List of suicides
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A list of famous people who have committed suicide:
- Johnny Ace, singer
- Nick Adams, actor
- Mohammed Atta, infamous terrorist, on board one of the September 11 planes.
- Louis Althusser, French philosopher
- Albert Ballen
- Ricky Berry, American NBA Basketball player (Sacramento Kings)
- Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist
- Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist
- Boudicca, Celtic chieftainess
- Charles Boyer, French actor
- Herman Brood, Dutch musician and painter
- Eustace Budgel, remembered because his death was discussed in a conversation between Dr. Samuel Johnson and his friend and biographer Boswell
- Paul Celan
- Kurt Donald Cobain, American musician and singer (Nirvana)
- Billy Collins Jr (?) young boxer
- Ian Curtis, English singer and songwritter (Joy Division)
- Dalida, French singer
- Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher
- 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 Goering, German Nazi leader
- Pete Ham, rock musician (Badfinger)
- Donny Hathaway, singer, best known for his duets with Roberta Flack
- Ernest Hemingway, American novelist
- Margaux Hemingway, American actress and model
- Adolf Hitler, German Nazi leader
- 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)
- Arthur Koestler, HUngarian novelist, political activist and social philosopher
- Hannelore Kohl, wife of ex-chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl
- Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-American author
- Hector Lavoe, Salsa Music singer
- Florence Lawrence, Hollywood's first movie Star
- Primo Levi, Italian author
- Malcolm Lowry, British writer
- Gherashim Luca, Romanian surrealist
- Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist
- 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.)
- Gerard de Nerval, French writer
- 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
- 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 Mathison Turing, British mathematician and cryptanalyst
- Randy Turpin, British boxer
- Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter
- Herve Villechaize, French actor
- Paul Williams, singer (Temptations)
- Virginia Woolf, British novelist
- Stefan Zweig, Austrian novelist