Confirmed
N
- Ebrahim Nabavi (2025), Iranian satirist, writer and diarist [1]
- Chūichi Nagumo (1944), Japanese admiral, gunshot [2]
- Mirosław Nahacz (2007), Polish novelist and screenwriter, hanging [3]
- Seigō Nakano (1943), Japanese fascist political leader and journalist, disembowelment [4]
- Vladimir Nalivkin (1918), Russian scientist, politician, diplomat [5]
- Azade Namdari (2021), Iranian television host [6]
- Scott Nearing (1983), American political activist and conservationist, by self-starvation [7]
- Milan Nedić (1946), Serbian general, politician and prime minister of the Government of National Salvation, jumping out of a Belgrade prison window [8]
- Nekojiru (1998), Japanese manga artist, hanging [9]
- Nero (68 AD), Roman emperor, ordered his secretary to kill him [10]
- Marcus Cocceius Nerva (33 AD), Roman jurist, official and confidant of Tiberius, starvation [11]
- Klára Dán von Neumann (1963), Hungarian-American computer programmer, drowning [12]
- Terry Newton (2010), English rugby league player, hanging [13] [14]
- Tom Nicon (2010), French model, jumped out of apartment window [15]
- Bruno Niedziela (1962), American football player [16]
- Masa Niemi (1960), Finnish actor, drug overdose [17]
- 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 [18]
- Karl Nobiling (1878), German academic, who made an assassination attempt on the German Emperor Wilhelm I, gunshot to the head [19]
- Jon Nödtveidt (2006), Swedish guitarist for the black metal band Dissection, gunshot [20]
- Iván Noel (2021), French-Argentine film director and producer, potassium cyanide [21]
- Bill Nojay (2016), American politician and member of the New York State Assembly, gunshot [22]
- Mita Noor (2013), Bangladeshi actress, hanging [23]
- Franz Nopcsa (1933), Hungarian aristocrat, adventurer, scholar, geologist, paleontologist and albanologist, gunshot after killing companion Bajazid Doda [24]
- Christine Norman, (1930), American stage actress, jump from building [25]
- John Norton-Griffiths, (1930), British engineer and politician, gunshot to head [26] [27]
- Hisashi Nozawa (2004), Japanese writer, hanging [28]
O
- Lawrence Oates (1912), British army officer, later an Antarctic explorer, he walked from his tent into a blizzard [29]
- John O'Brien (1994), American novelist, best known for his novel, Leaving Las Vegas , gunshot to the head [30]
- Sean O'Haire (2014), American former WWE wrestler and MMA fighter, hanging [31]
- Angela O'Leary (1921), American artist, gas inhalation [32]
- Phil Ochs (1976), American singer-songwriter, hanging [33]
- Oda Nobunaga (1582), Japanese daimyō and general, ritual seppuku disembowelment [34]
- Ogawa Kiyoshi (1945), Japanese kamikaze pilot [35]
- Aleksandr Dmitrievich Ogorodnik (1977), Soviet diplomat and spy for the CIA, cyanide capsule [36]
- Per "Dead" Ohlin (1991), Swedish vocalist for the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, gunshot to the head [37] [38] [39]
- Yukiko Okada (1986), Japanese singer, jumped from window [40]
- Mălina Olinescu (2011), Romanian singer, jump from window [41]
- Lembit Oll (1999), Estonian chess Grandmaster, jumped out of window [42]
- Ambrose Olsen (2010), American model, hanging [43]
- 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 [44]
- Otho (69 AD), Roman Emperor, stabbed himself [45]
- Othryades (546 BC), Spartan hoplite, sole survivor of the Battle of the 300 Champions [46]
- Ōuchi Yoshitaka (1551), Japanese daimyō and general, ritual seppuku disembowelment [47]
P
- Stephen Paddock (2017), American perpetrator of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, gunshot [48]
- Caecina Paetus (42 AD), Roman alleged conspirator against Emperor Claudius, stabbed himself [49]
- Tommy Page (2017), American singer songwriter [50]
- Ali-Reza Pahlavi (2011), son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, last Shah of Iran, gunshot [51]
- Leila Pahlavi (2001), daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, last Shah of Iran, overdose of sleeping pills [52]
- Sol Pais (2019), American student and suspect in FBI manhunt, gunshot [53]
- Jan Palach (1969), Czech student, self-immolation [54]
- Miko Palanca (2019), Filipino actor, jump from building [55]
- Helen Palmer (1967), American author and actress who was the first wife of famed children's author Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, barbiturate overdose [56]
- Ryan Christopher Palmeter (2023), American mass shooter and terrorist, gunshot [57] [58]
- Breece D'J Pancake (1979), American short story writer, gunshot [59]
- Brodie Panlock (2006), Australian bullying victim, jumped from the top of a multilevel carpark in Hawthorn [60]
- Pantites (c. 470s BC), Spartan warrior and one of the 300 Spartans sent to the Battle of Thermopylae, hanging [61]
- Elaine Parent (2002), American con artist, identity thief and murderer, gunshot to the chest [62]
- Park Yong-ha (2010), South Korean actor and singer, hanging [63]
- Park Won-soon (2020), South Korean activist, lawyer and Mayor of Seoul [64] [65]
- Violeta Parra (1967), Chilean composer, songwriter, folklorist, ethno-musicologist and visual artist, [66] gunshot [67]
- 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 [68]
- Christine Pascal (1996), French actress, writer and director, jumped out of window [69] [70]
- Dušan Pašek (1998), Slovak ice hockey player, gunshot [71]
- Darrin Patrick (2020), American author and pastor, gunshot [72]
- Mark Pavelich (2021), American hockey player, asphyxia [73]
- Cesare Pavese (1950), Italian author, overdose of barbiturates [74]
- Pina Pellicer (1964), Mexican actress, overdose of sleeping pills [75]
- Peregrinus Proteus (165 AD), Greek early Christian convert and later Cynic philosopher from Mysia, immolated himself on a funeral pyre during the Olympic Games [76]
- Oscar G. Peters (1894), American businessman [77]
- Jeret "Speedy" Peterson (2011), American skier, Olympic medalist, gunshot [78]
- Marcus Petreius (46 BC), Roman politician and general, double-suicide by sword with Juba I of Numidia [79]
- Petronius (66 AD), Roman senator, consul, courtier and novelist, opening his veins [80]
- Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (1901), German chemist and hygienist [81]
- Phasael (40 BC), prince from the Herodian dynasty of Judea and governor of Jerusalem, hit his head against a great stone [82]
- Phila (287 BC), Macedonian noblewoman, daughter and adviser of Antipater, poison [83]
- Philistus (356 BC), Greek historian and naval commander [84]
- Justin Pierce (2000), English-born American actor and skateboarder known for his role in the 1995 drama Kids , hanging [85] [86]
- Rosamond Pinchot (1938), American actress and socialite, carbon monoxide poisoning [87]
- H. Beam Piper (1964), American science fiction author, gunshot [88] [89]
- Gaius Calpurnius Piso (65 AD), Roman senator, orator, advocate and leading member of the Pisonian conspiracy, slit his wrists [90]
- Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso (20 AD), Roman statesman and consul, cut his throat [91]
- Luigi Pistilli (1996), Italian actor, hanging [92]
- Alejandra Pizarnik (1972), Argentine poet, secobarbital overdose [93]
- Sylvia Plath (1963), American poet, novelist, children's author, gas inhalation [94]
- Dana Plato (1999), American child actress, notable for the TV series Diff'rent Strokes , overdose of carisoprodol and hydrocodone [95] 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 [96]
- Edward Platt (1974), American actor, notable for his role on the TV series Get Smart [97]
- E. O. Plauen (1944), German cartoonist, hanging with a towel [98]
- Michael Player (1986), American serial killer, gunshot [99]
- Polemon of Laodicea (144 AD), Roman sophist, rhetorician and strategos, locked himself in his family tomb [100]
- Daniel Pollock (1992), Australian actor, walked in front of moving train [101]
- Gnaeus Pompeius Longinus (105 AD), Roman senator and general, swallowing poison [102]
- Porcia (42 BC), Roman noblewoman, wife of Marcus Junius Brutus, swallowing burning coal [103] or carbon monoxide poisoning [104]
- C. W. Post (1914), American inventor and pioneer in the manufacturing of prepared foods, in particular breakfast cereal, gunshot [105] [106]
- Poenius Postumus (61 AD), Roman praefectus castrorum of the Legion II Augusta, fell upon his sword [107]
- Randy Potter (2017), American former missing person, gunshot [108]
- Jan Potocki (1815), Polish nobleman, gunshot [109]
- James Edward Pough (1990), American spree killer, gunshot [110]
- Hayden Poulter (2018), New Zealand serial killer [111]
- Josh Powell (2012), American main suspect in the disappearance of his wife, Susan, blew up his house with him and his children inside [112]
- Slobodan Praljak (2017), Bosnian Croat director, general and war criminal, potassium cyanide [113]
- Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol (1870), French journalist, writer and Ambassador to the United States, gunshot [114]
- George R. Price (1975), American scientist, cutting an artery [115]
- Wolfgang Přiklopil (2006), Austrian kidnapper, jumping in front of moving train [116]
- Phoebe Prince (2010), American high school student who was bullied at school and online, hanging [117]
- Ptolemy (309 BC), Macedonian general, hemlock poisoning [118]
- Ptolemy of Cyprus (58 BC), King of Cyprus and member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, poison [119]
- Boris Pugo (1991), Soviet politician, gunshot [120]
- Kushal Punjabi (2019), Indian actor, hanging [121]
Q
- Qiao Renliang (2016), Chinese singer and actor, slit wrist [122]
- Qu Yuan (278 BC), Chinese poet and minister, drowning [123] [124]
- Henry Quastler (1963), Austrian physician and radiologist, overdosed on pills [125]
- Benny Quick (1999), German pop and Schlager singer of the 1960s and 1970s, hanging [126]
- Edmond Thomas Quinn (1929), American sculptor and painter, drowning [127]
- Quintillus (270 AD), Roman emperor, opening his veins [128]
- Horacio Quiroga (1937), Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer, drank a glass of cyanide [129]
R
- Margarita Gil Roësset (1932), Spanish sculptor, illustrator, and poet [130] [131]
- Władysław Raginis (1939), Polish military commander, grenade [132]
- Otto Rahn (1939), German medievalist, Ariosophist and Obersturmführer of the Schutzstaffel, freezing [133]
- Mikayla Raines (2025), American animal rescuer and YouTuber, hanging [134] [135]
- Jason Raize (2004), American actor, singer and former goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme, hanging [136]
- Sushant Singh Rajput (2020), Indian actor, hanging [137]
- František Rajtoral (2017), Czech soccer player, hanging [138]
- Anil Ramdas (2012), Dutch writer and journalist, method undisclosed [139]
- Carlos Rangel (1988), Venezuelan writer and journalist, gunshot [140]
- Kodela Siva Prasada Rao (2019), Indian politician, hanging [141]
- Nicola Ann Raphael (2001), Scottish bullied student, overdose of dextropropoxyphene [142]
- Danny Rapp (1983), American singer and the frontman for the group Danny & the Juniors, gunshot [143]
- David Rappaport (1990), English actor, known for the film Time Bandits , gunshot [144]
- Jan-Carl Raspe (1977), German RAF terrorist, gunshot [145] [146] [147] [148]
- Terry Ratzmann (2005), American mass murderer, gunshot [149]
- Geli Raubal (1931), niece of Adolf Hitler, gunshot [150]
- Margaret Mary Ray (1998), American stalker, hit by a train [151]
- Roy Raymond (1993), American founder of Victoria's Secret, jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge [152] [153]
- Albert Razin (2019), Russian Udmurt language rights activist and sociologist, self-immolation [154]
- Reckful (2020), Israeli-American Twitch streamer and Esports player [155]
- Liam Rector (2007), American poet and educator, gunshot [156] [157]
- Wilhelm Rediess (1945), Nazi SS and Police Leader in Norway, gunshot [158]
- Dean Reed (1986), American-born actor, singer-songwriter, director, and social activist who defected to communist East Germany, self drowning. [159]
- Ernst Reicher (1936), German actor, screenwriter, film producer and film director, hanging [160]
- 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 [161]
- Albert Relf (1937), English cricketer, gunshot [162]
- Ren Hang (2017), Chinese photographer and poet [163]
- The Renegade (1999), American professional wrestler, gunshot [164]
- Mehmed Reshid (1919), Ottoman politician, gunshot [165]
- Angelo Reyes (2011), Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, gunshot [166]
- Mark Reynolds (2003), musician, lead singer of Red Flag [167]
- 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 [168]
- John Rheinecker (2017), American Major League Baseball pitcher, hanging [169]
- Rikyū (1591), Japanese tea master and confidant of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, ritual seppuku disembowelment [170]
- Artūras Rimkevičius (2019), Lithuanian footballer, gunshot [171]
- Al Rio (2012), Brazilian comics artist, and animation director, hanging [172]
- Adele Ritchie, (1930), American actress, gunshot to the throat [173]
- Adelaide Frost Rickenbacker, (1977) wife of Eddie Rickenbacker, gunshot [174]
- Peter Robbins (2022), American voice actor, voice of Charlie Brown [175]
- Dale Roberts (2010), English footballer, hanging [176]
- Neil Roberts (1960–1982), suicide bomber who attempted to destroy the New Zealand police database at the Wanganui Computer Centre. [177] [178] [179] [180] [181] [182]
- Rachel Roberts (1980), Welsh actress, barbiturate and alcohol overdose and consumption of lye or alkali [183]
- Charles Rocket (2005), American actor, cut throat [184]
- Jamey Rodemeyer (2011), American bullied blogger and high school student, hanging [185]
- Elliot Rodger (2014), American spree killer who perpetrated the 2014 Isla Vista killings, gunshot to the head [186]
- Ricky Rodriguez (2005), son of cult leader David Berg, gunshot following his murder of Angela M. Smith [187]
- Robert Neal Rodriguez (1992), American serial killer, cyanide poisoning [188]
- Roh Moo-hyun (2009), ninth President of South Korea, jump from a cliff [189]
- Erwin Rommel (1944), German general and military theorist, cyanide poisoning [190] [191] [192]
- Jodon F. Romero (2012), American criminal whose suicide was broadcast on national television following a car chase in Arizona, gunshot [193]
- Edgar Rosenberg (1987), American film and television producer and husband of Joan Rivers, diazepam overdose [194]
- Frank Rosolino (1978), American jazz trombonist, shot himself after killing one son and blinding the other [195]
- Mark Rothko (1970), American abstract expressionist painter, slit his arms [196]
- Conrad Roy (2014), American marine salvage captain, carbon monoxide poisoning, [197] after his girlfriend urged him to commit suicide, [198] for which she was convicted of involuntary manslaughter [199] [200]
- Himanshu Roy (2018), Indian police officer, gunshot [201]
- Ruan Lingyu (1935), Chinese actress, barbiturate overdose [202]
- Ernst Rückert (1945), German actor, hanging [203]
- Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (1889), son of Emperor Franz Joseph I, gunshot during the Mayerling incident [204]
- Lori Erica Ruff (2010), American formerly unidentified identity thief, gunshot [205]
- Edmund Ruffin (1865), American author, agriculturalist, agronomist and secessionist, gunshot to the head [206]
- Quintus Corellius Rufus (before 113 AD), Roman senator, consul, confidant and teacher of Pliny the Younger, refusing food and treatment for his illnesses [207]
- Michael Ruppert (2014), American political activist, gunshot [208]
- Thomas Jefferson Rusk (1857), American politician and military leader, gunshot [209]
- Richard Russell (2018), American airport ground operator and airplane thief, intentionally crashing the stolen airplane [210]
- Stevie Ryan (2017), American actress and comedian, hanging [211]
- Rick Rypien (2011), Canadian professional ice hockey player [212]
S
- Mário de Sá-Carneiro (1916), Portuguese poet and short story writer, strychnine poisoning [218]
- Jun Sadogawa (2013), Japanese manga artist, hanging. [219]
- Saigō Takamori (1877), Japanese samurai, nobleman and general, seppuku. [220]
- El Hedi ben Salem (1977), Moroccan actor, hanging [221] [222] [223] [224] [225] [226]
- Mark Salling (2018), American actor, hanging [227]
- Johanna Sällström (2007), Swedish actress [228]
- Albert Salmi (1990), American character actor, fatally shot his wife, and himself in a murder-suicide [229]
- Ramón Sampedro (1998), Spanish quadriplegic seaman, assisted suicide with potassium cyanide [230]
- Samson, according to Judges 16:30 in the Hebrew Bible, Samson killed himself and 3000 Philistines by collapsing the temple in Gaza City. [231] Described by some sources as the first suicide attack. [232] [233] [234]
- Alexander Samsonov (1914), Russian cavalry officer and general, gunshot [235] [236]
- George Sanders (1972), Russian-born English actor, singer, composer and author, overdose [237]
- Kianush Sanjari (2024), Iranian journalist and activist, jump from a building [238]
- Sanmao (1991), Taiwanese writer and translator, hanged with silk stockings [239]
- Mónica Santa María (1994), Peruvian model and TV presenter, gunshot [240]
- Nick Santino (2012), American soap opera actor, overdosed on pills [241]
- Alberto Santos-Dumont (1932), Brazilian aviation pioneer, hanging [242]
- Vytautas Šapranauskas (2013), Lithuanian actor, hanging [243]
- Carl Sargeant (2017), Welsh politician and former member of the Welsh Government, hanging [244]
- Sam Sarpong (2015), British-born American model and actor, jump from a bridge [245]
- Yoshiki Sasai (2014), Japanese biologist, hanging [246] [247] [248] [249]
- Satanta (1878), Kiowa war chief, jump out a window [250]
- Drake Sather (2004), American screenwriter, gunshot [251]
- V. P. Sathyan (2006), Indian footballer, jumped in front of a train [252]
- Jiro Sato (1934), Japanese tennis player, drowning [253]
- King Saul (1012 BC), Jewish king, pierced himself with his sword, [254] to avoid being captured or killed by the Philistines, which some Rabbis claim does not count as suicide. [255] [256]
- Savannah (1994), American adult film actress, gunshot to the head [257]
- Marcus Ostorius Scapula (65 AD), Roman senator, consul and military tribune, severed his veins and stabbed himself with help from a slave [258]
- Mamercus Aemilius Scaurus (34 AD), Roman rhetorician, poet, senator and consul [259]
- Thomas Schäfer (2020), German politician, jumped in front of a train [260]
- Eugen Schauman (1904), Finnish national activist, gunshot [261]
- Alexandros Schinas (1913), Greek assassin of King George I of Greece, jumped out of a Thessaloniki police station window [262]
- Sybille Schmitz (1955), German actress, overdose of sleeping pills [263]
- Andreas Schnieders (2022), German boxer [264]
- Robert Schommer (2001), American astronomer [265]
- Dave Schulthise (2004), American bass guitarist for The Dead Milkmen, [266] overdose of pills [267]
- Konrad Schumann (1998), East German soldier who famously defected to West Germany during the construction of the Berlin Wall, hanging [268]
- Tom Schweich (2015), American politician, gunshot [269]
- Metellus Scipio (46 BC), Roman consul and military commander, stabbed himself [270]
- L'Wren Scott (2014), American fashion designer, hanging [271]
- Tony Scott (2012), English film director of films such as Top Gun , jumped off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles [272]
- Angela Scoular (2011), English actress, ingestion of drain cleaner [273]
- Scott Scurlock (1996), American bank robber, gunshot to the head [274]
- Junior Seau (2012), American football All-Pro player, gunshot to the chest [275] [276]
- Jean Seberg (1979), American actress, barbiturate overdose [277] [278]
- Sonia Sekula (1963), Swiss painter, hanging [279]
- Seneca the Younger (65 AD), Roman philosopher, cut his veins [280] [281]
- Arma Senkrah (1900), American violinist, gunshot [282]
- Rezső Seress (1968), Hungarian pianist and composer, choked himself with a wire [283]
- Servilia (30 BC), Roman noblewoman and wife of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus Minor, swallowing burning coal [284]
- Marcus Sedatius Severianus (161 or 162), Roman senator, consul and general, starved himself [285]
- Mamercus Aemilius Scaurus (34 AD), Roman senator, followed by his wife Sextia [259]
- Anne Sexton (1974), American poet, carbon monoxide poisoning [286]
- Frances Ford Seymour (1950), Canadian-American socialite, cut her throat [287] [288]
- Oksana Shachko (2018), Ukrainian artist and activist, cofounder of FEMEN, [289] hanging [290]
- Shah Begum (1604), first wife of Emperor Jahangir, opium overdose [291] [292]
- Shahrzad (1937), Iranian dramatist and playwright [293]
- Shamash-shum-ukin (648 BC), King of Babylon, self-immolation [294]
- Del Shannon (1990), American musician, gunshot [295]
- Samir Sharma (2020), Indian actor, hanging [296]
- H. James Shea Jr. (1970), American politician, gunshot [297]
- Alice Bradley Sheldon (James Tiptree Jr.) (1987), American writer, gunshot [298]
- Harold Shipman (2004), English family doctor and serial killer, hanging [299]
- Shoba (1980), Indian actress, hanging [300] [301] [302]
- V. G. Siddhartha (2019), Indian businessman, drowning [303]
- Manuel Fernández Silvestre (1921), Spanish general, gunshot [304]
- Tiffany Simelane (2009), Swazi beauty queen, ingestion of weevil tablet [305] [306]
- Chris Simon (2024), Retired professional hockey player [307]
- Narender Singh (2016), Indian judoka, hanging [308]
- PC Siqueira (2023), Brazilian Internet and television personality, hanging [309]
- Per Sivle (1904), Norwegian poet and novelist, gunshot [310]
- Mykola Skrypnyk (1933), Ukrainian Bolshevik leader, gunshot [311]
- Austra Skujiņa (1932), Latvian poet, jump from a bridge [312]
- Irina Slavina (2020), Russian journalist, self-immolation [313]
- Walery Sławek (1939), Polish Prime Minister, gunshot []
- Walter Slezak (1983), Austrian actor, gunshot [314]
- Everett Sloane (1965), American actor, drug overdose [315]
- Austin J. Small (1929), British popular writer "Seamark", gas inhalation [316]
- Smiley Culture (2011), English reggae singer and DJ, stabbing [317]
- James Vinton Smith (1952), Australian politician, gunshot [318]
- Jess Smith (1923), American political advisor, entrepreneur and member of the Ohio Gang, gunshot to the head [319]
- Lia Smith (2025), American college athlete [320]
- Someshvara I (1068), King of Western Chalukya, drowning in the Tungabhadra River [321]
- David Sonboly (2016), Iranian-German perpetrator of the 2016 Munich shooting, gunshot [322]
- Song Jae-rim (2024), South Korean actor and model [323]
- Sophonisba (after 203 BC), Carthaginian noblewoman, swallowing poison [324]
- Barea Soranus (66 AD), Roman consul, senator and governor of Asia [325]
- Peu Sousa (2013), Brazilian guitarist for Nove Mil Anjos and Pitty, hanging [326]
- Kate Spade (2018), American fashion designer, hanging [327]
- Gary Speed (2011), Welsh footballer and manager, hanging [328]
- Mark Speight (2008), English television presenter, hanging [329]
- Sporus (69 AD), Roman boy whom the emperor Nero had castrated and married, stabbed his throat with a dagger [330]
- Andrew Joseph Stack III (2010), American embedded software consultant, plane crash [331]
- Nicolas de Staël (1955), French painter, leapt from his eleventh story studio terrace [332]
- Frank Stanford (1978), American poet, gunshot [333]
- Randy Stair (2017), American mass murderer, perpetrator of the Eaton Township Weis Markets shooting, gunshot [334]
- Scott Stearney (2018), United States Navy admiral, gunshot [335]
- Costică Ștefănescu (2013), Romanian footballer and manager, jump from the fifth floor of the Military Hospital in Bucharest [336]
- Jean Stein (2017), American author, jump from a New York City high rise [337] [338]
- Wilhelm Stekel (1940), Austrian physician and psychologist, Aspirin overdose [339]
- Steve Stephens (2017), American vocational specialist and murder suspect, gunshot after police pursuit [340]
- Jon Paul Steuer (2018), American actor and musician, known as the first actor to play the Star Trek character Alexander Rozhenko, gunshot [341] [342] [343]
- Brody Stevens (2019), American stand-up comedian and actor, hanging [344]
- Inger Stevens (1970), Swedish-American actress, barbiturate overdose [345]
- John Stevens (1923), English cricketer, jumped in front of moving train [346]
- Lyle Stevik (2001), formerly [347] unidentified man using the alias name taken from a book by Joyce Carol Oates, hanging [348]
- Gary Stewart (2003), American country music singer, gunshot to the neck [349]
- Jay Stewart (1989), American television and radio announcer, gunshot [350]
- Adalbert Stifter (1868), Austrian writer, cut neck with a razor [351]
- Pringle Stokes (1828), British naval officer and captain of HMS Beagle during her first voyage, gunshot [352]
- Alfonsina Storni (1938), Argentine poet, drowning [353]
- David Stove (1994), Australian philosopher, hanging [354]
- Otto Strandman (1941), Estonian politician, gunshot [355]
- Mel Street (1978), American country singer, gunshot [356] [357]
- David Strickland (1999), American actor, best known as Todd Stites in Suddenly Susan , hanging [358]
- Ludwig Stumpfegger (1945), German doctor and Adolf Hitler's personal surgeon, cyanide poisoning [359]
- Sue Harukata (1555), daimyo of Ouchi clan, disembowelment [360]
- Sungdare Sherpa (1989), Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer [361]
- Sulli (2019), South Korean actress, singer, and model, hanging [362] [363]
- Roy Sullivan (1983), American park ranger known for being struck by lightning seven times, gunshot [364]
- David Edward Sutch (1999), English musician also known as Screaming Lord Sutch, hanging [365]
- Adam Svoboda (2019), Czech ice hockey goaltender and coach, [366] hanging [367]
- Aaron Swartz (2013), American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and activist, hanging [368]
- Larry Sweeney (2011), American professional wrestler, hanging [369]
- Sawyer Sweeten (2015), American former child actor ( Everybody Loves Raymond ), gunshot [370]
- Péter Szondi (1971), Hungarian-German philologist and literary scholar, drowning [371]
T
- Sinedu Tadesse (1995), Ethiopian murderer, hanging [372]
- Jahangir Tafazzoli (1990), Iranian journalist and politician [373]
- Taira no Tokiko (1185), Japanese Buddhist nun, wife of the chief of the Taira , grandmother of Emperor Antoku, drowning [374]
- Taira no Tomomori (1185), Japanese general, admiral and heir apparent of the Taira , drowning [375]
- Yūko Takeuchi (2020), Japanese actress, hanging [376] [377]
- Yutaka Taniyama (1958), Japanese mathematician [378]
- Jacque Alexander Tardy (1827), Scottish-French pirate, slit his own throat [379]
- Octave Tassaert (1874), French painter, charcoal-burning [380]
- Jean Tatlock (1944), American physician, psychiatrist, communist activist, mistress of Robert Oppenheimer, drowning in a bathtub [381]
- Victor Tausk (1919), Austrian psychoanalyst and neurologist, gunshot and hanging [382]
- Wayne Kent Taylor (2021), American entrepreneur and founder of Texas Roadhouse [383]
- Pál Teleki (1941), Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary, gunshot [384]
- Lou Tellegen (1934), Dutch actor, director and screenwriter, stabbed himself in the chest with a pair of scissors [385]
- Seth Teller (2014), American computer scientist, blunt trauma to head and torso [386] [387]
- Stella Tennant (2020), British model [388]
- Josef Terboven (1945), Nazi Reichskommissar for Norway, detonating 50 kg of dynamite [389]
- Tewodros II (1868), Emperor of Ethiopia, gunshot [390]
- Tezozomoctli (1430), Emperor of Cuautitlán, poison [391]
- Mike Thalassitis (2019), English-Cypriot footballer and television personality, hanging [392]
- Jack Thayer (1945), Titanic survivor, cut his wrists [393]
- Samuel J. F. Thayer (1893), American architect, gunshot [394]
- Thích Quảng Đức (1963), Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk, self-immolation [395]
- Hugo Thimig (1944), Austrian actor, overdose of barbital [396]
- Nicky Thomas (1990), Jamaican reggae singer [397]
- Hunter S. Thompson (2005), American gonzo journalist, author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , gunshot [398]
- Terry Thompson (2011), American zookeeper and owner of Muskingum County Animal Farm, gunshot [399]
- William Thornton (1840), British lieutenant-general [400]
- Ofonius Tigellinus (69 AD), Roman prefect of the Praetorian Guard, cut his throat with a razor [401]
- Jānis Timma (2024), Latvian basketball player, asphyxiation [402]
- Carlos Tobalina (1989), Peruvian-born pornographic filmmaker and actor, gunshot [403]
- Li Tobler (1975), Swiss actress, model and life partner of artist H. R. Giger, gunshot [404]
- Amanda Todd (2012), Canadian high school student who was bullied at school and online, hanging [405]
- Ernst Toller (1939), German playwright, socialist revolutionary and politician, hanging [406]
- Tolui (1232), Mongol prince, general and regent, sacrificed himself in a shamanistic ritual [407]
- Ivo-Valentino Tomaš (2019), Croatian football player [408]
- Radka Toneff (1982), Norwegian jazz singer, overdose of sleeping pills [409]
- John Kennedy Toole (1969), American novelist known for A Confederacy of Dunces , carbon monoxide poisoning [410]
- Dudu Topaz (2009), Israeli TV personality and entertainer, hanging while incarcerated in jail [411]
- Maury Travis (2002), American serial killer, hanging [412]
- Silvanus Trevail (1903), English architect, gunshot [413]
- Dick Trickle (2013), American NASCAR driver, gunshot [414] [415]
- Sunil Tripathi (2013), American student and former suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing [416]
- Verne Troyer (2018), American actor known for his role as Mini-Me in the Austin Powers films, alcohol intoxication [417]
- Tron (1998), German hacker, hanging [418]
- Butch Trucks (2017), American drummer for the Allman Brothers Band, gunshot [419]
- Yordan Tsitsonkov (1926), Macedonian Bulgarian assassin, hanged himself [420]
- Kōkichi Tsuburaya (1968), Japanese marathoner, cut his wrists [421]
- Marina Tsvetaeva (1941), Russian poet, hanging [422]
- Kurt Tucholsky (1935), German journalist, satirist and writer, overdose of sleeping pills [423]
- Houston Tumlin (2021), American child actor and soldier, gunshot [424]
- Alan Turing (1954), English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist, eating an apple laced with cyanide [425]
- Helen Twelvetrees (1958), American actress, overdose of sedatives [426]
- Jim Tyrer (1980), American football player, gunshot [427]
- Peter Tyrrell (1967), Irish writer and activist, self-immolation [428]
U
- Ernst Udet (1941), German pilot and air force general, gunshot to the head [429]
- Miyu Uehara (2011), Japanese model, hanging [430] [431]
- 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 [432]
- Jack Unterweger (1994), Austrian serial killer, hanging [433]
- Andrew Urdiales (2018), American serial killer, hanging [434]
- Mitsuru Ushijima (1945), Japanese general, began to commit ritual seppuku disembowelment just before one of his adjutants decapitated him with a saber [435] [436]
V
- Dimitris Vakrinos (1997), Greek serial killer and robber, hanging [437]
- Edwin Valero (2010), Venezuelan boxer, hanging [438]
- Kelly Jean Van Dyke (1991), American adult film actress, hanging [439]
- George Washington Vanderbilt III (1961), American explorer and member of the Vanderbilt family, jumped from the 10th floor of the Mark Hopkins Hotel [440]
- Johannes Vares (1946), Estonian poet, doctor and politician, gunshot [441]
- Getúlio Vargas (1954), two-time President of Brazil, gunshot [442]
- Publius Quinctilius Varus (9 AD), Roman general, fell upon his sword [443]
- Minnie Vautrin (1940), American missionary in China, stove gas inhalation [444] [445]
- Lupe Vélez (1944), Mexican actress, overdose of secobarbital [446]
- Dominique Venner (2013), French author, gunshot to the head in the Notre Dame de Paris [447]
- Marcus Julius Vestinus Atticus (65 AD), Roman senator and consul, opening his veins [448]
- Titus Vettius (104 BC), Roman equestrian and leader of a slave revolt [449]
- Lucius Antistius Vetus (65 AD), Roman senator, consul and governor of Germania Superior [450]
- Juhan Viiding (1995), Estonian poet and actor, cut his veins [451] [452]
- Hervé Villechaize (1993), French actor known for his work on the television series Fantasy Island , gunshot [453]
- Pierre-Charles Villeneuve (1806), French admiral, stabbing [454] [455] [456]
- Norah Vincent (2022), American journalist and novelist, assisted suicide [457]
- Lucius Annius Vinicianus (42 AD), Roman senator, plotter of the assassination of Caligula, rebel against Claudius [458]
- Frank Vitkovic (1987), Australian spree killer who perpetrated the Queen Street massacre in Melbourne, jumped from a window [459]
- Ned Vizzini (2013), American author of young adult fiction such as the novel It's Kind of a Funny Story , leapt from a building [460]
- Zinaida Volkova (1933), daughter of Leon Trotsky, gas asphyxiation [461] [462]
- Chris Von Erich (1991), professional wrestler, gunshot to the head [463]
- Kerry Von Erich (1993), professional wrestler, gunshot to the chest
- Mike Von Erich (1987), professional wrestler, overdose of Placidyl and alcohol [463]
- Bulelani Vukwana (2002), South African spree killer, gunshot [464]
W
- Bradford Thomas Wagner (2005), American real estate agent, gay pornographic film actor and suspected serial rapist, hanging himself with a bed sheet [465]
- Gustav Wagner (1980), Austrian SS- Oberscharführer and deputy commander of Sobibor extermination camp, knife wound [466]
- Chuck Wagon (1981), American musician and member of The Dickies [467]
- David Wallace (1904), father of United States First Lady Bess Truman, gunshot to the head [468]
- Marie Walcamp (1936), American actress, gas inhalation [469]
- David Foster Wallace (2008), American author, hanging [470]
- Stephen Ward (1963), English osteopathic physician and one of the central figures in the 1963 Profumo affair, overdose of sleeping pills [471]
- 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 [472] [473]
- Ed Warren (1963), American actor, politician and former mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, carbon monoxide poisoning [474]
- Nick Wasicsko (1993), former Mayor of Yonkers, New York (1987–89), gunshot to the head [475]
- Andre Waters (2006), former NFL safety, gunshot to the head [476]
- Gary Webb (2004), American investigative reporter, gunshot to the head [477]
- Jaromír Weinberger (1967), Czech/American composer, lethal overdose of sedative [478] [479]
- Otto Weininger (1903), Austrian philosopher, gunshot [480]
- Jeff Weise (2005), American high school student who perpetrated the Red Lake shootings, gunshot [481]
- Dorrit Weixler (1916), German film actress, hanging [482]
- Bob Welch (2012), American rock singer-songwriter and former member of Fleetwood Mac, gunshot to the chest [483]
- Horace Wells (1848), American dentist and pioneer of anaesthesiology, slitting his left femoral artery with a razor [484]
- Vince Welnick (2006), American singer-songwriter and keyboardist for The Tubes, slit throat [485]
- Dawn-Marie Wesley (2000), Canadian bullied high school student, hanging [486]
- Fred West (1995), English serial killer, hanging [487]
- Assia Wevill (1969), German-born lover of English poet Ted Hughes, murder–suicide of her daughter with Hughes, gas [488]
- James Whale (1957), English director, drowning [489]
- Dan White (1985), San Francisco politician who assassinated Mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, carbon monoxide poisoning [490]
- Kurt-Werner Wichmann (1993), German suspected serial killer and main suspect in the Göhrde murders, hanging [491]
- Robin Williams (2014), American comedian and actor, hanging [492] [493] [494]
- Ronnie Williams (1997), Welsh entertainer [495]
- Rozz Williams (1998), American musician, lead vocalist for Christian Death, hanging [496]
- Wendy O. Williams (1998), American singer-songwriter for the Plasmatics, gunshot [497]
- Tom Wills (1880), Australian cricketer and pioneer of Australian rules football, stabbed himself in the heart with a pair of scissors [498]
- Jarrid Wilson (2019), American pastor and author [499]
- Christopher Wilmarth (1987), American sculptor, hanging [500]
- Sheree Winton (1976), English actress, barbiturate overdose [501]
- Jack Wishna (2012), president and CEO of CPAmerica, carbon monoxide poisoning [502]
- Frank Wolff (1971), American actor, slashed his throat [503]
- Jiverly Antares Wong (2009), naturalized American citizen from Vietnam who perpetrated the Binghamton shooting, gunshot [504]
- Tobi Wong (2010), Canadian born designer, and conceptual artist, overdosed on pills [505]
- Bum-kon Woo (1982), South Korean policeman and spree killer [506]
- Seung-yeon Woo (2009), South Korean actress and model, hanging [507]
- Wally Wood (1981), American comic book writer and artist, gunshot [508]
- Francesca Woodman (1981), American photographer, jumped from a window [509]
- Virginia Woolf (1941), English author, essayist, and publisher, drowning [510]
- Stephen Wooldridge (2017), Australian cyclist [511]
- Tera Wray (2016), American pornographic actress [512]
- Marcin Wrona (2015), Polish film director, hanging [513]
- Wu Zixu (484 BC), Chinese general and politician of the Wu, stabbed himself with a sword [514]
X
- Xiang Yu (202 BC), Chinese rebel leader and king of Western Chu, slit his own throat [515]
Y
- Yakushiji Motoichi (1504), Japanese samurai and deputy governor, ritual seppuku disembowelment [516]
- Otoya Yamaguchi (1960), Japanese nationalist who assassinated Inejirō Asanuma, hanging [517]
- Yang Yang (2019), Chinese tenor, jump from the 26th floor of his apartment building [518] [519]
- Yasmine (2009), Belgian singer, hanging [520]
- Seizō Yasunori (1945), Japanese kamikaze pilot, flew his plane into the USS Bunker Hill [521]
- Kelly Yeomans (1997), English bullied high school student, dextropropoxyphene overdose [522]
- Sergei Yesenin (1925), Russian and Soviet poet, hanging [523]
- Francis Parker Yockey (1960), American neo-Fascist political philosopher and polemicist also known under his pen name Ulick Varange, cyanide poisoning [524]
- Yoñlu (2006), Brazilian singer-songwriter, carbon monoxide poisoning [525]
- Yoon Ki-won (2011), South Korean football goalkeeper, charcoal-burning suicide [526]
- Atsumi Yoshikubo (2014), Japanese psychiatrist, intentionally getting lost in the Canadian Taiga [527] [528]
- Youlan (Gūwalgiya) (1921), Manchu noblewoman, primary consort of Zaifeng, Prince Chun and mother of China's last emperor Puyi, opium overdose [529]
- Cy Young (1964), Chinese-American animator, barbiturate overdose [530]
- Faron Young (1996), American country music singer, gunshot [531]
- Gig Young (1978), American actor, gunshot after fatally shooting his wife [532]
- Lee Thompson Young (2013), American actor, gunshot [533]
- Fakhra Younus (2012), Pakistani dancer, jumped from building [534]
Z
- Bill Zeller (2011), American computer programmer and developer of myTunes, oxygen deprivation due to hanging led to brain damage, taken off life support [535]
- Bogdan Žerajić (1910), Herzegovinian Serb student and nationalist revolutionary, who made an assassination attempt on the Governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina Marijan Varešanin, gunshot [536]
- Zhang Han (205 BC), Chinese general [537]
- Zhang Shicheng (1367), Chinese warlord, leading figure during the Red Turban Rebellion and self-proclaimed king of Great Zhou, hanging [538]
- Zhang Shijie (1279), Chinese admiral, general, bureaucrat and politician, drowning [539]
- Zhou of Shang (1046 BC), Chinese king of the Shang dynasty, set fire to himself and his palace [540]
- Hai Zi (1989), Chinese poet, [541] [542] lying down on railroad tracks [543]
- Alexander Ziegler (1987), Swiss author and actor, overdose of tranquilizers [544]
- Marion Zioncheck (1936), American congressman from Washington's 1st district, jumped from his office window [545]
- Joost Zwagerman (2015), Dutch writer, poet, and essayist [546] [547] [548]
- Stefan Zweig (1942), Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer, barbiturate overdose [549] [550]
