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