List of suicides
The following are lists of notable people who died by suicide. Suicides effected under duress are included. Deaths by accident or misadventure are excluded. People who might or might not have died by their own hand, or whose intention to die is in dispute, but who are widely believed to have deliberately killed themselves, may be listed under "possible suicides".
Confirmed suicides
A
- Chris Acland, English drummer for the band Lush, hanging
- Art Acord, American actor and rodeo champion, ingestion of poison
- Manuel Acuña, Mexican poet, ingestion of potassium cyanide
- Marian "Clover" Hooper Adams, American socialite and photographer, potassium cyanide
- George Washington Adams, American politician, lawyer and eldest son of John Quincy Adams, drowning in the Long Island Sound
- Robert Adams, Jr., Congressman from Pennsylvania, gunshot
- Stephanie Adams, American former glamour model, known as the November 1992 Playboy Playmate, jump from a 25th floor window with her 7-year-old son
- Stuart Adamson, Scottish guitarist and singer, hanging after alcohol ingestion
- Adrastus, exiled son of Gordias, king of Phrygia
- Vibulenus Agrippa, Roman equestrian, poison
- Ahn Jae-hwan, South Korean actor, carbon monoxide poisoning
- Aizong of Jin, Chinese emperor of the Jin dynasty
- Chantal Akerman, Belgian film director
- Sergey Akhromeyev, Marshal of the Soviet Union, hanging
- Stephen Akinmurele, British suspected serial killer, hanging
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer, overdose of barbital
- Marwan al-Shehhi, United Arab Emirate member of Al-Qaeda and one of the 9/11 hijackers, plane crash of United Airlines Flight 175
- Alcetas, Hellenic general of Alexander the Great
- Leelah Alcorn, American transgender teenager, walked in front of a truck
- Leandro Alem, Argentine politician, founder of the Radical Civic Union, gunshot to the head
- Alexander, Seleucid satrap of Persis
- Ross Alexander, American actor, gunshot to the head
- Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya, Russian-Australian ice skater, jumped from window of her apartment
- Prince Alfred of Edinburgh, member of the British Royal Family, gunshot
- Ghazaleh Alizadeh, Iranian poet and writer, hanging
- Gia Allemand, American actress and model, hanging
- Nadezhda Alliluyeva, wife of Joseph Stalin, gunshot
- Jeff Alm, American football player, gunshot
- Jason Altom, American Ph.D student, potassium cyanide
- August Ames, Canadian pornographic actress, hanging
- Jean Améry, Austrian writer, overdose of sleeping pills
- Amphicrates of Athens, Greek sophist and rhetorician, starved himself
- Korechika Anami, Japanese War Minister, stabbed himself as part of seppuku
- Adna Anderson, General, U.S. Military Railroads during the American Civil War, railroad civil engineer/manager, gunshot
- Forrest Howard Anderson, Governor of Montana, gunshot
- Mary A. Anderson, unidentified woman using an alias, cyanide poisoning
- Keith Andes, American actor, asphyxiation
- Andragathius, Roman general and Magister equitum who assassinated emperor Gratian, drowned in the sea
- Andromachus. Eleian cavalry general
- Roger Angleton, American murderer, cut himself over 50 times with a razor
- Publius Rufus Anteius, Roman politician, drank poison and cut his veins
- Mark Antony, Roman politician and general, stabbed with sword
- Marcus Gavius Apicius, Roman socialite, gourmet and man of great wealth, poison
- Marshall Applewhite, American leader of the Heaven's Gate religious cult, poisoned himself as part of the cult's mass suicide that year
- Araki Yukio, Japanese kamikaze pilot
- Arbogast, Roman general
- Diane Arbus, American photographer, overdosed on pills and slashed wrists
- Archias of Cyprus, Ptolemaic governor of Cyprus, hanging
- Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban-American artist and writer, drug and alcohol overdose
- José María Arguedas, Peruvian novelist and poet, gunshot
- Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor, gunshot
- Edwin Armstrong, American inventor of FM radio, jumped from a 13th floor window
- Arria, Roman wife of Caecina Paetus an alleged conspirator against Emperor Claudius, stabbed herself
- John Atchison, American federal prosecutor and alleged child sex offender, hanging
- Mohamed Atta, Egyptian member of Al-Qaeda, and leader of the 9/11 hijackers, plane crash of American Airlines Flight 11
- Pekka-Eric Auvinen, Finnish Jokela High School shooter, gunshot to head
- Avicii, Swedish DJ and music producer, self-inflicted cuts resulting in blood loss
- Mike Awesome, American professional wrestler, hanging
- Marion Aye, American actress, ingestion of bi-chloride of mercury tablets
- May Ayim, German author, jumped from 13th floor of a Berlin building
- Albert Ayler, American jazz saxophonist, jumped into New York City's East River
B
- Andreas Baader, German RAF terrorist, gunshot
- Nikki Bacharach, American daughter of Burt Bacharach and Angie Dickinson, suffocation using plastic bag and helium
- Josef Bachmann, German anti-communist, who made an assassination attempt on the German student movement-leader Rudi Dutschke, asphyxiation with plastic bag
- Faith Bacon, American burlesque dancer and actress, jumped from hotel window
- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Iraqi-born Islamic terrorist and leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, detonation of a suicide vest
- Bai Qi, Chinese general and commander of the Qin army, cut his throat with a sword
- David Bairstow, English cricketer, hanging
- James Robert Baker, American writer, asphyxiation
- Mark Balelo, American cast member on the reality TV series Storage Wars, carbon monoxide asphyxiation
- Joe Ball, American serial killer, gunshot
- José Manuel Balmaceda, President of Chile, gunshot
- Lou Bandy, Dutch singer and comedian
- Pratyusha Banerjee, Indian actress, hanging
- Somen Banerjee, Indian American entrepreneur, co-founder of Chippendales and convicted criminal, hanging
- Herculine Barbin, French intersex memoirist, gas
- Erich Bärenfänger, German general
- Robert Hayward Barlow, American writer and anthropologist, barbiturate overdose
- Boris Barnet, Russian film director, hanging
- Mark O. Barton, American spree killer, gunshot
- Ralph Barton, American artist, gunshot
- Johanna Bassani, Austrian combined Nordic skier and ski jumper
- Pierre Batcheff, French actor, overdose of barbital
- Simone Battle, American pop singer and member of the band G.R.L., hanging
- Herb Baumeister, American serial killer, gunshot
- J. Clifford Baxter, American Enron Corporation executive, gunshot
- Amelie "Melli" Beese, German pioneer aviator, gunshot
- Ari Behn, Norwegian author and painter
- Jovan Belcher, American football player, gunshot
- Peter Bellamy, English folk musician and member of the band The Young Tradition
- Helena Belmonte, Filipina model, jumped off building
- Malik Bendjelloul, Swedish documentary filmmaker, jumped in front of moving train
- Brenda Benet, American television and film actress, gunshot
- Walter Benjamin, German-Jewish literary critic and culture theorist, morphine overdose
- Jill Bennett, English actress, secobarbital overdose
- Chester Bennington, American lead singer of Linkin Park, hanging
- Louis Bennison, American actor, gunshot
- Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler, hanging
- Pierre Bérégovoy, French politician and Prime Minister, gunshot
- Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress, gunshot
- David Berman, American musician and poet, hanging
- John Berryman, American poet, jumped off the Washington Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Bruno Bettelheim. Austrian-born U.S. psychologist and writer, asphyxiation with plastic bag
- Paul Bhattacharjee, British actor, jumped from a clifftop
- Brian Bianchini, American model, hanging
- Steve Bing, American businessman and film producer, jumped from 27th floor of apartment building
- Bob Birch, American musician, gunshot
- David Birnie, Australian serial killer and rapist, hanging
- Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian novelist, hanging
- Eli M. Black, CEO of United Fruit Co., jumped out of a building
- Junius Blaesus, Roman consul, general and governor of Africa, fell on a sword
- Jeremy Blake, American artist, drowning
- Clara Blandick, American stage and screen actress
- Miguel Blesa, Spanish banker and businessman, involved in various corruption scandals, gunshot to chest
- Adele Blood, American actress, gunshot
- Clara Bloodgood, American Broadway actress, gunshot
- Isabella Blow, English magazine editor, and muse to fashion designer Alexander McQueen, poisoning
- Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist, known for thermodynamics and atomic theory, hanging
- Bonosus, Roman usurper, hanging
- Eduardo Bonvallet, Chilean World Cup footballer and pundit, hanging
- Jeremy Michael Boorda, US Chief of Naval Operations, gunshot to the chest
- Éric Borel, French high school student and spree killer, gunshot
- Adrian Borland, English singer-songwriter, jumped in front of a moving train
- Martin Bormann, German head of the Nazi Party Chancellery, cyanide poisoning
- Jean-Louis Bory, French writer, gunshot to the chest
- Yevgenia Bosch, Soviet Bolshevik revolutionary and politician, gunshot
- Novak Bošković, Serbian handball player, gunshot
- Dmitry Bosov, Russian businessman and billionaire, gunshot
- Mohamed Bouazizi, Tunisian street vendor, self-immolation
- Boudica, Queen of the Iceni, poison
- Georges Ernest Boulanger, French general and politician, gunshot
- Dallen Bounds, American serial killer, gunshot
- Anthony Bourdain, American chef, author, and television personality, hanging
- Tommy Boyce, American songwriter, gunshot
- Karin Boye, Swedish writer
- Charles Boyer, French actor, secobarbital overdose
- Jonathan Brandis, American actor, hanging
- Cheyenne Brando, Tahitian model/actress, hanging
- Charlie Brandt, American serial killer, hanging
- Mike Brant, Israeli pop star, jumped from his Paris apartment building
- Robert Eugene Brashers, American serial killer, gunshot
- Eva Braun, German wife of Adolf Hitler, cyanide poisoning
- Richard Brautigan, American writer, gunshot
- Brennus, Gallic tribal leader and general, stabbed himself
- James E. Brewton, American painter and printmaker, gunshot
- Molly Brodak, American poet, writer, and baker
- Herman Brood, Dutch rock musician and painter, jumped from hotel roof
- Joseph Brooks, American screenwriter, director, producer, and composer, asphyxiation
- May Brookyn British stage actress, overdose of carbolic acid
- Jürgen Brümmer, German Olympic gymnast, jumped from the Koersch Viaduct after suffocating his son
- Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, Roman politician and conspirator to assassinate Julius Caesar, ran into his sword
- David Buckel, American LGBT rights lawyer and environmental activist, self-immolation in Prospect Park, Brooklyn
- Randy Budd, American businessman whose wife, Sharon, was critically injured and disfigured by rocks thrown at their car from an overpass, gunshot
- Eustace Budgell, English writer and politician, drowning in the Thames
- Brad Bufanda, American actor, jumped from building
- Dale Buggins, Australian stunt motorcyclist, gunshot
- Wilhelm Burgdorf, German general, Chief of the Heerespersonalamt and Chief Adjutant to Adolf Hitler, gunshot
- Dan Burros, Jewish American neo-Nazi activist and member of the Ku Klux Klan, gunshot to the head
- August Anheuser Busch Sr., American CEO of Anheuser-Busch, gunshot
- Germán Busch, Bolivian military officer and 41st and 43rd President of Bolivia, gunshot
C
- Calanus, Indian gymnosophist and companion of Alexander the Great, self-immolation
- Novius Calavius, Campanian nobleman, leader of an anti-Roman insurrection
- Ovius Calavius, Campanian nobleman, leader of an anti-Roman insurrection
- Lucius Arruntius Camillus Scribonianus, Roman politician, consul and rebel against Emperor Claudius
- Donald Cammell, Scottish film director, gunshot
- Homaro Cantu, American chef, hanging
- Capital Steez, American hip-hop artist, jumped off the rooftop of the Cinematic Music Group headquarters in Manhattan
- Capucine, French actress and model, jumped from an eighth-floor apartment
- George Caragonne, American comic book writer, jumped from the 45th floor of the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Manhattan
- Wallace Carothers, American inventor of nylon, cyanide poisoning
- Dora Carrington, English artist, gunshot
- Kevin Carter, South African photojournalist, carbon monoxide poisoning
- Tim Carter, English footballer, hanging
- Justina Casagli, Swedish opera singer, jumped out a window
- Finn M. W. Caspersen, American financier and philanthropist, gunshot
- Ariel Castro, Puerto Rican-American kidnapper, rapist and murderer, hanging
- Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, Cuban nuclear physicist, son of Fidel Castro
- Kelly Catlin, American cycling champion
- Cato the Younger, Roman statesman and politician, stabbed with sword
- Paul Celan, Romanian poet, drowning in the Seine
- Censorinus, Roman cavalryman and friend of Publius Licinius Crassus, ordered shieldbearer to stab him
- Champignon, Brazilian musician, bassist for Charlie Brown Jr., gunshot
- Joseph Newton Chandler III, formerly unidentified identity thief, gunshot
- Pierre Chanal, French serial killer, cut femoral artery
- Iris Chang, American historian and author of The Rape of Nanking, gunshot to head
- Charmion, servant and advisor of Cleopatra
- Richard Chase, American serial killer, anti-depressant overdose
- Gilles Châtelet, French philosopher and mathematician
- Thomas Chatterton, English poet and forger, arsenic poisoning
- Gu Cheng, Chinese poet, hanging
- Danny Chen, Chinese-American U.S. Army Private, gunshot
- Vic Chesnutt, American singer-songwriter, muscle relaxant overdose
- Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor, leapt from the 24th floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel
- Chimalpopoca, Emperor of Tenochtitlan, hanging
- Seung-Hui Cho, American university student who perpetrated the Virginia Tech shooting, gunshot
- Choi Jin-sil, South Korean actress, hanging
- Choi Jin-young, South Korean actor and singer, hanging
- Chongzhen, Chinese emperor of the Ming dynasty
- David Christie, French singer
- Brian Christopher, American professional wrestler, hanging
- Christine Chubbuck, American television reporter, gunshot
- Chung Doo-un, South Korean politician
- Diana Churchill, Eldest daughter of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, barbiturate overdose
- Jeremiah Clarke, English baroque composer and organist, gunshot
- Paul Clayton American folksinger and folklorist, electrocution
- Tyler Clementi, Rutgers University student, jumped off the George Washington Bridge
- Robert George Clements, Irish physician and suspected murderer, morphine overdose
- Cleomenes I, King of Sparta, slashed himself from shins to belly
- Cleomenes III, King of Sparta
- Cleombrotus of Ambracia, Greek philosopher, acquaintance of Socrates and Plato
- Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, inducing an asp to bite her
- Kurt Cobain, American musician for the band Nirvana, gunshot
- Jack Cole, American cartoonist known as the creator of Plastic Man, gunshot to the head with a rifle
- Ray Combs, American comedian, actor, and television game show host, hanging
- Camila María Concepción, American screenwriter and transgender rights activist
- Adolfo Constanzo, American serial killer, drug dealer, warlock and cult leader, ordered a follower to shoot him
- Tarka Cordell British musician, hanging
- Don Cornelius, American television producer, best known as the creator and host of Soul Train, gunshot
- Chris Cornell, American musician, singer and songwriter, hanging after a performance
- Tony Costa, American serial killer, hanging
- John Coughlin, American figure skater, hanging
- Hart Crane, American poet, jumped off ship
- Darby Crash, American singer, heroin overdose
- Publius Licinius Crassus, Roman general, ordered shieldbearer to stab him
- Robert W. Criswell, American humorist and newspaperman, jumped in front of subway train
- Dennis Crosby, American singer and actor, gunshot
- Lindsay Crosby, American singer and actor, gunshot
- Andrew Cunanan, American serial killer, gunshot
- Lester Cuneo, American actor, gunshot
- Will Cuppy, American humorist, sleeping pill overdose
- Ian Curtis, English singer-songwriter, hanging
- Patricia Cutts, English film and television actress, barbiturate overdose
- Adam Czerniaków, Polish-Jewish senator and head of the Warsaw Ghetto Judenrat, cyanide poisoning
D
- Dalida, French-Italian singer, barbiturate overdose
- Karl Dane, Danish-American silent film actor, gunshot
- Laurie Dann, American murderer and arsonist, gunshot to the head
- Monika Dannemann, German skater and painter, exhaust fumes
- Bella Darvi, Polish actress, gas inhalation
- Ali-Akbar Davar, Iranian politician and judge and the founder of the modern judicial system of Iran, overdose of opium
- Brad Davis, American actor, assisted barbiturate overdose
- Charlotte Dawson, Australian TV presenter, hanging
- Osamu Dazai, Japanese author, drowning in the Tamagawa Aqueduct
- Alice de Janzé, American heiress, gunshot
- Decentius, Roman usurper
- Guy Debord, French philosopher and founder of the Situationists International, gunshot
- Jeanine Deckers, Belgian musician known as the Singing Nun, overdose of sedatives
- Albert Dekker, actor known for the science fiction film Dr. Cyclops, autoerotic asphyxiation.
- Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher, jumped out of window
- Peter Delmé, English politician, gunshot
- Brad Delp, American singer-songwriter for the bands Boston and RTZ, carbon monoxide poisoning
- Penelope Delta, Greek writer, poison
- Demonax, Greek Cypriot Cynic philosopher, starved himself to death
- Demosthenes, Greek statesman, poison
- Karl Denke, German serial killer, hanging
- Jerry Desmonde, English actor
- Patrick Dewaere, French actor, gunshot
- Diaeus, Greek strategos of the Achaean League, poison
- Ding Ruchang, Chinese admiral, opium overdose
- Dioxippus, ancient Greek pankratiast and Olympic champion, fell upon his sword
- Tove Ditlevsen, Danish poet and author
- Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah, King of Nepal and perpetrator of the Nepalese royal massacre, gunshot to the head
- Thomas M. Disch, American writer, gunshot
- Adriaan Ditvoorst, Dutch film director and screenwriter, drowning
- Julia Domna, Roman empress, second wife of Emperor Septimius Severus
- Christopher Dorner, American police officer, gunshot
- Michael Dorris, American novelist, overdose of sleeping pills with vodka and asphyxiation
- Jon Dough, American pornographic actor, hanging
- Scott Dozier, American murderer, hanging
- Charmaine Dragun, Australian television newsreader, jumped off The Gap
- Nick Drake, English singer-songwriter, overdose of amitriptyline tablets
- Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus, Roman senator
- Dave Duerson, American football safety for the Chicago Bears, New York Giants, and Phoenix Cardinals, gunshot to the chest
- Theresa Duncan, American video game designer, blogger, filmmaker and critic, ingestion of Tylenol and alcohol
- R. Budd Dwyer, American politician, gunshot
E
- George Eastman, American inventor and philanthropist, gunshot to heart
- Volker Eckert, German serial killer, hanging
- Edward I. Edwards, American politician, gunshot to head
- Mack Ray Edwards, American serial killer, hanging
- Keith Emerson, English rock musician, keyboardist, and composer for the bands The Nice and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, gunshot to the head
- Empedocles, Greek philosopher, leapt into Mount Etna
- Robert Enke, German footballer, struck by train
- Gudrun Ensslin, German RAF terrorist, hanging
- Peg Entwistle, Welsh-born American actress, leapt from the "H" in the Hollywood Sign
- Epicharis, Roman leading member of the Pisonian conspiracy, strangled herself with a band of cloth
- Eratosthenes, Greek polymath and chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria, voluntary starvation
- Ermanaric, king of the Greuthungi
- Etika, American YouTuber and streamer, drowned after jumping from the Manhattan Bridge
- Euphrates the Stoic, Roman Stoic philosopher, hemlock poisoning
- Eurydice II of Macedon, Queen of Macedon, hanging
- Tom Evans, English musician and songwriter for the group Badfinger, hanging
- Richard Evonitz, American serial killer and kidnapper
F
- Angus Fairhurst, English artist, hanging
- Enevold de Falsen, Norwegian Supreme Court Justice, drowning
- Moni Fanan, Israeli basketball executive Maccabi Tel-Aviv, hanging
- Gaius Fuficius Fango, Roman general and politician
- Richard Farnsworth, American actor, gunshot
- Justin Fashanu, British footballer, hanging
- René Favaloro, Argentine cardiac surgeon, gunshot to the heart
- José Feghali, Brazilian pianist, winner of the 1985 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, gunshot to head
- Hans Fischer, German organic chemist and recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and recipient of the 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Robert FitzRoy, English meteorologist, surveyor, hydrographer, Governor of New Zealand and captain of during Charles Darwin's second voyage of HMS Beagle
- Quintus Fulvius Flaccus, Roman consul, hanging
- Caroline Flack, English radio and television presenter
- Ed Flanders, American actor, gunshot
- John Bernard Flannagan, American sculptor
- Frederick Fleet, English sailor and lookout on the RMS Titanic who first spotted the iceberg that struck the vessel, hanging
- Keith Flint, English singer and dancer for The Prodigy, hanging
- Charley Ford, American outlaw, gunshot
- Tom Forman, American actor, director and producer, gunshot
- André "Dédé" Fortin, Canadian songwriter, singer and guitarist, stabbing
- Vince Foster, American attorney and Deputy White House Counsel to Bill Clinton, gunshot to mouth
- Wade Frankum, Australian mass murderer who perpetrated the Strathfield massacre, gunshot
- Kelly Fraser, Canadian pop singer and songwriter
- Ryan Freel, American professional baseball player, gunshot
- John Friedrich, Australian fraudster, gunshot
- Emil Fuchs, Austrian-American sculptor, gunshot
- Fujimura Misao, Japanese philosophy student and poet, jumped from the Kegon Falls
- Anton Furst, English production designer, jumped from an eighth story parking garage
G
- Alan García, Peruvian politician who served as President of Peru from 1985 to 1990 and again from 2006 to 2011, gunshot
- Helen Palmer Geisel, author and actress who was the first wife of famed children's author Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, barbiturate overdose
- Babak Ghorbani, Iranian wrestler, overdose
- Karl Giese, German archivist, museum curator and life partner of Magnus Hirschfeld
- Gildo, Roman Berber general and rebel leader, hanging
- Rex Gildo, German singer and actor, jumping from his third-floor apartment window
- Sam Gillespie, philosopher whose writings and translations were crucial to the initial reception of Alain Badiou's work in the English-speaking world
- Claude Gillingwater, American actor, gunshot
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American writer, chloroform overdose
- Kurt Gloor, Swiss film director, screenwriter and producer
- John Wayne Glover, Australian serial killer, hanging.
- Holly Glynn, a formerly unidentified young woman found in Dana Point, California, who had jumped off a cliff. Her body was not identified until 2015
- Joseph Goebbels, Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister, gunshot or cyanide poisoning
- Magda Goebbels, German wife of Joseph Goebbels, assisted suicide by gunshot or cyanide poisoning
- Gongsun Zan, Chinese general and warlord, setting himself and his family on fire
- David Goodall, English-born Australian botanist and ecologist, physician-assisted suicide
- Gordian I, Roman emperor, hanging
- Lucy Gordon, English actress and model, hanging
- Gōri Daisuke, Japanese voice actor, narrator and actor, cut his wrist
- Hermann Göring, German politician, military leader, major figure in Nazi Party, potassium cyanide
- Arshile Gorky, Armenian American painter; hanging
- Joachim Gottschalk, German stage and film actor, gas inhalation
- Gaius Gracchus, Roman politician, reformer and tribune, ordered a slave to kill him
- Frank Graham, American voice actor and radio announcer, carbon monoxide poisoning
- Phil Graham, American newspaper publisher, shotgun blast
- Wolfgang Grams, German RAF terrorist, gunshot
- Bob Grant, English actor, carbon monoxide poisoning
- Shauna Grant, American porn actress, gunshot
- Spalding Gray, American actor, playwright, screenwriter, performance artist, and monologuist, jumped off the Staten Island Ferry
- Mark Green, American record-setting minor league hockey star, hanging
- Walter Groß, German physician, politician, eugenicist and race theorist
- Carl Großmann, German serial killer, hanging
- Theodor Grotthuss, German chemist
- Paul Gruchow, American writer, drug overdose
H
- Jason Hairston, American football player
- Lillian Hall-Davis, English actress, carbon monoxide poisoning and cut throat
- Ryan Halligan, bullied American middle school student, hanging
- Pete Ham, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist for the band Badfinger, hanging
- Tony Halme, Finnish athlete, actor and politician, gunshot
- Bernardine Hamaekers, Belgian opera singer, cut throat with shattered drinking glass
- Rusty Hamer, American actor, gunshot
- David Hamilton, British photographer and filmmaker known for his nudes of pubescent girls, asphyxiation via plastic bag after several of his models accused him of rape
- Hampsicora, Sardo-Punic political leader, landowner and anti-Roman rebel leader
- Tony Hancock, English comedian, overdose by vodka and amphetamines
- Hannibal Barca, Carthaginian commander during the Second Punic War, poison
- Goo Hara, South Korean singer
- James Harden-Hickey, Franco-American author, newspaper editor, duellist, adventurer and self-proclaimed Prince of Trinidad, overdose of morphine
- Marlia Hardi, Indonesian actress, hanging
- Eric Harris, one of the two American high school seniors who committed the Columbine High School massacre, gunshot
- Brynn Hartman, wife of comedian and actor Phil Hartman, shot herself after murdering Hartman
- Elizabeth Hartman, American actress, leapt out of fifth floor window
- Neda Hassani, Iranian protester who committed suicide in front of French embassy in London, self-immolation
- Charles Ray Hatcher, American serial killer, hanging
- Donny Hathaway, American musician, jumped from the 15th floor window of his hotel room
- Phyllis Haver, American silent film actress, barbiturate overdose
- Sadegh Hedayat, Iranian writer, carbon monoxide poisoning
- Marvin Heemeyer, American welder who went on a rampage with a modified bulldozer, gunshot
- Sarah Hegazi, Egyptian LGBT activist
- Ernest Hemingway, American writer and journalist, gunshot to head
- Margaux Hemingway, American fashion model, actress; overdose of phenobarbital
- Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor, gunshot
- George Hennard, American mass murderer who perpetrated the Luby's shooting, gunshot
- Victor Heringer, Brazilian novelist and poet, and winner of the 2013 Prêmio Jabuti
- Aaron Hernandez, American football player and convicted murderer, hanging in prison cell, five days after his acquittal from a separate murder charge
- Rudolf Hess, German Nazi leader, hanging
- Paul Hester, Australian drummer for Split Enz and Crowded House, hanging
- hide, Japanese heavy metal singer, songwriter and record producer for the metal band X Japan, hanging
- Himilco, Carthaginian general, starving himself
- Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi leader, cyanide
- Ludwig Hirsch, Austrian singer, songwriter and actor, jumped from the second floor of a hospital window
- Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born Nazi Germany dictator, gunshot
- Abbie Hoffman, American political and social activist; phenobarbital overdose
- Libby Holman, American singer and actress, carbon monoxide poisoning
- Tyler Honeycutt, American basketball player, gunshot.
- Doug Hopkins, American songwriter and lead guitarist for the band Gin Blossoms, gunshot
- Brita Horn, Swedish countess and courtier, drowning
- Silvio Horta, American screenwriter and television producer, gunshot
- Robert E. Howard, American author probably best known for his character Conan the Barbarian, gunshot to the head
- Hu Bo, Chinese novelist and director
- Quentin Hubbard, son of L. Ron Hubbard, gas
- Nicholas Hughes, fisheries biologist, son of renowned poet Sylvia Plath, hanging
- Rodney Hulin, American prison inmate who had been raped, hanging
- Lester Hunt, United States Senator, gunshot
- Michael Hutchence, Australian singer and songwriter, hanging
- Phyllis Hyman, American singer-songwriter and actress, overdose of phenobarbital
I
- Imai Kanehira, Japanese general, jumping from his horse onto a sword he placed in his mouth
- Clara Immerwahr, German chemist, gunshot
- William Inge, American writer, carbon monoxide poisoning
- Arthur Crew Inman, American poet, editor and author of one of the longest diaries on record
- Hideki Irabu, Japanese professional baseball player, hanged
- Iras, servant and advisor of Cleopatra
- Isokelekel, semi-mythical conqueror of Pohnpei Island in the Carolines and father of the cultural system of modern Pohnpei, bled to death after severing penis
- Silius Italicus, Roman consul, orator, author and poet, starvation
- Juzo Itami, Japanese actor and film director, jumped from building
- Bruce Ivins, American microbiologist and suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks, overdose of paracetamol
J
- Charles R. Jackson, American writer, barbiturate overdose
- Marcel Jacob, Swedish bassist for the hard rock bands Talisman and Yngwie Malmsteen
- Irwin L. Jacobs, American businessman, CEO of Genmar Holdings, gunshot after murdering his wife
- M. Jaishankar, Indian serial killer and rapist, slitting his own throat
- Rahmah ibn Jabir Al Jalhami, Arab tribal leader, pirate captain and admiral, blew himself up with his ship and crew
- Jill Janus, American lead singer of the metal band Huntress
- Jang Ja-yeon, South Korean actress, hanging
- Rick Jason, American actor, gunshot
- Fatafat Jayalaxmi, Indian actress, hanging
- Richard Jeni, American standup comedian and actor, gunshot
- Ryan Jenkins, American contestant on the 2009 reality TV series Megan Wants a Millionaire, hanging
- Jeon Mi-seon, South Korean actress, hanging
- Jeong Da-bin, South Korean actress, hanging
- Ji Yan, Chinese official of the state of Eastern Wu, bureaucrat and reformer
- Prince Joachim of Prussia, son of Wilhelm II, German Emperor, gunshot
- Jo Min-ki, South Korean actor, hanging
- B. S. Johnson, English novelist, poet, literary critic, sports journalist, television producer and filmmaker, cut his wrists
- Dan Johnson, American politician, Republican member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, gunshot
- George Robert Johnston, Canadian burglar and fugitive known as the Ballarat Bandit, gunshot
- Greg Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player, gunshot
- J.J. Johnson, American Bebop trombonist, gunshot
- Daniel V. Jones, American maintenance worker, gunshot
- Jim Jones, American cult leader and founder of Peoples Temple, gunshot
- Malcolm Jones III, American comic book creator known for his work on Vertigo series The Sandman
- Ingrid Jonker, South African poet, drowning
- Tor Jonsson, Norwegian poet
- Luc Jouret, Belgian religious leader and co-founder of Order of the Solar Temple
- Pavle Jovanonic, Serbian-American Olympic bobsledder
- Judacilius, Piceni general and leader, swallowed poison and ordered to be set on fire
- Claude Jutra, Canadian film director, actor and screenwriter, drowning
K
- Kari Kairamo, Finnish CEO and chairman of telecommunications company Nokia, hanging
- Romas Kalanta, Lithuanian high school student, self-immolation
- Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor and musician, hanging
- Sarah Kane, English writer, hanging
- Chris Kanyon, American professional wrestler, overdose of anti-depressant pills
- Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet, gunshot
- Ricky Kasso, American murderer, hanging
- Bruno Kastner, German actor, hanging
- Kazuhiko Kato, Japanese musician, hanging
- Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer, gassing
- Kawatsu Kentarō, Japanese swimmer, self-immolation
- Andrew Kehoe, American mass murderer, detonated truck full of dynamite while inside
- Brian Keith, American actor, gunshot
- Mike Kelley, American artist, carbon monoxide poisoning
- Israel Keyes, American serial killer, strangulation
- Jiah Khan, British American actress of Indian descent, hanging
- Sahar Khodayari, Iranian activist who self-immolated in front of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Tehran
- Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress, known for her role as Lois Lane in Superman feature films, drug and alcohol overdose
- Daul Kim, South Korean model and blogger, hanged in her Paris apartment
- Kim Ji-hoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor, hanging
- Kim Jong-hyun, South Korean singer-songwriter, radio host, and member of boy band SHINee, carbon monoxide poisoning
- Yu-ri Kim, South Korean model, poison
- Hana Kimura, Japanese wrestler, hydrogen sulfide poisoning
- Allyn King, American actress, jumped from a fifth story window
- Syd King, English footballer and football manager, ingestion of corrosive liquid
- Uday Kiran, Indian actor, hanging
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German artist, gunshot
- Stan Kirsch, American actor, hanging
- R. B. Kitaj, American artist, suffocation
- John Kivela, American politician, hanging
- Dylan Klebold, one of the two American high school seniors who committed the Columbine High School massacre, gunshot
- Heinrich von Kleist, German author, poet and journalist, gunshot
- Billy Knight, UCLA basketball player, self-inflicted blunt force injuries
- Ilse Koch, Nazi war criminal, hanging
- Andrew Koenig, American actor, hanging
- Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-British author, novelist known for the antitotalitarian novel Darkness At Noon, barbiturates
- Hannelore Kohl, German wife of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, overdose of sleeping pills
- Lawrence Kohlberg, American developmental psychologist, drowning
- Takako Konishi, Japanese office worker known for an urban legend surrounding her death, froze to death
- Fumimaro Konoe, Japanese prime minister, poison
- Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model, aged 20, jumped from the ninth-floor balcony of her apartment in New York City
- Gé Korsten, South African artist, gunshot
- Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-born American writer, suffocation with plastic bag
- Oleksandr Kovalenko, Ukrainian football player and referee, jumped from his appartement
- Hans Krebs, German general and Chief of Staff of the OKH, gunshot
- Tim Kretschmer, German student and mass shooter, gunshot
- Norbert Kröcher, German 2 June Movement terrorist, gunshot
- Hsu Kun-yuan, Taiwanese politician, jumped off his home
- Kuyili, Indian freedom fighter. Applied ghee, set herself ablaze and jumped into the armoury of the British
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- L'Inconnue de la Seine, unidentified French woman pulled out of the Seine, known for the influence of her death mask on literature and art
- Deborah Laake, American columnist and writer, overdose of pills
- Titus Labienus, Roman lawyer, orator and historian
- Leonard Lake, American serial killer, ingesting cyanide capsules
- Paul Lambert, British television journalist, producer and communications director
- Karen Lancaume, French pornographic film actress, overdose of temazepam
- Carole Landis, American actress, overdose of Secobarbital pills
- James Henry Lane, American partisan, abolitionist, senator and Union general, gunshot to the head
- Hans Langsdorff, German naval officer and Kapitän zur See, gunshot
- Adam Lanza, perpetrator of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, gunshot to the head
- Don Lapre, American television pitchman noted for several products, cut throat with a razor blade
- Anna Laughlin, American actress, gas poisoning
- Florence Lawrence, Canadian-American silent film actress, poisoning
- Lee Eun-ju, South Korean actress, slit wrists and hanging
- Lee Hye-Ryeon, South Korean singer, known as U;Nee, hanging
- Jon Lee, Welsh drummer for the British rock band Feeder, hanging
- Valery Legasov, Soviet-Russian inorganic chemist, member of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster commission, hanging
- Friedrich Leibacher, Swiss mass murderer, gunshot
- Megan Leigh, American pornographic actress, gunshot wound to the head
- Lemp Family, Four members of the St. Louis Lemp Brewing family, gunshots
- Dave Lepard, Swedish singer and guitarist, hanging
- Marc Lépine, Canadian perpetrator of the École Polytechnique massacre, shot himself after killing 14 women
- Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician known as the leader of Samoobrona RP, hanging.
- Arnie Lerma, American former Scientologist and critic of Scientology, gunshot
- Eugene Lester, former Justice and Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, gunshot to the head
- Amy Levy, British writer inhaling charcoal gas
- Harry Lew, United States Marine, gunshot
- Ephraim Lewis, English singer, jumped off a fourth floor balcony
- Robert Ley, German Nazi politician and leader of the German Labour Front, hanging
- Chris Lighty, American music industry executive and manager, gunshot
- lil' Chris, English pop singer, hanging
- Lin Dai, Chinese actress, overdose of sleeping pills and methane gas poisoning
- Max Linder, French film and stage actor, double suicide with wife Hélène "Jean" Peters, veronal and morphine ingestion, cut wrists
- Vachel Lindsay, American poet, poison
- Diane Linkletter, American actress and daughter of Art Linkletter, jump from a sixth story window
- Mark Linkous, American musician, gunshot to the heart
- Carlo Lizzani, Italian film director, jumped from a balcony.
- Liu Rushi, Chinese courtesan, Ming loyalist, poet, painter and calligrapher, hanging
- Willie Llewelyn, Welsh cricketer, gunshot
- Philip Loeb, American actor, sleeping pill overdose
- Kevin James Loibl, assassin of Christina Grimmie, gunshot
- Bernard Loiseau, French chef, shotgun blast to the head
- Ellen Joyce Loo, Canadian-Hong Kong musician, singer, songwriter, and co-founder of the folk-pop rock group at 17, fall from her high-rise apartment building.
- Daniele Alves Lopes, teen whose jump from a building was broadcast on Brazilian national television
- Ricardo López, Uruguayan-born American stalker who attempted to kill Icelandic singer Björk by sending a letter bomb, gunshot
- Lu Zhaolin, Chinese poet, drowning in the Ying River
- Andreas Lubitz, co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525, plane crash
- Lucan, Roman poet, cut veins
- Ilona Lucassen, Dutch judoka
- Lucretia, Roman noblewoman, stabbed herself
- Roman Lyashenko, Russian NHL hockey player, hanging
- David Lytton, a formerly unidentified British man found on Saddleworth Moor, strychnine
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- Billy Mackenzie, Scottish vocalist for the band The Associates, drug overdose
- Naevius Sutorius Macro, Roman prefect of the Praetorian Guard
- Magnentius, Roman usurper
- Maurice Magnus, American memoirist
- Mago, Carthaginian admiral and general
- Bhaiyyu Maharaj, Indian spiritual guru, gunshot
- George W. Maher, American architect
- Joe Maini, American jazz alto saxophonist, Russian Roulette
- Philipp Mainländer, German poet and philosopher, hanged himself using a pile of copies of The Philosophy of Redemption as platform
- Donald R. Manes, American politician, stab wound to the chest
- Mădălina Manole, Romanian pop singer, pesticide poisoning
- Michael Mantenuto, American actor and ice hockey player, best known for his performance as Jack O'Callahan in the 2004 biopic Miracle, gunshot
- Richard Manuel, Canadian pianist and lead singer for The Band, hanging
- Titus Clodius Eprius Marcellus, Roman consul and senator, slit his throat with a razor
- Simone Mareuil, French actress, self-immolation
- Michael Marin, American businessman, cyanide pill
- Andrew Martinez, American nudism activist who became known on the University of California, Berkeley campus as the "Naked Guy", suffocation
- Thalia Massie, American victim of violent crime which resulted in the heavily publicized Massie Trial, barbiturate overdose
- David Edward Maust, American serial killer, hanging
- Maximian, Roman emperor
- Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian and Soviet poet, gunshot
- Jacques Mayol, French free diver and subject of the movie The Big Blue, hanging
- Allyson McConnell, Australian-Canadian woman who killed her two children, jumped off a bridge while in Australia
- Kid McCoy, American world champion boxer, overdose of sleeping pills
- Mindy McCready, American country music singer, gunshot
- Dan McGann, American baseball player, gunshot
- Evelyn McHale, American bookkeeper, subject of an iconic photograph showing her body after she jumped from an observation platform of the Empire State Building
- Tom McHale, American novelist
- Kenny McKinley, American football player, gunshot
- Robert McLane, American politician, mayor of Baltimore, gunshot
- John B. McLemore, American horologist and subject of the podcast S-Town, ingested potassium cyanide
- Maggie McNamara, American actress, drug overdose
- Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer and couturier, hanging
- Charles B. McVay III, American naval officer, captain of the USS Indianapolis, gunshot to the head
- Joe Meek, English record producer, gunshot
- Megabocchus, Roman cavalryman and friend of Publius Licinius Crassus
- Megan Meier, American high school student and victim of bullying, hanging
- Ulrike Meinhof, German RAF terrorist, hanging
- David Meirhofer, American serial killer, hanging
- Adolf Merckle, German entrepreneur and billionaire, train
- Lucius Cornelius Merula, Roman politician, consul and high priest, cut his veins
- Jill Messick, American film producer, method not disclosed
- Maningning Miclat, Filipino poet and painter, jumped from the seventh floor of a building
- Flávio Migliaccio, Brazilian actor, film director and screenwriter, hanging
- Walter M. Miller, Jr., American writer, gunshot
- Mary Millington, English model and softcore pornographic actress, overdose of clomipramine, paracetamol and alcohol
- Minamoto no Yorimasa, Japanese poet, general and politician, ritual seppuku disembowelment
- Mingsioi, Chinese general, explosion
- Miroslava, Czech-born Mexican actress, overdose of sleeping pills
- Dave Mirra, American BMX rider who later competed in rallycross racing, gunshot
- Yukio Mishima, Japanese author, poet, playwright, film director and activist, ritual seppuku disembowelment
- Mithridates VI, King of Pontus, ordered an officer to stab him
- Haruma Miura, Japanese actor, hanging
- Mkwawa, Hehe tribal leader, gunshot to the head
- Molon, Seleucid satrap of Media
- Antonin Moine, French sculptor, gunshot
- Mario Monicelli, Italian film director, jumped out of a hospital window
- Marilyn Monroe, American film actress, barbiturate overdose
- Haoui Montaug, American nightclub doorman and cabaret promoter, secobarbital overdose
- Henry de Montherlant, French writer, gunshot in the throat
- Donnie Moore, American baseball player, gunshot after shooting his wife
- Masakatsu Morita, Japanese political activist, stabbing himself as part of seppuku
- A. R. Morlan, American author
- Jason Moss, American attorney and author of The Last Victim, gunshot
- Miljan Mrdaković, Serbian footballer, gunshot
- Uwe Mundlos, German National Socialist Underground terrorist, gunshot
- Ona Munson, American actress, barbiturate overdose
- David Munrow English music historian, hanging
- Francine Mussey, French actress, ingestion of poison
N
- Chūichi Nagumo, Japanese admiral, gunshot
- Mirosław Nahacz, Polish novelist and screenwriter, hanging
- Nakano Seigō, Japanese fascist political leader and journalist, disembowelment
- Vladimir Nalivkin, Russian scientist, politician, diplomat, gunshot
- Scott Nearing, American political activist and conservationist, by self-starvation
- Nekojiru, Japanese manga artist, hanging
- Nero, Roman emperor, ordered his secretary to kill him
- Marcus Cocceius Nerva, Roman jurist, official and confidant of Tiberius, starvation
- Klara Dan von Neumann, Hungarian-American computer programmer, drowning
- Terry Newton, English rugby league player, hanging
- Tom Nicon, French model, jumped out of apartment window
- Frank Nitti, American gangster in charge of Al Capone's strong-arm and "muscle" operations, and later the front-man for Capone's crime syndicate, gunshot to the head
- Karl Nobiling, German academic, who made an assassination attempt on the German emperor Wilhelm I, gunshot to the head
- Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish guitarist for the black metal band Dissection, gunshot
- Bill Nojay, American politician and member of the New York State Assembly, gunshot
- Mita Noor, Bangladeshi actress, hanging
- Franz Nopcsa, Hungarian aristocrat, adventurer, scholar, geologist, paleontologist and albanologist, gunshot after killing companion Bajazid Doda
- Christine Norman,, American stage actress, jump from building
- Hisashi Nozawa, Japanese writer, hanging
O
- John O'Brien, American novelist, best known for his novel, Leaving Las Vegas, gunshot to the head
- Sean O'Haire, American former WWE wrestler and MMA fighter, hanging
- Phil Ochs, American singer-songwriter, hanging
- Oda Nobunaga, Japanese daimyō and general, ritual seppuku disembowelment
- Ogawa Kiyoshi, Japanese kamikaze pilot
- Aleksandr Dmitrievich Ogorodnik, Soviet diplomat and spy for the CIA, cyanide capsule
- Per "Dead" Ohlin, Swedish vocalist for the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, gunshot to the head
- Yukiko Okada, Japanese singer, jumped out of window
- Lembit Oll, Estonian chess Grandmaster, jumped out of window
- Ambrose Olsen, American model, hanging
- Johan Ooms, Dutch actor
- Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Soviet Bolshevik leader, member of the CPSU Politburo, the head of the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy and close associate of Joseph Stalin, gunshot
- Otho, Roman Emperor, stabbed himself
- Othryades, Spartan hoplite, sole survivor of the Battle of the 300 Champions
- Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese daimyō and general, ritual seppuku disembowelment
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- Stephen Paddock, American perpetrator of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, gunshot
- Caecina Paetus, Roman alleged conspirator against Emperor Claudius, stabbed himself
- Tommy Page, American singer songwriter
- Ali-Reza Pahlavi, son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, last Shah of Iran, gunshot
- Leila Pahlavi, daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, last Shah of Iran, overdose of sleeping pills
- Jan Palach, Czech student, self-immolation
- Mico Palanca Filipino actor, jump from building
- Brodie Panlock, Australian bullying victim, jumped from the top of a multilevel carpark in Hawthorn
- Pantites, Spartan warrior and one of the 300 Spartans sent to the Battle of Thermopylae, hanging
- Park Yong-ha, South Korean actor and singer, hanging
- Park Won-soon, South Korean activist, lawyer and Mayor of Seoul
- Violeta Parra, Chilean composer, songwriter, folklorist, ethno-musicologist and visual artist, gunshot
- Rehtaeh Parsons, Canadian high school student who was bullied at school and online after images of her alleged gang rape were distributed online by its perpetrators, hanging
- Christine Pascal, French actress, writer and director, jumped out of window
- Dušan Pašek, Slovak ice hockey player, gunshot
- Cesare Pavese, Italian author, overdose of barbiturates
- Pina Pellicer, Mexican actress, overdose of sleeping pills
- Peregrinus Proteus, Greek early Christian convert and later Cynic philosopher from Mysia, immolated himself on a funeral pyre during the Olympic Games
- Jeret "Speedy" Peterson, American skier, Olympic medalist, gunshot
- Petronius, Roman senator, consul, courtier and novelist, opening his veins
- Phasael, prince from the Herodian Dynasty of Judea and governor of Jerusalem, hit his head against a great stone
- Phila, Macedonian noblewoman, daughter and adviser of Antipater, poison
- Philistus, Greek historian and naval commander
- Justin Pierce, English-born American actor and skateboarder known for his role in the 1995 drama Kids, hanging
- Rosamond Pinchot, American actress and socialite, carbon monoxide poisoning
- H. Beam Piper, American science fiction author, gunshot
- Gaius Calpurnius Piso, Roman senator, orator, advocate and leading member of the Pisonian conspiracy, slit his wrists
- Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, Roman statesman and consul, cut his throat
- Alejandra Pizarnik, Argentine poet, secobarbital overdose
- Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, children's author, gassing herself in her kitchen
- Dana Plato, American child actress, notable for the TV series Diff'rent Strokes, overdose of carisoprodol and hydrocodone Plato's son, Tyler Lambert, killed himself on May 6, 2010, almost 11 years to the day after her death, via gunshot wound to the head
- Edward Platt, American actor, notable for his role on the TV series Get Smart
- E. O. Plauen, German cartoonist, hanging with a towel
- Michael Player, American serial killer, gunshot
- Daniel Pollock, Australian actor, walked in front of moving train
- Porcia, Roman noblewoman, wife of Marcus Junius Brutus, swallowing burning coal or carbon monoxide poisoning.
- C.W. Post, American inventor, and pioneer in the manufacturing of prepared foods, in particular breakfast cereal, gunshot
- Poenius Postumus, Roman praefectus castrorum of the Legion II Augusta, fell upon his sword
- Randy Potter, American former missing person, gunshot
- Jan Potocki, Polish nobleman, gunshot
- James Edward Pough, American spree killer, gunshot
- Josh Powell, American main suspect in the disappearance of his wife, Susan, blew up his house with him and his children inside
- Slobodan Praljak, Bosnian Croat director, general and war criminal, potassium cyanide
- George R. Price, American scientist, cutting an artery
- Phoebe Prince, American high school student who was bullied at school and online, hanging
- Freddie Prinze, American stand-up comedian and actor, gunshot to the head
- Ptolemy, Macedonian general, hemlock poisoning
- Ptolemy of Cyprus, King of Cyprus and member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, poison
- Kushal Punjabi, Indian actor, hanging
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- Qiao Renliang, Chinese singer and actor, slit wrist
- Qu Yuan, Chinese poet and minister, drowning
- Henry Quastler, Austrian physician and radiologist, overdosed on pills
- Antero de Quental, Portuguese writer and poet, gunshot.
- Quintillus, Roman emperor, opening his veins
- Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer, drank a glass of cyanide
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- Władysław Raginis, Polish military commander, throwing himself on a grenade
- Otto Rahn, German medievalist, Ariosophist and Obersturmführer of the Schutzstaffel, freezing
- Jason Raize, American actor, singer and former Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme, hanging
- Sushant Singh Rajput, Indian actor, hanging
- František Rajtoral, Czech soccer player, hanging
- Anil Ramdas, Dutch writer and journalist, method undisclosed
- Kodela Siva Prasada Rao, Indian politician, hanging
- Nicola Ann Raphael, Scottish bullied student, overdose of dextropropoxyphene
- David Rappaport, English actor, known for the film Time Bandits, gunshot
- Jan-Carl Raspe, German RAF terrorist, gunshot
- Terry Ratzmann, American mass murderer, gunshot
- Geli Raubal, niece of Adolf Hitler, gunshot
- Margaret Mary Ray, American stalker, hit by a train
- Roy Raymond, American founder of Victoria's Secret, jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge
- Albert Razin, Russian Udmurt language rights activist and sociologist, self-immolation
- Reckful, Israeli-American Twitch streamer and Esports player
- Liam Rector, American poet and educator, gunshot
- Wilhelm Rediess, Nazi SS and Police Leader in Norway, gunshot
- Terry Reeves, district attorney for Winn Parish, Louisiana, gunshot
- Ernst Reicher, German actor, screenwriter, film producer and film director, hanging
- David Reimer, Canadian man who after a botched circumcision in infancy, was unsuccessfully reassigned as a girl until he learned the truth at age 13, gunshot
- Angelo Reyes, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, gunshot
- Thomas C. Reynolds, Confederate governor of Missouri, jumping from the third floor into the freight elevator shaft of the Custom House in St. Louis.
- John Rheinecker American Major League Baseball pitcher, hanging
- Rikyū, Japanese tea master and confidant of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, ritual seppuku disembowelment
- Artūras Rimkevičius, Lithuanian footballer, gunshot
- Al Rio, Brazilian comics artist, and animation director, hanging
- Adele Ritchie, American actress, gunshot to the throat, after murdering a rival woman over the affections with whom they were both involved
- Dale Roberts, English football, hanging
- Rachel Roberts, Welsh actress, barbiturate and alcohol overdose and consumption of lye or alkali
- Charles Rocket, American actor, cut throat
- Jamey Rodemeyer, American bullied blogger and high school student, hanging
- Elliot Rodger, American spree killer who perpetrated the 2014 Isla Vista killings, gunshot to the head
- Robert Neal Rodriguez, American serial killer, cyanide poisoning
- Roh Moo-hyun, ninth President of the Republic of Korea, jump from a cliff
- Erwin Rommel, German general and military theorist, cyanide poisoning
- Jodon F. Romero, American criminal whose suicide was broadcast on national television following a car chase in Arizona, gunshot
- Edgar Rosenberg, American film and television producer and husband of Joan Rivers, diazepam overdose
- Mark Rothko, American abstract expressionist painter, slit his arms
- Conrad Roy, American marine salvage captain, carbon monoxide poisoning
- Ruan Lingyu, Chinese actress, barbiturate overdose
- Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, son of Emperor Franz Joseph I, gunshot during the Mayerling incident
- Lori Erica Ruff, American formerly unidentified identity thief, gunshot
- Edmund Ruffin, American author, agriculturalist, agronomist and secessionist, gunshot to the head
- Quintus Corellius Rufus, Roman senator, consul, confidant and teacher of Pliny the Younger, refusing food and treatment for his illnesses
- Michael Ruppert, American political activist, gunshot
- Richard Russell, American airport ground operator and airplane thief, intentionally crashing the stolen airplane
- Stevie Ryan, American actress and comedian, hanging
- Rick Rypien, Canadian professional ice hockey player
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- El Hedi ben Salem, Moroccan actor, hanging
- Mark Salling, American actor, hanging
- Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress
- Alexander Samsonov, Russian cavalry officer and general, gunshot
- George Sanders, Russian-born English actor, singer, composer and author, overdose
- Sanmao, Taiwanese writer and translator, hanged with silk stockings
- Mónica Santa María, Peruvian model and TV presenter, gunshot
- Nick Santino, American soap opera actor, overdosed on pills
- Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviation pioneer, hanging.
- Vytautas Šapranauskas, Lithuanian actor, hanging
- Carl Sargeant, Welsh politician and former member of the Welsh Government, hanging
- Sam Sarpong, British-born American model and actor, jump from a bridge
- Satanta, Kiowa war chief, jumping out a window
- Drake Sather, American screenwriter, gunshot
- Jiro Sato, Japanese tennis player, drowning
- Saul, Jewish king, pierced himself with his sword
- Savannah, American adult film actress, gunshot to the head
- Marcus Ostorius Scapula, Roman senator, consul and military tribune, severed his veins and stabbed himself with help from a slave
- Mamercus Aemilius Scaurus, Roman rhetorician, poet, senator and consul
- Thomas Schäfer, German politician, jumped in front of a train
- Aleko Schinas, Greek assassin of King George I of Greece, jumped out of a Thessaloniki police station window
- Sybille Schmitz, German actress, overdose of sleeping pills
- Robert Schommer, American astronomer
- Conrad Schumann, German Democratic Republic soldier who famously defected to West Germany during the construction of the Berlin Wall, hanging
- Tom Schweich, American politician, gunshot
- Metellus Scipio, Roman consul and military commander, stabbing himself
- L'Wren Scott, American fashion designer, hanging
- Tony Scott, English film director of films such as Top Gun, jumped off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles
- Junior Seau, American football All-Pro player, gunshot to the chest
- Sonia Sekula, Swiss painter, hanging
- Seneca the Younger, Roman philosopher, cut his veins
- Arma Senkrah, American violinist, gunshot
- Rezső Seress, Hungarian pianist and composer, choked himself with a wire
- Marcus Sedatius Severianus, Roman senator, consul and general, starved himself
- Sextia, Roman wife of Mamercus Aemilius Scaurus
- Anne Sexton, American poet, carbon monoxide poisoning
- Frances Ford Seymour Canadian-American socialite, cut her throat
- Oksana Shachko, Ukrainian artist and activist, cofounder of FEMEN, hanging
- Shahrzad, Iranian dramatist and playwright
- Del Shannon, American musician, gunshot
- H. James Shea Jr., American politician, gunshot
- Alice Bradley Sheldon , American writer, gunshot
- Harold Shipman, English family doctor and serial killer, hanging
- Shoba, Indian actress, hanging
- Manuel Fernández Silvestre, Spanish general, gunshot
- Tiffany Simelane, Swazi beauty queen, ingestion of weevil tablet
- Per Sivle, Norwegian poet and novelist, gunshot
- Mykola Skrypnyk, Ukrainian Bolshevik leader, gunshot
- Austra Skujiņa Latvian poet, jump from a bridge.
- Walter Slezak, Austrian actor, gunshot
- Everett Sloane, American actor, drug overdose
- Smiley Culture, English reggae singer and DJ, stabbing
- James Vinton Smith, Australian politician, gunshot
- Someshvara I, King of Western Chalukya, drowning in the Tungabhadra river
- David Sonboly, Iranian-German perpetrator of the 2016 Munich shooting, gunshot
- Peu Sousa, Brazilian guitarist for Nove Mil Anjos and Pitty, hanging
- Barea Soranus, Roman consul, senator and governor of Asia
- Kate Spade, American fashion designer, hanging
- Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and manager, hanging
- Mark Speight, English television presenter, hanging
- Sporus, Roman boy whom the emperor Nero had castrated and married, stabbed his throat with a dagger
- Andrew Joseph Stack III, American embedded software consultant, plane crash
- Nicolas de Staël, French painter, leapt from his eleventh story studio terrace
- Frank Stanford, American poet, gunshot
- Scott Stearney, United States Navy admiral, gunshot
- Costică Ștefănescu, Romanian footballer and manager, jumping from the fifth floor of the Military Hospital in Bucharest.
- Jean Stein, American author, jump from a New York City high rise
- Steve Stephens, American vocational specialist and murder suspect, gunshot after police pursuit
- Jon Paul Steuer, American actor and musician, known as the first actor to play the Star Trek character Alexander Rozhenko, gunshot
- Brody Stevens, American stand-up comedian and actor, hanging
- Inger Stevens, Swedish-American actress, barbiturate overdose
- John Stevens, English cricketer, jumped in front of moving train
- Lyle Stevik, formerly unidentified man using the alias name taken from a book by Joyce Carol Oates, hanging
- Gary Stewart, American country music singer, gunshot to the neck
- Adalbert Stifter, Austrian writer, cut neck with a razor
- Pringle Stokes, British naval officer and captain of during her first voyage, gunshot
- Alfonsina Storni, Argentine poet, drowning
- David Stove, Australian philosopher, hanging
- Otto Strandman, Estonian politician, gunshot
- Mel Street, American country singer, gunshot
- Ludwig Stumpfegger, German doctor and Adolf Hitler's personal surgeon, cyanide poisoning
- Sue Harukata, daimyo of Ouchi clan, disembowelment
- Sungdare Sherpa, Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer
- Sulli, South Korean actress, singer, and model, hanging
- Roy Sullivan, American park ranger known for being struck by lightning seven times, gunshot
- David Edward Sutch, English musician also known as Screaming Lord Sutch, hanging
- Adam Svoboda, Czech ice hockey goaltender and coach, hanging
- Aaron Swartz, American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and activist, hanging
- Sawyer Sweeten, American former child actor, gunshot
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- Sinedu Tadesse, Ethiopian murderer, hanging
- Taira no Tokiko, Japanese Buddhist nun, wife of the chief of the Taira, grandmother of Emperor Antoku, drowning
- Ivo-Valentino Tomaš, Croatian football player
- Taira no Tomomori, Japanese general, admiral and heir apparent of the Taira, drowning
- Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician
- Jacque Alexander Tardy, Scottish-French pirate, slit his own throat
- Jean Tatlock, American physician, psychiatrist, communist activist, mistress of Robert Oppenheimer, drowning in a bathtub
- Victor Tausk, Austrian psychoanalyst and neurologist, gunshot and hanging
- Pál Teleki, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary, gunshot
- Lou Tellegen, Dutch actor, director and screenwriter, stabbed himself in the chest with a pair of scissors
- Josef Terboven, Nazi Reichskommissar for Norway, detonating 50 kg of dynamite
- Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, gunshot
- Tezozomoctli, Emperor of Cuauhtitlan, poison
- Mike Thalassitis, English-Cypriot footballer and television personality, hanging
- Jack Thayer, Titanic survivor, cut his wrists
- Samuel J. F. Thayer, American architect, gunshot
- Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk, self-immolation
- Hugo Thimig, Austrian actor, overdose of Barbital
- Nicky Thomas, Jamaican reggae singer
- Hunter S. Thompson, gonzo journalist, author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, gunshot
- Terry Thompson, zookeeper and owner of Muskingum County Animal Farm, gunshot
- Ofonius Tigellinus, Roman prefect of the Praetorian Guard, cut his throat with a razor
- Carlos Tobalina, Peruvian-born pornographic filmmaker and actor, gunshot
- Li Tobler, Swiss actress, model and life partner of artist H. R. Giger, gunshot
- Amanda Todd, Canadian high school student who was bullied at school and online, hanging
- Ernst Toller, German playwright, socialist revolutionary and politician, hanging
- Radka Toneff, Norwegian jazz singer, overdose of sleeping pills
- John Kennedy Toole, American novelist known for A Confederacy of Dunces, carbon monoxide poisoning
- Dudu Topaz, Israeli TV personality and entertainer, hanging while incarcerated in jail
- Maury Travis, American serial killer, hanging
- Silvanus Trevail, English architect, gunshot
- Dick Trickle, American NASCAR driver, gunshot
- Sunil Tripathi, American student and former suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing
- Verne Troyer, American actor known for his role as Mini-Me in the Austin Powers films, alcohol intoxication
- Tron, German hacker, hanging
- Butch Trucks, American drummer for the Allman Brothers Band, gunshot
- Yordan Tsitsonkov, Macedonian Bulgarian assassin, hanged himself
- Tsuburaya Kōkichi, Japanese marathoner, cut his wrists
- Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet, hanging
- Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist, satirist and writer, overdose of sleeping pills
- Alan Turing, English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist, eating an apple laced with cyanide
- Jim Tyrer, American football player, gunshot
U
- Ernst Udet, German pilot and air force general, gunshot to the head
- Miyu Uehara, Japanese model, hanging
- Ugaki Matome, Japanese admiral, diarist and the last kamikaze pilot, unsuccessfully attempted a kamikaze attack after Japan already surrendered, likely crashing into the sea
- Jack Unterweger, Austrian serial killer, hanging
- Andrew Urdiales, American serial killer
- Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese general, began to commit ritual seppuku disembowelment just before one of his adjutants decapitated him with a saber
V
- Edwin Valero, Venezuelan boxer, hanging
- Kelly Jean Van Dyke, American adult film actress, hanging
- Vincent van Gogh, Dutch Post-Impressionist painter, gunshot
- George Washington Vanderbilt III, American explorer and member of the Vanderbilt family, jumped from the 10th floor of the Mark Hopkins Hotel
- Johannes Vares, Estonian poet, doctor and politician, gunshot
- Getúlio Vargas, two-time President of Brazil, gunshot
- Publius Quinctilius Varus, Roman general, fell upon his sword
- Minnie Vautrin, American missionary in China, stove gas inhalation
- Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress, overdose of secobarbital
- Dominique Venner, French author, gunshot to the head in the Notre Dame de Paris
- Marcus Julius Vestinus Atticus, Roman senator and consul, opening his veins
- Titus Vettius, Roman equestrian and leader of a slave revolt
- Lucius Antistius Vetus, Roman senator, consul and governor of Germania Superior
- Juhan Viiding, Estonian poet and actor, cut his veins
- Hervé Villechaize, French actor known for his work on the television series Fantasy Island, gunshot
- Lucius Annius Vinicianus, Roman senator, plotter of the assassination of Caligula, rebel against Claudius
- Frank Vitkovic, Australian mass murderer who perpetrated the Queen Street massacre, jumped from the window of a Queen Street, Melbourne building after going on a spree killing there
- Ned Vizzini, American author of young adult fiction, such as the novel, It's Kind of a Funny Story, leapt from a building
- Chris Von Erich, professional wrestler, gunshot to the head
- Kerry Von Erich, professional wrestler, gunshot to the chest
- Mike Von Erich, professional wrestler, overdose of Placidyl and alcohol
- Bulelani Vukwana, South African spree killer, gunshot
W
- Bradford Thomas Wagner, American real estate agent, gay pornographic film actor and suspected serial rapist, hanging himself with a bed sheet
- Gustav Wagner, Austrian SS-Oberscharführer and deputy commander of Sobibor extermination camp, knife wound
- David Wallace, father of United States First Lady Bess Truman, gunshot to the head
- David Foster Wallace, American author, hanging
- Stephen Ward, English osteopathic physician and one of the central figures in the 1963 Profumo affair, overdose of sleeping pills
- John William Warde, American bank clerk known for spending 14 hours on a ledge before jumping from the 17th floor of Manahattan's Gotham Hotel
- Ed Warren, American actor, politician and former mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, carbon monoxing poisoning
- Nick Wasicsko, former Mayor of Yonkers, New York, gunshot to the head
- Andre Waters, former NFL safety, gunshot to the head
- Gary Webb, American investigative reporter, gunshot to the head
- Jaromir Weinberger, Czech/American composer, lethal overdose of sedative
- Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher, gunshot
- Jeff Weise, American high school student who perpetrated the Red Lake shootings, gunshot
- Dorrit Weixler, German film actress, hanging
- Bob Welch, American rock singer-songwriter and former member of Fleetwood Mac, gunshot to the chest
- Dawn-Marie Wesley, Canadian bullied high school student, hanging
- Fred West, English serial killer, hanging
- Assia Wevill, German born lover of English poet Ted Hughes, murder-suicide of her daughter with Hughes, gas
- James Whale, English director, drowning
- Dan White, San Francisco politician who assassinated Mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, carbon monoxide poisoning
- Kurt-Werner Wichmann, German suspected serial killer and main suspect in the Göhrde murders, hanging
- Robin Williams, American comedian and actor, hanging
- Rozz Williams, American musician, lead vocalist for Christian Death, hanging
- Wendy O. Williams, American singer-songwriter for the Plasmatics, gunshot
- Tom Wills, Australian cricketer and pioneer of Australian rules football, stabbed himself in the heart with a pair of scissors
- Jarrid Wilson, American pastor and author
- Christopher Wilmarth, American sculptor, hanging
- Sheree Winton, English actress, barbiturate overdose
- Jack Wishna, president and CEO of CPAmerica, carbon monoxide poisoning
- Jiverly Antares Wong, naturalized American citizen from Vietnam who perpetrated the Binghamton shootings, gunshot
- Tobi Wong, Canadian born designer, and conceptual artist, overdosed on pills
- Bum-kon Woo, South Korean policeman and spree killer
- Seung-yeon Woo, South Korean actress and model, hanging
- Wally Wood, American comic book writer and artist, gunshot
- Francesca Woodman, American photographer, jumped from a window
- Virginia Woolf, English author, essayist, and publisher, drowning
- Stephen Wooldridge, Australian cyclist
- Tera Wray, American pornographic actress
- Marcin Wrona, Polish film director, hanging
- Wu Zixu, Chinese general and politician of the Wu, stabbed himself with a sword
Y
- Yakushiji Motoichi, Japanese samurai and deputy governor, ritual seppuku disembowelment
- Yamaguchi Otoya, Japanese nationalist who assassinated Asanuma Inejirō, hanging
- Yang Yang, Chinese tenor, jump from the 26th floor of his apartment building
- Yasmine, Belgian singer, hanging
- Seizō Yasunori, Japanese kamikaze pilot, flew his plane into the USS Bunker Hill
- Kelly Yeomans, English bullied high school student, dextropropoxyphene overdose
- Sergei Yesenin, Russian and Soviet poet, hanging
- Francis Parker Yockey, American neo-Fascist political philosopher and polemicist also known under his pen name Ulick Varange, cyanide poisoning
- Yoon Ki-won, South Korean football goalkeeper, charcoal-burning suicide
- Atsumi Yoshikubo, Japanese psychiatrist, intentionally getting lost in the Canadian Taiga
- Gūwalgiya Youlan, Manchu noblewoman, primary consort of Zaifeng, Prince Chun and mother of China's last emperor Puyi, opium overdose
- Faron Young, American country music singer, gunshot
- Gig Young, American actor, gunshot after fatally shooting his wife
- Lee Thompson Young, American actor, gunshot
- Fakhra Younus, Pakistani dancer, jumped from building
Z
- Bill Zeller, American computer programmer and developer of myTunes, oxygen deprivation due to hanging led to brain damage, taken off life support
- Hai Zi, Chinese poet, lying down on railroad tracks
- Marion Zioncheck, American congressman from Washington's 1st district, jumped from his office window
- Joost Zwagerman, Dutch writer, poet, and essayist
- Stefan Zweig, Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer, barbiturate overdose
Possible suicides
- Clodius Albinus, Roman emperor, killed himself after a defeat in battle
- Salvador Allende, president of Chile, gunshot
- Gameel Al-Batouti 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
- Scotty Beckett, American actor, an overdose of barbiturates or alcohol
- Wade Belak, Canadian ice hockey player. Belak was found dead in his home in Toronto, and the police investigated his death as a suicide. Later, hockey analyst and former player P.J. Stock alleged that Belak's death was not a suicide, but accidental. Although Stock later stepped back from his comments, members of Belak's family also believe his death was accidental.
- Le Corbusier, one of the pioneers of modern architecture. Found dead in the Mediterranean Sea following a swim.
- Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and convicted sex offender, hanging Whether Epstein's death was an actual suicide or a homicide was a point of controversy.
- James Forrestal, First U.S. Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Navy, fell from 16th floor of building
- Rick Genest, performance artist, actor and model, fall from a balcony.
- Kurt Gödel, Austrian-American logician, mathematician and philosopher, died of starvation as a result of refusing to eat anything not prepared by his wife, out of fear of being poisoned. It is unclear whether this is a suicide.
- Hannibal, Carthaginian military commander and tactician, possibly poison
- Sung-jae Kim, South Korean singer and former member of Deux, stabbed in the arm 28 times with a syringe containing animal anisthetic. It is unknown if it was a murder or suicide
- David Koresh, American leader of the Branch Davidians, gunshot, It is unknown if he was murdered by one of the Branch Davidians or committed suicide
- Jules Lequier, French philosopher, probably swam voluntarily out into the ocean
- Primo Levi, Italian chemist, writer and Holocaust survivor, jumped from his third-story apartment
- Meriwether Lewis, U.S. explorer and partner of William Clark, gunshot; there is some debate as to whether his death was a suicide
- Lucretius, Roman poet and Epicurean philosopher. The only source of his suicide is Jerome who is considered by scholars as unreliable and hostile towards Lucretius
- Kizito Mihigo, Rwandan gospel singer, genocide survivor and peace activist, hanging. Human rights organisations and Rwandan activists challenged this.
- Orgetorix, Gallic member of the ruling class of the Helvetii and conspirator. It is uncertain if he committed suicide or was executed
- Darrin Patrick, American author and pastor, gunshot
- Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian, gunshot while under the influence of methaqualone and alcohol. Initially ruled suicide but later determined accidental
- Jean Seberg, American actress, barbiturate overdose, probably foul play
- Elliott Smith, American singer, songwriter and musician, stab wounds to chest. While Smith's death was originally reported as a suicide, the official autopsy report released in December 2003 left open the question of homicide
- Socrates, Classical Greek Athenian philosopher, credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, drank poison, probably hemlock Because Socrates was forced to poison himself to death as his sentence following his conviction for impiety and corrupting the minds of the youth of Athens, the question of whether this constitutes a genuine suicide is a subject of debate
- Luigi Tenco, Italian singer and songwriter, gunshot to the head
- Sid Vicious, English musician and member of the Sex Pistols, heroin overdose