword he placed in his mouth{{cite book|title=The Samurai: A Military History |first= Stephen R. |last= Turnbull |publisher=RoutledgeCurzon |year=1977 |page=64}}
  • Clara Immerwahr (1915), German chemist and Fritz Haber's wife, gunshot{{cite journal|last1=Friedrich|first1=Bretislav|last2=Hoffmann|first2=Dieter|title=Clara Haber, nee Immerwahr (1870–1915): Life, Work and Legacy|journal=Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie|date=March 2016|volume=642|issue=6|pages=437–448|doi=10.1002/zaac.201600035|pmc=4825402|pmid=27099403 |issn=0044-2313}}
  • William Inge (1973), American writer, carbon monoxide poisoning{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/william-inge-95447|title=William Inge|last=Brennan|first=Sandra|publisher=AllMovie|access-date=June 15, 2009}}
  • Arthur Crew Inman (1963), American poet, editor and author of one of the longest diaries on record{{cite news |url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/daniel-aaron-scholar-who-helped-develop-academic-field-of-american-studies-dies-at-103/2016/05/02/4f18e390-1054-11e6-8967-7ac733c56f12_story.html |title=Daniel Aaron, scholar who helped develop academic field of American studies, dies at 103|date=May 2, 2016|newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=February 16, 2019}}
  • Hideki Irabu (2011), Japanese professional baseball player, hanged{{cite web|last=Gallagher|first=Jack|title=Coroner's Office says Irabu intoxicated at time of death|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/sb20111016j2.html|work=The Japan Times|date= October 16, 2011|page=16|access-date=July 27, 2012}}
  • Iras (30 BC), servant and advisor of Cleopatra.
  • 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{{cite book|title=Place Names of Pohnpei Island: Including And (Ant) and Pakin Atolls |first1=Tom |last1=Panholzer |first2=Mauricio |last2=Rufino |publisher=Bess Press |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-57306-166-7 |pages=xiii, 21, 22, 25, 38, 48, 56, 63, 71. 72, 74, 104 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h2EWUggiuQIC |access-date=December 31, 2011}}{{cite book|title=More Tales from Ulithi Atoll: a Content Analysis |volume=32 |series=Folklore and Mythology Studies |first=William Armand |last=Lessa |publisher=University of California Press |year=1980 |isbn=978-0-520-09615-8 |pages=73, 130 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5fS5CSCOLqIC |access-date=December 31, 2011}}{{cite book|title=Micronesian Legends |first1=Bo |last1=Flood |first2=Beret E. |last2=Strong |first3=William |last3=Flood |publisher=Bess Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-1-57306-129-2 |pages=145–7, 160|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IVVQ46epBqwC |access-date=January 1, 2012}}
  • Silius Italicus ({{Circa|103 AD}}), Roman consul, orator, author and poet, starvationPliny The Younger. [http://www.attalus.org/old/pliny3.html#7 "Letter To Caninius Rufus"]. Pliny the Younger: Letters: Book 3. Translated by J.B.Firth (1900). Retrieved April 27, 2019.
  • Juzo Itami (1997), Japanese actor and film director, jumped from building{{cite web|url=https://allmovie.com/artist/juzo-itami-95571|title=Juzo Itami|last=Crow|first=Jonathan|publisher=AllMovie|access-date=June 15, 2009}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-12-22-9712220069-story.html|title=FILMMAKER'S NOTES ALLEGE MAGAZINE SLUR|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=December 22, 1997}}
  • Bruce Ivins (2008), American microbiologist and suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks, overdose of paracetamolBroughton, Ashley (January 6, 2009). [http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/06/anthrax.ivins/ "'Let me sleep,' anthrax suspect wrote before suicide"]. CNN.{{cite web|author=Kestenbaum, David |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93194941|title=Who Was Bruce Ivins?|publisher=NPR |date=August 1, 2008|access-date=April 23, 2018}}

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  • Charles R. Jackson (1968), American writer, barbiturate overdose{{cite news |url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=38VIAAAAIBAJ&pg=6125,2424461 |title=Novelist's Death Ruled Suicide|date=September 23, 1968|work=Meriden Journal |page=7|access-date=February 20, 2013}}
  • Marcel Jacob (2009), Swedish bassist for the hard rock bands Talisman and Yngwie Malmsteen{{cite web|author=Soto, Jeff Scott|url=http://jeffscottsoto.com/news/marcel/marcel.html|title=Marcel Jacob: January 30, 1964 – July 21, 2009|access-date=July 21, 2009|publisher=Jeff Scott Soto: Official Site|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090724143451/http://jeffscottsoto.com/news/marcel/marcel.html|archive-date=July 24, 2009}}[http://bravewords.com/news/talisman-bassist-marcel-jacob-commits-suicide "TALISMAN Bassist Marcel Jacob Commits Suicide"]. Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles. July 21, 2009.
  • Irwin L. Jacobs (2019), American businessman, CEO of Genmar Holdings, gunshot after murdering his wife{{Cite web|url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/04/12/irwin-alexandra-jacobs-deaths-ruled-suicide-homicide|title=Irwin Jacobs' death ruled a suicide, wife Alexandra a homicide|date=April 12, 2019|access-date=April 27, 2019|publisher=MPR News|last=Williams|first=Brandt}}
  • M. Jaishankar (2018), Indian serial killer and rapist, slitting his own throat{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/serial-rapist-jaishankar-found-dead-in-jail-cell-at-bengaluru-central-prison/article22870911.ece|title=Serial rapist Jaishankar found dead in jail cell at Bengaluru Central Prison|newspaper=The Hindu|date=February 27, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180228195541/http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/serial-rapist-jaishankar-found-dead-in-jail-cell-at-bengaluru-central-prison/article22870911.ece|archive-date=February 28, 2018}}
  • Rahmah ibn Jabir Al Jalhami (1826), Arab tribal leader, pirate captain and admiral, blew himself up with his ship and crew{{cite web|url=https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022870193.0x0000ab|title=Rahmah bin Jaubir, Chief of Khor Hassan; prepared by Mr Francis Warden, member of council at Bombay|via=Qatar Digital Library|publisher=Bombay: Printed for Government at the Bombay Education Society's Press|year=1856|page=528|author=Hughes Thomas, Robert|access-date=June 15, 2018}}
  • Jill Janus (2018), American lead singer of the metal band Huntress{{cite web|url=https://people.com/music/jill-janus-frontwoman-huntress-dead-43/|title=Jill Janus, Frontwoman of Heavy Metal Rock Band Huntress, Dies By Suicide at 43|website=People|date=August 16, 2018|last=Fernandez|first=Alexia|access-date=October 1, 2018}}
  • Jang Ja-yeon (2009), South Korean actress, hangingChung Ah-young (March 8, 2009). [https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2009/03/178_40909.html "Boys over Flowers Actress Jang Found Dead in Apparent Suicide"]. The Korea Times. Retrieved July 9, 2019.
  • Rick Jason (2000), American actor, gunshot[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-oct-17-me-37796-story.html "'Combat!' Actor Rick Jason Found Dead"]. Los Angeles Times. October 17, 2000
  • Jaxon (2006), American cartoonist and illustrator{{Cite web|date=June 27, 2006|title=Austin cartoonist dies|url=http://www.eeweems.com/artandartifice/jackson/jackson_statesman_1000.jpg|access-date=September 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060627055824/http://www.eeweems.com/artandartifice/jackson/jackson_statesman_1000.jpg|archive-date=June 27, 2006}}
  • Fatafat Jayalaxmi (1980), Indian actress, hangingSridhar, Vijayalakshmi (February 2, 2014). [http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/01/star-suicides-grim-reality-indian-cinema-201412381118929217.html "Star suicides: Grim reality of Indian cinema"]. Al Jazeera. Retrieved December 13, 2017.
  • Richard Jeni (2007), American standup comedian and actor, gunshot{{cite news|publisher=BBC News|title=US comic dies in apparent suicide |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6440961.stm |date=March 12, 2007 |access-date=March 12, 2007}}{{cite web |author=Ryan, Jack |title=A Comedian's Sad Demise – Coroner: Before suicide, Richard Jeni was involuntarily hospitalized | url=http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0627071jeni1.html |website=The Smoking Gun|date=June 27, 2007}}[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/13/AR2007031301413.html "Family Says Jeni Committed Suicide"]. Associated Press/The Washington Post. March 13, 2007.
  • Herbert Turner Jenkins (1990), longest serving police chief of Atlanta, gunshot{{cite web |last1=Narvaez |first1=Alfonso A. |title=Herbert Jenkins, 83, Former Police Chief In Atlanta, Is Dead (Published 1990) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/31/obituaries/herbert-jenkins-83-former-police-chief-in-atlanta-is-dead.html |website=The New York Times|access-date=November 12, 2020 |date=July 31, 1990}}
  • Ryan Jenkins (2009), American contestant on the 2009 reality TV series Megan Wants a Millionaire, hanging{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110526042334/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1619290/murder-suspect-ryan-jenkins-found-dead.jhtml "Murder Suspect Ryan Jenkins Found Dead Of Apparent Suicide"]}}. MTV. August 24, 2009.[http://www.canada.com/story_print.html?id=418a6118-5b9b-4ba4-b571-649aebbb0466&sponsor= "Accused killer Ryan Jenkins found hanged in motel in Hope"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141118114945/http://www.canada.com/story_print.html?id=418a6118-5b9b-4ba4-b571-649aebbb0466&sponsor= |date=November 18, 2014}}. Canada.com. August 25, 2009.
  • Jeon Mi-seon (2019), South Korean actress, hanging{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2019/film/asia/korea-actress-jeon-mi-seon-dies-dead-in-apparent-suicide-1203256390/|title=Korean Actress Jeon Mi-seon Dead in Apparent Suicide|last1=Kil|first1=Sonia|date=June 29, 2019|website=Variety|access-date=July 8, 2019}}
  • Jeong Da-bin (2007), South Korean actress, hanging[http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2872331 "Actress found hanged, apparently a suicide"]. Korea Joongang Daily. February 12, 2007
  • Ji Yan (224 AD), Chinese official of the state of Eastern Wu, bureaucrat and reformerChen Shou (3rd century). Records of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Wu, Volume 57: Biographies of Yu, Lu, Zhang, Luo, Lu, Wu, and Zhu.
  • Jiang Qing (1991), Chinese communist revolutionary, politician, actress, fourth wife of Mao Zedong and member of the Gang of Four, hanging{{cite news|author=Holley, David|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-05-mn-211-story.html|title=Mao's Widow Jiang Qing, Radical Leader, Dead at 77|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|url-status=live|date=June 5, 1991|access-date=October 8, 2022|archive-date=October 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025192839/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-05-mn-211-story.html}}
  • Empress Jingyin (82 AD), Chinese imperial consort for Emperor Zhang of Han also known as Consort Song
  • Prince Joachim of Prussia (1920), son of Wilhelm II, German Emperor, gunshot{{cite news|title=Kaiser's Youngest Son, Joachim, Shoots Himself – Prince Found by Attendants Fatally Wounded at His Villa in Potsdam – Dies Later in a Hospital – Eitel Fritz Only Brother There – Joachim Was in Financial Straits and Divorced – His "War Service" Denied – Berlin Reports Call Him "Least Talented" of Family – Ascribe Act to Fit of Dementia|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1920/07/19/archives/kaisers-youngest-son-joachim-shoots-himself-prince-found-by.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 19, 1920}}
  • Adolph Joffe (1927), Soviet revolutionary and Left Oppositionist, gunshot{{cite book|first=Leon |last=Trotsky |author-link=Leon Trotsky |chapter-url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1930/mylife/ch42.htm|title=My Life|chapter=24|via=Trotsky Internet Archive|access-date= April 6, 2021|archive-date=April 22, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070422224415/https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1930/mylife/ch42.htm}}
  • Jo Min-ki (2018), South Korean actor, hanging{{cite news|author=Si-soo, Park|url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2018/03/251_245399.html|title=#MeToo-hit actor Jo Min-ki found dead in apparent suicide|work=The Korea Times|date=March 9, 2018|access-date=March 12, 2018}}
  • B. S. Johnson (1973), English novelist, poet, literary critic, sports journalist, television producer and filmmaker, cut his wrists{{cite book|last=Coe|first=Jonathan|title=Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson|year=2004|publisher=Picador|location=London|isbn=978-0-330-35048-8|page=480}}
  • Dan Johnson (2017), American politician, Republican member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, gunshotBeam, Adam (December 13, 2017). [https://www.yahoo.com/news/official-urges-expulsion-lawmaker-accused-assault-213652393.html "Ky. lawmaker accused of assault dies in apparent suicide"]. Yahoo! News/Associated Press.
  • George Robert Johnston (2004), Canadian burglar and fugitive known as the Ballarat Bandit, gunshot{{cite news |title=Notorious U.S. fugitive identified as P.E.I. man|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/notorious-u-s-fugitive-identified-as-p-e-i-man-1.618593 |publisher=CBC News|date=March 15, 2006|access-date=March 12, 2018}}
  • Greg Johnson (2019), Canadian ice hockey player, gunshot{{Cite web|url=https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/nhl/red-wings/2019/07/17/suicide-likely-death-former-red-wing-greg-johnson/1757261001/|title=Death of former Red Wing Greg Johnson likely a suicide, police say|website=Detroit News|access-date=July 23, 2019}}
  • J.J. Johnson (2001), American Bebop trombonist, gunshot[http://www.jazzhouse.org/gone/lastpost2.php3?edit=981455192 "Premier Exponent of Jazz Trombone"]. 2001. jazzhouse.org. Retrieved November 12, 2014.
  • Daniel V. Jones (1998), American maintenance worker, gunshot{{cite news|author=Abrahamson, Alan |author2=Lait, Matt|title=Videotape Farewell: 'I'm a Dead Man' |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-02-mn-45609-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=May 2, 1998|access-date=February 8, 2018}}
  • Jim Jones (1978), American cult leader and founder of Peoples Temple, gunshot{{cite web |url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/GuyanaInquest.pdf |title=Guyana Inquest—Interviews of Cecil Roberts & Cyril Mootoo |access-date=February 23, 2010}}{{cite web|author=Mueller, Kenneth H.|date=December 15, 1978|url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/JimJones.pdf|title=Autopsy Report: Jim Jones|publisher=San Diego State University|access-date=March 27, 2020}}
  • Malcolm Jones III (1996), American comic book creator known for his work on Vertigo series The SandmanDavis, Michael (August 8, 2008). [http://www.comicmix.com/news/2008/08/08/milestone-if-you-re-not-there-you-just-won-t-get-it-by-michael-davis/ "Milestone: If You're Not There, You Just Won't Get It: Straight No Chaser"]. ComicMix. Quote: "I knew (we all knew) that Malcolm was a troubled soul and I'm sad to say that when he committed suicide a few years ago I was not that surprised. Denys and I would often talk about how to deal with Malcolm and reached out to him many times. That does little to erase the feeling that we somehow let our friend down."
  • Ingrid Jonker (1965), South African poet, drowning{{Cite news|title=Daughter of South African Poet Laureate Ingrid Jonker Shares Her Childhood Trauma After Mother's Suicide|url=https://apnews.com/e205db5c136649bfb4d3066d3ba92ccb|date=April 18, 2019|access-date=April 5, 2020|publisher=Associated Press}}.
  • Tor Jonsson (1951), Norwegian poet{{cite encyclopedia|url = https://nbl.snl.no/Tor_Jonsson|title= Tor Jonsson|encyclopedia =Norsk biografisk leksikon |author= Gatland, Jan Olav|date=February 3, 2009|language=no|access-date= January 2, 2019}}Aldrich, Robert; Wotherspoon, Garry (Ed.) (2002). [https://books.google.com/books?id=zLWTqBmifh0C&q=Tor+Jonsson%2C+suicide&pg=PA276 Who's who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II]. Psychology Press, p 276. Archived at Google Books. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
  • Luc Jouret (1994), Belgian religious leader and co-founder of Order of the Solar Temple
  • Pavle Jovanonic (2020), Serbian-American Olympic bobsledder{{Cite web|title=Pavle Jovanovic, 2006 Olympic Bobsledder, Dies At Age 43|url=https://www.teamusa.org/News/2020/May/09/Pavle-Jovanovic-2006-Olympic-Bobsledder-Dies-By-Suicide|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200511145334/https://www.teamusa.org/News/2020/May/09/Pavle-Jovanovic-2006-Olympic-Bobsledder-Dies-By-Suicide|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 11, 2020|author=McDougall, Chrös|date=May 9, 2020|access-date=May 15, 2020|publisher=Team USA}}
  • Juba I of Numidia (46 BC), King of Numidia, double-suicide by sword with Marcus Petreius.{{cite web|author=Appian|work=The Civil Wars|title=Book 2, Chapter 100|url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Appian/Civil_Wars/2*.html|year=1913|publisher=Loeb Classical Library, University of Chicago|access-date=July 12, 2021}}
  • Judacilius (90 BC), Picentes general and leader, swallowed poison and ordered to be set on fireAppian, The Civil Wars, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Appian/Civil_Wars/1*.html Book 1, Chapter 48]. Loeb Classical Library (1913). University of Chicago. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
  • Judas Iscariot (AD 30 or 33), Apostle turned betrayer of Jesus, hanging
  • Naomi Judd (2022), American country music singer and actress, gunshot{{cite news|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-naomi-judd-suicide-gun-ashley-20220512-wfr3tst4izaolpjyvtzenpuvai-story.html|author=Feldman, Kate|title=Naomi Judd died from self-inflicted gunshot wound, daughter Ashley confirms|newspaper=New York Daily News|url-status=live|date=May 12, 2022|access-date=May 12, 2022|archive-date=May 12, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220512135914/https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-naomi-judd-suicide-gun-ashley-20220512-wfr3tst4izaolpjyvtzenpuvai-story.html}}
  • Claude Jutra (1987), Canadian film director, actor and screenwriter,Perreaux, Les (February 17, 2016). [https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec-removes-claude-jutras-name-from-awards-gala/article28781252/ "Jutra's legacy descends into disgrace as Quebec erases director's name"]. The Globe and Mail. Retrieved August 12, 2017. drowning[http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/claude-jutras-body-found-in-river "Claude Jutra's body found in river"]. CBC Digital Archives. Retrieved August 12, 2017.{{Cite web |title=Claude Jutra |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/claude-jutra |access-date=2024-05-31 |website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca |language=en}}

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  • Ted Kaczynski (2023), American mathematician and domestic terrorist known as the Unabomber, hanging{{Cite web |last1=Sisak |first1=Michael R. |last2=Balsamo |first2=Mike |last3=Offenhartz |first3=Jake |title='Unabomber' Ted Kaczynski died by suicide in prison medical center, AP sources say |url=https://apnews.com/article/ted-kaczynski-unabomber-1197f597364b36e56bdbcaca9837bdc4 |publisher=Associated Press|url-status=live|date=June 11, 2023|access-date=July 26, 2023|archive-date=June 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230612015549/https://apnews.com/article/ted-kaczynski-unabomber-1197f597364b36e56bdbcaca9837bdc4}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/10/us/politics/kaczynski-unabomber-suicide-prison.html|title = Kaczynski Died by Suicide, Prompting Questions of Prison Security|page = A20|last = Thrush|first = Glenn|author-link=Glenn Thrush|newspaper=The New York Times|url-status = live|url-access = limited|date=June 11, 2023|access-date=July 26, 2023|archive-date=June 10, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610225105/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/10/us/politics/kaczynski-unabomber-suicide-prison.html}}
  • Kari Kairamo (1988), Finnish CEO and chairman of telecommunications company Nokia, hanging{{Cite web |title=Etusivu |url=https://kansallisbiografia.fi/talousvaikuttajat/henkilo/1690 |access-date=2024-05-31 |website=kansallisbiografia.fi}}
  • Romas Kalanta (1972), Lithuanian high school student, self-immolation{{Cite web|url=https://www.15min.lt/en/article/society/remembering-romas-kalanta-the-flaming-herald-of-freedom-528-218427|title=Remembering Romas Kalanta, the flaming herald of freedom|last=Daškevičiūtė|first=Dalia|website=en.15min.lt|access-date=April 29, 2020}}
  • Alexey Kaledin (1918), Russian Don Cossack general, gunshot to the heart{{cite book|last=Mueggenberg|first=Brent|title=The Cossack Struggle Against Communism, 1917-1945|chapter=3 - Vacillation|year=2020|publisher=McFarland Publishers|pages=55}}
  • Antonie Kamerling (2010), Dutch actor and musician, hanging[http://www.telegraaf.nl/prive/7869432/__Antonie_Kamerling_overleden__.html "Antonie Kamerling overleden"]. Privé. October 7, 2010
  • Sayaka Kanda (2021), Japanese actress and singer, jumped from an upper floor of a hotel{{Cite web|url=https://kenh14.vn/nu-ca-si-noi-tieng-nhay-lau-tu-sat-vi-bi-ban-trai-cam-sung-tat-ca-tinh-tiet-gay-soc-duoc-he-lo-trong-di-thu-20211223091959557.chn|title=Nữ ca sĩ nổi tiếng nhảy lầu tự sát vì bị bạn trai "cắm sừng", tất cả tình tiết gây sốc được hé lộ trong di thư|work=Kenh14|date=December 23, 2021|access-date=December 27, 2021|language=vi}}
  • Sarah Kane (1999), English writer, hanging{{cite news|author=Hattenstone, Simon|title=A sad hurrah (part 2)|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/jul/01/stage1|newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=April 18, 2018|date=July 1, 2000}}
  • Chris Kanyon (2010), American professional wrestler, overdose of anti-depressant pillsLemire, Jonathan. [http://www.wrestling101.com/101/newsitem/8581/ "Chris Kanyon's Death Being Ruled A Suicide"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100514095749/http://www.wrestling101.com/101/newsitem/8581/ |date=May 14, 2010}}. Wrestling 101. April 5, 2010
  • Kagney Linn Karter (2024), American pornographic film actress, gunshot{{cite news |last=Warren |first=Peter |date=February 20, 2024 |title=Kagney Linn Karter Dies in Cleveland Home |url=https://avn.com/business/articles/video/kagney-linn-karter-dies-in-cleveland-home-929075.html |access-date=February 21, 2024 |work=AVN}}{{Cite web|url=https://popculture.com/celebrity/news/adult-film-star-kagney-linn-karters-gruesome-cause-of-death-confirmed/|title=Adult Film Star Heartbreaking Cause of Death Saddens Kagney Linn Karter Fans|first=Andrew|last=Roberts|date=May 19, 2024}}
  • Kostas Karyotakis (1928), Greek poet, gunshot{{cite book|last=Merry|first=Bruce|title=Encyclopedia of modern Greek literature|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-lr20SuvfIC&pg=PA216|access-date=June 17, 2009|year=2004|publisher=Greenwood Publishing group|isbn=978-0-313-30813-0|pages=216–217|chapter=Karyotakis, Kostas}}
  • Ricky Kasso (1984), American murderer, hanging{{cite web|author=Bresking, David|url=http://davidbreskin.com/magazines/3-features/kids-in-the-dark/|title=Kids In The Dark|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=June 11, 1992|access-date=June 27, 2020}}
  • Bruno Kastner (1932), German actor, hanging{{cite web |author=Staedeli, Thomas|url=http://www.cyranos.ch/smkast-e.htm |title=Portrait of Actor Bruno Kastner |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110418184229/http://www.cyranos.ch/smkast-e.htm |archive-date=April 18, 2011 |url-status=live|publisher=Cyranos.ch|access-date=July 5, 2020}}
  • Kazuhiko Katō (2009), Japanese musician, hanging{{cite web|url=http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstStory/index.php?storyid=465626|title=Musician Kazuhiko Kato found hanged at Karuizawa hotel|publisher=Kyodo News|date=October 17, 2009|access-date=October 18, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091021052402/http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstStory/index.php?storyid=465626|archive-date=October 21, 2009}}
  • Nicky Katt (2025), American actor, gunshotWilkinson, Joseph (April 15, 2025). [https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/14/nicky-katt-dead-suicide-hanging-dazed-and-confused/ "‘Dazed and Confused’ actor Nicky Katt died by suicide at home: report"]. New York Daily News.
  • Yasunari Kawabata (1972), Japanese writer, gas inhalation{{cite book |author=Donald Keene |title=Five Modern Japanese Novelists |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pd_yLuplcKIC&pg=PA24 |access-date=September 22, 2010 |date=June 2005 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-12611-3 |page=26}}
  • Kawatsu Kentarō (1970), Japanese swimmer, self-immolation{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ka/kentaro-kawatsu-1.html|title=Kentaro Kawatsu|publisher=SR/Olympic Sports|access-date=April 22, 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180215083751/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ka/kentaro-kawatsu-1.html|archive-date=February 15, 2018}}
  • Andrew Kehoe (1927), American mass murderer, detonated truck full of dynamite while inside itGulliver, Katrina (September 15, 2016). [https://time.com/4492872/kehoe-attack-history/ "Why We Have Forgotten the Worst School Attack in U.S. History"]. Time.
  • Brian Keith (1997), American actor, gunshotSimon, Stephanie (October 16, 2012). [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-25-me-7884-story.html "Actor Brian Keith Found Dead in Apparent Suicide"]. Los Angeles Times.
  • Mike Kelley (2012), American artist, carbon monoxide poisoning{{Cite web |date=2013-05-07 |title=News 101: When a story is 'news' |url=https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/general-news/20130507/news-101-when-a-story-is-news/ |access-date=2024-05-31 |website=Pasadena Star News |language=en-US}}
  • Israel Keyes (2012), American serial killer, slit wrists and strangulation{{cite news|url=http://www.ktuu.com/news/ktuu-troopers-release-some-details-about-keyes-death-20121205,0,5371591.story| title=Troopers Release Details about Israel Keyes' Suicide|last=Ridgway|first=Jessica|date=December 5, 2012|publisher=KTUU-TV|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130724220144/http://www.ktuu.com/news/ktuu-troopers-release-some-details-about-keyes-death-20121205,0,5371591.story|archive-date=July 24, 2013}}
  • Jiah Khan (2013), British American actress of Indian descent, hanging{{cite web|author=Dubey, Bharti |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Bollywood-actor-Jiah-Khan-commits-suicide/articleshow/20418658.cms |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608200125/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-06-04/news-interviews/39739548_1_jiah-khan-nishabd-amitabh-bachchan |url-status=live |archive-date=June 8, 2013 |title=Actress Jiah Khan commits suicide |newspaper=The Times of India|date=June 4, 2013 |access-date= June 3, 2013}}{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1726694.stm|title=Diving legend commits suicide|date=December 24, 2001|publisher=BBC News|access-date=May 7, 2010}}
  • Sahar Khodayari (2019), Iranian activist who self-immolated in front of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Tehran{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/10/iranian-female-football-fan-who-self-immolated-outside-court-dies|title=Iranian female football fan who self-immolated outside court dies|last=Safi|first=Michael|date=September 10, 2019|work=The Guardian |access-date=September 26, 2019|issn=0261-3077}}
  • Mykola Khvylovy (1933), Soviet Ukrainian novelist, poet, publicist and national communist activist{{cite book | page=419 | title=Ukraine: A History | author=Subtelny, Orest | year=2009 | publisher=University of Toronto Press}}
  • Margot Kidder (2018), Canadian-American actress, known for her role as Lois Lane in Superman feature films, drug and alcohol overdose{{cite news|author=Volz, Matt|url=https://www.apnews.com/d88635085b394e83ae612744e84b9087|title=Margot Kidder's death ruled a suicide|publisher=Associated Press|url-status=live|date=August 8, 2018|access-date=April 29, 2023|archive-date=August 9, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220809091429/https://www.apnews.com/d88635085b394e83ae612744e84b9087}}
  • Daul Kim (2009), South Korean model and blogger, hanged in her Paris apartment{{cite news| url=http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/fashion/article6925853.ece | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615202410/http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/fashion/article6925853.ece | url-status=dead | archive-date=June 15, 2011 | newspaper=The Times| first=Charles | last=Bremner | title=Suicide model Daul Kim wrote blog about pressure of catwalk | date=November 21, 2009}}
  • Kim Ji-hoon (2013), South Korean singer-songwriter (Two Two) and actor, hanging{{Cite news|url=http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2013/12/13/2013121301579.html|title=Singer Kim Ji-hoon Kills Himself|date=December 13, 2017|newspaper=The Chosun Ilbo}}
  • Kim Jong-hyun (2017), South Korean singer-songwriter, radio host, and member of boy band SHINee, carbon monoxide poisoning{{cite news| url=https://www.soompi.com/2017/12/18/breaking-shinees-jonghyun-passed-away-police-confirm/ | location = South Korea | work = Soompi| first = S | last = Oh | title=Breaking: SHINee's Jonghyun Has Passed Away; Police And SM Entertainment Confirm | date=December 18, 2017}}
  • Kim Sae-ron (2025), South Korean actress {{cite news| url=https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/17/asia/south-korean-actor-kim-sae-ron-dead-intl-hnk/index.html|title= South Korean actor Kim Sae-ron dead at 24| date=February 17, 2025| newspaper=CNN}}
  • 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{{cite web |url= https://www.x-rayscreener.co.uk/terrorism/bombing-of-korean-air-flight-858/|title=Korean Air Flight 858|work=X-Ray Screener|location=United Kingdom|access-date=October 15, 2020}}
  • Yu-ri Kim (2011), South Korean model, poison{{cite web |url= http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/04/21/2011042100769.html|title=Young Fashion Model Found Dead in Apparent Suicide|date= April 21, 2011|publisher=The Chosunilbo|location= South Korea}}
  • Hana Kimura (2020), Japanese wrestler, hydrogen sulfide poisoning{{Cite web|title=Japanese Netflix star Kimura likely took her own life using toxic gas|url=https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/05/77d3f1ede7a4-suicide-note-written-by-japanese-netflix-star-hana-kimura-found.html|website=Kyodo News+|access-date=May 25, 2020}}{{Cite web|title=Hana Kimura's Death Sparks Heartfelt Response From Ronda Rousey|url=https://popculture.com/celebrity/news/hana-kimuras-death-sparks-heartfelt-response-ronda-rousey/|website=Pop Culture|access-date=May 25, 2020|author=Phillippi, Kyle|date=May 23, 2020}}
  • Allyn King (1930), American actress, jumped from a fifth story window{{cite news|title=Ill From Dieting Singer Tries to Die|date=March 30, 1930|work=The New York Times|page=22|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1930/03/30/archives/ill-from-dieting-singer-tries-to-die-allyn-king-former-ziegfeld.html}}{{cite news|title=Miss King, Actress, Dies After Leap|date=March 31, 1930|work=The New York Times|page=12|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1930/03/31/archives/miss-king-actress-dies-after-leap-former-ziegfeld-star-made-ill-by.html}}{{cite book|last=Addison|first=Heather |title=Hollywood and the Rise of Physical Culture|year=2003|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-94676-6|page=87}}
  • Syd King (1933), English footballer and football manager, ingestion of corrosive liquid{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5MfXGhlVXUsC&q=syd+king+west+ham+suicide+corrosive&pg=PA56 | title=The London Football companion | access-date=July 14, 2013 | author=Glinert, Ed| isbn=978-0-7475-9516-8 | year=2009 | publisher=Bloomsbury}}{{cite news | url=https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/west-ham-ready-to-break-new-ground-6355334.html | title=West Ham ready to break new ground | newspaper=Evening Standard | date=May 24, 2001 | access-date=July 14, 2013 | author=Dyer, Ken}}
  • Uday Kiran (2014), Indian actor, hanging{{cite news |url=http://www.chennaivision.com/news/2014/64098.php |title=Telugu actor Uday Kiran commits suicide |date=January 6, 2014 |publisher=Chennai Vision |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109185832/http://www.chennaivision.com/news/2014/64098.php |archive-date=January 9, 2014}}
  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1938), German artist, gunshot{{cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/collection_ge/artist.php?artist_id=3115|title=Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: German, 1880–1938|publisher=MoMA|place=New York City|access-date=May 23, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405185537/https://www.moma.org/collection_ge/artist.php?artist_id=3115|archive-date=April 5, 2012}}
  • Stan Kirsch (2020), American actor, hanging{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2020/01/stan-kirsch-dead-obituary-highlander-actor-friends-1202830035/|title=Stan Kirsch Dies: 'Highlander: The Series' Actor Was 51|publisher=Deadline Hollywood|date=January 14, 2020}}
  • R. B. Kitaj (2007), American artist, suffocation{{cite news | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-05-et-quick5.s5-story.html| title = Kitaj's Death is ruled a suicide| author = Boehm, Mike| date = December 5, 2007|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}
  • John Kivela (2017), American politician, hangingGerstein, Michael (May 11, 2017). [http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/05/11/death-certificate-kivela-committed-suicide-belt/101550558/ "Death certificate confirms Kivela committed suicide"]. The Detroit News.
  • Dylan Klebold (1999), one of the two American high school seniors who committed the Columbine High School massacre, gunshot.
  • Heinrich von Kleist (1811), German author, poet and journalist, gunshot{{cite news |url=https://www.zeit.de/2011/02/Heinrich-von-Kleist |title=Heinrich von Kleist: Schöne Abgründe |last=Soboczynski |first=Adam |date=January 5, 2011 |access-date=July 19, 2018 |newspaper=Die Zeit}}
  • Billy Knight (2018), UCLA basketball player, blunt force injuries{{cite web |url=https://www.bruinsnation.com/ucla_basketball/2018/7/10/17555540/ucla-basketball-player-billy-knight-found-dead-in-phoenix |title=Former UCLA Basketball Player Billy Knight Found Dead in Phoenix |last=Piechowski |first=Joe |date=July 10, 2018 |access-date=July 12, 2018 |work=Bruins Nation |publisher=UCLA Bruins}}
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  • Ruslana Korshunova (2008), Kazakhstani model, aged 20, jumped from the ninth-floor balcony of her apartment in New York City{{cite web | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/supermodel-ruslana-korshunova-who-jumped-from-new-york-office-building-had-joined-dehumanizing-cult-9865884.html | title=Supermodel Ruslana Korshunova who jumped from New York office building had joined 'dehumanizing' cult before she died |newspaper=The Independent | date=November 20, 2014 | access-date=December 9, 2015 | author= Eleftheriou-Smith, Loulla-Mae}}
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  • Oleksandr Kovalenko (2010), Ukrainian football player and referee, jumped from his apartment{{Cite web|url=https://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/news/1293014139-pogib-eks-igrok-dnepra-aleksandr-kovalenko.html|title=Погиб экс-игрок Днепра Александр Коваленко|last=Дювбаков|first=Александр|date=December 22, 2010|website=UA-Футбол|language=ru|access-date=April 17, 2020}}
  • Hans Krebs (1945), German general and Chief of Staff of the OKH, gunshot.
  • Alec Kreider (2017), American convicted triple murderer, hanging.{{Cite web |date=2017-01-23 |title=Alec Kreider, convicted of 3 murders as teen, kills himself in Pennsylvania prison |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alec-kreider-convicted-of-3-murders-as-teen-kills-himself-in-jail-cell/ |access-date=2024-01-27 |website=CBS News |language=en-US}}
  • Tim Kretschmer (2009), German student and mass shooter, gunshot{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/4976032/Germany-school-shootings-Video-footage-of-final-moments-of-gunman-Tim-Kretschmer.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/4976032/Germany-school-shootings-Video-footage-of-final-moments-of-gunman-Tim-Kretschmer.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Germany school shootings: Video footage of final moments of gunman Tim Kretschmer|date=March 12, 2009|access-date=October 23, 2019}}{{cbignore}}
  • Norbert Kröcher (2016), German 2 June Movement terrorist, gunshot{{cite news |title=¡Anarquía sí! - Knofo ist tot |url=https://www.jungewelt.de/loginFailed.php?ref=/artikel/294393.anarqu%C3%ADa-s%C3%AD.html |access-date=April 27, 2018|newspaper=Junge Welt|date=September 20, 2016}}
  • Alan Krueger (2019), American economist[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2107131/family-says-obamas-top-economic-adviser-killed-himself/ Family says Obama's top economic adviser killed himself]. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
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  • Cheslie Kryst (2022), American model and presenter known as Miss USA 2019, jump from a Manhattan high-rise{{cite web|author=Celona, Larry; Moore, Tina; Fitz-Gibbon, Jorge|url=https://nypost.com/2022/01/30/fatal-nyc-jumper-identified-as-miss-usa-2019-cheslie-kryst/|title=Woman who jumped from NYC high-rise identified as Miss USA 2019 Cheslie Kryst|newspaper=New York Post|date=January 30, 2022|access-date=January 31, 2022|archive-date=January 30, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130211433/https://nypost.com/2022/01/30/fatal-nyc-jumper-identified-as-miss-usa-2019-cheslie-kryst/}}{{cite web|author=Jabali, Malaika|url=https://www.essence.com/news/cheslie-kryst-passes-away/|title=Miss USA 2019, Cheslie Kryst, Leapt To Her Death From Manhattan Highrise|work=Essence|date=January 30, 2022|access-date=January 31, 2022|archive-date=January 31, 2022|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220131150105/https://www.essence.com/news/cheslie-kryst-passes-away-suicide-miss-usa-2019/|url-status=live}}
  • Ashwani Kumar (2020), Indian police officer and politician who served as governor of Nagaland from 2013 to 2014, hanging{{Cite web|title=Former CBI director Ashwani Kumar found dead at Shimla residence|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/himachal/former-nagaland-governor-and-ex-dgp-of-himachal-ashwani-kumar-commits-suicide-152357|date=October 7, 2020|access-date=November 21, 2020|website=The Tribune|archive-date=November 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201118031534/https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/himachal/former-nagaland-governor-and-ex-dgp-of-himachal-ashwani-kumar-commits-suicide-152357}}
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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{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/dec/01/france.art |title=Ophelia of the Seine|newspaper=The Guardian |date=December 1, 2007|access-date=February 19, 2019}}
  • Deborah Laake (2000), American columnist and writer, overdose of pills{{cite news |title=In Memory of Deborah Laake |date=February 10, 2000 |url=http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2000-02-10/news/in-memory-of-deborah-laake/1 |work=Phoenix New Times |access-date=February 19, 2010 |archive-date=November 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102224045/http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2000-02-10/news/in-memory-of-deborah-laake/1/ |url-status=dead}}
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  • Kyren Lacy (2025), American football player, gunshot{{Cite web |date=2025-04-14 |title=Officials: Ex-LSU WR Lacy died in apparent suicide |url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/44664128/former-lsu-wr-kyren-lacy-died-apparent-suicide-police-chase-authorities-say |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=ESPN.com |language=en}}
  • Leonard Lake (1985), American serial killer, ingesting cyanide capsules{{cite book|last=Greig|first=Charlotte|title=Evil Serial Killers: In the Minds of Monsters|year=2005|publisher=Barnes & Noble|location=New York|isbn=978-0-7607-7566-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/evilserialkiller00char/page/93 93]|url=https://archive.org/details/evilserialkiller00char/page/93}}
  • Paul Lambert (2020), British television journalist, producer and communications director{{Cite web|url=https://internewscast.com/westminster-lobby-journalist-and-ukip-communications-gobby-paul-lambert-dies-aged-61/|title=Westminster lobby journalist and UKIP communications 'Gobby' Paul Lambert dies aged 61|date=April 9, 2020|website=Internewscast|access-date=April 9, 2020}}
  • Vilho Lampi (1936), Finnish painter, jumped from bridge{{cite book |last=Junttila |first=Marja |date=1998 |title=Vilho Lampi 1898–1936 |edition=1st |publisher=Ars Nordica: Pohjoinen |location=Oulu, Finland |isbn=951-749-312-6 |language=fi}}{{cite web |url=http://vilholampi.ouka.fi/biografia/viimeisetvuodet.php |title=Viimeiset vuodet |website=Oulu Art Museum |access-date=January 25, 2021 |language=fi |archive-date=April 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407052801/http://vilholampi.ouka.fi/biografia/viimeisetvuodet.php |url-status=dead}}
  • Karen Lancaume (2005), French pornographic film actress, overdose of temazepam{{cite web|url=http://www.liberation.fr/culture/0101517378-le-geste-ultime-de-karen-bach|title=Le geste ultime de Karen Bach|newspaper=Libération|date=February 1, 2005|access-date=December 9, 2009|author=de Baecque, Antoine|language=fr|archive-date=September 25, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120925184907/http://www.liberation.fr/culture/0101517378-le-geste-ultime-de-karen-bach|url-status=dead}}
  • Carole Landis (1948), American actress, overdose of Secobarbital pills{{cite book|last=Parish|first=James Robert |title=The Hollywood Book of Death: The Bizarre, Often Sordid, Passings of More Than 125 American Movie and TV Idols|publisher=Contemporary Books|year=2002|edition=3|page=315|isbn=978-0-8092-2227-8}}{{cite book|last=Gans|first=Eric Lawrence|title=Carole Landis: A Most Beautiful Girl|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4m7nPlavJi8C&pg=PA197|access-date=June 13, 2009|year=2008|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-60473-013-5|pages=197–199 |chapter=The Good Die Young (1948)}}
  • James Henry Lane (1866), American partisan, abolitionist, senator and Union general, gunshot to the head{{cite book|last=Spurgeon|first=Ian Michael|title=Man of Douglas, Man of Lincoln: The Political Odyssey of James Henry Lane|url=https://archive.org/details/mandouglasmanlin00spur|url-access=limited|publisher=University of Missouri Press|year=2008|page=[https://archive.org/details/mandouglasmanlin00spur/page/n274 262]|isbn=9780826218148}}
  • Andrew E. Lange (2010), American astrophysicist{{cite web|title=Frances H. Arnold Biographical|publisher=The Nobel Prize|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2018/arnold/biographical/|access-date=November 1, 2022}}
  • Hans Langsdorff (1939), German naval officer and Kapitän zur See, gunshot{{cite book|last1=Adam|first1=Thomas|title=Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History: a Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia, Volume 1|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8uxfTF4Lm-kC&pg=PA45|access-date=March 4, 2018|date=November 7, 2005|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-85109-628-2|page=45|chapter=Admiral Graf Spee}}
  • Adam Lanza (2012), perpetrator of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, gunshot to the head{{cite web|title=Adam Lanza: Biography|publisher=Biography.com|url=https://www.biography.com/people/adam-lanza-21068899|access-date=April 22, 2018}}
  • Don Lapre (2011), American television pitchman noted for several products, cut throat with a razor blade{{cite news|author=Abramovitch, Seth |title='King of Infomercials' Don Lapre Commits Suicide |date=October 4, 2011 |url=http://gawker.com/5846351/king-of-infomercials-don-lapre-commits-suicide |publisher=Gawker |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150105020525/http://gawker.com/5846351/king-of-infomercials-don-lapre-commits-suicide |archive-date=January 5, 2015}}
  • William Larnach (1898), New Zealand politician{{DNZB|id=2l2|first=Keith|last=Sinclair|title=Larnach, William James Mudie}}
  • Mariano José de Larra (1837), Spanish writer, gunshot{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LJtz0iWO4O4C&pg=PA466|author=Chevalier, Tracy|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of the Essay|title=Mariano José de Larra|page=466|publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn|via=Google Books|url-status=live|isbn=978-1-884964-30-5|date=November 1, 1997|access-date=April 16, 2022|archive-date=May 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508180645/https://books.google.com/books?id=LJtz0iWO4O4C&pg=PA466}}
  • Anna Laughlin (1937), American actress, gas poisoning{{cite news |title=Anna Laughlin, Broadway Idol Of 1900s Ends Her Life in N.Y.|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=April 6, 1937|page=14}}
  • Brian Laundrie (2021), American partner of formerly missing woman Gabby Petito, gunshot to head weeks after killing Petito{{cite web|last=Haynes|first=Danielle|date=November 23, 2021|title=Brian Laundrie died of self-inflicted gunshot wound, family says|url=https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/11/23/Brian-Laundrie-autopsy-suicide/7171637694586/|url-status=live|work=United Press International|access-date=November 23, 2021|archive-date=November 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123225932/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/11/23/Brian-Laundrie-autopsy-suicide/7171637694586/}}
  • Margaret Laurence (1987), Canadian writer, overdose{{Cite web |title=Memorable Manitobans: Jean Margaret "Peggy" Wemyss Laurence (1926-1987) |url=http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/laurence_jmw.shtml |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=www.mhs.mb.ca}}
  • Florence Lawrence (1938), Canadian-American silent film actress, poisoning{{cite book|last=Brown|first=Kelly R.|title=Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl: America's First Movie Star|year=1999|publisher=McFarland & Company|isbn=978-0-7864-3089-5|pages=146–147}}
  • Lee Eun-ju (2005), South Korean actress, slit wrists and hanging[http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2005/02/22/2005022261032.html "Top Actress Lee Eun-ju's Suicide Shocks Nation"]. The Chosunilbo. February 22, 2005
  • Lee Hye-Ryeon (2007), South Korean singer, known as U;Nee, hangingLooi, Elizabeth (January 25, 2007). [http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/1/25/nation/16668473&sec=nation "Korean singer found hanged"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111017111604/http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=%2F2007%2F1%2F25%2Fnation%2F16668473&sec=nation|date=October 17, 2011}}. The Online Star.
  • Jon Lee (2002), Welsh drummer for the British rock band Feeder, hanging{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/1750644.stm|title=Feeder drummer dies|publisher=BBC News|date=January 9, 2002}}
  • Sara Lee (2022), American professional wrestler, combined drug intoxication{{Cite news|url=https://nypost.com/2023/05/05/ex-wwe-wrestler-sara-lees-cause-of-death-revealed/ |access-date=July 28, 2024 |title=Ex-WWE wrestler Sara Lee's cause of death revealed |publisher=New York Post}}
  • Lee Sun-Kyun (2023), Korean actor, carbon monoxide poisoning{{Cite web |last=Seo |first=Tara Subramaniam, Yoonjung |date=2023-12-29 |title=Death of 'Parasite' star puts spotlight on pressures facing South Korean celebrities |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/29/asia/lee-sun-kyun-death-south-korea-celebrity-losses-analysis-intl-hnk/index.html |access-date=2023-12-29 |website=CNN |language=en}}
  • Thomas H. Lee (2023), American financier, gunshot{{cite web|url=https://people.com/human-interest/billionaire-financier-thomas-h-lee-cause-of-death-suicide/|magazine=People|title=Billionaire Financier Thomas H. Lee's Cause of Death Ruled a Suicide by NYC Medical Examiner|author=White, Chelsea; Vasquez, Ingird|url-status=live|date=February 24, 2023|access-date=February 27, 2023|archive-date=February 25, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230225001203/https://people.com/human-interest/billionaire-financier-thomas-h-lee-cause-of-death-suicide/}}
  • Valery Legasov (1988), Soviet-Russian inorganic chemist, member of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster commission, hanging{{cite news |title= 'This Reactor Model Is No Good': Documents Show Politburo Skepticism of Chernobyl |first=Christian |last=Neef |translator-first=Christopher |translator-last=Sultan|newspaper=Der Spiegel|date=March 24, 2011 |url=https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/this-reactor-model-is-no-good-documents-show-politburo-skepticism-of-chernobyl-a-752696.html |quote=But he did not die of radiation sickness, even though he spent four months in Chernobyl after the explosion there. Legasov hanged himself in his office on April 27, 1988, almost two years to the day after the reactor accident in present-day Ukraine.}}
  • Friedrich Leibacher (2001), Swiss mass murderer, gunshot{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1566321.stm|title=Gunman kills 14 in Swiss assembly|date=September 27, 2001|access-date=February 16, 2020}}
  • Megan Leigh (1990), American pornographic actress, gunshot wound to the headJohnson, John (July 16, 1994). [https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/59548226.html?dids=59548226:59548226&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current "Suicide of Young Superstar Weighs on Porn Industry Tragedy: Pampered, wild Shannon Wilsey, known as Savannah, was the third actress to take her life"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003012504/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/59548226.html?dids=59548226:59548226&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current |date=October 3, 2012}}. Los Angeles Times.
  • Lemp Family (1949), Four members of the St. Louis Lemp Brewing family, gunshots{{cite news|author=O'Neil Tim|title=A Look Back • Lemp Mansion, home of beer dynasty and suicide |url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/a-look-back-lemp-mansion-home-of-beer-dynasty-and/article_3f697156-1b22-54b8-947c-f582edcf702e.html |newspaper=St. Louis Post Dispatch|date=February 12, 2012}}
  • Dave Lepard (2006), Swedish singer and guitarist (Crashdïet), hanging[http://www.fullinbloommusic.com/chrislaneyletter.html "Crashdiet vocalist Dave Lepard"]. Full In Bloom Music. Retrieved November 12, 2014.Hoffman, K. Ross [https://www.allmusic.com/artist/crashd%C3%AFet-mn0000756884/biography "Crashdïet – Music Biography, Credits and Discography"]. AllMusic. Retrieved September 11, 2012.
  • Marc Lépine (1989), Canadian perpetrator of the École Polytechnique massacre, shot himself after killing 14 women{{cite web|url=https://www.biography.com/people/marc-lepine-235980|title=Marc Lepine: Biography|publisher=Biography.com|access-date=April 8, 2018|archive-date=April 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180409044112/https://www.biography.com/people/marc-lepine-235980|url-status=dead}}
  • Andrzej Lepper (2011), Polish politician known as the leader of Samoobrona RP (Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland), hanging{{cite web|url=http://wyborcza.pl/1,75478,13074777,Prokuratura_ustalila__dlaczego_Andrzej_Lepper_popelnil.html|title=Prokuratura ustaliła, dlaczego Andrzej Lepper popełnił samobójstwo (The public prosecutor's office determined suicide motives)|work=Kraj|date=December 19, 2012|access-date=June 22, 2013|author=Kącki, Marcin|language=pl}}[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14424247 "Scandal-hit Polish politician Andrzej Lepper dead"] BBC News. August 5, 2018.
  • Arnie Lerma (2018), American former Scientologist and critic of Scientology, gunshot{{Cite web|author=Ortega, Tony|url=https://tonyortega.org/2018/03/18/noted-scientology-critic-arnie-lerma-shoots-and-injures-wife-then-kills-himself/|title=Noted Scientology critic Arnie Lerma shoots and injures wife, then kills himself|website=The Underground Bunker|date=March 19, 2018|access-date=September 2, 2018}}
  • Eugene Lester (1940), former Justice and Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, gunshot to the head[http://genealogytrails.com/oka/oklahoma/news_crime.html "Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Genealogy Trails: CRIME NEWS ARTICLES"]. Genealogy Trials. Genealogy Trails History Group. Retrieved April 22, 2018.
  • Amy Levy (1889), British writer[https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/amy-levy "Poet: Amy Levy"]. Poets.org. Retrieved July 23, 2018. inhaling charcoal gas{{cite web|author=Diniejko, Andrzej|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/levy/bio.html|title=Amy Levy: A Tragic Late Victorian Anglo-Jewish Poet and Novelist|website=The Victorian Web|date=May 22, 2012|access-date=July 24, 2018}}
  • Harry Lew (2011), United States Marine, gunshot{{cite news| url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna46520079|publisher=NBC News| first=Audrey|last=McAvoy|title=Marine found not guilty in hazing suicide case | date=April 3, 2011}}McAvoy, Audrey (February 24, 2012). [https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna46520079 "Marine found not guilty in hazing suicide case"]. NBC News.
  • Ephraim Lewis (1994), English singer, jumped off a fourth floor balcony"Genius Plus Soul: Ephraim Lewis". Spin, August 2009, p. 75.
  • Robert Ley (1945), German Nazi politician and leader of the German Labour Front, hanging{{cite book|last=Smelser|first=Ronald|title=Robert Ley: Hitler's Labor Front Leader|year=1988|publisher=Oxford: Berg|isbn=978-0-85496-161-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/robertleyhitlers0000smel/page/573 573]|url=https://archive.org/details/robertleyhitlers0000smel/page/573}}
  • Chris Lighty (2012), American music industry executive and manager, gunshotGreenburg, Zack O'Malley (August 30, 2012). [https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2012/08/30/hip-hop-business-pioneer-chris-lighty-dead-at-44/ "Hip-Hop Business Pioneer Chris Lighty Dead At 44"]. Forbes.
  • lil' Chris (2015), English pop singer, hanging{{cite web|last1=Shenton|first1=Zoe|title=Lil' Chris dead: TV personality Chris Hardman famous for Rock School passes away aged 24|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/lil-chris-dead-tv-personality-5391327|newspaper=Daily Mirror|date=March 24, 2015}}
  • Lil Loaded (2021), American rapper, gunshot to head{{Cite news|title=Rapper Lil Loaded dies aged 20|publisher=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-57275571|date=June 1, 2021|access-date=June 1, 2021|archive-date=January 30, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130065909/https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-57275571}}{{cite web |last1=Woods |first1=Aleia |title=New Details Surface in Lil Loaded's Death |url=https://www.xxlmag.com/lil-loaded-death-details/ |website=XXL|date=June 3, 2021|access-date=February 2, 2022|archive-date=June 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210615054515/https://www.xxlmag.com/lil-loaded-death-details/}}
  • Max Linder (1925), French film and stage actor, double suicide with wife Hélène "Jean" Peters, veronal and morphine ingestion, cut wristsCanby, Vincent (April 1, 1988). [https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/01/movies/review-film-homage-to-max-linder-early-french-film-comic.html "Review/Film; Homage to Max Linder, Early French Film Comic"]. The New York Times. Retrieved June 13, 2009.
  • Vachel Lindsay (1931), American poet, poisonMasters, Edgar Lee (b1935). Vachel Lindsay: A Poet in America. p. 361. {{ISBN|978-0819602398}}
  • Diane Linkletter (1969), American actress and daughter of Art Linkletter, jump from a sixth story window{{cite web|author=Mikkelson, Barbara|url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-scarlet-linkletter/ |title=Death of Diane Linkletter |date=August 15, 2005 |access-date=November 13, 2018 |work=Snopes.com|author-link=Mikkelson, Barbara}}
  • Mark Linkous (2010), American musician, gunshot to the heartBarton, Chris (March 7, 2010). [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/03/mark-linkous-aka-sparklehorse-takes-own-life.html "Mark Linkous, aka Sparklehorse, takes his own life, his family says"]. Los Angeles Times.
  • Carlo Lizzani (2013), Italian film director, jumped from a balcony.{{cite news|url=http://www.corriere.it/13_ottobre_05/lizzani-come-monicelli-si-buttato-finestra-d61d9d9c-2dc4-11e3-89d5-cdac03f987bf.shtml|title= Lizzani choc: si è lanciato dal terzo piano. Biglietto ai figli: "Stacco la spina"|work=Corriere della Sera|date=October 5, 2013|access-date=October 6, 2013}}
  • Liu Rushi (1664), Chinese Gējì, poet, artist and Ming loyalist, hanging{{cite book|author=Bonnie G. Smith|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History: 4 Volume Set|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EFI7tr9XK6EC&pg=RA2-PA126 |year=2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-514890-9|pages=125–6}}
  • Willie Llewelyn (1893), Welsh cricketer, gunshot{{cite news|title=The Tragic Death Of Mr W D Llewelyn – The Western Mail|date=August 30, 1893|publisher=Abel Nadin|hdl = 10107/4327419}}
  • Philip Loeb (1955), American actor, sleeping pill overdose[https://www.nytimes.com/1955/09/02/archives/philip-loeb-dead-prominent-actor-body-found-in-midtown-hotel.html "Philip Loeb Dead; Prominent Actor; Body Found in Midtown Hotel; Overdose of Sleeping Pills Apparent Cause"]. The New York Times, September 2, 1955. p. 38.
  • Kevin James Loibl (2016), assassin of Christina Grimmie, gunshot{{cite news|last=Tziperman Lotan|first=Gal|url=http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-christina-grimmie-dead-investigation-20160622-story.html|title=Police: Man who killed singer Christina Grimmie was 'infatuated' with her|work=Orlando Sentinel|date=June 22, 2016|access-date=June 22, 2016}}
  • Bernard Loiseau (2003), French chef, shotgun blast to the headLeopold, Todd (July 28, 2005). [http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/07/26/the.perfectionist/index.html "The master chef who killed himself: A story of a star 'Perfectionist'"]. CNN.
  • Terry Long (2005), American football player, poisioningAssociated Press (January 26, 2006). [https://www.espn.com/nfl/news/story?id=2307003 "Ex-Steeler Long drank antifreeze to commit suicide"]. ESPN.
  • 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{{cite news | last=Lam | first=Jeffie | title=Pop star Ellen Joyce Loo dies in fall from her Happy Valley flat | newspaper=South China Morning Post | date=August 5, 2018 | url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/2158323/hong-kong-pop-star-ellen-joyce-loo-dies-fall-happy-valley-building | access-date=August 5, 2018}}{{cite news | last=Luo | first=Charlotte | title=Lesbian pop star's suicide stuns fans | newspaper=The Standard | date=August 6, 2018 | url=http://www.thestandard.com.hk/section-news.php?id=198668 | access-date=August 6, 2018}}{{cite news | last=Frater | first=Patrick | title=Hong Kong Singer Ellen Loo Dies in Apparent Suicide at 32 | newspaper=Variety | date=August 5, 2018 | url=https://variety.com/2018/music/asia/hong-kong-singer-ellen-loo-dead-dies-in-apparent-suicide-1202895875/ | access-date=August 5, 2018}}
  • Daniele Alves Lopes (1993), teen whose jump from a building was broadcast on Brazilian national television{{cite news|last1=De Castro|title=Em 1993, Aqui Agora exibiu suicídio de adolescente e chocou o Brasil|url=http://noticiasdatv.uol.com.br/noticia/televisao/em-1993-aqui-agora-exibiu-suicidio-de-adolescente-e-chocou-o-brasil-4722|work=Televisao|date=September 5, 2014}}
  • Ricardo López (1996), Uruguayan-born American stalker who attempted to kill Icelandic singer Björk by sending a letter bomb, gunshot{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=132422|title=Inside the Mind of a Celebrity Stalker|date=December 11, 1996|publisher=ABC News|access-date=November 29, 2017}}
  • Lu Xiufu (1279), Chinese statesman, bureaucrat and general, murder-suicide by drowning Emperor Bing of Song and himself{{cite book|last=Waterson|first=James|title=Defending Heaven: China's Mongol Wars, 1209-1370|page=209|year=2013|publisher=Frontline Books, London}}
  • Lu Zhaolin (684 or 686), Chinese poet, drowning in the Ying River{{cite book|last=Mair|first=Victor H.|author-link=Victor H. Mair|title=The Columbia History of Chinese Literature|page=289|year=2013|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-52851-1}}
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  • Lucan (65 AD), Roman poet, cut veinsTacitus (62-65 AD). Book XV, Chapter 70.1. Annals. Scholars have vainly tried to locate Lucan's last words in his work but no passage in Lucan's extant poem exactly matches Tacitus's description at Annals 15.70.1. See, e.g., P. Asso, "A Commentary on Lucan 'De Bello Civili IV.'" Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010, p. 9n38.
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  • Roman Lyashenko (2003), Russian NHL hockey player, hanging{{cite news|title=N.Y. Ranger is found dead in hotel room; Lyashenko on vacation in Turkey Cause of death reported to be suicide|work=Toronto Star|date=July 8, 2003|page=E02}}{{cite news|title=Lyashenko's death a suicide, police say|work=Edmonton Journal|date=July 10, 2003|page=D6}}
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  • Bhaiyyu Maharaj (2018), Indian spiritual guru, gunshot{{cite news |title={{sic|Spri|tual|nolink=y}} leader Bhaiyyu Maharaj commits suicide |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/spritual-leader-bhaiyyu-maharaj-commits-suicide/article24143935.ece?homepage=true |access-date=June 12, 2018 |publisher=Press Trust of India |newspaper=The Hindu |date=June 12, 2018}}
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  • Sean Malone (2020), American bassist{{cite web|author=Ewing, Jerry|title=Cynic release tribute to late bass player Sean Malone|url=https://www.loudersound.com/news/cynic-releae-tribute-to-late-bass-player-sean-malone|website=Louder|date=September 3, 2021|access-date=September 5, 2021|archive-date=September 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210903120010/https://www.loudersound.com/news/cynic-releae-tribute-to-late-bass-player-sean-malone}}
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  • Mădălina Manole (2010), Romanian pop singer, pesticide poisoning[http://www.mediafax.ro/english/romanian-singer-madalina-manole-willingly-ingested-toxic-substance-investigators-say-6555098/ "Romanian Singer Madalina Manole Willingly Ingested Toxic Substance, Investigators Say"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100717135743/http://www.mediafax.ro/english/romanian-singer-madalina-manole-willingly-ingested-toxic-substance-investigators-say-6555098 |date=July 17, 2010}}. MediaFax. Retrieved July 14, 2010.
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  • Richard Manuel (1986), Canadian pianist and lead singer for The Band, hangingPareles, Jon (March 6, 1986). [https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/06/obituaries/richard-manuel-40-rock-singer-and-pianist.html "Richard Manuel, 40, Rock Singer and Pianist"]. The New York Times.
  • Titus Clodius Eprius Marcellus (79 AD), Roman consul and senator, slit his throat with a razorCassius Dio, Roman History, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/65*.html Book 65, Chapter 16]. 1925. University of Chicago. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  • Simone Mareuil (1954), French actress, self-immolation{{cite web|url=http://blogs.20minutos.es/yaestaellistoquetodolosabe/tag/suicidio-de-simone-mareuil/|title=Suicidio de Simone Mareuil – Ya está el listo que todo lo sabe|website=Ya está el listo que todo lo sabe}}
  • Michael Marin (2012), American businessman, cyanide pillWalsh, Michael (July 27, 2012). [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/autopsy-shows-michael-marin-arizona-man-wall-street-trader-killed-cyanide-hearing-guilty-verdict-article-1.1123692 "Autopsy shows Michael Marin, Arizona man who was former Wall Street trader, killed self with cyanide after hearing guilty verdict]. Daily News (New York City).
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  • Andrew Martinez (2006), American nudism activist who became known on the University of California, Berkeley campus as the "Naked Guy", suffocation{{cite news |url=http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2006-05-26/article/24234?headline=Friends-Remember-Andrew-Martinez |title=Friends Remember Andrew Martinez |newspaper=Berkeley Daily Planet|author=Bhattacharjee, Riya |date=May 26, 2006 |access-date=January 3, 2009}}
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  • Lisa Lynn Masters (2016), American actress, writer, and model[https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/who-lisa-masters-gossip-girl-9284480/ Who was Lisa Masters? Gossip Girl actress who took her own life is remembered], The Daily Mirror. Retrieved March 16, 2025.
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  • John McAfee (2021), British-American computer programmer, businessman and founder of the computer security software company McAfee, hanging{{Cite web|date=June 23, 2021|title=Larger-than-life software mogul John McAfee dies in Spain by suicide, lawyer says|url=https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/john-mcafee-found-dead-prison-after-spanish-court-allows-extradition-2021-06-23/|access-date=June 28, 2021|publisher=Reuters|archive-date=June 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623194212/https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/john-mcafee-found-dead-prison-after-spanish-court-allows-extradition-2021-06-23/}}
  • Allyson McConnell (2013), Australian-Canadian woman who killed her two children,{{cite web|author=Davies, Lisa|url=https://www.smh.com.au/nsw/child-killer-allyson-mcconnell-found-dead-20130918-2tz7k.html|title=Child killer Allyson McConnell found dead|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=September 18, 2013|access-date=December 16, 2016}} jumped off a bridge while in Australia{{cite web|author=Purdy, Chris|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/09/18/allyson-mcconnell-dead-suicide-australia_n_3950801.html|title=Allyson McConnell Dead; Depressed Mom Killed Herself, Says Lawyer|publisher=The Canadian Press at HuffPost|date=September 28, 2013|access-date=December 16, 2016|archive-date=September 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925181637/http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/09/18/allyson-mcconnell-dead-suicide-australia_n_3950801.html|url-status=dead}} Updated November 18, 2013.
  • Susannah McCorkle (2001), American jazz singer, jumping from apartment.{{cite web|url=http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/music/jazz/reviews/6064/|title=Jazz Bird|last=Blair|first=Gwenda|website=New York Magazine|date=May 27, 2002|accessdate=February 24, 2025|url-status=live|archive-date=May 19, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240519050224/https://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/music/jazz/reviews/6064/}}
  • Kid McCoy (1940), American world champion boxer, overdose of sleeping pills{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/354039/Kid-McCoy|title=Kid McCoy|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=March 9, 2007}}
  • Mindy McCready (2013), American country music singer, gunshot{{cite news|title=Country singer Mindy McCready dead of apparent suicide|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21495664|access-date=February 18, 2013|publisher=BBC News|date=February 18, 2013}}{{cite web|last=Schabner|first=Dean|title=Country Singer Mindy McCready Dead at 37|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/country-singer-mindy-mccready-dead-37/story?id=18527193|work=ABC News|access-date=February 18, 2013}}
  • Walt McDougall (1938), American cartoonist, gunshot{{cite news|date=March 7, 1938|title=Walt M'Dougall Killed by Bullet; Dean of Cartoonists, 80, a Suicide at Waterford, Conn. Diary Noted 'Tough Times' – 16 Years With the World – Created "Absent-Minded Abner" Offered Cartoon on a Hunch 'Absent-Minded Abner,' 'Hank the Hermit' and 'Fatty Felix' Among His Characters|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/03/07/archives/walt-mdougall-killed-by-bullet-dean-of-cartoonists-80-a-suicide-at.html|access-date=October 12, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=March 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180312113211/https://www.nytimes.com/1938/03/07/archives/walt-mdougall-killed-by-bullet-dean-of-cartoonists-80-a-suicide-at.html}}
  • Dan McGann (1910), American baseball player, gunshot{{cite magazine|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertkuenster/2020/01/26/sudden-death-of-nba-great-kobe-bryant-brings-back-tragic-deaths-of-some-former-major-league-stars/|title=Sudden Death Of NBA Great Kobe Bryant Brings To Mind Tragic Deaths Of Former MLB Stars|date=January 26, 2020|author=Kuenster, Robert|magazine=Forbes|access-date=March 7, 2020}}
  • Evelyn McHale (1947), American bookkeeper, subject of an iconic photograph showing her body after she jumped from an observation platform of the Empire State BuildingCosgrove, Ben (March 19, 2014). [https://time.com/3456028/the-most-beautiful-suicide-a-violent-death-an-immortal-photo/ "'The Most Beautiful Suicide': A Violent Death, an Immortal Photo"]. Time.
  • Tom McHale (1983), American novelist{{cite web|url=http://www.edrants.com/tom-mchale-novelist/ |title=Tom McHale, novelist |access-date=July 1, 2010|first=Richard |last=Grayson |publisher=Edward Champion's Reluctant Habits|date=May 23, 2007}}
  • Kenny McKinley (2010), American football player, gunshot{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/denver-broncos-player-likely-committed-suicide/|title=Denver Broncos Player Likely Committed Suicide|publisher=CBS News |date=September 20, 2010}}
  • Chris McKinstry (2006), Canadian artificial intelligence researcher{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-02/ff_aimystery |title=Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened? |last=Kushner |first=David |date=January 18, 2008 |magazine=Wired|access-date=September 14, 2021|archive-date=May 16, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516234028/https://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-02/ff_aimystery}}
  • Robert McLane (1904), American politician, mayor of Baltimore, gunshot{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/05/31/archives/baltimores-mayor-commit-suicide-robert-m-mclane-married-two-weeks.html |title=Baltimore's Mayor Commit Suicide – Robert M. McLane, Married Two Weeks Ago, Shoots Himself – Worried Over Big Fire – Worked Without Ceasing and Was Criticised in Connection with Rebuilding of Burned Section|access-date=March 22, 2008|date=May 31, 1904|page=1|work=The New York Times}}
  • John B. McLemore (2015), American horologist and subject of the podcast S-Town, ingested potassium cyanide{{Cite news |url=https://www.inverse.com/article/29975-s-town-potassium-cyanide-john-b-mclemore-suicide-poison |title=What Happened When John B. McLemore Drank Potassium Cyanide In 'S-Town' |last=Tayag |first=Yasmin |date=April 5, 2017 |work=Inverse |access-date=December 4, 2018}}
  • Maggie McNamara (1978), American actress, drug overdose{{cite book|last1=Brettell|first1=Andrew|last2=King|first2=Noel|last3=Kennedy|first3=Damien |last4= Imwold|first4=Denise|last5=Leonard|first5=Warren Hsu|last6=von Rohr|first6=Heather|title=Cut!: Hollywood Murders, Accidents, and Other Tragedies|publisher=Barrons Educational Series|year=2005|pages=277|isbn=978-0-7641-5858-2}}{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=J-dLAAAAIBAJ&pg=6123,5646063|title=Bell Tells: Goodbye, Maggie|last=Bell|first=Arthur|date=March 20, 1978|work=The Village Voice|page=86|access-date=January 5, 2013}}
  • Ronnie McNutt (2020), American war veteran, single-shot rifle{{cite web |last1=LeMaster|first1=C.J.|title=Criticism lobbed at social media companies after suicide video of Mississippi man goes viral|date=September 10, 2020 |url=https://www.wdam.com/2020/09/09/criticism-lobbed-social-media-companies-after-suicide-video-mississippi-man-goes-viral|publisher=WDAM7 News|access-date=March 24, 2022|archive-date=September 22, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220922094651/https://www.wdam.com/2020/09/09/criticism-lobbed-social-media-companies-after-suicide-video-mississippi-man-goes-viral/}}
  • Alexander McQueen (2010), British fashion designer and couturier, hanging{{cite news|last=McQueen|first=Alexander|title=Alexander McQueen hangs himself|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2010/02/17/2010-02-17_alexander_mcqueen_hanged_self_in_wardrobe_left_suicide_note_coroner.html|newspaper=New York Daily News|date=February 17, 2010}}{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8648791.stm|title=Alexander McQueen committed suicide after taking drugs|date=April 28, 2010|publisher=BBC News|access-date=April 28, 2010}}
  • Charles B. McVay III (1968), American naval officer, captain of the USS Indianapolis, gunshot to the head{{cite magazine |last=Catarevas |first=Michael |title=Connecticut's Heroes Aboard the Doomed USS Indianapolis |url=http://www.connecticutmag.com/the-connecticut-story/connecticut-s-heroes-aboard-the-doomed-uss-indianapolis/article_22699165-1487-59b9-af8e-88c1ec791af0.html |access-date=June 29, 2018 |magazine=Connecticut Magazine |date=November 4, 2016}}
  • Joe Meek (1967), English record producer, gunshot{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/nov/12/popandrock28 | title=Meek by name, wild by nature | newspaper=The Guardian |location=London| date=November 12, 2006 | access-date=July 15, 2013 | author=Savage, Jon}}
  • Megabocchus (53 BC), Roman cavalryman and friend of Publius Licinius Crassus
  • Megan Meier (2006), American high school student and victim of bullying, hanging[https://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=3882520 "Parents: Cyber Hoax Led to Teen's Suicide"]. ABC News. February 19, 2009
  • Ulrike Meinhof (1976), German RAF terrorist, hangingHooper, John (November 18, 2002). [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/18/germany.science "The dead guerrillas, the missing brains and the experiment"]. The Guardian (London).
  • David Meirhofer (1974), American serial killer, hangingSullivan, Ted (October 12, 2005). [http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/article_827a78e7-771e-5b0d-ac0e-cd46109941f2.html "Personal Items Belonging to 1974 Murder Victim Found in Manhattan (Mont)."] Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
  • Joseph Meister (1940), French caretaker who was the first person to be inoculated against rabies, gas furnace{{cite web |url=https://historydaily.org/the-life-and-death-of-joseph-meister/8|title=The Life and Death of Joseph Meister|website=historydaily.com|date=August 23, 2018|access-date=February 24, 2024}}
  • Kitty Melrose (1912), English stage actress and singer, carbon monoxide poisoning{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22554701/agnes-butterfield-aka-kitty-melrose/|title=Dead Actress's Letters; A Blackpool Woman's Love Affair|newspaper=The Guardian|page=3|date=June 7, 1912|access-date=February 20, 2022|archive-date=February 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220219230852/http://www.newspapers.com/clip/22554701/agnes-butterfield-aka-kitty-melrose/}}
  • Meng Tian (210 BC), Chinese general, administrator and inventor
  • Adolf Merckle (2009), German entrepreneur and billionaire, trainRayner, Gordon ()January 9, 2009. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/recession/4210246/Adolf-Merckle-what-made-this-German-billionaire-commit-suicide.html "Adolf Merckle: what made this German billionaire commit suicide?"] The Daily Telegraph.
  • Lucius Cornelius Merula (87 BC), Roman politician, consul and high priest, cut his veinsVelleius Paterculus, Roman History, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Velleius_Paterculus/2A*.html#22 Book 2, Chapter 22]. University of Chicago.
  • Jill Messick (2018), American film producer{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/feb/09/jill-messick-death-weinstein-rose-mcgowan-scandal-family|title=Jill Messick: producer's death 'collateral damage' of Weinstein scandal, family say|author=Mumford, Gwilym|date=February 9, 2018|newspaper=The Guardian}}{{cite news |title=Jill Messick's Family Issues Blistering Statement on Harvey Weinstein and Rose McGowan |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jill-messicks-family-issues-blistering-statement-harvey-weinstein-rose-mcgowan-1083173|work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=February 8, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180208223447/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jill-messicks-family-issues-blistering-statement-harvey-weinstein-rose-mcgowan-1083173 |archive-date=February 8, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://mynewsla.com/hollywood/2018/02/09/producer-jill-messick-50-commits-suicide-family-blames-rose-mcgowan-harvey-weinstein-fight/|title=Producer Jill Messick, 50, commits suicide; Family blames Rose McGowan-Harvey Weinstein fight|author=Sklar, Debbie L.|publisher=MyNewsLA.com|url-status=live|date=February 9, 2018|access-date=April 16, 2022|archive-date=January 30, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130070455/https://mynewsla.com/hollywood/2018/02/09/producer-jill-messick-50-commits-suicide-family-blames-rose-mcgowan-harvey-weinstein-fight/}}
  • Charlotte Mew (1928), English poet, Lysol poisoning.{{cite news|url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/this-rare-spirit-life-charlotte-mew-julia-copus-review-andrew-motion/|title=Dreams that take my breath|first=Andrew|last=Motion|newspaper=Times Literary Supplement|url-status=live|date=April 16, 2021|access-date=April 4, 2023|archive-date=April 25, 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210425232157/https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/this-rare-spirit-life-charlotte-mew-julia-copus-review-andrew-motion/}}
  • Katie Meyer (2022), American soccer player{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/04/us/katie-meyer-stanford-soccer-death-cause/index.html|title = Stanford University star soccer player died by suicide, parents tell NBC|last=Chan|first=Stella|publisher=CNN|url-status=live|date = March 4, 2022|access-date=March 5, 2022|archive-date=March 4, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220304213218/https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/04/us/katie-meyer-stanford-soccer-death-cause/index.html}}
  • Maningning Miclat (2000), Filipino poet and painter, jumped from the seventh floor of a building{{cite news |url=http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/44375/maningning-lives-anew-in-the-miclat-familys-season-of-rebirth |title=Maningning lives anew in the Miclat family's season of rebirth |last=Lolarga |first=Elizabeth |date=April 22, 2012|newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer|access-date=February 9, 2019}}
  • Flávio Migliaccio (2020), Brazilian actor, film director and screenwriter, hanging{{Cite web|title=Flávio Migliaccio teria cometido suicídio e deixado carta|url=https://gente.ig.com.br/celebridades/2020-05-04/flavio-migliaccio-teria-cometido-suicidio-e-deixou-uma-carta.html|date=May 4, 2020|website=Gente|language=pt-BR|access-date=May 5, 2020}}
  • Walter M. Miller Jr. (1996), American writer, gunshotHaldenman, Joe (February 1996). "An Appreciation", Locus, pp. 78-79.Streitfeld, David (October 9, 1997). [https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1997/10/09/canticle-author-unsung-even-in-death/ "'Canticle' Author Unsung Even In Death"]. Orlando Sentinel.
  • Mary Millington (1979), English model and softcore pornographic actress, overdose of clomipramine, paracetamol and alcoholSheridan, Simon. Come Play with Me: The Life and Films of Mary Millington 1999 (FAB Press, Guildford)
  • Minamoto no Yorimasa (1180), Japanese poet, general and politician, ritual seppuku disembowelment{{Cite book |last=Turnbull |first=Stephan R. |title= The Samurai: A Military History |publisher= MacMillan Publishing Co. |place= New York |year= 1977| page= 47}}
  • Mingsioi (1866), Chinese general, explosion{{Cite book |last=Kim |first=Hodong |title= Holy War in China: The Muslim Rebellion and State in Chinese Central Asia, 1864–1877|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AtduqAtBzegC&pg=PA55|publisher=Stanford University Press|year=2004| page= 55|isbn=978-0-8047-6723-1}}
  • Miroslava (1955), Czech-born Mexican actress, overdose of sleeping pills[https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/435339652.html?dids=435339652:435339652&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Mar+12%2C+1955&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Hundreds+at+Rites+for+Actress+Who+Killed+Self&pqatl=google "Hundreds At Rites For Actress Who Killed Self"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025042031/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/435339652.html?dids=435339652:435339652&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Mar+12,+1955&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Hundreds+at+Rites+for+Actress+Who+Killed+Self&pqatl=google |date=October 25, 2012}}. Los Angeles Times. March 12, 1955
  • Dave Mirra (2016), American BMX rider who later competed in rallycross racing, gunshot{{cite web|url=http://8c.co.za/the-bmx-legend-dave-mirra-41-dies|title=BMX Legend, Dave Mirra (41) Dies|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160211195557/http://8c.co.za/the-bmx-legend-dave-mirra-41-dies/|archive-date=February 11, 2016}}
  • Yukio Mishima (1970), Japanese author, poet, playwright, film director and activist, ritual seppuku disembowelmentNathan, John (1974). Mishima: A Biography, Little Brown and Company: Boston/Toronto.
  • Tyrone Mitchell (1984), American murderer, gunshot{{Cite news|last=Mathews|first=Jay|date=February 25, 1984|title=Sniper Firing at School Kills Child, Injures 13 Before Shooting Himself|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1984/02/25/sniper-firing-at-school-kills-child-injures-13-before-shooting-himself/87145fce-57de-4de2-be12-3454ba4c5616/|access-date=November 10, 2020|issn=0190-8286}}
  • Mithridates VI (63 BC), King of Pontus, ordered an officer to stab himAppian. Roman History, Third Mithridatic War, § 111-112
  • Haruma Miura (2020), Japanese actor, hanging{{cite web|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/popular-japanese-actor-haruma-miura-dead-at-30|newspaper=The Straits Times|author=Sim, Walter|title=Popular Japanese actor Haruma Miura, 30, dies in suspected suicide|date=July 18, 2020|access-date=July 19, 2020|archive-date=July 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200719171335/https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/popular-japanese-actor-haruma-miura-dead-at-30}}
  • Shizuka Miura (2010), Japanese doll maker and musician, possibly related to medication{{Cite Q|Q105485575}}{{Cite Q|Q105485577}}
  • Mkwawa (1898), Hehe tribal leader, gunshot to the head{{Cite book |last=Knopp |first=Guido |title=Das Weltreich der Deutschen: Von kolonialen Träumen, Kriegen und Abenteuern |publisher= Edel Elements |year= 2017}}
  • George de Mohrenschildt (1977), American petroleum geologist, CIA informant, friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and key witness for the Warren Commission, gunshot{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/03/30/archives/kennedy-inquiry-witness-is-an-apparent-suicide-in-a-mansion-in.html|title=Kennedy Inquiry Witness Is an Apparent Suicide In a Mansion in Florida|newspaper=The New York Times|url-status=live|date=March 30, 1977|access-date=January 2, 2023|archive-date=January 2, 2023|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20230102200109/https://www.nytimes.com/1977/03/30/archives/kennedy-inquiry-witness-is-an-apparent-suicide-in-a-mansion-in.html}}
  • Molon (220 BC), Seleucid satrap of Media
  • Antonin Moine (1849), French sculptor, gunshot{{cite web |url=http://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/antonin-moine/ |title=Antonin Moine |access-date=February 19, 2010|website=Encyclopedia Universalis|date=January 19, 1999 |language=fr}}
  • Mario Monicelli (2010), Italian film director, jumped out of a hospital window{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11873511|title=Italian cinema great Mario Monicelli kills himself|publisher=BBC News|date=November 30, 2010}}{{cite news |language=it |newspaper=Corriere della Sera |access-date=November 29, 2010 |date=November 29, 2010 |url=http://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/10_Novembere_29/morto-monicelli_7b33060c-fbfd-11df-bfbe-00144f02aabc.shtml |title=Mario Monicelli morto suicida a Roma}}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}{{cite news|last=Roston|first=Michael|title=Mario Monicelli, Italian Director, Dies at 95|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/movies/30monicelli.html|access-date=November 30, 2010|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 29, 2010}}
  • Marilyn Monroe (1962), American film actress, barbiturate overdose{{Cite book | last=Summers|first=Anthony|title=Goddess, The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe|publisher=Guild Publishing, London | year=1985|isbn=978-0-575-03641-3|page=171}}
  • Haoui Montaug (1991), American nightclub doorman and cabaret promoter, secobarbital overdose{{cite news|title=All Sold Out at CBGB|work=The Village Voice|author=Lynn Yaeger|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2007-10-30/nyc-life/all-sold-out-at-cbgb/|access-date=June 10, 2013|archive-date=November 2, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102134429/http://www.villagevoice.com/2007-10-30/nyc-life/all-sold-out-at-cbgb/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|author=France, David|title=This Doctor Wants to Help You Die|magazine=New York|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SegCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA29|page=29|issn=0028-7369|via=Google Books|date=January 13, 1997|access-date=August 21, 2023|archive-date=January 1, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101171152/https://books.google.com/books?id=SegCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA29#v=onepage&q&f=false}}
  • Henry de Montherlant (1972), French writer, gunshot in the throat{{cite news|title=Henry de Montherlant Is Dead; French Novelist and Playwright|work=The New York Times|author=Freund, Andreas|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/23/archives/henry-de-montherlant-is-dead-french-novelist-and-playwright-author.html|date=September 23, 1972|access-date=July 25, 2019}}
  • Donnie Moore (1989), American baseball player, gunshot after shooting his wife{{cite news|author=Almond, Elliott; Penner, Mike|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-07-19-sp-3894-story.html|title=Donnie Moore Dies in Apparent Suicide: Home Run Pitch in 1986 Playoffs Haunted Moore, Says His Agent|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|url-status=live|date=July 19, 1989|access-date=August 21, 2023|archive-date=August 21, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230821154839/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-07-19-sp-3894-story.html}}
  • Ronald Lee Moore (2008), American fugitive and suspected serial killer, hanging{{cite news|title='America's Most Wanted' fugitive dies from injuries sustained during suicide attempt|url=https://www.heraldguide.com/news/americas-most-wanted-fugitive-dies-from-injuries-sustained-during-suicide-attempt/|work=St. Charles Herald Guide|date=January 7, 2008}}{{cite news|first=Robin|last=Shannon|title=Captured fugitive dies from hanging|url=https://www.lobservateur.com/2008/01/08/captured-fugitive-dies-from-hanging/|work=L'Observateur|date=January 8, 2008}}
  • Emanuel Moravec (1945), Czech army officer, writer, politician and collaborator, gunshot to the head{{cite news|author=Johnstone, Chris|title=Emanuel Moravec – the face of Czech collaboration with the Nazis|url=https://english.radio.cz/emanuel-moravec-face-czech-collaboration-nazis-8562122|publisher=Radio Prague International|url-status=live|date=December 7, 2011|access-date=August 21, 2023|archive-date=August 21, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230821154123/https://english.radio.cz/emanuel-moravec-face-czech-collaboration-nazis-8562122}}
  • Masakatsu Morita (1970), Japanese political activist, stabbing per ritual seppuku disembowelment{{cite book|last1= Sato |first1= Hideaki |last2= Inoue |first2= Takashi |script-title=ja:決定版 三島由紀夫全集・第42巻・年譜・書誌|trans-title=Final edition-Yukio Mishima complete works No. 42-Biographical sketch and Bibliography|year= 2005| publisher= Shinchosha| language=ja|page= 332}}{{cite book|last= Fukushima |first= Jyuro |script-title=ja:再訂資料・三島由紀夫|trans-title=Second revised edition – Documents of Yukio Mishima|year= 2005| publisher= Chobunsha| language=ja|page= 183}}
  • A. R. Morlan (2016), American author{{cite news |title=A.R. Morlan (1958–2016) |url=https://locusmag.com/2016/01/a-r-morlan-1958-2016/ |access-date=June 25, 2019 |work=Locus Online |date=January 11, 2016}}
  • Gray Morrow (2001), American comics artist and illustrator, gunshot{{Cite web|title=Gray Morrow|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/morrow_g.htm|access-date=September 17, 2021|website=Lambiek Comiclopedia}}
  • Max Mosley (2021), British FIA president, gunshot after learning of terminal illness{{cite news |title=Former F1 boss Max Mosley shot himself after terminal cancer diagnosis |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-60919994 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC News |access-date=30 March 2022 |date=29 March 2022}}
  • Jason Moss (2006), American attorney and author of The Last Victim, gunshotKalil, Mike. (June 13, 2006) [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LVRB&p_theme=lvrb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_text_search-0=Best-selling%20AND%20author%20AND%20of%20AND%20book%20AND%20on%20AND%20serial%20AND%20killers&s_dispstring=Best-selling%20author%20of%20book%20on%20serial%20killers%20AND%20date(1/1/2006%20to%201/1/2007)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=1/1/2006%20to%201/1/2007)Êl_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:DÊl_useweights=no "Best-selling author of book on serial killers kills himself."] Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
  • Ted Moult (1986), British farmer and radio and TV personality, gunshot{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/eastmidlands/series10/week3.shtml |title=Ted Moult|work=Inside Out East Midlands|publisher=BBC News|date=September 25, 2006|access-date=April 4, 2023|archive-date=July 8, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070708000320/https://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/eastmidlands/series10/week3.shtml}}
  • Joaquim Augusto Mouzinho de Albuquerque (1902), Portuguese cavalry office, gunshot to the head
  • Miljan Mrdaković (2020), Serbian footballer, gunshot{{Cite web|title=Miljan Mrdaković izvršio samoubistvo|url=https://www.danas.rs/sport/miljan-mrdakovic-izvrsio-samoubistvo/|last=Beta|first=Piše|date=May 23, 2020|website=Dnevni list Danas|language=sr-RS|access-date=May 23, 2020}}
  • Uwe Mundlos (2011), German National Socialist Underground terrorist, gunshot{{cite news|title=BKA-Chef: Kiesewetter in Beziehung zu NSU-Gruppe|url=https://www.abendblatt.de/politik/deutschland/article108177593/BKA-Chef-Kiesewetter-in-Beziehung-zu-NSU-Gruppe.html|access-date=April 27, 2018|newspaper=Hamburger Abendblatt|date=November 19, 2011}}
  • Ona Munson (1955), American actress, barbiturate overdoseStephens, Chuck (January/February 2013). [http://www.filmcomment.com/article/a-face-in-the-crowd-ona-munson/ "A Face in the Crowd: Ona Munson"]. Film Comment.
  • David Munrow (1976) English music historian, hangingDonovan, Paul (December 13, 2015). [https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/radio-waves-a-worthy-legacy-brvln9frxqt "Radio Waves: A worthy legacy"]. The Times. Retrieved December 24, 2018.Hewett, Ivan (May 23, 2012). [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/9285826/David-Munrow-Tragic-genius-who-brought-early-music-to-the-masses.html "David Munrow: Tragic genius who brought early music to the masses"]. The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved December 24, 2018.
  • Ian Murdock (2015), American software engineer and founder of the Debian distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system, hanging{{cite web |url = https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/30/ian_murdock_debian_founder/ |title = Debian Linux founder Ian Murdock dead at 42 |date = 30 December 2015 |website = The Register |first = Chris |last = Williams}}
  • Grayson Murray (2024), American professional golfer and winner of two PGA Tour events, carbon monoxide poisoning{{cite news |title=Grayson Murray's cause of death suspected to be carbon monoxide poisoning |url=https://nypost.com/2024/05/28/sports/grayson-murrays-cause-of-death-suspected-to-be-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/ |work=New York Post |access-date=18 June 2024 |date=28 May 2024}}
  • Francine Mussey (1933), French actress, ingestion of poison[http://moviespictures.org/biography/Mussey,_Francine "Mussey, Francine Biography"]. Movies.Pics. Retrieved May 18, 2017.

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  • Ebrahim Nabavi (2025), Iranian satirist, writer and diarist[https://www.iranintl.com/en/202501157443 Dissident Iranian satirist Ebrahim Nabavi takes own life in Maryland], 15 January 2025. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  • Chūichi Nagumo (1944), Japanese admiral, gunshot{{cite web|url=https://pearlharbor.org/chuichi-nagumo-vice-admiral-ijn/ |title=Chuichi Nagumo, Vice Admiral IJN |last=Owen |first=J.|publisher=PearlHarbor.org|date=August 17, 2013 |access-date=June 7, 2018}}
  • Mirosław Nahacz (2007), Polish novelist and screenwriter, hanging{{cite web |last1=Rojewski |first1=Janek |title=Mirosław Nahacz, jeden z największych talentów literackich XXI w. 10 lat temu odebrał sobie życie |url=https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kultura/1713432,1,miroslaw-nahacz-jeden-z-najwiekszych-talentow-literackich-xxi-w-10-lat-temu-odebral-sobie-zycie.read |website=Polityka |access-date=October 12, 2018 |language=pl |date=July 21, 2017}}
  • Seigō Nakano (1943), Japanese fascist political leader and journalist, disembowelment[http://www.ndl.go.jp/portrait/e/datas/304.html?c=0 "Nakano, Seigo"]. Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures. National Diet Library (Tokyo, Kyoto). 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2018.
  • Vladimir Nalivkin (1918), Russian scientist, politician, diplomatShishkin, Philip (June 24, 2014). [https://books.google.com/books?id=7YTanm1K7BkC&q=VladimirNalivkin%2Csuicide&pg=PT170 Restless Valley]. Yale University Press. Archived at Google Books. Retrieved May 23, 2015.
  • Azade Namdari (2021), Iranian television host{{Cite web|title=Azadeh Namdari, an Iranian broadcaster committed suicide|url=https://adala.org/en/2021/03/28/azadeh-namdari-an-iranian-broadcaster-committed-suicide/|website=Adala|date=March 28, 2021|access-date=April 21, 2021|archive-date=April 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422051245/https://adala.org/en/2021/03/28/azadeh-namdari-an-iranian-broadcaster-committed-suicide/}}
  • Scott Nearing (1983), American political activist and conservationist, by self-starvation{{cite web|url=http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC26/Nearing.htm|title=At The End Of A Good Life|last=Nearing|first=Helen|work=In Context|publisher=Context Institute|date=June 29, 2000|access-date=February 10, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100213054256/http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC26/Nearing.htm|archive-date=February 13, 2010}}
  • Milan Nedić (1946), Serbian general, politician and prime minister of the Government of National Salvation, jumping out of a Belgrade prison window{{cite book |last1=Đureinović |first1=Jelena |title=The Politics of Memory of the Second World War in Contemporary Serbia: Collaboration, Resistance and Retribution |date=2019 |access-date=30 October 2022 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-00075-438-4 |page=26 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xfe-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT26}}
  • Nekojiru (1998), Japanese manga artist, hanging{{cite web|url=https://www.awn.com/animationworld/new-japan-anime-film-reviews-23 |title=New from Japan: Anime Film Reviews |last=Patten |first=Fred |publisher=Animation World Magazine |date=November 21, 2003 |access-date=May 23, 2009}}
  • Nero (68 AD), Roman emperor, ordered his secretary to kill him{{cite book | last1 = Bunson | first1 = Matthew | title = Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire | publisher = Infobase Publishing | year = 2009 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=T5tic2VunRoC | access-date =October 28, 2013 | isbn = 978-1-4381-1027-1}}
  • Marcus Cocceius Nerva (33 AD), Roman jurist, official and confidant of Tiberius, starvationTacitus (32-37 AD). [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Annals_(Tacitus)/Book_6#26 Book 6, Chapter 26], The Annals. Wikisource. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  • Klara Dan von Neumann (1963), Hungarian-American computer programmer, drowning{{cite news|title=Former Wife of Late Atomic Energy Commission Official Drowns|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/156684437/|access-date=July 22, 2017|work=Albuquerque Journal|date=November 11, 1963}}
  • Terry Newton (2010), English rugby league player, hanging{{cite news|title=Former Great Britain hooker Terry Newton found dead|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/sep/26/great-britain-terry-newton-dead|access-date=October 10, 2012|newspaper=The Guardian |location=London|date=September 26, 2010}}{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12041923|title=Hanged rugby league player Terry Newton had taken drug|publisher=BBC News|date=December 20, 2010|access-date=December 21, 2010}}
  • Tom Nicon (2010), French model, jumped out of apartment window{{cite web|author=Roberts, Laura |date=June 21, 2010|url=http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/article/TMG7842695/Burberry-model-Tom-Nicon-commits-suicide-at-start-of-Milan-Fashion-Week.html|title=Burberry model Tom Nicon commits suicide at start of Milan Fashion Week|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150621080605/http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/article/TMG7842695/Burberry-model-Tom-Nicon-commits-suicide-at-start-of-Milan-Fashion-Week.html|archive-date=June 21, 2015|url-status=dead|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph}}
  • Bruno Niedziela (1962), American football player{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90524981/the-daily-sentinel/|newspaper=The Daily Sentinel|via=Newspapers.com|date=March 23, 1962|title=Richmond Man Found Dead}} {{Open access}}
  • 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 headKoziol, Ronald; Baumann, Edward (June 29, 1987). [https://www.chicagotribune.com/1987/06/29/how-frank-nitti-met-his-fate/ "How Frank Nitti Met His Fate"]. Chicago Tribune.
  • Karl Nobiling (1878), German academic, who made an assassination attempt on the German emperor Wilhelm I, gunshot to the head{{cite book | last = Pflanze | first = Otto | title = Bismarck: Der Reichskanzler | publisher = Princeton University Press, Verlag C.H. Beck | year = 1998 | page = 120}}
  • Jon Nödtveidt (2006), Swedish guitarist for the black metal band Dissection, gunshot[http://www.metalstorm.ee/events/news_comments.php?news_id=3051 "Dissection Frontman Jon Nödtveidt Commits Suicide"]. Metal Storm. Retrieved December 10, 2011.
  • Iván Noel (2021), French-Argentine film director and producer, potassium cyanide{{cite news |url=https://www.resumendelaregion.com/noel-hizo-un-video-de-despedida-nunca-le-hice-dano-a-la-gente-y-menos-a-los-mas-vulnerables/ |title=Noel se despidió con un video: "Nunca le hice daño a la gente, menos a los más vulnerables" |date=July 19, 2021|website= Resumen de la Región – Noticias, Alta Gracia |language=Spanish}}
  • Bill Nojay (2016), American politician and member of the New York State Assembly, gunshot{{Cite news|last=Yee|first=Vivian|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/10/nyregion/bill-nojay-rochester-assemblyman-dies.html|title=Bill Nojay, Upstate Assemblyman, Dies After Shooting Himself at a Cemetery|date=September 9, 2016|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 28, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}
  • Mita Noor (2013), Bangladeshi actress, hanging{{cite news|url=http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2013/07/01/mita-noor-killed-herself|title=Mita Noor killed herself|access-date=August 25, 2015|date=July 1, 2013|newspaper=bdnews24}}
  • Franz Nopcsa (1933), Hungarian aristocrat, adventurer, scholar, geologist, paleontologist and albanologist, gunshot after killing companion Bajazid Doda{{Cite web|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/history-forgot-rogue-aristocrat-discovered-dinosaurs-died-penniless-180959504/|title=History Forgot This Rogue Aristocrat Who Discovered Dinosaurs and Died Penniless|last=Veselka|first=Vanessa|website=Smithsonian|date=July 2016|access-date=February 17, 2020}}
  • Christine Norman, (1930), American stage actress, jump from building[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1930-03-06/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1930&index=1&rows=20&words=Christine+Norman&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1930&proxtext=christine+norman&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 "STAGE BEAUTY DIES IN 20-STORY PLUNGE"] Associated Press/Evening Star, p. 1, March 6, 1930.
  • John Norton-Griffiths, (1930), British engineer and politician, gunshot to head{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19300929&id=SPFUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2pEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7254,884448|title=Famous Contractor's Death: Suicide in Egypt|page=10|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=September 29, 1930|access-date=April 4, 2021|via=Google News}}{{cite book|author=Bloch, Michael|title=Jeremy Thorpe|publisher= Little Brown|location=London|year=2014|isbn= 978-0-00-257221-7 |pages=11–20}}
  • Hisashi Nozawa (2004), Japanese writer, hanging{{cite web|url=http://www.jlit.net/archives/archives2004.html |title=Archives 2004 |publisher=JLit|access-date=February 25, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201062448/http://jlit.net/archives/archives2004.html |archive-date=February 1, 2009}}

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  • Lawrence Oates (1912), British army officer, later an Antarctic explorer, he walked from his tent into a blizzard{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BIKSfHT6hjsC&q=Hereabouts+died+a+very+gallant+gentleman%2C+Captain+L.+E.+G.+Oates%2C+of+the+Inniskilling+Dragoons&pg=PA454 |title=Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition: Captain Scott's Last Expedition |author=Robert Falcon Scott |page=454|date=2006|publisher=Oxford University Press, UK |isbn=9780199297528}}
  • John O'Brien (1994), American novelist, best known for his novel, Leaving Las Vegas, gunshot to the head{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jul-19-ca-john-obrien19-story.html|title=Clues In John O'Brien's 'Better'|last=O'Brien|first=Erin|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=July 19, 2009 |access-date=August 11, 2014}}
  • Sean O'Haire (2014), American former WWE wrestler and MMA fighter, hanging{{cite web |author=Caulfield, Philip|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/pro-wrestler-sean-o-haire-dies-43-article-1.1935118|work=Daily News|location=New York|title=Former pro wrestler Sean O'Haire dies at 43|date=September 10, 2014|access-date=February 7, 2019}}
  • Angela O'Leary (1921), American artist, gas inhalation{{Cite web |title=Oct 04, 1921, page 6 - New York Herald at Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/471541271 |access-date=2024-08-19 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}
  • Phil Ochs (1976), American singer-songwriter, hanging{{cite book |last=Schumacher |first=Michael |title=There But for Fortune: The Life of Phil Ochs |year=1996 |publisher=Hyperion |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/therebutforfortu00schu/page/344 344–352] |isbn=978-0-7868-6084-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/therebutforfortu00schu/page/344}}
  • Oda Nobunaga (1582), Japanese daimyō and general, ritual seppuku disembowelment{{cite book |last=Beasley|first=W. G. |title=The Japanese Experience: A Short History of Japan |date=August 31, 2000 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-22560-2 |page=123 |chapter=The Unifiers}}
  • Ogawa Kiyoshi (1945), Japanese kamikaze pilot{{cite web|author=Nolte, Carl |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Doing-His-Duty-Vet-s-grandson-gives-personal-2937231.php |work=San Francisco Chronicle|title=Doing His Duty / Vet's grandson gives personal effects back to kamikaze pilot's family|date=March 29, 2001}}
  • Aleksandr Dmitrievich Ogorodnik (1977), Soviet diplomat and spy for the CIA, cyanide capsule{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2016-featured-story-archive/trigon-spies-passing-in-the-night.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307153324/https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2016-featured-story-archive/trigon-spies-passing-in-the-night.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 7, 2017|title=TRIGON: Spies Passing in the Night|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|date=June 20, 2016|access-date=February 16, 2019}}
  • Per "Dead" Ohlin (1991), Swedish vocalist for the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, gunshot to the head{{cite video |people=Stefan Rydehed (director) |year=2008 |title=Pure Fucking Mayhem |medium=motion picture|publisher=Index Verlag}}{{cite video |people=Aaron Aites (director, producer), Audrey Ewell (director, producer) |year=2009 |title=Until the Light Takes Us |medium=motion picture|publisher=Variance Films}}{{cite web|url=http://www.raginpitmagazine.com/3285/the-%E2%80%9Ctrue%E2%80%9D-history-of-black-metal-%E2%80%93-2-of-4/ |title=The 'True' History of Black Metal – 2 of 4|author=Freyja|date=March 19, 2010|magazine=Raginpit Magazine|access-date=April 3, 2010|url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110102184308/http://www.raginpitmagazine.com/3285/the-%E2%80%9Ctrue%E2%80%9D-history-of-black-metal-%E2%80%93-2-of-4/|archive-date=January 2, 2011}}
  • Yukiko Okada (1986), Japanese singer, jumped from window[http://www.acamusic.co.uk/artists/majorView/Yukiko+Okada "Yukiko Okada"]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}. ACA Music. Retrieved May 23, 2015.
  • Mălina Onlinescu (2011), Romanian singer, jump from window{{Cite web|url=http://www.foxcrawl.com/2011/12/12/videophoto-malina-olinescu-commits-suicide-she-was-37/|title = Malina Onlinescu commits suicide: She was 37|date=December 12, 2011|access-date=August 12, 2023|archive-date=January 23, 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130123150823/http://www.foxcrawl.com/2011/12/12/videophoto-malina-olinescu-commits-suicide-she-was-37/}}
  • Lembit Oll (1999), Estonian chess Grandmaster, jumped out of window{{cite web|url=http://www.chesscafe.com/text/skittles253.pdf|title=Departures and Homecomings: On Estonian Chess|last=Rosendahl|first=Erik|publisher=ChessCafe.com|page=6|access-date=March 18, 2010}}
  • Ambrose Olsen (2010), American model, hangingBlack, Rosemary (May 18, 2010). [http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/models-attempting-suicide-lives-top-catwalkers-fraught-pressure-experts-article-1.447920 "Why are so many models attempting suicide? Lives of top catwalkers fraught with pressure: experts"]. Daily News (New York).
  • 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, gunshotKotkin, Stephen (October 31, 2017). Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941, Penguin Press. p. 384.
  • Otho (69 AD), Roman Emperor, stabbed himselfPlutarch, Parallel Lives, The Life of Otho, 17.3
  • Othryades (546 BC), Spartan hoplite, sole survivor of the Battle of the 300 ChampionsHerodotus, The Histories [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D82 Book 1, Chapter 82]. Perseus Project. Tufts University. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  • Ōuchi Yoshitaka (1551), Japanese daimyō and general, ritual seppuku disembowelment{{cite book|last=Hall|first=John Whitney|title=The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 4|date=1991|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=315}}

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  • Stephen Paddock (2017), American perpetrator of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, gunshot{{Cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/Stephen-Paddock-What-We-Know-About-Las-Vegas-12246204.php|title=Stephen Paddock: What we know about Las Vegas mass shooter|work=San Francisco Chronicle|date=October 2, 2017|access-date=October 9, 2017|archive-date=August 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180802193307/https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/Stephen-Paddock-What-We-Know-About-Las-Vegas-12246204.php|url-status=dead}}
  • Caecina Paetus (42 AD), Roman alleged conspirator against Emperor Claudius, stabbed himself
  • Tommy Page (2017), American singer songwriter{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7710182/tommy-page-ill-be-your-everything-singer-and-former-billboard-publisher-dies-at-46|title=Tommy Page, Singer and Former Billboard Publisher, Dies at 46|magazine=Billboard|date=March 4, 2017|access-date=August 29, 2017}}
  • Ali-Reza Pahlavi (2011), son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, last Shah of Iran, gunshot{{cite news |last= Lavoie |first= Denise |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/04/alireza-pahlavi-suicide-i_n_804347.html |title=Alireza Pahlavi Suicide: Iran Shah's Son Killed Himself In Boston, Says Brother |work=HuffPost |date=January 4, 2011 |access-date=October 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110107103341/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/04/alireza-pahlavi-suicide-i_n_804347.html |archive-date=January 7, 2011}}
  • Leila Pahlavi (2001), daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, last Shah of Iran, overdose of sleeping pills{{cite news |last= Vasagar|first= Jeevan |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jul/26/jeevanvasagar |title=Overdose princess 'stole from surgery' |work=The Guardian |date=July 26, 2001|access-date=October 4, 2019}}
  • Sol Pais (2019), American student and suspect in FBI manhunt, gunshot{{cite news |last= Garrison|first= Joey |url=https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/04/17/sal-pais-besotted-columbine-shooting-threatens-denver-schools/3494924002/ |title=Who is Sol Pais? What we know about the woman infatuated by Columbine who killed herself |work=USA Today |date=April 17, 2019|access-date=May 24, 2025}}
  • Jan Palach (1969), Czech student, self-immolation[http://www.janpalach.cz/en/default/index "Jan Palach: Charles University Multimedia Project"]. Charles University in Prague. Retrieved May 18, 2017.
  • Mico Palanca (2019) Filipino actor, jump from building{{cite web|url=https://www.thesummitexpress.com/2019/12/mico-palanca-passes-away-age-41.html|title=Mico Palanca passes away at 41|date=December 10, 2019|publisher=The Summit Express|access-date=March 3, 2020}}
  • Helen Palmer (1967), American author and actress who was the first wife of famed children's author Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, barbiturate overdose{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/29/nyregion/public-lives-mrs-seuss-hears-a-who-and-tells-about-it.html|title=PUBLIC LIVES; Mrs. Seuss Hears a Who, and Tells About It|work=The New York Times|date= November 29, 2000|access-date=November 6, 2012|last1=Wadler |first1=Joyce}}
  • Ryan Christopher Palmeter (2023), American mass shooter and terrorist, gunshot
  • Breece D'J Pancake (1979), American short story writer, gunshot{{cite news |last1=Hendrickson|first1=Paul |title=The Legend of Breece D'J Pancake|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1984/12/10/the-legend-of-breece-dj-pancake/cd125f05-b96b-4c89-9bf6-620fddbf441f/|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=December 10, 1984|access-date=May 15, 2023}}
  • Brodie Panlock (2006), Australian bullying victim, jumped from the top of a multilevel carpark in Hawthorn{{cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/brodies-torment-20091210-km9r.html|title=Brodie's Torment | date=December 9, 2009 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |last=Butcher|first=Steve|access-date=August 12, 2017|url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811030815/http://www.smh.com.au/national/brodies-torment-20091210-km9r.html | archive-date=August 11, 2017}}
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  • Qu Yuan (278 BC), Chinese poet and minister, drowning[http://www.ebeijing.gov.cn/feature_2/Traditional_Fesitival/Duanwu_Festival/Legend_DF/t1021711.htm "The Sad story of Qu Yuan"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170516002906/http://www.ebeijing.gov.cn/feature_2/Traditional_Fesitival/Duanwu_Festival/Legend_DF/t1021711.htm |date=May 16, 2017}}. eBeijing, the Official Website of the Beijing Government (Beijing). Retrieved May 19, 2017.[https://ethicsofsuicide.lib.utah.edu/selections/qu-yuan/ "Qu Yuan (c. 340-278 B.C.): Embracing Sand"]. The Ethics of Suicide Digital Archive, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Oxford University Press. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
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  • Otto Rahn (1939), German medievalist, Ariosophist and Obersturmführer of the Schutzstaffel, freezingPreston, John (May 22, 2008). [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3673575/The-original-Indiana-Jones-Otto-Rahn-and-the-temple-of-doom.html "The original Indiana Jones: Otto Rahn and the temple of doom"]. The Daily Telegraph.
  • Jason Raize (2004), American actor, singer and former Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme, hangingSutton, Candace Suttonl Sams, Chris (February 15, 2004). [https://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/14/1076548275532.html "Mystery over stage star's death in bush"]. The Sun-Herald.
  • Sushant Singh Rajput (2020), Indian actor, hanging{{Cite web |author=Jyoti Kanyal|date=June 14, 2020 |title=Sushant Singh Rajput commits suicide at Mumbai home|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/celebrities/story/sushant-singh-rajput-commits-suicide-at-mumbai-home-1688886-2020-06-14|access-date=June 14, 2020|website=India Today}}
  • František Rajtoral (2017), Czech soccer player, hanging{{Cite news|url=https://www.dailysabah.com/football/2017/04/23/gaziantepspors-czech-striker-rajtoral-commits-suicide-by-hanging|title=Gaziantepspor's Czech striker Rajtoral commits suicide by hanging|work=Daily Sabah|date=April 23, 2017}}
  • Anil Ramdas (2012), Dutch writer and journalist, method undisclosedZantingh, Peter (February 17, 2012). [http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2012/02/17/journalist-en-schrijver-anil-ramdas-54-overleden "Journalist en schrijver Anil Ramdas (54) overleden"]. NRC Handelsblad.
  • Carlos Rangel (1988), Venezuelan writer and journalist, gunshot{{Cite news |date=28 January 1988 |title=Carlos Rangel, Author, Dies in Venezuela at 58 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/28/obituaries/carlos-rangel-author-dies-in-venezuela-at-58.html |work=The New York Times |via=NYTimes.com}}
  • Kodela Siva Prasada Rao (2019), Indian politician, hanging{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/former-ap-speaker-kodela-siva-prasad-rao-dies-after-suicide-attempt-5999255/|title=Andhra Pradesh: Ex-Speaker Kodela Siva Prasad Rao commits suicide|date=September 17, 2019|website=The Indian Express|access-date=September 27, 2019}}
  • Nicola Ann Raphael (2001), Scottish bullied student, overdose of dextropropoxyphene{{cite web|url=http://www.kirkintilloch-herald.co.uk/news/may_god_forgive_these_bullies_because_i_never_will_1_1361311 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725211137/http://www.kirkintilloch-herald.co.uk/news/may_god_forgive_these_bullies_because_i_never_will_1_1361311 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 25, 2011 |title=May God forgive these bullies... because I never will|newspaper=Kirkintilloch Herald|date=March 17, 2002}}
  • Danny Rapp (1983), American singer and the frontman for the group Danny & the Juniors, gunshot{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7T9KAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MSINAAAAIBAJ&pg=6782,1355776&dq=la+paz+county&hl=en|title=Suicide Identified as Singer|publisher=Oxnard Press-Courier|date= April 7, 1983|access-date=December 1, 2023}}
  • David Rappaport (1990), English actor, known for the film Time Bandits, gunshot{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/575114.stm|title=Star Wars to Snow White: The life of a dwarf actor|publisher=BBC News|date=December 23, 1999|access-date=May 6, 2009}}
  • Jan-Carl Raspe (1977), German RAF terrorist, gunshot{{cite web|author=Childs, David|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/hans-filbinger-443969.html|title=Hans Filbinger|newspaper=The Independent|date=April 9, 2007|access-date=April 27, 2019|archive-date=May 21, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521093632/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/hans-filbinger-443969.html}}Hofmann, Paul (October 19, 1977). [https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/19/archives/new-jersey-pages-3-jailed-german-terrorists-reported-suicides-as.html "3 JAILED GERMAN TERRORISTS REPORTED SUICIDES AS HOSTAGES FROM HIJACKED PLANE FLY HOME"]. The New York Times. Retrieved April 27, 2019.{{cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/en/new-pictures-of-raf-terror-cell-events-unearthed-in-germany/a-3539419|title=New Pictures of RAF Terror Cell Events Unearthed in Germany|publisher=Deutsche Welle|date=August 5, 2008|archive-date=April 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190427183419/https://www.dw.com/en/new-pictures-of-raf-terror-cell-events-unearthed-in-germany/a-3539419|access-date=April 27, 2019|url-status=bot: unknown}}
  • Terry Ratzmann (2005), American mass murderer, gunshot{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/03/national/motive-still-unclear-in-milwaukee-church-shooting.html|title=Motive Still Unclear in Milwaukee Church Shooting|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 3, 2005|access-date=February 16, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=July 29, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729180351/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/03/national/motive-still-unclear-in-milwaukee-church-shooting.html}}
  • Geli Raubal (1931), niece of Adolf Hitler, gunshot{{Cite web|url=https://allthatsinteresting.com/geli-raubal|title=Hitler's True Love Wasn't Eva Braun – It Was His Niece|date=February 8, 2018|website=All That's Interesting|access-date=April 21, 2019}}
  • Margaret Mary Ray (1998), American stalker, hit by a train{{cite news |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19981006/2776109/former-stalker-of-letterman-and-astronaut-commits-suicide |title=Former Stalker Of Letterman And Astronaut Commits Suicide|newspaper=The Seattle Times |date=October 6, 1998|access-date=February 28, 2019}}
  • Roy Raymond (1993), American founder of Victoria's Secret, jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CEFD9123CF931A3575AC0A965958260 "Roy Raymond, 47; Began Victoria's Secret"]. The New York Times. September 2, 1993.{{cite news|url=http://www.askmen.com/entertainment/special_feature_150/165_special_feature.html|title=5 Things You Didn't know: Victoria's Secret|last= Bonander|first=Ross |date=December 2, 2009|publisher=AskMen.com|access-date=December 2, 2009}}
  • Albert Razin (2019), Russian Udmurt language rights activist and sociologist, self-immolation{{Cite news|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/man-sets-himself--fire-russia--udmurtia-language-protest-against-language-bill/30156654.html|title=Man Dies After Self-Immolation Protest Over Language Policies In Russia's Udmurtia|publisher=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|date=September 14, 2019 |access-date=September 26, 2019}}
  • Reckful (2020), Israeli-American Twitch streamer and Esports player{{Cite news|date=July 3, 2020|title=Reckful: Tributes paid after gaming star's death|publisher=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53277733|access-date=July 5, 2020}}
  • Liam Rector (2007), American poet and educator, gunshot{{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/arts/17rector.html |title= Liam Rector, 57, a Poet and Educator, Dies |last1= Fox |first1= Margalit |date= August 17, 2007 |work= The New York Times|access-date=November 28, 2010}}{{cite news|url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/regional/item_yhBDVjZe0snAzkO2KJXugJ;jsessionid=A4EBEC390733C044B481698693B0F658 |title=Top N.Y. Poet Kills Self |last1=Cox |first1=Peter |last2=Geller |first2=Andy |date=August 16, 2007|work=New York Post|access-date=November 28, 2010|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021111749/http://www.nypost.com/p/news/regional/item_yhBDVjZe0snAzkO2KJXugJ%3Bjsessionid%3DA4EBEC390733C044B481698693B0F658 |archive-date=October 21, 2012}}
  • Wilhelm Rediess (1945), Nazi SS and Police Leader in Norway, gunshot{{cite book|first=Christian|last=Goeschel|title=Suicide in Nazi Germany|page=153|publisher=OUP Oxford|year=2009|isbn=978-0-19-156756-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EIjccRg7_UYC&pg=PA153}}
  • Dean Reed (1986), American-born actor, singer-songwriter, director, and social activist who defected to communist East Germany, self drowning.{{cite news |last1=Damphouse |first1=Julia |title=The Elvis of East Germany |url=https://jacobin.com/2017/12/the-elvis-of-east-germany}}
  • Ernst Reicher (1936), German actor, screenwriter, film producer and film director, hanging{{cite news|url=https://portal.dnb.de/bookviewer/view/1026577861#page/4/mode/2up |newspaper=Pariser Tageblatt |title=Stuart Webbs' letzte Rolle|date=May 8, 1936 |page=4c |language=de |access-date=January 1, 2020}}
  • 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{{cite news | url = http://slate.com/id/2101678/ | title = Gender Gap: What were the real reasons behind David Reimer's suicide? | last = Colapinto | first = J | author-link = John Colapinto | work = Slate | date = June 3, 2004 | access-date = February 13, 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110916170908/http://www.slate.com/id/2101678/ | archive-date = September 16, 2011 | url-status = dead}}
  • Albert Relf (1937), English cricketer, gunshot[http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228185.html Obituaries 1937]. Wisden 1938
  • Ren Hang (2017), Chinese photographer and poet{{cite news|first1=Tessa|last1=Wong|access-date=September 26, 2023|title=Death of China's Hotshot Erotic Photographer|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-39100128|website=BBC News |date=February 28, 2017}}
  • The Renegade (1999), American professional wrestler, gunshot{{Cite web|last=Magee|first=Bob|title=AS I SEE IT 2-28-1999|url=http://pwbts.com/columns/b022899.html|url-status=live|publisher=Pro Wrestling's Between The Sheets|date=February 28, 1999|access-date=November 20, 2022|archive-date=November 17, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221117044703/http://pwbts.com/columns/b022899.html}}
  • Mehmed Reshid (1919), Ottoman politician, gunshot{{Cite book |last=Üngör |first=Uğur Ümit |title=The making of modern Turkey: nation and state in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950 |date=2011 |publisher=Oxford university press |isbn=978-0-19-960360-2 |location=Oxford}}
  • Angelo Reyes (2011), Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, gunshotEvangelista, Katherine (February 8, 2011).[http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20110208-319114/Angelo-Reyes-commits-suicide "Angelo Reyes commits suicide"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108081612/http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20110208-319114/Angelo-Reyes-commits-suicide |date=November 8, 2014}}. Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved February 8, 2011.
  • 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{{cite news |author= |title=The Late T. C. Reynolds |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |volume=37 |number=232 |date=March 31, 1887 |page=2 |issn=1930-9600 |lccn=sn83045501 |oclc=01764810}}
  • John Rheinecker (2017) American Major League Baseball pitcher, hangingScott, Mike (July 19, 2017). [http://www.ozarkssportszone.com/2017/07/19/former-msu-pitcher-john-rheinecker-dies-at-38/ "Former MSU pitcher John Rheinecker dies at 38"]. OzarksSportsZone.com.
  • Rikyū (1591), Japanese tea master and confidant of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, ritual seppuku disembowelment{{cite web |url=http://thekyotoproject.org/english/sen-no-rikyu-the-greatest-tea-master/ |title=Sen no Rikyu -The Greatest Tea Master |first=Kinoshita |last=Airi |publisher=The Kyoto Project, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies |date=February 1, 2014 |access-date=March 24, 2018}}
  • Artūras Rimkevičius (2019), Lithuanian footballer, gunshot{{Cite web|url=https://www.15min.lt/sportas/naujiena/futbolas/tragiska-zinia-zuvo-buves-a-lygos-rezultatyviausias-zaidejas-24-1206898|title=Tragiška žinia: rastas negyvas buvęs Lietuvos rinktinės puolėjas ir A lygos rekordininkas|website=15min|language=lt|access-date=September 24, 2019}}
  • Al Rio (2012), Brazilian comics artist, and animation director, hanging{{cite web |url=http://blog.bcdb.com/animator-artist-al-rio-dies-apparent-suicide-2900/ |title=Animator, artist Al Rio dies in apparent suicide |first=Ethan |last=Minovitz |publisher=The Big Cartoon Database |date=February 2, 2012 |access-date=February 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120701152811/http://blog.bcdb.com/animator-artist-al-rio-dies-apparent-suicide-2900/ |archive-date=July 1, 2012 |url-status=dead}}
  • Adele Ritchie, (1930) American actress, gunshot to the throat[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1787&dat=19300425&id=XLscAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TWQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5086,2091868 "Two Women Die"]. Sarasota Herald Tribune. April 25, 1930. p. 2. Retrieved May 18, 2017.
  • Adelaide Frost Rickenbacker, (1977) wife of Eddie Rickenbacker, gunshot{{Cite web |title=AU Archives--Rickenbacker Papers Historical Sketch of Adelaide Rickenbacker |url=https://www.lib.auburn.edu/archive/flyhy/101/adelaide.htm |access-date=2024-10-22 |website=www.lib.auburn.edu}}
  • Peter Robbins (2022), American voice actor, voice of Charlie Brown{{cite web|url= https://www.thedailybeast.com/peter-robbins-voice-of-charlie-brown-dies-by-suicide-at-65|website= The Daily Beast|title= Voice of Charlie Brown Dies by Suicide at 65|date= January 26, 2022}}
  • Dale Roberts (2010), English footballer, hanging{{cite news |url=http://www.northantset.co.uk/news/local/corby/dale_was_so_depressed_1_3258869 |title=Dale was so depressed |newspaper=Evening Telegraph |location=Northampton |date=November 18, 2011 |access-date=November 29, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120123080502/http://www.northantset.co.uk/news/local/corby/dale_was_so_depressed_1_3258869 |archive-date=January 23, 2012 |url-status=dead}}
  • Rachel Roberts (1980), Welsh actress, barbiturate and alcohol overdose and consumption of lye or alkali{{Cite news |title=Rachel Roberts Ruled a Suicide |work=The New York Times|date=January 6, 1981 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CEFDE173BF935A35752C0A967948260}}
  • Charles Rocket (2005), American actor, cut throat{{cite web|url=http://www.nctimes.com/news/national/backpage/charles-rocket-s-death-ruled-a-suicide-comedian-appeared-on/article_1cd34ff7-626f-554e-b207-b53df1cb7c88.html |title=Charles Rocket's death ruled a suicide|work=North County Times|date=October 18, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022020932/http://www.nctimes.com/news/national/backpage/charles-rocket-s-death-ruled-a-suicide-comedian-appeared-on/article_1cd34ff7-626f-554e-b207-b53df1cb7c88.html |archive-date=October 22, 2012 |access-date=August 14, 2013}}
  • Jamey Rodemeyer (2011), American bullied blogger and high school student, hangingDonaldson James, Susan (September 22, 2011). [https://abcnews.go.com/Health/jamey-rodemeyer-suicide-ny-police-open-criminal-investigation/story?id=14580832 "Jamey Rodemeyer Suicide: Police Consider Criminal Bullying Charges"]. ABC News.
  • Elliot Rodger (2014), American spree killer who perpetrated the 2014 Isla Vista killings, gunshot to the headNagourney, Adam (June 1, 2014). [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/02/us/elliot-rodger-killings-in-california-followed-years-of-withdrawal.html "Before Brief, Deadly Spree, Trouble Since Age 8"]. The New York Times.
  • Ricky Rodriguez (2005), Son of The Family International cult leader David Berg, committed suicide following his murder of Angela M. Smith{{Cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/amp/GMA/Primetime/story?id=420946&page=1|title=‘Prince’ of Former Cult Commits Murder-Suicide|publisher=ABC News|access-date=May 28, 2025}}
  • Robert Neal Rodriguez (1992), American serial killer, cyanide poisoning{{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/05/17/Suspect-in-teen-slayings-dies-in-New-Mexico/2610706075200/|title=Suspect in teen slayings dies in New Mexico|publisher=United Press International|access-date=April 4, 2020}}
  • Roh Moo-hyun (2009), ninth President of the Republic of Korea, jump from a cliffKim, Rahn; Park, Si-soo (May 23, 2009). {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090524211809/http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/05/117_45528.html "Former President Roh Jumps to Death"]}}.The Korea Times.
  • Erwin Rommel (1944), German general and military theorist, cyanide poisoning*{{cite book |last= Shirer |first= William L. |author-link= William L. Shirer |year= 1960 |title= The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |publisher= Simon & Schuster |location= New York |lccn = 60-6729 |title-link= The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |pp=1078–1079}}[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/10439408/Manfred-Rommel.html "Manfred Rommel, son of the Desert Fox, forged a great friendship with Monty's son which became a symbol of post-war reconciliation"]. The Daily Telegraph. November 10, 2013.[http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-desert-fox-commits-suicide "'The Desert Fox' commits suicide"]. History. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
  • Jodon F. Romero (2012), American criminal whose suicide was broadcast on national television following a car chase in Arizona, gunshot{{cite web|title=Why did Jodon Romero kill himself on live TV? |author=Testa, Jessica|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/jtes/why-did-jodon-romero-kill-himself-on-live-television|date=May 9, 2013|publisher=BuzzFeed News|access-date=December 5, 2018}}
  • Edgar Rosenberg (1987), American film and television producer and husband of Joan Rivers, diazepam overdose{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-08-20-vw-3767-story.html |title=Edgar Rosenberg: The Public Ending of a Private Life : Suicide of Rivers' Husband Came Without a Warning |newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=August 20, 1987 |page=15}}
  • Frank Rosolino (1978), American jazz trombonist, shot himself after killing one son and blinding the other{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/28/archives/frank-rosolino-jazz-trumpeter-adapted-style-to-kentons.html|title=Frank Rosolino, Jazz Trumpeter|date=November 28, 1978|newspaper=The New York Times}}
  • Mark Rothko (1970), American abstract expressionist painter, slit his arms{{cite web |url=http://www.tate.org.uk/about/pressoffice/pressreleases/2009/20579.htm |title=Press Releases {{pipe}} Late at Tate at Tate Liverpool (October 22, 2009): Reflect on Mark Rothko's Seagram Murals in the twilight hours (Tate Liverpool)|publisher=Tate|access-date=July 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110712141129/http://www.tate.org.uk/about/pressoffice/pressreleases/2009/20579.htm |archive-date=July 12, 2011|url-status=dead}}
  • Conrad Roy (2014), American marine salvage captain, carbon monoxide poisoning,{{Cite news|author=Cogan, Marin|url=https://www.thecut.com/2016/02/conrad-roy-michelle-carter-c-v-r.html|title=Does Encouraging Suicide Make You a Killer?|url-status=live|date=March 1, 2016|work=The Cut|access-date=March 7, 2022|archive-date=January 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118140538/https://www.thecut.com/2016/02/conrad-roy-michelle-carter-c-v-r.html}} after his girlfriend urged him to commit suicide,{{Cite magazine|url=http://people.com/crime/michelle-carter-and-conrad-roy-text-messages-trial-begins/|author=Truesdell, Jff|title=5 Things to Know: The Teen Girl Who Allegedly Urged Her Boyfriend to Kill Himself Via Texts|magazine=People|url-status=live|date=June 6, 2017|access-date=March 7, 2022|archive-date=June 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606214407/http://people.com/crime/michelle-carter-and-conrad-roy-text-messages-trial-begins/}} for which she was convicted of involuntary manslaughter{{cite news|url=https://apnews.com/abd449bd66274f698e9ff4d4c2247a8e|title=High court upholds texting suicide manslaughter conviction|author=Durkin Richer, Alanna|publisher=Associated Press|url-status=live|date=February 6, 2019|access-date=March 7, 2022|archive-date=December 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230060221/https://apnews.com/article/abd449bd66274f698e9ff4d4c2247a8e}}{{Cite book|last=Tunick|first=Mark|date=April 16, 2019|title=Texting, Suicide, and The Law|doi=10.4324/9780429242977|isbn=978-0-429-24297-7|s2cid=197742682}}
  • Himanshu Roy (2018), Indian police officer, gunshot{{Cite news |last=Mengle |first=Gautam S. |date=May 11, 2018 |title=Maharashtra IPS officer Himanshu Roy commits suicide |newspaper=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/maharashtra-ips-officer-himanshu-roy-commits-suicide/article23851184.ece |access-date=September 28, 2023 |issn=0971-751X}}
  • Ruan Lingyu (1935), Chinese actress, barbiturate overdose{{Cite news | last = Yu | first = Wentao | title = Tragic Goddess | newspaper = China Daily | date = April 7, 2006 | url = http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bjweekend/2006-04/07/content_562388.htm | access-date =April 12, 2016}}
  • Ernst Rückert (1945), German actor, hanging{{Cite book|title= Das große Personenlexikon des Films. Die Schauspieler, Regisseure, Kameraleute, Produzenten, Komponisten, Drehbuchautoren, Filmarchitekten, Ausstatter, Kostümbildner, Cutter, Tontechniker, Maskenbildner und Special Effects Designer des 20. Jahrhunderts|last=Weniger|first=Kay|date=2001|publisher=Schwarzkopf und Schwarzkopf|location=Berlin|page=667|isbn=978-3-89602-340-7|language=de}}
  • Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (1889), son of Emperor Franz Joseph I, gunshot during the Mayerling incident{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-03-19-mn-473-story.html|title=1889 Hapsburg Tragedy at Mayerling: 'Love Deaths' Remain Fascinating|first=William|last=Tuohy|date=March 19, 1989|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}
  • Lori Erica Ruff (2010), American formerly unidentified identity thief, gunshot{{cite web|last1=Golgowski|first1=Nina|title=Texas woman's true identity baffles ex-husband, authorities years after her suicide|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/authorities-struggle-id-mystery-woman-article-1.1383957|newspaper=Daily News|date=June 27, 2013 |location=New York|access-date=November 8, 2015}}
  • Edmund Ruffin (1865), American author, agriculturalist, agronomist and secessionist, gunshot to the head{{cite web|url=http://loc.gov/exhibits/civil-war-in-america/biographies/edmund-ruffin.html|title=Edmund Ruffin|date=November 12, 2012|publisher=Library of Congress|access-date=September 6, 2019}}
  • Quintus Corellius Rufus (before 113 AD), Roman senator, consul, confidant and teacher of Pliny the Younger, refusing food and treatment for his illnessesPliny the Younger, [http://attalus.org/old/pliny1.html#12 Letter to Calestrius Tiro]. Letters: Book One. Translated by J.B.Firth (1900). Attalus. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  • Michael Ruppert (2014), American political activist, gunshotTodrov, Kerana (April 16, 2014). [https://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/sheriff-author-michael-ruppert-dies-of-self-inflicted-gunshot-wound/article_89508d82-c5ca-11e3-b327-001a4bcf887a.html "Sheriff: Author Michael Ruppert dies of self-inflicted gunshot wound"]. Napa Valley Register.
  • Thomas Jefferson Rusk (1857), American politician and military leader, gunshot{{cite web|url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/rusk-thomas-jefferson |title=Rusk, Thomas Jefferson |publisher=Texas State Historical Association |location=Austin, Texas |access-date=July 26, 2024}}
  • Richard Russell (2018), American airport ground operator and airplane thief, intentionally crashing the stolen airplane{{cite web |url=https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/seattle/news/press-releases/fbi-completes-investigation-into-august-2018-unauthorized-flight-from-seattle-tacoma-airport |title=FBI Completes Investigation into August 2018 Unauthorized Flight from Seattle-Tacoma Airport |publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation |location=Seattle, Washington |access-date=April 21, 2020}}
  • Stevie Ryan (2017), American actress and comedian, hangingWinton, Richard (July 3, 2017). [https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-stevie-ryan-death-suicide-20170703-story.html "YouTube star Stevie Ryan died in suicide L.A. County coroner finds"]. Los Angeles Times.
  • Rick Rypien (2011), Canadian professional ice hockey player{{cite web|last=Addison |first=Bob |url=http://www.news1130.com/sports/article/264538--former-canuck-rick-rypien-found-dead |title=Former Canuck Rick Rypien found dead |publisher=CKWX News 1130|location=Vancouver |date=August 15, 2011|access-date=February 27, 2018|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110908050802/http://www.news1130.com/sports/article/264538--former-canuck-rick-rypien-found-dead |archive-date=September 8, 2011}}

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  • Mário de Sá-Carneiro (1916), Portuguese poet and short story writer, strychnine poisoning{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/514777/Mario-de-Sa-Carneiro|title=Mário de Sá-Carneiro|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|author=Parrott-Sheffer, Chelsey|url-status=live|date=May 15, 2021|access-date=April 16, 2022|archive-date=April 6, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220406200048/https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/514777/Mario-de-Sa-Carneiro}}
  • Jun Sadogawa (2013), Japanese manga artist, hanging{{Cite web|title=Police Suspect Suicide in Ramen Fighter Miki Creator Jun Sadogawa's Passing|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-08-13/police-suspect-suicide-in-ramen-fighter-miki-creator-jun-sadogawa-passing|access-date=September 26, 2020|website=Anime News Network}}
  • Saigō Takamori (1877), Japanese samurai, nobleman and general, seppuku{{cite book|last=Holcombe|first=Charles|title=A History of East Asia|year=2017|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=249}}
  • El Hedi ben Salem (1977), Moroccan actor, hanging{{cite book|last=Scott|first=Jay|title=Midnight Matinees: Movies and Their Makers, 1975–1985|year=1987|publisher=Frederick Ungar Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-8044-6848-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/midnightmatinees0000scot/page/49 49]|url=https://archive.org/details/midnightmatinees0000scot/page/49}}Watson, Wallace Steadman (1996). [https://books.google.com/books?id=v0pcc38-Pp0C&q=El+Hedi+Ben+Salem+jail&pg=PA107 Understanding Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Film as Private and Public Art]. University of South Carolina Press. p. 107. Archived at Google Books.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/1999/jan/08/features3|title=The bitter tears of Fassbinder's women|date=January 8, 1999|newspaper=The Guaridan|access-date=November 27, 2014}}{{cite book|editor=Peucker, Brigitte |title=A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder|year=2012|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-4051-9163-0|page=579}}{{cite book|last=Ebert|first=Roger|author-link=Roger Ebert|title=The Great Movies|year=2003|publisher=Broadway Books|isbn=978-0-7679-1038-5|page=26}}{{cite book|last=Mayne|first=Judith |title=Cinema and Spectatorship|year=2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-96688-2|page=169}}
  • Mark Salling (2018), American actor, hanging{{cite news|author=Gonzalez, Sandra |publisher=CNN |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/30/entertainment/mark-salling-dead/index.html |title=Mark Salling, 'Glee' actor, dead at 35|date=January 30, 2018}}
  • Johanna Sällström (2007), Swedish actress{{cite news|author=Olof Westerberg, Olof |url=http://www.sydsvenskan.se/malmo/johanna-sallstroms-dod-utreds/|title=Johanna Sällströms död utreds |date=December 23, 2007|work=Sydsvenskan|language=sv}}
  • Albert Salmi (1990), American character actor, fatally shot his wife, and himself in a murder-suicide{{Cite news|title=Albert Salmi, Actor, 62, Is Found Shot to Death in Home With Wife|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 25, 1990|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE6D9163DF936A15757C0A966958260|access-date=March 29, 2008}}
  • Ramón Sampedro (1998), Spanish quadriplegic seaman, assisted suicide with potassium cyanide.
  • Alexander Samsonov (1914), Russian cavalry officer and general, gunshot{{cite book|last=David|first=Saul|author-link=Saul David|title=100 Days to Victory: How the Great War Was Fought and Won 1914–1918|year=2013|publisher=Hodder & Stoughton|chapter=29 August 1914: 'the booty is immense' }}{{cite book|last=McMeekin|first=Sean|author-link=Sean McMeekin|title=The Russian Revolution: A New History|year=2017|publisher=Basic Books|chapter=Chapter 4: Russia's War, 1914–1916}}
  • George Sanders (1972), Russian-born English actor, singer, composer and author, overdoseAscher-Walsh, Rebecca (May 8, 1992). [https://ew.com/article/1992/05/08/george-sanders-suicide/ "Bored to Death."] Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
  • Kianush Sanjari (2024), Iranian journalist and activist, jump from a building{{Cite web |date=14 November 2024 |title=Former VOA Farsi service journalist kills himself in Iran after demanding release of prisoners |url=https://apnews.com/article/iran-voa-farsi-journalist-suicide-1e515467ba0a2209d54716329929e271 |access-date=14 November 2024 |website=Associated Press |language=en}}
  • Sanmao (1991), Taiwanese writer and translator, hanged with silk stockings{{Cite web|url=http://www.china.org.cn/2011-01/06/content_21687105.htm|title=In memory of an olive tree|publisher=China Internet Information Center|access-date=February 9, 2019|author=Ren Zhongxi}}
  • Mónica Santa María (1994), Peruvian model and TV presenter, gunshot{{Cite web|url=https://www.univision.com/entretenimiento/las-ultimas-horas-de-monica-santa-maria-la-dalina-de-nubeluz-que-perdio-las-ganas-de-vivir|title=Las últimas horas de Mónica Santa María: la dalina de 'Nubeluz' que perdió las ganas de vivir|last=Morales|first=Vanessa|publisher=Univision|language=es|date=July 2, 2017|access-date=September 10, 2018}}
  • Nick Santino (2012), American soap opera actor, overdosed on pillsFowler, Brandi (January 29, 2012). [http://www.eonline.com/news/soap_actor_commits_suicide_after/289985 "Soap Actor Commits Suicide After Putting Dog to Sleep"]. E!.
  • Alberto Santos-Dumont (1932), Brazilian aviation pioneer, hanging[http://biography.yourdictionary.com/alberto-santos-dumont "Alberto Santos-Dumont Facts"]. Your Dictionary, 2010. The Gale Group, Inc. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
  • Vytautas Šapranauskas (2013), Lithuanian actor, hanging{{Cite web|url=http://l24.lt/en/society/item/9314-actor-v-sapranauskas-dies-at-almost-55|title=Actor V. Šapranauskas dies at almost 55|website=l24.lt|access-date=April 29, 2020}}
  • Carl Sargeant (2017), Welsh politician and former member of the Welsh Government, hanging[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-41961404 "Carl Sargeant: 'Hanging' cause of ex-minister's death"]. BBC News. November 13, 2017.
  • Sam Sarpong (2015), British-born American model and actor, jump from a bridge{{cite web|url=http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/sam-sarpong-dies-tommy-hilfiger-model-actor-dead-of-apparent-suicide-20152810|title=Sam Sarpong Dies: Model, Yo Momma Host Dead of Apparent Suicide|date=October 28, 2015|author=McRady, Rachel|newspaper=Us}}
  • Satanta (1878), Kiowa war chief, jump out a window{{cite web|url=https://www.tsl.texas.gov/treasures/indians/satanta.html|title=Satanta|newspaper=Texas State Library and Archives Commission|date=December 5, 2017|access-date=February 14, 2019}}
  • Yoshiki Sasai (2014), Japanese biologist, hanging[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/japanese-stem-cell-scientist-yoshiki-sasai-found-dead-in-apparent-suicide-9650050.html "Japanese stem cell scientist Yoshiki Sasai found dead in apparent suicide", The Independent, 5 August 2014]. Accessed 6 August 2014{{cite news |url=https://online.wsj.com/articles/japanese-stem-cell-scientist-yoshiki-sasai-is-dead-1407206857 |title=Japanese Stem-Cell Scientist Yoshiki Sasai Is Dead |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |date=5 August 2014}}[http://www.nature.com/news/collateral-damage-how-one-misconduct-case-brought-a-biology-institute-to-its-knees-1.17427 Collateral damage: How one misconduct case brought a biology institute to its knees]. Nature, 30 April 2015, 520 (600-603).{{Cite web |url=http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASG853DJ9G85PIHB005.html |title=Asahi Shinbun Digital, August 4, 2014 |access-date=September 21, 2023 |archive-date=July 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706023635/https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASG853DJ9G85PIHB005.html |url-status=dead}}
  • Drake Sather (2004), American screenwriter, gunshot{{cite web|author=Brawley, Eddie|url=http://splitsider.com/2016/06/who-is-drake-sather/|title=Who Is Drake Sather?|date=June 21, 2016|publisher=Splitsider|access-date=September 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911024740/http://splitsider.com/2016/06/who-is-drake-sather/|archive-date=September 11, 2017|url-status=dead}}
  • V. P. Sathyan (2006), Indian footballer, jumped in front of a train{{Cite news |date=July 18, 2006 |title=VP Sathyan commits suicide |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/vp-sathyan-commits-suicide/story-kV7EQqLJ2x6augoKVIKTyI.html |access-date=September 28, 2023 |newspaper=Hindustan Times}}
  • Jiro Sato (1934), Japanese tennis player, drowning{{cite news |url=http://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/637261 |title=Famous Tennis Star A Suicide |newspaper=The New York Times| date=April 6, 1934}}
  • Saul (1012 BC), Jewish king, pierced himself with his sword[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Samuel+31&version=NLT 1 Samuel 31] (NLT)
  • Savannah (1994), American adult film actress, gunshot to the head
  • Marcus Ostorius Scapula (65 AD), Roman senator, consul and military tribune, severed his veins and stabbed himself with help from a slaveTacitus, The Annals [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Annals_(Tacitus)/Book_16#15 Book 16, Chapter 15]. Wikisource. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
  • Mamercus Aemilius Scaurus (34 AD), Roman rhetorician, poet, senator and consulTacitus (32-37 AD). [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/Annals/6B*.html Book 6, Chapter 29], Annals, University of Chicago.
  • Thomas Schäfer (2020), German politician, jumped in front of a train{{Cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/en/german-state-finance-minister-thomas-sch%C3%A4fer-found-dead/a-52948976|title=German state finance minister Thomas Schäfer found dead|author=Rahn, Wesley|date=March 29, 2020|website=DW News|access-date=May 14, 2020}}
  • Aleko Schinas (1913), Greek assassin of King George I of Greece, jumped out of a Thessaloniki police station window[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/05/07/100617854.pdf "King's slayer a suicide]" The New York Times. May 7, 1913 (PDF). Retrieved November 14, 2019.
  • Sybille Schmitz (1955), German actress, overdose of sleeping pills{{cite book |title=Germans on Drugs: The Complications of Modernization in Hamburg |last=Stephens |first=Robert |year=2007 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |isbn=978-0-472-06973-6 |page=285 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N6X5bA9CUVAC&q=Sybille+Schmitz+suicide+1955&pg=PA283 |access-date=April 29, 2016}}
  • Andreas Schnieders (2022), German boxer{{cite web|url=https://www.nwzonline.de/sport/andreas-schnieders-ex-boxer-aus-lastrup-gestorben_a_51,10,649196257.html|author=Richters, Hauke|title=Große Bestürzung über Tod von Andreas Schnieders|publisher=NWZ Online|language=de|url-status=live|date=October 11, 2022|access-date=June 21, 2023|archive-date=June 21, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230621150801/https://www.nwzonline.de/sport/andreas-schnieders-ex-boxer-aus-lastrup-gestorben_a_51,10,649196257.html}}
  • Robert Schommer (2001), American astronomer"Científicos destacaron trayectoria de Astrónomo Robert Schommer", Diario El Día (La Serena). January 4, 2002
  • Dave Schulthise (2004) American bass guitarist for The Dead Milkmen,{{Cite news|title='Dead Milkmen' bass guitarist commits suicide|url=https://www.theoaklandpress.com/2004/03/13/dead-milkmen-bass-guitarist-commits-suicide/|newspaper=The Oakland Press|url-status=live|date=March 13, 2004|access-date=June 26, 2023|archive-date=June 26, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230626191738/https://www.theoaklandpress.com/2004/03/13/dead-milkmen-bass-guitarist-commits-suicide/}} overdose of pills{{cite news |last=Rapa |first=Patrick |title=The Dead Milkmen return to pay tribute to the late Dave Schulthise. |url=http://citypaper.net/articles/2004-11-11/cover.shtml |newspaper=Philadelphia City Paper |date=November 11, 2004 |access-date=February 13, 2010|url-status=dead |archive-date=June 29, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090629235740/http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2004-11-11/cover.shtml}}
  • Conrad Schumann (1998), German Democratic Republic soldier who famously defected to West Germany during the construction of the Berlin Wall, hangingStaunton, Denis (June 22, 1998). "Escaped soldier found hanged". The Guardian. Manchester (UK). p. K2
  • Tom Schweich (2015), American politician, gunshot{{cite web|url=http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article11231360.html|title=Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich dead of apparent suicide|author=Hancock, Jason|author2=Helling, Dave|date=February 26, 2015|newspaper=The Kansas City Star}}
  • Metellus Scipio (46 BC), Roman consul and military commander, stabbed himself{{cite book |title=Constructing Autocracy: Aristocrats and Emperors in Julio-Claudian Rome |last=Roller |first=Matthew |year=2001 |publisher=Princeton University Press |page=105 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gnzmBgAAQBAJ&q=metellus+scipio+suicide&pg=PA105 |access-date=September 18, 2017|isbn=978-1-4008-2409-0}}
  • L'Wren Scott (2014), American fashion designer, hanging{{cite news | url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/rolling-stones-support-mick-jagger-wren-scott-death-article-1.1726666 | title=L'Wren Scott suicide confirmed, body moved to funeral home as Mick Jagger stays in Australia | newspaper=Daily News |location=New York| date=March 19, 2014 | access-date=March 20, 2014}}
  • Tony Scott (2012), English film director of films such as Top Gun, jumped off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles{{cite web|author=Hardigree, Matt |url=http://jalopnik.com/5936113/top-gun-and-days-of-thunder-director-tony-scott-found-dead-after-jumping-off-bridge|title=Top Gun And Days Of Thunder Director Tony Scott Found Dead After Jumping Off Bridge poet |publisher=Deadspin |date=August 20, 2012}}
  • Angela Scoular (2011), English actress, ingestion of drain cleaner{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14218733 |title=Bond actress Angela Scoular died by drinking acid cleaner |publisher=BBC News |date=20 July 2011|access-date=10 January 2024}}
  • Scott Scurlock (1996), American bank robber, gunshot to the head{{cite web|url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19961130&slug=2362385|title=Robbery Suspect Ended His Own Life|author=Whitely, Peyton|newspaper=The Seattle Times|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=November 30, 1996|access-date=June 6, 2024|archive-date=June 6, 2024|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240606160302/https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/}}
  • Junior Seau (2012), American football All-Pro player, gunshot to the chest{{cite news|title=Junior Seau, Famed N.F.L. Linebacker, Dies at 43; Suicide Is Suspected|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/sports/football/junior-seau-famed-nfl-linebacker-dies-at-43-in-apparent-suicide.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 2, 2012|author=Bishop, Greg |author2=Davis, Rob}}{{cite web|author=Stickney, R. |author2=Grieco, Sarah|title=Former Charger Junior Seau Commits Suicide: Cops|date=May 2, 2012 |url=http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/sports/Police-Junior-Seau-Home-Report--149864485.html|publisher=NBC San Diego}}
  • Jean Seberg (1979), American actress, barbiturate overdose{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9PUhAAAAIBAJ&pg=4957,4713117|title=The Life and Death of Jean Seberg|last=Raith|first=Mark Alan|date=July 19, 1981|work=Reading Eagle|page=36|access-date=December 2, 2012}}{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2FQ0AAAAIBAJ&pg=5605,1267220|title=Charges filed in Seberg death|date=June 23, 1979|work=Montreal Gazette|page=41|access-date=April 25, 2021}}
  • Sonia Sekula (1963), Swiss painter, hanging{{cite web |url=http://www.glbtqarchive.com/arts/sekula_s_A.pdf |year=2015 |first=Richard G. |last=Mann|title=Sonia Sekula|publisher=GLBTQ Archive |access-date=March 27, 2018}}
  • Seneca the Younger (65 AD), Roman philosopher, cut his veinsTacitus (62-65 AD). Book 15, Chapter 63, Annals.Tacitus Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb (2007). The Annals of Imperial Rome Book XV (New York, Barnes & Noble). p 341
  • Arma Senkrah (1900), American violinist, gunshot{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1900/09/05/archives/arma-senkrah-a-suicide-american-violinist-kills-herself-in-germany.html|title=ARMA SENKRAH A SUICIDE.; American Violinist Kills Herself in Germany.| newspaper=The New York Times|page=6| date=September 5, 1900|access-date=March 3, 2020}}
  • Rezső Seress (1968), Hungarian pianist and composer, choked himself with a wire{{cite web |url= http://sites.google.com/site/vmarcenne/Home/imgs/nyt_14.01.68_pg84_suicide_Gloomy_Sunday.gif |title= Rezsoe Seres Commits Suicide; Composer of 'Gloomy Sunday' |newspaper=The New York Times |date= January 14, 1968 |page= 84 |department= Obituaries }}
  • Servilia (30 BC), Roman noblewoman and wife of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus Minor, swallowing burning coal{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qF9DAAAAYAAJ&q=%22servilia%22+%22coals%22+%22lepidus%22&pg=PA95|title=The Roman History, from the Foundation of Rome to the Battle of Actium. Translated from the French|last=Rollin|first=Charles|date=1750|publisher=R. Reilly}}
  • Marcus Sedatius Severianus (161 or 162), Roman senator, consul and general, starved himselfLucian How to Write History 21, 14, 25
  • Mamercus Aemilius Scaurus (34 AD), Roman senator, followed by his wife Sextia
  • Anne Sexton (1974), American poet, carbon monoxide poisoning{{cite journal |title=The Suicide of Anne Sexton |last=Hendin |first=Herbert |journal=Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior |volume=23 |issue=3 |pages=257–62 |date=Fall 1993|doi=10.1111/j.1943-278X.1993.tb00184.x |pmid=8249036}}
  • Frances Ford Seymour (1950), Canadian-American socialite, cut her throatCapretto, Lisa (August 17, 2015). [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jane-fonda-mothers-death_us_55cd098ae4b0bf5ab5bb56a6 "How Jane Fonda Uncovered The Truth About Her Mother's Death"]. HuffPost. Retrieved September 16, 2018.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/opinion/sunday/the-dark-tie-between-jane-fonda-and-her-biographer.html |newspaper=The New York Times|title=Connected, Darkly, to Jane Fonda |date=September 24, 2011 |last=Bosworth |first=Patricia |author-link=Patricia Bosworth |access-date=September 16, 2018}}
  • Oksana Shachko (2018), Ukrainian artist and activist, cofounder of FEMEN,Osborne, Samuel (July 24, 2018). [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/oksana-shachko-dead-femen-suicide-cause-of-death-a8461681.html "Oksana Shachko death: Femen founder's body discovered in Paris apartment"]. The Independent. hanging[https://www.unian.info/world/10199235-femen-movement-co-founder-oksana-shachko-commits-suicide.html "FEMEN movement co-founder Oksana Shachko commits suicide"]. Ukrainian Independent Information Agency. July 24, 2018.
  • Shah Begum (1604), first wife of Emperor Jahangir, opium overdose{{Cite book |last=Findly |first=Ellison Banks |title=Nur Jahan: Empress of Mughal India |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=March 25, 1993 |isbn=978-0-19-536060-8 |pages=124}}{{Cite book |last=Emperor |first=Jahangir |title=The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri; or, Memoirs of Jahangir |publisher=Royal Asiatic Society|year=1909 |editor-last=Beveridge |editor-first=Henry |volume=I |location=London |pages=[https://archive.org/details/b29352423_0001/page/56 56] |translator-last=Rogers |translator-first=Alexander}}
  • Shahrzad (1937), Iranian dramatist and playwright{{Cite encyclopedia|title=SHAHRZAD|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/sharzad-kamal-reza|access-date=June 27, 2020|encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Iranica|date=January 1, 2000|archive-date=November 17, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131117050957/http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/sharzad-kamal-reza}}
  • Shamash-shum-ukin (648 BC), King of Babylon, self-immolation{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.281906|page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.281906/page/n149/mode/2up 125]|title=Ancient Babylonia|last=Johns|first=C. H. W.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1913|access-date = August 29, 2021}}
  • Del Shannon (1990), American musician, gunshot{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-29-me-152-story.html |title=Widow of Del Shannon Alleges Drug Led to His Suicide, Sues Eli Lilly & Co| newspaper=Los Angeles Times| last=Rivera|first=John| date=January 29, 1991}}
  • Samir Sharma (2020), Indian actor, hanging{{Cite web|last=Aiyappa|first=Vikash|date=August 6, 2020|title=TV actor Samir Sharma dies by suicide at Mumbai home|url=https://www.oneindia.com/india/tv-actor-samir-sharma-dies-by-suicide-at-mumbai-home-3130772.html|access-date=August 6, 2020|website=Oneindia}}
  • H. James Shea Jr. (1970), American politician, gunshot{{cite web|title=Sponsor of Massachusetts Bill To Test War Dies of Gun Injury|work=The New York Times|date=May 10, 1970|page=32|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/05/10/archives/sponsor-of-massachusetts-bill-to-test-war-dies-of-gun-injury.html|access-date=February 18, 2020}}
  • Alice Bradley Sheldon (James Tiptree Jr.) (1987), American writer, gunshotGregersen, Erik (October 8, 2012). [https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Tiptree-Jr "James Tiptree, Jr."] Encyclopædia Britannica.
  • Harold Shipman (2004), English family doctor and serial killer, hanging[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3391871.stm "Harold Shipman found dead in cell"]. BBC News. January 13, 2004.
  • Shoba (1980), Indian actress, hanging{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/fr/2002/05/03/stories/2002050300330300.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030704154904/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/fr/2002/05/03/stories/2002050300330300.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 4, 2003 |title=It's a heavy price to pay |newspaper=The Hindu |date=May 3, 2002|author=Kumar, S. R. Ashok|access-date=January 11, 2012}}{{cite news|url=http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-news/jan-07-01/04-01-07-actress.html |title=A story on suicides and actresses |website=Behindwoods.com | date=January 4, 2007|access-date=January 11, 2012}}{{cite news|url=http://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/2002/apr/23474.htm |title=Why South Indian heroines are embracing death |newspaper= Mid-Day | date=April 20, 2002 |access-date=January 11, 2012}}
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  • Manuel Fernández Silvestre (1921), Spanish general, gunshot{{cite book|last1=Beevor|first1=Antony|title=The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936–39|date=2006|publisher=Hachette UK|chapter=Chapter 2}}
  • Tiffany Simelane (2009), Swazi beauty queen, ingestion of weevil tabletMotau, Phepile (August 19, 2009). [http://www.times.co.sz/index.php?news=8671 "Beauty pageant sector shocker"]. Times of Swaziland.Dlamini, Welcome (August 20, 2009). [http://www.swazilive.com/Swaziland_News/Swaziland_News_Stories.asp?News_id=351 "Ex-Miss SD tiffany is dead"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226161317/http://swazilive.com/Swaziland_News/Swaziland_News_Stories.asp?News_id=351|date=February 26, 2017}}. Swaziland News.
  • Chris Simon (2024), Retired professional hockey player.{{cite news |title=Stanley Cup-winning winger Simon dead at 52 |url=https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/chris-simon-a-stanley-cup-winner-with-the-colorado-avalanche-dead-at-52-1.2092363 |access-date=20 March 2024 |agency=The Canadian Press |publisher=TSN |date=19 March 2024}}
  • Narender Singh (2016), Indian judoka, hanging{{cite news |date=6 February 2016 |title=Arjuna awardee SP commits suicide |newspaper=Hindustan Times |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/punjab/suspended-sp-found-dead-at-pap-jalandhar/story-D10kkzo6kUboQq8tF4UXBL.html |access-date=September 28, 2023}}
  • PC Siqueira (2023), Brazilian Internet and television personality, hanging{{cite web|url=https://www.metropoles.com/sao-paulo/pc-siqueira-e-encontrado-morto-dentro-de-apartamento-em-sp|title=PC Siqueira é encontrado morto dentro de apartamento em SP|work=Metrópoles|date=27 December 2023|access-date=14 November 2019|language=pt}}
  • Per Sivle (1904), Norwegian poet and novelist, gunshot{{cite encyclopedia|author=Helleve, Eirik |date=February 13, 2009|url=https://nbl.snl.no/Per_Sivle|title=Per Sivle|encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|language=no|access-date=November 25, 2018}}
  • Mykola Skrypnyk (1933), Ukrainian Bolshevik leader, gunshot{{cite book|last1=Applebaum|first1=Anne|title=Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine|date=2017|publisher=Penguin Randomhouse|chapter=Preface}}
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  • Irina Slavina (2020), Russian journalist, self-immolation{{Cite web |author=Chernova, Anna |author2=Braithwaite, Sharon |author3=Kennedy, Niamh|title=EU calls for investigation into death of Russian journalist who set herself on fire|date=October 5, 2020 |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/05/europe/russia-journalist-irina-salvina-fire-intl/index.html|access-date=October 6, 2020|publisher=CNN}}
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  • Walter Slezak (1983), Austrian actor, gunshotFlint, Peter B. (April 23, 1983). [https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/23/obituaries/walter-slezak-actor-is-a-suicide-at-80-on-li.html "Walter Slezak, Actor, Is a Suicide at 80 on L.I."]. The New York Times.
  • Everett Sloane (1965), American actor, drug overdose[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19650807&id=nEcqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=P08EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4153,2188517 "Blindness fear cited in suicide."] Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 7, 1965. p. 11. Archived at Google News. Retrieved May 23, 2015.
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  • Smiley Culture (2011), English reggae singer and DJ, stabbing{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-23146121 | title=Reggae star Smiley Culture stabbed himself during police raid|publisher=BBC News|date=July 2, 2013}}
  • James Vinton Smith (1952), Australian politician, gunshot{{Cite news|date=August 14, 1952|title=Shooting 'a suicide impulse'|page=7|work=The Argus|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23186236|access-date=May 15, 2020}}
  • Jess Smith (1923), American political advisor, entrepreneur and member of the Ohio Gang, gunshot to the head{{Cite news|date=May 30, 1923|title=DAUGHERTY'S FRIEND SUICIDE IN HIS ROOM; Jesse W. Smith Shoots Himself in Attorney General's Washington Apartment|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/05/31/archives/daughertys-friend-suicide-in-his-room-jesse-w-smith-shoots-himself.html|access-date=April 13, 2024}}
  • Someshvara I (1068), King of Western Chalukya, drowning in the Tungabhadra river{{Cite book |last=Sen |first=Sailendra Nath |title=Ancient Indian History and Civilization |publisher=New Age International |year=1999 |pages=385}}
  • António Soares dos Reis (1889), Portuguese sculptor, gunshot to the head
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  • Song Jae-rim (2024), South Korean actor and model{{Cite web|script-title=ko:송재림, A4 2장 분량의 유서 남기고... 향년 39세 사망|trans-title=Song Jae-rim leaves a 2-page A4-page suicide note... dies at age 39|url=https://m.entertain.naver.com/article/408/0000242148|via=Naver|publisher=iMBC|language=ko|last=Kim|first=Kyung-hee|date=November 12, 2024|access-date=November 14, 2024}}
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  • Peu Sousa (2013), Brazilian guitarist for Nove Mil Anjos and Pitty, hanging{{cite web|url=https://musica.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2013/05/06/peu-ex-guitarrista-da-pitty-e-encontrado-morto-em-sua-casa-em-salvador.htm|title=Peu, ex-guitarrista da Pitty, é encontrado morto em sua casa em Salvador|work=UOL|date=May 6, 2013|access-date=September 27, 2019|language=pt}}
  • José Tomás de Sousa Martins (1897), Portuguese physician, morphine overdose
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  • Gary Speed (2011), Welsh footballer and manager, hanging{{cite news|last=Hughes|first=Mark|title=Wales boss Gary Speed found dead|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8918628/Wales-boss-Gary-Speed-found-dead.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120527000735/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8918628/Wales-boss-Gary-Speed-found-dead.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 27, 2012|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=November 27, 2011|location=London|date=November 27, 2011}}
  • Mark Speight (2008), English television presenter, hanging{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/may/20/bbc.television?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487 |title=Speight hanged himself with shoelaces, coroner rules |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |date=May 20, 2008 |access-date=April 19, 2012 |first=Leigh |last=Holmwood}}
  • Sporus (69 AD), Roman boy whom the emperor Nero had castrated and married, stabbed his throat with a daggerSuetonius, The Lives of the Caesars: [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Nero*.html The Life of Nero, Chapter 49], Loeb Classical Library (1914), University of Chicago. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
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  • Wilhelm Stekel (1940) Austrian physician and psychologist, Aspirin overdose.
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  • Yutaka Taniyama (1958), Japanese mathematician{{MacTutor Biography|id=Taniyama}}
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  • Octave Tassaert (1874), French painter, charcoal-burning{{Cite book|last=Lloyd|first=Rosemary|year=1996|title=Revolutions in Writing: Readings in Nineteenth-Century French Prose|publisher=Indiana University Press|page=39|isbn=978-0-253-21069-2}}
  • Jean Tatlock (1944), American physician, psychiatrist, communist activist, mistress of Robert Oppenheimer, drowning in a bathtub{{Cite book | last1 = Bird | first1 = Kai | last2 = Sherwin | first2 = Martin J. | year = 2006 | title = American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer | url = https://archive.org/details/americanpromethe00kbir | url-access = limited |publisher = Vintage Books |page=[https://archive.org/details/americanpromethe00kbir/page/n271 250]| isbn = 978-0-375-72626-2}}
  • Victor Tausk (1919), Austrian psychoanalyst and neurologist, gunshot and hanging{{cite book |last=Richards|first=Arnold D.|title=The Jewish World of Sigmund Freud: Essays on Cultural Roots and the Problem of Religious Identity|year=2010|publisher=McFarland & Company|page=170|isbn=978-0-7864-4424-3}}
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  • Pál Teleki (1941), Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary, gunshot{{Cite book | last = Ablonczy | first = Balázs | year = 2006 | title = Pál Teleki (1874–1941): The Life of a Controversial Hungarian Politician |publisher = Social Science Monographs |page=230}}
  • Lou Tellegen (1934), Dutch actor, director and screenwriter, stabbed himself in the chest with a pair of scissors{{cite news|url= http://archives.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/access/http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1934/10/30/page/1/article/actor-lou-tellegen-ends-life|title= Actor Lou Tellegen Ends Life|date= October 30, 1934|page= 1|newspaper= Chicago Daily Tribune}}
  • Seth Teller (2014), American computer scientist, blunt trauma to head and torso{{cite news |title=Professor Seth Teller dies at age 50|url=https://news.mit.edu/2014/professor-seth-teller-dies|url-status=live|magazine=MIT News|date=July 2, 2014|access-date=March 16, 2023|archive-date=February 3, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203034005/https://news.mit.edu/2014/professor-seth-teller-dies}}{{cite news|author=Xu, Kath|title=Cause of death of Professor Seth Teller is released |url=https://thetech.com/2014/08/05/suicide-v134-n29|url-status=live|newspaper=The Tech|date=August 5, 2014|access-date=March 16, 2023|archive-date=March 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315132939/https://thetech.com/2014/08/05/suicide-v134-n29}}
  • Stella Tennant (2020) British model{{cite news |last1=Dixon|first1=Hayley |title= Stella Tennant took her own life after struggling with mental health |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/06/stella-tennant-took-life-struggling-mental-health/ |access-date=January 7, 2021|work=The Daily Telegraph|archive-date=January 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106235639/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/06/stella-tennant-took-life-struggling-mental-health/}}
  • Josef Terboven (1945), Nazi Reichskommissar for Norway, detonating 50 kg of dynamite{{cite book|first=Christian|last=Goeschel|title=Suicide in Nazi Germany|page=152|publisher=OUP Oxford|year=2009|isbn=978-0-19-156756-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EIjccRg7_UYC&pg=PA152}}
  • Tewodros II (1868), Emperor of Ethiopia, gunshot{{cite news|url=http://www.ethiopianhistory.com/Tewodros_II|title=Tewodros II|publisher=EthiopianHistory.com|access-date=August 14, 2014}}
  • Tezozomoctli (1430), Emperor of Cuauhtitlan, poison{{cite book |last=Bierhorst|first=John |title=History and Mythology of the Aztecs: The Codex Chimalpopoca |year=1992 |publisher=University of Arizona Press|page=93}}
  • Mike Thalassitis (2019), English-Cypriot footballer and television personality, hanging{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-48507026|title=Mike Thalassitis: Love Island star left notebook at scene of death|publisher=BBC News|access-date=June 5, 2019}}
  • Jack Thayer (1945), Titanic survivor, cut his wrists[https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/john-borland-thayer-jr.html "John Borland Thayer, Jr."] Encyclopedia Titanica. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
  • Samuel J. F. Thayer (1893), American architect, gunshot{{cite news|url= https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/323038782.html?dids=323038782:323038782&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Mar+19%2C+1893&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=SHOT+HIMSELF.&pqatl=google|title= Shot himself|date= March 19, 1893|page= 16|newspaper= Los Angeles Times|access-date= July 6, 2017|archive-date= October 25, 2012|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121025211519/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/323038782.html?dids=323038782:323038782&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Mar+19,+1893&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=SHOT+HIMSELF.&pqatl=google|url-status= dead}}
  • Thích Quảng Đức (1963), Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk, self-immolation{{cite web | title =World Press Photo of the Year 1963 | url = https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo/1963/world-press-photo-year/malcolm-w-browne |newspaper=World Press Photo}}
  • Hugo Thimig (1944), Austrian actor, overdose of Barbital{{Cite web|url=https://www.profil.at/oesterreich/history/100-jahre-erster-weltkrieg-society-skandal-wien-374405|title=100 Jahre Erster Weltkrieg: Society-Skandal in Wien|first=Herbert|last=Lackner|magazine=Profil|date=April 23, 2014|access-date=June 27, 2020|language=de}}
  • Nicky Thomas (1990), Jamaican reggae singer{{cite book | title=Caribbean Popular Music: an Encyclopedia of Reggae, Mento, Ska, Rock Steady, and Dancehall | url=https://archive.org/details/caribbeanpopular00mosk | url-access=limited | publisher=Greenwood Press | author=Moskowitz, David V | year=2006 | page=[https://archive.org/details/caribbeanpopular00mosk/page/n314 292] | isbn=978-0-313-33158-9}}
  • Hunter S. Thompson (2005), American gonzo journalist, author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, gunshot{{cite web | title = Football Season Is Over Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's final note ... Entering the no more fun zone| author = Douglas Brinkley | url = https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/7605448/football_season_is_over| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060207020825/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/7605448/football_season_is_over/| url-status = dead| archive-date = February 7, 2006|newspaper=Rolling Stone| date =September 8, 2005}}
  • Terry Thompson (2011), American zookeeper and owner of Muskingum County Animal Farm, gunshot{{cite web|author=Leckrone, Jim|date=October 20, 2011|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ohio-animals-loose-idUSTRE79I0U720111020|title=Charging bear got close to police before shot dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924160051/http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/20/us-ohio-animals-loose-idUSTRE79I0U720111020|archive-date=September 24, 2015|publisher=Reuters}}
  • William Thornton (1840), British lieutenant-general{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_c09EJgek50C&pg=PA511 |title=Encyclopedia of the War of 1812|first1=David Stephen|last1=Heidler|first2=Jeanne T.|last2=Heidler|page=511|publisher=Naval Institute Press |access-date=May 11, 2015|isbn=978-1-59114-362-8|year=2004}}
  • Ofonius Tigellinus (69 AD), Roman prefect of the Praetorian Guard, cut his throat with a razorTacitus (c. 100–110 AD). Histories [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/Histories/1B*.html Book 1, Chapter 72], Loeb Classical Library edition of Tacitus (1925). University of Chicago.
  • Jānis Timma (2024), Latvian basketball player, asphyxiation{{cite news|url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/12/17/latvian-basketball-star-found-dead-in-moscow-after-apparent-suicide-a87363|title=Latvian Basketball Star Found Dead in Moscow After Apparent Suicide|date=December 17, 2024|work=The Moscow Times|access-date=December 23, 2024}}
  • Carlos Tobalina (1989), Peruvian-born pornographic filmmaker and actor, gunshot{{cite web|url=https://www.palipost.com/sex-cash-suicide-carlos-tobalina/|title=Sex, Cash & Suicide: Carlos Tobalina – Carlos Tobalina and His Palisades 'House of Ill Fame'|last=Berg|first=Nate|date=May 12, 2016|work=Palisadian-Post|access-date=January 15, 2020}}
  • Li Tobler (1975), Swiss actress, model and life partner of artist H. R. Giger, gunshot{{cite web| title = At Home with Giger| author = Drury, Nevill| url = http://www.shadowplayzine.com/Interviews/giger.htm| publisher = Shadowzone #5| year = 1985| access-date =April 1, 2010| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100416051700/http://www.shadowplayzine.com/Interviews/giger.htm| archive-date =April 16, 2010}}
  • Amanda Todd (2012), Canadian high school student who was bullied at school and online, hangingGrenoble, Ryan (October 10, 2012). [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2012/10/11/amanda-todd-suicide-bullying_n_1959909.html "Amanda Todd: Bullied Canadian Teen Commits Suicide After Prolonged Battle Online And In School"]. HuffPost.
  • Ernst Toller (1939), German playwright, socialist revolutionary and politician, hanging{{cite web | title = Ernst Toller – Der Dramatiker als Revolutionär | url = https://www.br.de/themen/kultur/inhalt/literatur/bayerische-schriftsteller-toller100.html| publisher = Bayerischer Rundfunk |date=August 1, 2011 |access-date=May 9, 2018}}
  • Tolui (1232), Mongol prince, general and regent, sacrificed himself in a shamanistic ritual{{cite book|title=Power, Politics, and Tradition in the Mongol Empire and the Īlkhānate of Iran|first=Michael|last=Hope|page=83|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2016}}
  • Ivo-Valentino Tomaš (2019), Croatian football player{{Cite web|url=https://www.digisport.ro/fotbal/fotbal-international/un-fotbalist-lansat-de-hajduk-split-s-a-sinucis-in-ultima-zi-a-lui-2019-avea-26-de-ani-776345|title=Un fotbalist lansat de Hajduk Split s-a sinucis în ultima zi a lui 2019! Avea 26 de ani|website=Digisport|language=ro|date=January 1, 2020|access-date=January 17, 2020}}
  • Radka Toneff (1982), Norwegian jazz singer, overdose of sleeping pills{{cite news| title = Distansert blikk: Nyansert portrett, mangler en klo| author = Andersen, Unn Conradi | url = https://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/distansert-blikk/66515252| newspaper = Dagbladet|date = August 31, 2008| access-date = August 28, 2018|language=no}}
  • John Kennedy Toole (1969), American novelist known for A Confederacy of Dunces, carbon monoxide poisoningNevils, René Pol & Hardy, Deborah George. Ignatius Rising, Louisiana State University Press. 2001 {{ISBN|0-8071-3059-1}} pgs. 168–9
  • Dudu Topaz (2009), Israeli TV personality and entertainer, hanging while incarcerated in jail{{cite news | title = Entertainer Dudu Topaz commits suicide | author = Ben-Zur, Raanan | newspaper = Ynetnews | url = http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3764530,00.html| publisher = ynet news|year=2009}}
  • Maury Travis (2002), American serial killer, hanging{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/exclusive-serial-killers-home-movies/story?id=132005|title=EXCLUSIVE: Serial Killer's Home Movies|newspaper=ABC News|date=January 9, 2003|access-date=October 19, 2019}}
  • Silvanus Trevail (1903), English architect, gunshot{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1903/11/08/archives/silvanus-trevail-dead-president-of-british-royal-society-of.html|title=Silvanus Trevail Dead – President of British Royal Society of Architects Believed to Have Killed Himself|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 8, 1903|access-date=April 22, 2009}}
  • Dick Trickle (2013), American NASCAR driver, gunshotNewton, David (May 17, 2013). [https://www.espn.com/racing/nascar/cup/story/_/id/9283240/retired-driver-dick-trickle-dead-apparent-self-inflicted-gun-shot-wound "Ex-driver Dick Trickle dead at 71"]. ESPN Nascar.{{cite news|last=Bernstein|first=Viv|title=A Racer Known to Many, and Now a Mystery|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/18/sports/autoracing/racers-recall-life-of-dick-trickle.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 18, 2013|access-date=May 19, 2013}}
  • José Francisco Trindade Coelho (1908), Portuguese writer, gunshot to the heart
  • Sunil Tripathi (2013), American student and former suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing{{cite web|author=Nark, Joseph|url=http://articles.philly.com/2014-04-30/news/49497042_1_sunil-tripathi-providence-river-sunny|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141115054203/http://articles.philly.com/2014-04-30/news/49497042_1_sunil-tripathi-providence-river-sunny|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 15, 2014|title=The Boston bombing's forgotten victim|date=April 30, 2014|work=Philadelphia Daily News|access-date=April 22, 2018}}
  • Verne Troyer (2018), American actor known for his role as Mini-Me in the Austin Powers films, alcohol intoxication{{cite web |title=Verne Troyer's death ruled as suicide |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/oct/10/verne-troyers-death-ruled-as-suicide-alcohol-intoxication |newspaper=The Guardian|location=London, England |date=October 10, 2018|access-date=October 11, 2018|publisher=Associated Press}}
  • Tron (1998), German hacker, hanging{{cite news|author=Dambeck, Holger|url= http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/streit-um-tron-darf-man-einen-hacker-beim-namen-nennen-a-394374.html|title=Streit um Tron: Darf man einen Hacker beim Namen nennen?|date= January 10, 2006|newspaper=Der Spiegel}}
  • Butch Trucks (2017), American drummer for the Allman Brothers Band, gunshot{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/butch-trucks-allman-brothers-band-drummer-and-co-founder-dead-at-69-105719/|title=Butch Trucks, Allman Brothers Band Co-Founder, Dead at 69|first1=Kory|last1=Grow|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=January 25, 2017}}
  • Yordan Tsitsonkov (1926), Macedonian Bulgarian assassin, hanged himself{{cite book|last=Благов|first=Крум|title=50-те най-големи атентата в българската история|year=2000|location=Bulgaria|publisher=Репортер|language=bg|isbn=978-954-8102-44-5|chapter=47. Атентатът в Народния театър}}
  • Kōkichi Tsuburaya (1968), Japanese marathoner, cut his wrists{{cite magazine|author=Larimer, Tim | title = The Agony of Defeat | url = http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2053776,00.html| magazine = Time| date = October 2, 2000 |access-date=April 22, 2018}}
  • Marina Tsvetaeva (1941), Russian poet, hanging{{cite web|url=http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=15049|title=Marina Tsvetaeva, Poet of the extreme|last=Cooke|first=Belinda|access-date=April 21, 2009|archive-date=August 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820200941/http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=15049|url-status=dead}}
  • Kurt Tucholsky (1935), German journalist, satirist and writer, overdose of sleeping pillsPawel, Ernst (December 1, 1968). [https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/kurt-tucholsky-and-the-ordeal-of-germany-1914-1935-by-harold-l-poor-kurt-tucholsky-what-if-translated-by-harry-zohn-and-karl-f-r/ "Kurt Tucholsky and the Ordeal of Germany, 1914–1935, by Harold L. Poor; Kurt Tucholsky: What If ...? Translated by Harry Zohn an"]. Commentary.
  • Houston Tumlin (2021), American child actor and soldier, gunshot{{Cite web |title=Talladega Nights Child Star Houston Tumlin Struggled with PTSD and Depression Before Death, Says Mom |url=https://people.com/movies/talladega-nights-child-star-houston-tumlin-struggling-with-ptsd-prior-to-death/ |access-date=2024-05-13 |website=Peoplemag |language=en}}
  • Alan Turing (1954), English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist, eating an apple laced with cyanide{{Cite book | last = Hodges | first = Andrew | author-link = Andrew Hodges | year = 1983 | title = Alan Turing: The Enigma |location = London|publisher = Burnett Books | isbn = 978-0-04-510060-6 |pages=529, 488, 489| title-link = Alan Turing: The Enigma}}
  • Helen Twelvetrees (1958), American actress, overdose of sedatives{{cite web |url=https://filmint.nu/her-man-1930-tay-garnett-john-gallagher/ |website=Film International |title=When Tay Garnett Met Frankie and Johnnie: Her Man (1930) (Endnotes) |date=June 14, 2017 |access-date=15 February 2025 }}
  • Jim Tyrer (1980), American football player, gunshot{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3hJPAAAAIBAJ&pg=3050%2C4199732 |newspaper=Toledo Blade |location=Ohio|publisher=Associated Press |title=Former all-pro Tyrer kills wife, then self |date=September 16, 1980 |page=23}}

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  • Ernst Udet (1941), German pilot and air force general, gunshot to the head{{cite web |url= http://www.historynet.com/ernst-udet-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-german-world-war-i-ace.htm|title= Ernst Udet: The Rise and Fall of a German World War I Ace|date=June 12, 2006|publisher=HistoryNet.com|access-date= April 22, 2018}}
  • Miyu Uehara (2011), Japanese model, hanging{{cite web |url=http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment/view/miyu-uehara-found-dead-at-home-after-apparently-hanging-herself |title= 'Talent' Miyu Uehara dead after apparently hanging herself at home |date= May 12, 2011 |work= Japan Today |publisher= GPlusMedia |location= Japan |access-date= May 13, 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://mdn.mainichi.jp/arts/news/20110512p2a00m0na005000c.html |title=TV personality Miyu Uehara dead in apparent suicide |date=May 12, 2011|work=The Mainichi Daily News |publisher=Mainichi Newspapers |location=Japan|access-date=May 13, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110512220136/http://mdn.mainichi.jp/arts/news/20110512p2a00m0na005000c.html |archive-date=May 12, 2011}}
  • 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{{cite web|author=Chen, C. Peter|url= https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=44|title= Matome Ugaki |work=World War II Database|date=November 2006|access-date= June 27, 2020|archive-date=March 23, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060323040531/https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=44}}
  • Jack Unterweger (1994), Austrian serial killer, hanging{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-06-30-me-10223-story.html|title=Austrian Slayer of L.A. Prostitutes Kills Self|last=Malnic|first=Eric|date=June 30, 1994|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|issn=0458-3035}}
  • Andrew Urdiales (2018), American serial killer, hanging{{cite news|author=Ganey, Steve |url=https://ktla.com/2018/11/05/condemned-inmates-andrew-urdiales-virenda-govin-found-dead-in-san-quentin/ |title=Convicted SoCal killers Andrew Urdiales, Virendra Govin found dead in San Quentin |publisher=KTLA|location= Los Angeles|date=November 5, 2018|access-date=November 10, 2018}}
  • Mitsuru Ushijima (1945), Japanese general, began to commit ritual seppuku disembowelment just before one of his adjutants decapitated him with a saberRothman, Lily (June 22, 2015). [https://time.com/3918248/okinawa-ended-1945-history/ "The Gory Way Japanese Generals Ended Their Battle on Okinawa"]. Time.{{cite web|author= Willbanks, James H.|url= https://www.pbs.org/thewar/detail_5232.htm|title= Okinawa (March-June 1945)|publisher= PBS|date= September 2007|access-date= April 22, 2018|archive-date= March 16, 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170316051532/http://www.pbs.org/thewar/detail_5232.htm|url-status= dead}}

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  • Dimitris Vakrinos (1997), Greek serial killer and robber, hanging{{cite book|author=Newton, Michael|title=The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers|publisher=Facts Of File, Inc.|page=268|date=2006}}
  • Edwin Valero (2010), Venezuelan boxer, hanging{{cite web|url=https://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/04/19/20100419boxer-found-dead-in-jail.html|title=Boxer Edwin Valero found dead in jail|newspaper=The Arizona Republic (Associated Press)|access-date=April 19, 2010|archive-date=April 22, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100422181015/http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/04/19/20100419boxer-found-dead-in-jail.html|url-status=dead}}
  • Kelly Jean Van Dyke (1991), American adult film actress, hanging{{cite news |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-19-me-381-story.html |title=Actor Jerry Van Dyke's Daughter Found Hanged |date=November 19, 1991 |access-date=February 9, 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730075550/http://articles.latimes.com/1991-11-19/local/me-381_1_suicide-note |archive-date=July 30, 2018}}
  • George Washington Vanderbilt III (1961), American explorer and member of the Vanderbilt family, jumped from the 10th floor of the Mark Hopkins Hotel{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1961/06/25/archives/george-vanderbilt-is-killed-in-plunge-george-vanderbilt-47-is.html|title=George Vanderbilt Is Killed in Plunge; George Vanderbilt, 47, Is Killed In Plunge From Hotel on Coast|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 25, 1961|access-date=September 6, 2019}}
  • Johannes Vares (1946), Estonian poet, doctor and politician, gunshotShtromas, Alexander (October 14, 2003). Totalitarianism and the Prospects for World Order: Closing the Door on the Twentieth Century. Lexington Books, Archived at Google Books. Retrieved August 12, 2014.
  • Getúlio Vargas (1954), two-time President of Brazil, gunshot{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/24/newsid_4544000/4544759.stm|title=1954: Brazilian president found dead|publisher=BBC News|date=August 24, 2008}}
  • Publius Quinctilius Varus (9 AD), Roman general, fell upon his sword[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Publius-Quinctilius-Varus "Publius Quinctilius Varus"]. Encyclopædia Britannica. July 20, 1998. Retrieved November 3, 2017.
  • Minnie Vautrin (1940), American missionary in China, stove gas inhalation[https://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/nanking/vautrin "Minnie Vautrin"]. Yale Divinity School. January 27, 2016. Retrieved July 29, 2018.Lu, Suping & Minnie Vautrin, Terror in Minnie Vautrin's Nanjing: Diaries and Correspondence, 1937–38, 2008, University of Illinois Press. pp. xxvii-xxviii
  • Lupe Vélez (1944), Mexican actress, overdose of secobarbital{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/197936%7C102616/Lupe-Velez/|title=Lupe Velez. Biography|publisher=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=July 17, 2011}}
  • Dominique Venner (2013), French author, gunshot to the head in the Notre Dame de Paris{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/farright-french-historian-78yearold-dominique-venner-commits-suicide-in-notre-dame-in-protest-against-gay-marriage-8625877.html|title=Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage|date=May 21, 2013|author=Lichfield, John|newspaper=The Independent}}
  • Marcus Julius Vestinus Atticus (65 AD), Roman senator and consul, opening his veinsTacitus (62-65 AD). Annals [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Annals_(Tacitus)/Book_15#69 Book 15, Chapter 69], Wikisource. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
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  • Nick Wasicsko (1993), former Mayor of Yonkers, New York (1987–89), gunshot to the head{{Cite news|title = Ex-Yonkers Mayor's Death Is Laid to Fears of Inquiry|url = https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/09/nyregion/ex-yonkers-mayor-s-death-is-laid-to-fears-of-inquiry.html|work = The New York Times|date = November 9, 1993|access-date = June 27, 2018|issn = 0362-4331|first = Jacques|last = Steinberg}}
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  • Otto Weininger (1903), Austrian philosopher, gunshot{{cite web | url=http://www.newstatesman.com/node/151903 | title=The duty of genius. A misogynist and anti-Semite, the philosopher Otto Weininger was obsessed by decay. Jason Cowley on the brief life and work of a disturbed icon of fin-de-siecle Vienna | magazine=New Statesman| date=August 21, 2000| author=Cowley, Jason}}
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  • Horace Wells (1848), American dentist and pioneer of anaesthesiology, slitting his left femoral artery with a razor{{cite news| title = Suicide of Dr. Horace Wells, of Hartford, Connecticut, U.S|journal = Providence Medical and Surgical Journal| date = May 31, 1848|volume = 12|issue = 11|pages = 305–306|publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information|pmid = 20794459|pmc = 2487383}}
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  • Sheree Winton (1976), English actress, barbiturate overdose{{cite web|url=https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/dale-winton-dies-aged-62-supermarket-sweep-1.462675|title=Supermarket Sweep presenter Dale Winton dies, aged 62|work=The Jewish Chronicle|author=Weinstein, Jessica|date=April 19, 2018|access-date=May 8, 2020}}
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  • Frank Wolff (1971), American actor, slashed his throat{{cite news|title=FRANK WOLFF DIES; SCREEN ACTOR, 43|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/13/archives/frank-wolff-dies-screen-actor-43.html|issn=0362-4331|date=December 13, 1971|access-date=April 20, 2021|archive-date=October 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007121221/https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/13/archives/frank-wolff-dies-screen-actor-43.html}}
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  • Wally Wood (1981), American comic book writer and artist, gunshot{{cite magazine|last= McLauchlin|first= Jim|title= Tragic Genius: Wally Wood|magazine= Wizard|issue= 228|date = July 2010|url= http://heroinitiative.blogspot.com/2010/06/tragic-genius-wally-wood.html|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131230232423/http://heroinitiative.blogspot.com/2010/06/tragic-genius-wally-wood.html|archive-date= December 30, 2013|url-status= live}}
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  • Xiang Yu (202 BC), Chinese rebel leader and king of Western Chu, slit his own throat{{cite book|title = The Ancient Chinese World|last=Kleeman|first=Terry|year=2005|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=105}}

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  • Yakushiji Motoichi (1504), Japanese samurai and deputy governor, ritual seppuku disembowelment{{cite book|last=Berry|first=Mary Elizabeth|title=The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1fh9NzuQ95oC&q=Motoichi|year=1994|publisher=University of California Press|page=2|isbn=978-0-520-08170-3}}
  • Yamaguchi Otoya (1960), Japanese nationalist who assassinated Asanuma Inejirō, hanging{{cite web| url=https://www.tokyoreporter.com/2010/10/14/assassin-of-inejiro-asanuma-remembered-by-right-wing-groups-on-50-year-anniversary/| title=Assassin of Inejiro Asanuma remembered by right-wing groups on 50-year anniversary|work=Tokyo Reporter|date=October 14, 2010| access-date=March 22, 2018}}
  • Yang Yang (2019), Chinese tenor, jump from the 26th floor of his apartment building{{Cite web|url=https://xw.qq.com/cmsid/ENT201906110026430M|author=Lier Ren, Xiao-yang|title=一线独家丨45岁男高音杨阳离世 同事:从26楼跳下;刚得二胎 ("45-year-old tenor Yang Yang passed away colleagues: jumped from the 26th floor; just got a second child")|website=Tencent QQ|date=June 11, 2019|access-date=June 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190622220105/https://xw.qq.com/cmsid/ENT201906110026430M|archive-date=June 22, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_3651650|title="中国十大男高音"之一杨阳去世,享年44岁|last=Yue|first=Huairang|date=June 11, 2019|website=The Paper|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190617124949/https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_3651650|archive-date=June 17, 2019|access-date=June 12, 2019}}
  • Yasmine (2009), Belgian singer, hanging[http://www.flanderstoday.eu/content/flemish-tv-personality-yasmine-takes-her-own-life "Flemish TV personality Yasmine takes her own life"]. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123193017/http://flanderstoday.eu/content/flemish-tv-personality-yasmine-takes-her-own-life |date=November 23, 2010}}, Flanders Today. Retrieved June 26, 2009
  • Seizō Yasunori (1945), Japanese kamikaze pilot, flew his plane into the USS Bunker Hill{{cite news|last=Asahina|first=Robert|title=The Other Suicide Bombers |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/30/AR2008123002837.html|access-date=March 24, 2018|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=January 4, 2009}}
  • Kelly Yeomans (1997), English bullied high school student, dextropropoxyphene overdoseLacey, Hester (February 22, 1998). [https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/focus-bullied-to-death-1146366.html "Focus: Bullied to death"]. The Independent.
  • Sergei Yesenin (1925), Russian and Soviet poet, hanging[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSyesenin.htm "Sergei Yesenin"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120519140853/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSyesenin.htm |date=May 19, 2012}}. Spartacus Educational. Retrieved July 27, 2012
  • Francis Parker Yockey (1960), American neo-Fascist political philosopher and polemicist also known under his pen name Ulick Varange, cyanide poisoning{{cite web|url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2000/john-william-king-quotes-francis-parker-yockey-statement-about-hate-crime|title=John William King Quotes Francis Parker Yockey in Statement of About Crime|last=Lee|first=Martin A.|magazine=Intelligence Report|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|date=June 13, 2000|access-date=April 22, 2018}}
  • Yoñlu (2006), Brazilian singer-songwriter, carbon monoxide poisoning{{cite news|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/yo-lu/a-permanent-exile-the-tragedy-of-vinicius-gageiro/|title=A Permanent Exile: The Tragedy of Vinicius Gageiro Marques|work=Paste Magazine|author=Jarnow, Jesse|date=August 6, 2009|access-date=November 22, 2021|archive-date=November 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211119131148/https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/yo-lu/a-permanent-exile-the-tragedy-of-vinicius-gageiro/}}
  • Yoon Ki-won (2011), South Korean football goalkeeper, charcoal-burning suicide[https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/05/117_86565.html "Incheon United goalkeeper dies"]. The Korea Times. May 6, 2011
  • Atsumi Yoshikubo (2014), Japanese psychiatrist, intentionally getting lost in the Canadian Taiga{{cite news |url= http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/atsumi-yoshikubo-s-belongings-found-with-human-remains-near-yellowknife-1.3213357 |title= Atsumi Yoshikubo's belongings found with human remains near Yellowknife |access-date= April 21, 2018 |publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|date= September 2, 2015}}{{cite news |url= https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/atsumi-yoshikubo-wrote-a-suicide-note-before-leaving-japan-1.2825863 |title= Atsumi Yoshikubo wrote a suicide note before leaving Japan |access-date= December 29, 2018 |publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|date= November 6, 2014}}
  • Gūwalgiya Youlan (1921), Manchu noblewoman, primary consort of Zaifeng, Prince Chun and mother of China's last emperor Puyi, opium overdose{{cite book |last=Pu Yi |first=Henry |date=2010 |title=The Last Manchu: The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China |publisher=Skyhorse Publishing|chapter=Chapter 3: "Mothers" and Son |isbn=978-1-60239-732-3}}
  • Cy Young (1964), Chinese-American animator, barbiturate overdose{{Cite web|title=Terrytoons 'Indian Pudding' (1930) |url=https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/terrytoons-indian-pudding-1930/|date=November 11, 2015|access-date=October 3, 2020|website=Cartoon Research}}
  • Faron Young (1996), American country music singer, gunshotPareles, Jon (December 11, 1996). [https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/11/arts/faron-young-singer-64-dies-country-star-and-businessman.html "Faron Young, Singer, 64, Dies; Country Star and Businessman"]. The New York Times.
  • Gig Young (1978), American actor, gunshot after fatally shooting his wife{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,623682,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080319171549/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,623682,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 19, 2008|title=Oscars: Woman Seeks Dad's Statuette|last=Darst|first=Elizabeth |newspaper=People|date=March 15, 2002|access-date=June 18, 2013}}
  • Lee Thompson Young (2013), American actor, gunshotGoldblatt, Daniel (August 19, 2013). [https://variety.com/2013/tv/people-news/obituaries-people-news/lee-thompson-young-dead-1200581506/ "'Rizzoli & Isles' Star Lee Thompson Young Found Dead"]. Variety.
  • Fakhra Younus (2012), Pakistani dancer, jumped from building{{cite web | url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/03/29/fakhra-younus-former-pakistani-dancing-girl-commits-suicide-12-years-after-acid-attack_n_1387394.html | title=Fakhra Younus, Former Pakistani Dancing Girl Commits Suicide 12 Years After Acid Attack (Pictures)|work=HuffPost| date=March 29, 2012 | access-date=August 20, 2013 | author=Nelson, Sara C}}

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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{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/princeton-student-bill-zeller-kills-years-rape-sexual/story?id=12565539|title=Promising Princeton Student Kills Self Over Rapes|publisher=ABC News|date=February 24, 1942}}
  • Bogdan Žerajić (1910), Herzegovinian Serb student and nationalist revolutionary, who made an assassination attempt on the Governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina Marijan Varešanin, gunshot{{cite book|last=McMeekin|first=Sean|title=July 1914: Countdown to War|page=17|year=2013|publisher=Icon Books, London}}
  • Zhang Han (205 BC), Chinese general{{cite web| url=https://www.tokyoreporter.com/2010/10/14/assassin-of-inejiro-asanuma-remembered-by-right-wing-groups-on-50-year-anniversary/| title=Zhang Han|work=ChinaKnowledge.de|date=December 19, 2010| access-date=August 5, 2023}}
  • Zhang Shicheng (1367), Chinese warlord, leading figure during the Red Turban Rebellion and self-proclaimed king of Great Zhou, hanging{{cite book|last=Waterson|first=James|title=Defending Heaven: China's Mongol Wars, 1209-1370|page=253|year=2013|publisher=Frontline Books, London}}
  • Zhang Shijie (1279), Chinese admiral, general, bureaucrat and politician, drowning
  • Zhou of Shang (1046 BC), Chinese king of the Shang dynasty, set fire to himself and his palace{{cite book|last=Wood|first=Michael|title=The Story of China - A Portrait of a Civilisation and Its People|year=2020|publisher=Simon & Schuster UK|chapter=Chapter 2: The Great War of the Shang}}
  • Hai Zi (1989), Chinese poet,Hyo Jin Bo (July 28, 2006). [http://media.people.com.cn/GB/22114/67451/68442/68444/68507/4645806.html "March 26 Hai Zi's death"]. People Daily. Japanese Education Network Technology Network. (Chinese)van Crevel, Maghiel (February 28, 2011). [https://books.google.com/books?id=gFKPC1Z52rMC&q=HaiZi%2Csuicide&pg=PA91 Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money]. BRILL. p. 91. Archived at Google Books. Retrieved May 23, 2015. lying down on railroad tracksBingbin, Han (March 23, 2012). [http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2012-03/23/content_14899679.htm "Poetry put in motion"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903114808/http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2012-03/23/content_14899679.htm |date=September 3, 2018}}. China Daily. Retrieved September 2, 2018.
  • Marion Zioncheck (1936), American congressman from Washington's 1st district, jumped from his office window{{cite news|title=Last Picture Taken of Zioncheck and Bride|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=HT19360810.2.14&srpos=5&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-Zioncheck-ILLUSTRATION------1|access-date=June 4, 2017|work=Healdsburg Tribune|date=August 10, 1936|number=236|location=Healdsburg, California}} Archived at the California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  • Joost Zwagerman (2015), Dutch writer, poet, and essayistPieters, Janene (September 9, 2015). [https://nltimes.nl/2015/09/09/netherlands-mourns-death-writer-joost-zwagerman-51 "Netherlands mourns death of writer Joost Zwagerman, 51"]. NLTimes.nl.[https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2015/09/dutch-best-selling-writer-joost-zwagerman-commits-suicide-ahead-of-new-book-launch/ "Dutch best-selling writer Joost Zwagerman commits suicide ahead of new book launch"]. DutchNews.nl. September 9, 2015.[http://www.telegraaf.nl/video/506902/joost-zwagerman-overleden "Joost Zwagerman overleden"]. Privé. September 8, 2015
  • Stefan Zweig (1942), Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer, barbiturate overdose{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1942/02/24/archives/stefan-zweig-wife-end-lives-in-brazil-austrianborn-author-left-a.html|title=Stefan Zweig, Wife End Lives In Brazil|publisher=The United Press in The New York Times|quote=Stefan Zweig, Wife End Lives In Brazil; Austrian-Born Author Left a Note Saying He Lacked the Strength to Go on – Author and Wife Die in Compact: Zweig and Wife Commit Suicide|date=February 23, 1942|access-date=February 23, 2012}}{{cite magazine|title=Died|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,773116,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101014145959/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,773116,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 14, 2010|magazine=Time|date= March 2, 1942|access-date=June 30, 2010}}

Possible or disputed suicides

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  • Clodius Albinus (197), Roman emperor, killed himself after a defeat in battle (possibly executed by Septimius Severus){{cite book|last1=Collingwood|first1=Robin George|last2=Myres|first2=John Nowell Linton|title=Roman Britain and English Settlements|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fMcbnMFn8lcC|access-date=January 27, 2009|year=1998|publisher=Biblo & Tannen Publishers|isbn=978-0-8196-1160-4|page=155|chapter=Severeus and Albinus|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fMcbnMFn8lcC&pg=PA155}}
  • 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".{{cite book|last=Eilers Koenig|first= Marlene A.|title=Queen Victoria's Descendants|publisher=Rosvall Royal Books|location=Falköping, Sweden|year=1997|isbn=91-630-5964-9}}{{rp|62}} The Times published an account stating he had died of a tumor,{{rp|62}} while the Complete Peerage gives the generally accepted account that he "shot himself".{{cite book|last=Cokayne|first=George Edward|title=The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant|publisher=Sutton Publishing|location=Gloucester, England|date=April 1982|edition=Reprint of 1982|isbn=0-904387-82-8|volume=5|page=8}}{{cite book |last=Sandner |first=Harold |others=Andreas, Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (preface) |title=Das Haus von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha 1826 bis 2001 |year=2004 |publisher= Neue Presse GmbH |location=Coburg |language=de |isbn=978-3-00-008525-3 |pages=155–156 |chapter=II.4.2 Erbprinz Alfred}}
  • 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{{cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/2015/3/26/8294971/pilot-suicide-crash|title=The disturbing history of pilots who deliberately crash their own planes|author=Brad Plumer|work=Vox|date=March 26, 2015|access-date=June 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170821045533/https://www.vox.com/2015/3/26/8294971/pilot-suicide-crash|archive-date=August 21, 2017|url-status=live}}
  • 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.{{Cite web |last=Chien |first=Tomoki |date=2025-02-15 |title=Autopsy: No foul play in OpenAI whistleblower’s suicide |url=https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/14/autopsy-no-foul-play-in-openai-whistleblowers-suicide/ |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=The San Francisco Standard}}
  • Scotty Beckett (1968), American actor, an overdose of either barbiturates or alcohol, after seeking medical attention for blunt force trauma injuries following a severe beatingScott, Vernon (August 11, 1969). [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=E9whAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dqAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3577,5656145 "Actress' Death One of Series of Hollywood Tragedies"]. Reading Eagle (Reading, Pennsylvania). p. 9. Archived at Google News.{{cite news|title=Children of the screen|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19730717&id=OPwjAAAAIBAJ&pg=3341,755351|newspaper=The Milwaukee Journal|date=July 17, 1973|page=28}}{{Dead link|date=July 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}
  • 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.{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/ex-nhler-belak-committed-suicide-sources-1.1011307|title=Ex-NHLer Belak committed suicide: sources|author=Harrison, Doug|publisher=CBC Sports|date=September 1, 2011|access-date=September 3, 2011}} Later, hockey analyst and former player P.J. Stock alleged that Belak's death was not a suicide, but accidental.{{cite news|author=Wyshynski, Greg|url=https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/cbc-p-j-stock-wade-belak-not-suicide-050342472.html|title=CBC's P.J. Stock: Wade Belak not a suicide but an 'accidental death'|work=Yahoo! Sports|date=September 3, 2011|access-date=September 2, 2018}} Although Stock later stepped back from his comments, members of Belak's family also believe his death was accidental.{{cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/article/1055610--feschuk-belak-s-family-trying-to-cope-with-tragic-accident?bn=1|title=Feschuk: Belak's family trying to cope with tragic 'accident'|work=Toronto Star|date=September 18, 2011|access-date=February 27, 2018}}
  • 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{{cite web|url=https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/history/somme-hero-was-fatally-outed-1584582|title=Somme hero was fatally outed|newspaper=The Sentinel|author=Ault, Richard|date=May 18, 2018|access-date=April 16, 2021|archive-date=May 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180522013836/https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/history/somme-hero-was-fatally-outed-1584582}}Mark Bostridge, Vera Brittain and the First World War: The Story of Testament of Youth (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014), Kindle edition; Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge, Vera Brittain: A Life (Chatto & Windus, 1995)
  • 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{{cite web|author=Cecil, Neita|title=Man killed by train had tech following|url=https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/thedalleschronicle/news/man-killed-by-train-had-tech-following/article_1f03fc0d-c223-5f20-a915-460fce4299f1.html|website= The Dalles Chronicle|date=September 7, 2018|access-date=February 18, 2022|archive-date=November 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108002150/https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/thedalleschronicle/news/man-killed-by-train-had-tech-following/article_1f03fc0d-c223-5f20-a915-460fce4299f1.html}}
  • Jeffrey Epstein (2019), American financier and convicted sex offender, hanging.{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/a947e0d85d31496eb5bd9ff4994c9718|title=Medical examiner rules Epstein death a suicide by hanging|first1=Michael R.|last1=Sisak|first2=Michael|last2=Balsamo|first3=Larry|last3=Neumeister|date=August 17, 2019|publisher=Associated Press}} Whether Epstein's death was suicide or homicide is a point of controversy.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-autopsy-homicide.html|title=Jeffrey Epstein, a Disputed Autopsy and a Claim of Homicide|date=October 31, 2019|last=Salcedo|first=Andrea|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=December 8, 2019}}
  • 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.{{Cite web |date=January 6, 2013|title=Le mari de Lolo Ferrari blanchi|publisher=20minutes.fr|url=http://www.20minutes.fr/people/140549-People-Le-mari-de-Lolo-Ferrari-blanchi.php|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130106215337/http://www.20minutes.fr/people/140549-People-Le-mari-de-Lolo-Ferrari-blanchi.php|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 6, 2013|access-date=May 28, 2022|language=French}}
  • John Fitch (1798), American inventor, opium overdoseAsimov, Isaac (1982). Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Doubleday.
  • James Forrestal (1949), First U.S. Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Navy, fell from 16th floor of building (disputed suicide){{cite web | url=http://ariwatch.com/VS/JamesForrestal/WillcuttsReport.htm | title=Wilcutts Report}}
  • Rick Genest (2018), performance artist, actor and model, fall from a balcony{{Cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/zombie-boy-dead-1.4772315 |title=Model and artist known as Zombie Boy dead at 32 |publisher=CBC News |date=August 2, 2018|location=Toronto}}Kaufman, Gil (August 6, 2018). [https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8468717/rick-zombie-boy-genest-family-thinks-he-died-accidental-fall-from-balcony "Rick 'Zombie Boy' Genest's Family Believes He Died in an Accidental Fall From a Balcony"]. Billboard.
  • 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.{{cite journal|author=Davis, Martin|journal=Nature|volume=435|issue=7038|pages=19–20|date=May 5, 2005 |title=Gödel's universe|doi=10.1038/435019a|bibcode=2005Natur.435...19D|doi-access=free}}
  • Nigel Green (1972), English actor, overdose of sleeping pills{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U3C5DwAAQBAJ&q=nigel+green+The+Encyclopedia+of+British+Film%3A+Fourth+edition&pg=PA1821|title=The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition|first1=Brian|last1=McFarlane|first2=Anthony|last2=Slide|date=May 16, 2016|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-1-5261-1196-8|via=Google Books}}
  • Hannibal (183–181 BC),Cornelius Nepos, Hannibal 13.1 Carthaginian military commander and tactician, possibly poisonCornelius Nepos, Hannibal 12.5; Juvenal, Satires X.164{{Cite web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160:book=8:chapter=11&highlight=hannibal|title=Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8.11.11|author=Pausanias|publisher=Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University|access-date=April 10, 2016}}
  • 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.{{cite news|url=http://stock.moneytoday.co.kr/view/mtview.php?no=2009021809323856921&type=1&TVEC |script-title=ko:광고모델로 부활한 듀스 김성재 사연 |publisher=Money Today |language=ko |author=Jeong Hyeon-su (정현수) |date=February 18, 2009}}
  • 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.{{Cite news|url=http://www.aetv.com/blog/real-crime/waco-siege-david-koresh-branch-davidians-facts-to-know|title=David Koresh and the Branch Davidians: 6 Things You Should Know|date=January 24, 2018|publisher=A&E|access-date=April 16, 2019}}
  • Jules Lequier (1862), French philosopher, likely swam voluntarily out into the oceanCamus, Albert. The Myth of Sisyphus, p.3
  • Primo Levi (1987), Italian chemist, writer and Holocaust survivor, jumped from his third-story apartment{{cite web |last=Gambetta |first=Diego |title=Primo Levi's Last Moments: A new look at the Italian author's tragic death twelve years ago |url=https://www.bostonreview.net/BR24.3/gambetta.html |date=April–May 2004 |magazine=Boston Review |access-date=August 17, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608220336/http://www.bostonreview.net/BR24.3/gambetta.html |archive-date=June 8, 2011|url-status=dead}}
  • Gilbert N. Lewis (1946), American chemist, cyanide poisoning. It is disputed whether he had a heart attack or died by suicide.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/WHAT-KILLED-FAMED-CAL-CHEMIST-20th-century-2491757.php|title=WHAT KILLED FAMED CAL CHEMIST? / 20th century pioneer who failed to win a Nobel Prize may have succumbed to a broken heart, one admirer theorizes|last1=DelVecchio|first1=Rick|date=2006-08-05|website=SFGate|access-date=2024-07-30}}
  • Meriwether Lewis (1809), U.S. explorer and partner of William Clark, gunshot. There is some debate as to whether his death was a suicide.Guice, John D. W.; Holmberg, James J.; Buckley, Jay H. (2006). By His Own Hand? The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis. University of Oklahoma Press.
  • 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{{Cite book|last=Smith|first=Martin Ferguson|date=2001|title=Lucretius, On the Nature of Things|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iKdij3ErDnM|page=vii|isbn=978-0-87220-587-1}}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}
  • Kizito Mihigo (2020), Rwandan gospel singer, genocide survivor and peace activist, hanging. Human rights organisations and Rwandan activists challenged this.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-51667168|title=Kizito Mihigo: The Rwandan gospel singer who died in a police cell|date=February 29, 2020|publisher=BBC News|access-date=March 3, 2020}}
  • 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{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/dec/08/letters.theobserver|title=My sister and Hitler: Unity Mitford's war|access-date=April 5, 2021|author=Cavendish, Deborah|newspaper=The Guardian|location=London|date=December 8, 2002|archive-date=August 26, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130826190421/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/dec/08/letters.theobserver}}
  • 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.{{cite web|url=http://guide.supereva.it/cronaca_nera/interventi/2006/05/256057.shtml|publisher=Guide|title=Lo 'strano' suicidio di Alighiero Noschese|last=Criscuoli|first=Lucia|language=it|date=May 18, 2006|access-date=May 23, 2009|archive-date=August 26, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090826171029/http://guide.supereva.it/cronaca_nera/interventi/2006/05/256057.shtml|url-status=dead}}
  • 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.{{Cite book | last = Caesar | first = Gaius Julius | author-link = Gaius Julius Caesar| title = Commentarii de Bello Gallico| title-link = Commentarii de Bello Gallico}} 1.2
  • 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.{{Cite web |date=2024-10-17 |title=What we know about Liam Payne's death, including some of the unanswered questions |url=https://apnews.com/article/liam-payne-death-what-to-know-83bd8655c4c70332d4a847b9d167f1fa |access-date=2024-10-18 |website=AP News |language=en}}
  • Giuseppe Pinelli (1969), Italian anarchist, fall from police station window, police claim of suicide widely disputed{{cite web|title=Giuseppe 'Pino' Pinelli (1928–1969): the 17th victim of the Piazza Fontana bombing|url=http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/f7m14m|publisher=Kate Sharpley Library}}
  • 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{{cite web |url=https://janeausten.co.uk/blogs/uncategorized/john-william-polidori-author-vampyre |title=John William Polidori: Author of The Vampyre |website=Jane Austen Centre |access-date=July 23, 2021 |archive-date=July 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210723193242/https://janeausten.co.uk/blogs/uncategorized/john-william-polidori-author-vampyre |url-status=dead}}
  • 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,{{cite web|url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,914757,00.html|title=Suicides: Freddie Prinze: Too Much, Too Soon|magazine=Time|date=February 7, 1977|access-date=July 27, 2021|archive-date=July 27, 2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210727145837/http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,914757,00.html}}{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18734066/freddie_prinze_buried_on_hill/ |title=Freddie Prinze buried on hill overlooking NBC studio |first=Vernon |last=Scott|publisher=UPI |newspaper=The Capitol Journal |location=Salem, Oregon |page=6 |date=January 31, 1977 |access-date=February 16, 2019 |via=Newspapers.com}} but his mother and other loved ones successfully convinced a court to change the official cause of death to accidental.Snauffer, Douglas (July 23, 2008). [https://books.google.com/books?id=vZIjGHo4kl0C&pg=PT83 Show Must Go on: How the Deaths of Lead Actors Have Affected Television]. McFarland & Company p. 74. Archived at Google Books. Retrieved May 23, 2015.
  • 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).{{cite web|title=A morte misteriosa de Sassetti|url=https://sol.sapo.pt/2012/05/20/a-morte-misteriosa-de-sassetti/|website=sol.sapo.pt|access-date=March 3, 2024|date=May 20, 2012}}
  • 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{{Cite magazine |last=Dansby |first=Andrew |date=December 2003 |title=Smith Autopsy Inconclusive |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/smith-autopsy-inconclusive-20031231 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=August 22, 2017 |archive-date=August 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170801072919/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/smith-autopsy-inconclusive-20031231 |url-status=dead}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/rockers-autopsy-doesnt-rule-out-homicide |title=Rocker's Autopsy Doesn't Rule Out Homicide |date=January 8, 2004 |website=The Smoking Gun}}
  • Socrates (399 BC), Classical Greek Athenian philosopher, credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, poison (likely hemlock)Plato. Apology, 24–27.{{cite journal | pmid = 19681231 | volume=121 | title=Socratic suicide | year=2001 | journal=J Hell Stud | pages=91–106 | last1 = Warren | first1 = J | doi=10.2307/631830| jstor=631830 | s2cid=24221544}}Linder, Doug (2002). [http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/socrates/socratesaccount.html "The Trial of Socrates"]. University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law. Retrieved September 12, 2013.[https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/551948/Socrates "Socrates (Greek philosopher)"]. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved September 12, 2013. 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.{{cite journal|last1=Frey|first1=R.G.|year=1978|title= Did Socrates Commit Suicide?|url = http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=3457B5D495BA884D57867116985C0601.journals?fromPage=online&aid=3474668|journal=Philosophy |volume=53|issue=203|pages=106–108|doi= 10.1017/S0031819100016375 |s2cid=170399183|url-access=subscription}}
  • John Hanning Speke (1864), British explorer, gunshot.{{cite ODNB|first=Roy |last=Bridges|id=26101 |title=Speke, John Hanning (1827–1864)}} 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.{{cite book|last=Jeal|first=Tim |author-link=Tim Jeal|title=Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_gXmtQE625IC|year=2011|publisher=Faber & Faber|location=London|isbn=978-0-571-27777-3}} However, the idea of suicide has appealed to some critics of Speke.{{cite book|last=Sly|first=Nicola|title=A grim almanac of Somerset|year=2010|publisher=History Press|location=Stroud|isbn=978-0-7524-5814-4|pages=32}}
  • 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{{Cite book|last=Harrer|first=Heinrich |date=1985 |title=Return to Tibet |page=15}}
  • Vincent van Gogh (1890), Dutch Post-Impressionist painter, gunshot to the chest.Hulsker, Jan. The Complete Van Gogh. Oxford: Phaidon, 1980. {{ISBN|0-7148-2028-8}}. pp. 480-483. 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.{{cite web|title=Was van Gogh Killed? New Research Says He Was Shot|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/was-van-gogh-killed-new-research-says-he-was-shot-159637|website=Artnet|access-date=March 3, 2024|date=November 7, 2014}}
  • Jeffrey "JV" Vandergrift (2023), DJ and radio show host, body found in San Francisco bay following long battle with Lyme disease. Suicide suspected.{{cite web|title=Wife of San Francisco DJ Jeffrey Vandergrift shares heartbreak after his body was found|url=https://nypost.com/2023/03/26/wife-of-jeffrey-vandergrift-shares-heartbreak-after-his-body-was-found/|website=New York Post|access-date=February 1, 2025|date=March 26, 2023}}
  • Sid Vicious (1979), English musician and member of the Sex Pistols, heroin overdose{{cite web|title=Sid and Nancy: A Punk Mystery Story|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/nancy-and-sid-a-punk-mystery-story-91151.html|website=The Independent|access-date=May 6, 2017|date=October 12, 2003}}{{cite book|first1=Laura|last1=Ward|title=Famous Last Words: The Ultimate Collection of Finales and Farewells|date=2004|publisher=Robson Books, Ltd.|isbn=1-86105-723-7|page=131}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Sid Vicious wrote what appears to be a suicide note. Sid's mother, Anne Beverley, found it in the pocket of his jeans after his death |url=https://www.thatericalper.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Sid-Vicious-wrote-what-appears-to-be-a-suicide-note.-Sid%E2%80%99s-mother-Anne-Beverley-found-it-in-the-pocket-of-his-jeans-after-his-death.jpg |website=That Eric Alper}}

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