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List of famous suicides
Wikipedians: Please put only celebrities who are known to have committed suicide here. Adding names of people who are only suspected of having killed themselves would only reflect an opinion by your part and not a fact.
A list of famous people who have committed suicide:
- Johnny Ace[?], singer
- Nick Adams[?], actor
- Neil Aggett[?], South African worker's union leader
- Louis Althusser, French philosopher
- Mary Bacon[?], thoroughbred race horse jockey
- Albert Ballen
- Isobel Barnett, British TV personality
- Gertrude Bell[?], archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq"
- Alain Berdarin[?], founder/owner of "Le Crazy Horse Saloon" - Paris
- Ricky Berry[?], American NBA Basketball player (Sacramento Kings)
- Bruno Bettelheim[?], child psychologist
- Ernest Bornemann[?], German sexologist
- Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist
- Karin Boye[?], Swedish author
- Charles Boyer, French actor
- Herman Brood, Dutch musician and painter
- Eustace Budgel[?], remembered because his death was discussed in a conversation between Samuel Johnson and his friend and biographer Boswell
- Capucine, French actress
- Dora Carrington[?], artist
- Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, British politician
- Paul Celan, Romanian poet
- Thomas Chatterton, English poet
- Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong movie star and singer
- Kurt Donald Cobain, American musician and singer (Nirvana)
- Billy Collins Jr[?] (?) young boxer
- Ray Combs[?], former host of popular American game show Family Feud
- Ian Curtis, English singer and songwritter (Joy Division)
- Dalida, French singer
- Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher
- Peter Deuel[?], American actor
- George Eastman, inventor
- Brian Samuel Epstein, British manager of the The Beatles
- Romain Gary, Russian - French novelist, film director and diplomat
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American feminist and author (Herland[?])
- Joseph Goebbels, German Nazi leader
- Hermann Göring, German Nazi leader
- Pete Ham[?], rock musician (Badfinger)
- Tony Hancock British comedian.
- Hannibal, military commander
- Donny Hathaway[?], singer, best known for his duets with Roberta Flack
- Ernest Hemingway, American novelist
- Margaux Hemingway, American actress and model
- Adolf Hitler, Austrian/German Nazi leader
- Michael Hutchence Australian lead singer of rock group INXS
- Judas Iscariot, according to the Bible, betrayed Jesus
- Sarah Kane, British playwright
- Terry Kath[?], guitarist, Chicago (died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound)
- Brian Keith[?], American actor (Family Affair[?])
- Heinrich von Kleist, German dramatist and poet
- Arthur Koestler, Hungarian novelist, political activist and social philosopher
- Hannelore Kohl, wife of ex-chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl
- Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-American author
- Paul Lafargue, son-in-law of Karl Marx, communist theorist and author of The Right to Be Lazy[?]
- Hans Langsdorff, captain of the Admiral Graf Spee
- Hector Lavoe[?], Salsa Music[?] singer
- Florence Lawrence, Hollywood's first movie Star
- Primo Levi, Italian author
- John Lovelock, New Zealand doctor and Olympic athlete
- Malcolm Lowry, British writer
- Gherashim Luca[?], Romanian surrealist
- Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist
- Billy MacKenzie[?] Lead singer of 80s pop group The Associates
- Kitty Melrose[?], English actress
- Charlotte Mew, English poet
- Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer and political activist
- Kid McCoy[?], boxer (real name: Norman Shelby. Suicide note read, among other things: Everything in my possession, I want to go to my dear wife, Sue E. Shelby.....To all my dear friends...best of luck...sorry I could not endure this world's madness.)
- Donnie Moore[?], relief pitcher for the California Angels, gave up a last inning home-run preventing the Angels from going to the World Series in 1986.
- Ted Moult[?], British television personality
- Gerard de Nerval, French writer
- Luis Ocańa[?], Spanish cyclist, Tour de France winner
- Phil Ochs, American singer
- Judge O'Connor[?], actor
- Dazai Osamu, Japanese novelist
- Billy Papke[?], boxer
- Jules Pascin, French - American painter, Prince of Montparnasse"
- Sylvia Plath, American poetess, author and essayist
- Dana Michelle Plato, American actress
- Freddie Prinze, Puerto Rican comedian and actor
- George Reeves, actor, played Superman on television
- Irv Rubin, (?), leader of the Jewish Defense League
- Mark Rothko, Russian - American painter
- Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (see Mayerling)
- Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Japanese novelist
- George Sanders[?], actor, His suicide note read : "Dear World: I am leaving because I am bored. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool."*
- Jean Seberg, American actress
- Del Shannon, American singer
- Elizabeth Siddal, Pre-Raphaelite icon
- The Singing Nun, Belgian singer
- Rory Storm[?], singer of the Hurricanes (the band Ringo Starr was in before he joined the Beatles), in a pact with his mother
- John Kennedy Toole, American novelist
- Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva, Russian poetess and writer
- Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist
- Alan Turing, British mathematician and computer scientist
- Randy Turpin, British boxer
- Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter
- Lupe Velez[?], actress
- Herve Villechaize, French actor
- Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher
- James Whale, film director
- Paul Williams, singer (Temptations)
- Virginia Woolf, British novelist
- Stefan and Lotte Zweig, Austrian novelist and his wife