Famous Suicides

• Johnny Ace, Russian roulette.
• Chris Acland, drummer for Lush.
• Stuart Adamson, lead singer, Big Country.
• Howard Armstrong, invented FM radio.
• Diana Barrymore, actress, alcohol and sleeping pills.
• Clara Blandick, Auntie Em in the Wizard of Oz, sleeping pills.
• Jonathan Brandis, actor Seaquest DSV, hanged.
• Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's mistress, in the Fuhrerbunker.
• Richard Brautigan, author, cranial GSW.
• Cleopatra, asp.
• Kurt Cobain, shotgun, Seattle.
• Ray Combs, host of Family Feud, hanged himself at Glendale Adventist Hospital.
• Hart Crane, poet, drowning.
• Dennis Crosby, son of Bing Crosby, shotgun.
• Lindsay Crosby, son of Bing Crosby, shotgun.
• Andrew Cunanan, homosexual serial killer, gunshot.
• Ian Curtis, of Joy Division, hanged himself on the eve of their American tour.
• George Armstrong Custer, probable suicide with pistol.
• Thich Quang Duc, self-immolation, Saigon.
• R. Budd Dwyer, Pennsylvania state treasurer, gunshot.
• George Eastman, pistol.
• Lillian Millicent Entwistle, starlet, jumped off the Hollywood sign.
• Brian Epstein, Beatles manager, likely suicide by pills.
• Sergei Esenin, Russian poet, hanging.
• Tom Evans, of Badfinger, hanged, Surrey.
• David Ferrie, person of interest in the John F. Kennedy assassination.
• Sigmund Freud, psychoanalyst, morphine overdose.
• Gerard de Nerval, poet and author, hanged himself.
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman, author.
• Joseph Goebbels.
• Hermann Goering, poison pill prior to his hanging sentence.
• Vincent van Gogh, gunshot.
• Anton Gustafsson, Iron Maiden tribute artist.
• Peter Ham, of Badfinger, hanged.
• Rusty Hamer, Danny Thomas' son on Make Room For Daddy, gunshot.
• Sadeq Hedayat, author of The Blind Owl, natural gas inhalation.
• Rudolf Hess, strangled himself in prison, Spandau East Berlin.
• Ernest Hemingway, shotgun.
• Margaux Hemingway, actress, barbiturates.
• Heinrich Himmler, cyanide capsule.
• Adolf Hitler, pistol and cyanide.
• Abbie Hoffman, counterculture author of Steal This Book.
• Douglas Hopkins, of the Gin Blossoms, shot himself.
• Robert E. Howard, author, pistol.
• Michael Hutchence, of INXS, hanging or possibly Autoerotic Asphyxiation. In the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Sydney, Australia.
• Terry Jones, David Bowie's brother.
• Terry Kath, of the band Chicago, Russian roulette.
• Vachel Lindsay, poet and essayist, Lysol.
• Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian Futurist poet.
• Yukio Mishima, Japanese playwright, seppuku.
• Marilyn Monroe, pills.
• George de Mohrenschildt, gunshot.
• Nero.
• Jan Palach, Czech protester, self-immolation.
• Robert Pilatus, of Milli Vanilli.
• Sylvia Plath, poet, inhaling natural gas.
• Dana Plato, pills.
• Freddie Prinze, Chico and the Man, gunshot.
• Geli Raubal, Hitler's niece, gunshot in 1939.
• Margaret Mary Ray, David Letterman's stalker, knelt in front of a train.
• George Reeves, actor, played Superman.
• Bobby Sands, of the IRA, hunger strike.
• George Sanders, actor, sleeping-pill overdose.
• Savannah, porn star, gunshot.
• Shauna Grant, porn star, gunshot.
• Socrates, hemlock.
• Screaming Lord Sutch, founder of England's Monster Raving Loonie Party.
• Del Shannon, vocalist, .22 caliber rifle.
• Elliott Smith, singer-songwriter, stabbed himself.
• David Strickland, Suddenly Susan co-star, hanged himself in Las Vegas.
• Sara Teasdale, poet, drowning.
• Jason Thirsk, of Pennywise, gunshot.
• Hunter S. Thompson, gonzo journalist, gunshot.
• Thelma Todd, actress, carbon monoxide.
• E. William Tucker, of Ministry and Pigface, pills and slit his own throat.
• Alan Turing, computer scientist and cryptographer, poisoned apple.
• Lupe Velez, the Mexican Spitfire, sleeping pills.
• Herve Villechaize, midget Fantasy Island actor, shotgun.
• James Whale, Frankenstein director, shallow dive.
• Dan White, assassin of S.F. Mayor Moscone, carbon monoxide.
• Paul Williams of The Temptations, gunshot.
• Wendy O. Williams of The Plasmatics, shot herself in the woods outside her home in 1998.
• Alan Wilson, of Canned Heat.
• Virginia Woolf, drowning.

Murder-Suicides

• Marshall Applewhite, mass suicide, San Diego.
• Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, Columbine massacre.
• George Hennard, Luby's Cafeteria massacre.
• Luc Jouret, homeopath, Chiery, Switzerland and Montreal, Canada.
• Marc Lepine, Canada's most prolific spree killer.
• Woo Bum-Kon, spree killer, Uiryong, Korea.
• Jim Jones, mass suicide, Guyana.

Attempts

• Jurgen Bartsch, German serial killer.
• Angela Bowie, David Bowie's first wife.
• Marianne Faithful, singer, girlfriend of Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger.
• David Gahan, lead singer of Depeche Mode.
• Judy Garland, several suicide attempts.
• John Hinckley, tylenol.
• Vanilla Ice, white rapper.
• Ted Kaczynski, tried to hang himself with his underwear in prison.
• Michael "Mucko" McDermott, spree killing Q.A. engineer.
• Richard Pryor, comedian, self-immolation.
• Cary Stayner, serial killer.

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