List of suicides
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
- 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
- George Washington Adams, American politician, lawyer, and eldest son of John Quincy Adams, drowning in Long Island Sound
- Marian Hooper Adams, American socialite and photographer, potassium cyanide
- Phillip Adams, American football player, gunshot
- Robert Adams Jr., Congressman from Pennsylvania, gunshot
- Stanley Adams, American actor and screenwriter, gunshot wound
- Stephanie Adams, American former glamour model, known as the November 1992 Playboy Playmate, jumped from a 25th floor window after having murdered her 7-year-old son Vincent by pushing him out first
- Francis William Lauderdale Adams, English writer and poet, shot in head
- Stuart Adamson, Scottish guitarist and singer for Big Country and Skids, 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 Emirates 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
- Henry Alexander, American painter, swallowing oxalic acid
- Ross Alexander, American actor, gunshot to the head
- Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya, Russian-Australian ice skater, jumped from window of her apartment
- Ghazaleh Alizadeh, Iranian poet and writer, hanging
- Gia Allemand, American actress and model, hanging
- Salvador Allende, 28th president of Chile, gunshot
- Nadezhda Alliluyeva, wife of Joseph Stalin, gunshot
- Jeff Alm, American football player, gunshot
- Jason Altom, American PhD 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 ritual seppuku disembowelment
- Adna Anderson, General, US Military Railroads during the American Civil War, railroad civil engineer/manager, gunshot
- Forrest H. Anderson, Governor of Montana, gunshot
- Mary A. Anderson, unidentified woman using an alias, cyanide poisoning
- Robert Leroy Anderson, American murderer and self-proclaimed serial killer, hanging
- Keith Andes, American actor, asphyxiation
- Andragathius, Roman general and Magister equitum who assassinated emperor Gratian, drowned in the sea
- Andromachus, Eleian cavalry general
- Odysseas Angelis, Greek general and head of the Hellenic Armed Forces during the Greek junta, hanging
- 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
- Kei Aoyama, Japanese manga artist, hanging
- 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
- Robert Archibald, Scottish professional basketball player, gunshot
- 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 Howard 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
- Sei Ashina, Japanese actress
- Süleyman Askerî, Ottoman Army officier, gunshot
- Tore Asplund, Swedish-born American painter, hanging
- Ottilie Assing, German writer, journalist, feminist and abolitionist, swallowing potassium cyanide
- 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
- Titus Pomponius Atticus, Roman banker, businessman, editor, author and friend of Cicero, starving himself
- Ruben Oskar Auervaara, Finnish con artist, hanging
- Pekka-Eric Auvinen, Finnish Jokela High School shooter, gunshot to head
- Avicii, Swedish DJ and music producer, exsanguination from cuts
- 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 Red Army Faction terrorist, official enquiries found that he died by prisoner suicide, by shooting himself in the back of the neck with his left hand, he was right-handed.
- Yevgeni Babich, Soviet ice hockey player, hanging
- Pamela Bach, American actress, 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
- Jeff Baena, American screenwriter and film director, hanging
- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Iraqi-born Islamic terrorist and leader of the Islamic State, detonation of a suicide vest during a U.S. military raid on his family home.
- 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 "Steve" Banerjee, Indian American entrepreneur, co-founder of Chippendales and convicted criminal, hanging
- Bantcho Bantchevsky, Bulgarian American singer, jump from New York Metropolitan Opera balcony
- Moshe Barazani, blew himself up with an IED in Jerusalem in 1947.
- Herculine Barbin, French intersex memoirist, gas.
- Erich Bärenfänger, German general
- R. H. Barlow, American writer and anthropologist, barbiturate overdose
- Aziza Barnes, American poet, screenwriter, and playwright
- Boris Barnet, Russian film director, hanging
- Uwe Barschel, German politician, ingested five sleeping potions
- 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 executive, gunshot
- Sarah Becker, American reality television personality, known for her appearances on The Real World: Miami
- Amelie "Melli" Beese, German pioneer aviator, gunshot
- Ari Behn, Norwegian author and painter
- Jovan Belcher, American football player, gunshot, murder-suicide
- Peter Bellamy, English folk musician and member of the band The Young Tradition
- 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
- Marty Bergen, American baseball player, cut throat with a razor after killing his family with an ax
- David Berman, American musician and poet, hanging
- John Berryman, American poet, jumped off the Washington Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-born US 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
- Maggy Biskupski, French police officer and president of Movement of Angry Police Officers, gunshot
- 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
- Erica Blasberg, American golfer, asphyxia caused prescription overdose
- Miguel Blesa, Spanish banker and businessman, involved in various corruption scandals, gunshot to chest
- Vasily Blokhin, Soviet general and NKVD executioner
- Adele Blood, American actress, gunshot
- Clara Bloodgood, American Broadway actress, gunshot
- Gaius Blossius, Roman philosopher and adviser to Tiberius Gracchus and Eumenes III
- Isabella Blow, English magazine editor, and muse to fashion designer Alexander McQueen, poisoning
- Joe Bodolai, American film and television producer and writer, 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
- Stephen "tWitch" Boss, American hip hop dancer and DJ, 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
- John Bowers, American actor, drowning
- Tommy Boyce, American songwriter, gunshot
- Karin Boye, Swedish writer
- Charles Boyer, French actor, secobarbital overdose
- Thomas Lynn Bradford, American spiritualist lecturer and psychic detective, gas inhalation
- Annalise Braakensiek, Australian model
- 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
- John Brenkus, American producer, director and television personality
- Brennus, Gallic tribal leader and general, stabbed himself
- Gaetano Bresci, Italian anarchist who assassinated King Umberto I of Italy, hanging
- James E. Brewton, American painter and printmaker, gunshot
- Lilya Brik, Russian author and socialite, overdose of sleeping pills
- 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
- John Munro Bruce, Australian businessman, father of Prime Minister Stanley Bruce
- Dieter Brummer, Australian actor
- Jürgen Brümmer, German Olympic gymnast, jumped from the Körsch Viaduct after suffocating his son
- Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, Roman politician and conspirator to assassinate Julius Caesar, ran into his sword
- Roy Buchanan, American guitarist and blues musician, hanging
- 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 Army Personnel Office and Chief Adjutant to Adolf Hitler, gunshot
- Anne Burrell, American chef and television personality, drug overdose
- 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
- Aaron Bushnell, American member of the United States Air Force, self-immolation
- Zvonko Bušić, Croatian hijacker responsible for hijacking TWA Flight 355 in 1976, gunshot