List of suicides (1900–1999)

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The following notable people have died by suicide. This includes suicides effected under duress and excludes deaths by accident or misadventure. People who may or may not have died by their own hand, whose intent to die is disputed, or who are alleged to have been killed, may be listed.

Confirmed

A

Yukio Araki

B

C

Capucine
Kurt Cobain

D

Dalida
Osamu Dazai
Patrick Dewaere
R. Budd Dwyer

E

F

the English text says "Blow up the Railway Station: On 30 October 1946 a unit of Irgun blew up the waiting hall of the Jerusalem Railway Station. Several of Irgun fighters were wounded. Later, four were captured, one of them, Meir Feinstin was sentenced to death. On the eve of their execution (12 April 1947) Feinstin and Lehi fighter Barazani blew themselves up in the Jerusalem Central Prison."
Meir Feinstein [c]
Frederick Fleet

G

H

Ernest Hemingway
Michael Hutchence

I

Clara Immerwahr

J

K

Yasunari Kawabata

L

Marta Lynch

M

Ulrike Meinhof
Yukio Mishima
Marilyn Monroe

N

Vladimir Nalivkin

O

P

Rosamond Pinchot
Sylvia Plath

Q

R

Erwin Rommel
Mark Rothko

S

Sybille Schmitz
Thelma Stefani

T

Jack Thayer
Alan Turing

U

Mitsuru Ushijima

V

Lupe Vélez

W

Virginia Woolf

X

Y

Sergei Yesenin

Z

Possible or disputed

Sid Vicious
  • Gameel Al-Batouti (1999), Egyptian pilot of Egyptair and former officer of the Egyptian Air Force who was killed in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990. It is disputed on whether or not it was caused by mechanical malfunction or by Al-Batouti in a suicide by pilot[672]
  • Scotty Beckett (1968), American actor, an overdose of either barbiturates or alcohol, after seeking medical attention for blunt force trauma injuries following a severe beating[673][674]
  • Edward Brittain (1918), British army captain, gunshot by enemy sniper, to whom Brittain may have deliberately exposed himself, to avoid a court-martial for homosexuality[675][676]
  • Danny Casolaro (1991), Freelance writer investigating numerous American government agencies at the time of his death, slashed wrists in hotel bathtub.[677]
  • Richey Edwards (1995), Welsh Musician, jumping from the Severn Bridge. Disappeared on February 1, 1995, and was never seen again. Even though he has been reportedly seen at a market in Goa, India, and on the Canary Islands in Spain, the most likely theory is that he committed suicide.[678]
  • James Forrestal (1949), First U.S. Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Navy, fell from 16th floor of building (disputed suicide)[679]
  • Kurt Gödel (1978), Austrian-American logician, mathematician and philosopher, died of starvation as a result of refusing to eat anything not prepared by his wife, who was hospitalized, out of fear of being poisoned. It is unclear whether this was a suicide.[680]
  • Nigel Green (1972), English actor, overdose of sleeping pills[681]
  • Ho Ka-i (1953), Soviet and North Korean politician and operative, officially died of suicide by gunshot but an assassination also seems likely.[682]
  • Sung-jae Kim (1995), South Korean singer and former member of Deux, stabbed in the arm 28 times with a syringe containing animal anesthetic. It is unknown if it was a murder or suicide.[683]
  • David Koresh (1993), American leader of the Branch Davidians, gunshot. It is unknown if he was murdered by one of the Branch Davidians, or if he died by suicide.[684]
  • Primo Levi (1987), Italian chemist, writer and Holocaust survivor, jumped from his third-story apartment[685]
  • Gilbert N. Lewis (1946), American chemist, cyanide poisoning. It is disputed whether he had a heart attack or died by suicide.[686]
  • Unity Mitford, (1948), British socialite and Nazi sympathiser, died eight years after shooting herself of injuries caused by the bullet; debatable if this counts as suicide.[687]
  • Alighiero Noschese (1979), Italian TV impersonator, gunshot while being recovered under care for clinical depression. As patients with depression are not permitted to possess firearms and other lethal objects, it was suspected that someone murdered Noschese or smuggled the gun to him.[688]
  • Giuseppe Pinelli (1969), Italian anarchist, fall from police station window, police claim of suicide widely disputed[689]
  • Freddie Prinze (1977), American actor and comedian, gunshot to the head while under the influence of methaqualone and alcohol. His death was initially ruled suicide,[690][691] but his mother and other loved ones successfully convinced a court to change the official cause of death to accidental.[692]
  • Luigi Tenco (1967), Italian singer-songwriter, gunshot during the week of the Sanremo Music Festival 1967. Officially ruled as suicide based on an apparent suicide note, although the claim has been disputed and multiple investigations have had inconclusive outcomes.[693]
  • Tsarong (1959), Tibetan diplomat, court official and reformer, died in a Chinese prison shortly before his public execution with no cause of death ever being revealed, his friend Heinrich Harrer suspects suicide.[694]
  • Sid Vicious (1979), English musician and member of the Sex Pistols, heroin overdose.[695][696] He had made a suicide pact with his then recently deceased girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, as evident by a note found in his coat pocket after his death.[697]

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Notes

  1. [a]
    Possibly the first suicide using explosives in the Middle East.
  2. [b]
    At the time, the sign read "Hollywoodland".
  3. [c]
    Note: "12 April" a misprint, they blew themselves up on the night of 21 April 1947.[193][194][195][196][197]

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