List of people who died by hanging

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This is a list of people who died as a result of hanging, including suicides and judicial, extrajudicial, or summary executions. These deaths are notable due to history or due to media exposure.

Serbs being executed in Austria-Hungary in World War I

Suicide by hanging

See also: Suicide by hanging and Category:Suicides by hanging
Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher; while on vacation with family in Duino
Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviator; in his hotel room
Robert Ley, German Nazi Reichsorganisationsleiter; in prison cell
Gustav Simon, German Nazi NSKK-Obergruppenführer; in prison cell
Ilse Koch, German Nazi overseer at Buchenwald concentration camp and Majdanek concentration camp; in prison cell
Rudolf Hess, German Nazi Deputy Führer to Hitler; in prison
Robin Williams, American actor and comedian; in his home
Daryl Easton, American magician; in his dressing room at Hollywood's Magic Castle
Anthony Bourdain, American chef; in his hotel room
Sulli, South Korean singer, songwriter and actress; in her home
Sushant Singh Rajput, Indian actor; in his home
John McAfee, American businessman; in prison cell
Ted Kaczynski, American mathematician and domestic terrorist; in prison cell

Capital punishment by hanging

See also: Category:People executed by hanging
Execution of Lincoln assassination conspirators Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt
Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq and war criminal
Adolf Eichmann, German Nazi major organizer of the Holocaust and war criminal
Wilhelm Keitel, German Nazi head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and war criminal
Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Nazi foreign minister and war criminal
Alfred Jodl, German Nazi Chief of the Operations Staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and war criminal
Irma Grese, German Nazi concentration camp guard and war criminal
Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of Japan and war criminal

Accidental hanging

Newspaper photo taken shortly after the arrest of Sada Abe (center) in Tokyo in 1936
  • Frantisek Kotzwara (1730–1791), Czech violinist composer, died during erotic asphyxiation
  • Albert Dekker (1905–1968), American actor, found dead in his bathroom with a noose around his neck, looped around the shower curtain rod.
  • Sada Abe (1905–after 1971), Japanese geisha killed her lover through strangulation while he was sleeping, after having experimented with erotic asphyxiation, in 1936, proceeding to cut off his penis and testicles and carry them around with her in her kimono for three days.
  • Nigel Tetley (c. 1924–1972), British sailor who was the first person to circumnavigate the world solo in a trimaran; his body was found hanging from a tree, clothed in lingerie, considered by the pathologist to have been engaging in masochistic sexual activity.
  • Vaughn Bodē (1941–1975), American artist, died during autoerotic asphyxiation
  • Diane Herceg sued Hustler magazine in 1983, accusing it of causing the death of her 14-year-old son, who had experimented with autoerotic asphyxia after reading about it in the publication. His nude body was found hanging in his closet with a noose around his neck. Spread at his feet was a copy of Hustler opened to its article on "Orgasm of Death."[9]
  • Stephen Milligan (1948–1994), British politician and Conservative MP for Eastleigh, died from autoerotic asphyxiation, wearing only stockings and suspenders.[10]
  • Kevin Gilbert (1966–1996), musician and songwriter, died of apparent autoerotic asphyxiation[11]
  • David Carradine (1936–2009), American actor, died from accidental asphyxiation, according to medical examiner who performed a private autopsy.[12][13] His body was found hanging by a rope in a closet in his hotel room in Thailand,[14][15] and there was evidence of a recent orgasm.[16] Two autopsies were conducted and concluded his death was not suicide. The Thai forensic pathologist who examined his body stated his death may have been due to autoerotic asphyxiation.[17][18] Two of Carradine's ex-wives, Gail Jensen[19][20] and Marina Anderson,[21][22] stated publicly that his sexual interests included the practice of self-bondage.

Homicidal hanging

  • Alexis Latimer and Sheri Clark, two teenage girls abducted and murdered by serial killer Richard Valenti, who tied them up and hanged them in 1973. Valenti died in 2020 while serving a life sentence for their deaths.[23]

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