1999 EgyptAir flight 990 crashes 60m off coast of Nantucket, killing 217, likely cause was an Islamist suicide replacement pilot
1998 Sandy Hume, correspondent (Fox News), commits suicide at 28
1998 Robert Merrill, songwriter (Funny Girl), commits suicide at 76
1997 Juzo Itami, Japanese director, commits suicide at 64
1997 Michael Hutchence, rocker (INXS), commits suicide at 37
1997 Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14
1997 Andrew Cunanan, serial killer (Gianni Versage), commits suicide
1997 Supreme Court upholds doctor-assisted suicide ban
1997 Brian Keith, actor (Family Affair), commits suicide at 75
1997 J. Anthony Lukas, writer, Pulitizer, Common Ground, suicide at 64
1997 Michael Dorris, writer, Broken Cord, commits suicide at 52
1997 39 cult memebers in California commit mass suicide (Hale-Bopp)
1997 John Curtis Jr, pres/CEO (Luby's Cafe), commits suicide at 58
1996 Faron Young, country singer and actor (Hidden Guns), commits suicide at 34
1996 Faron Young, country singer, commits suicide at 64
1996 James Leo Herlihy, author (Midnight Cowboy), commits suicide at 66
1996 Margaux Hemingway, model/actress (Lipstick), commits suicide at 41
1996 Ray Combs, TV host (Family Feud), commits suicide at 40
1996 Mike Jeremy Boorda, commandant (NATO), commits suicide at 57
1995 Suicide bomber blasts into Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, kills 16
1995 Mordechai Gur, Israeli general, commits suicide at 65
1995 Sunil Jayasinghe, Sri Lankan wicketkeeper (1979 World Cup), suicide
1995 Cheyenne Brando, daughter of Marlon, commits suicide
1995 Jacques Lefebvre, Belgian air force gen, commits suicide at 64
1995 Ed Flanders, actor (Dr. Westphall-St. Elsewhere), commits suicide at 60
1995 Frederick West, Engl contractor/serial killer, commits suicide at 53
1994 Radio personality Howard Stern talks a man out of attempting suicide
1994 Ronald "Buster" Edwards, Great Train Robber, commits suicide at 62
1994 Tommy Boyce, U.S. songwriter (Be My Guest), commits suicide at 55
1994 Danny Gatton, U.S. guitarist, commits suicide at 48
1994 Alain Berdarin, founder/owner of "Crazy Horse Saloon," suicide at 78
1994 Patrick Crommelynck, Belgian pianist, commits suicide
1994 Taeko Kuwata, Japanese/Belgian pianist, commits suicide
1994 Luis Ocana, Span cyclist (Tour de France 1973), commits suicide at 48
1994 Lewis B Puller, U.S. writer (Pulitzer 1992), commits suicide at 48
1994 Steven Keats, actor (Death Wish), dies of apparent suicide at 48
1994 Francois de Grossouvre, President Mitterrand advisor, suicide at 76
1994 Kurt Cobain, grunge rocker (Nirvana), commits suicide by gun at 27
1994 Palestinian suicide bomber kills 7 Israelis and himself
1994 Lady Caithness, wife of British undersecretary, commits suicide
1993 Zviad Gamsachurdia, President of Georgia SSR (1991-1993), suicide at 54
1993 Adriaan Venema, Dutch journalist/art dealer, commits suicide at 52
1993 Will Rogers Jr, (Rep-D)/actor (Boy from Okla), commits suicide at 81
1993 June Smaney, actress (Sainted Sister), dies of apparent suicide at 71
1993 Patrick Haemers, Belgian criminal, commits suicide at 40
1993 Pierre Beregovoy, PM of France (1992-93), commits suicide at 67
1993 David Koresh, [Vernon Howell], cult leader (Davidians), suicide
1993 Jeff Ward, drummer (9 Inch Nails), commits suicide at 30
1993 Fletcher Knebel, author (7 Days in May), commits suicide at 81
1993 Sathasivam Krishnakumar, Sri Lanka commander, commits suicide
1992 Bruce Vorhauer, inventor (Today contraceptive sponge), suicide at 50
1992 David Jones, actor, commits suicide (had terminal cancer) at 76
1991 Rob Pilatus, 27, of Milli-Vanilli attempts suicide
1991 Kelly Jean Van Dyke-Nance, (Jerry Van Dyke's daughter), suicide at 33
1991 Dr. Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills 2 women
1991 Sergei Ajromeiev, soviet general, commits suicide
1991 Boris Pugo, U.S.S.R. minister of Interior (1990), commits suicide
1991 Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long treated for an apparent suicide attempt after he learned he tested positive for steroid use
1991 Mary Bacon, jockey, dying of cancer, commits suicide by gun at 43
1991 Jiang Qing, widow of Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung, commits suicide
1991 Dennis Crosby, son of Bing, commits suicide at 54
1991 Harry Krimer, actor (Napoleon), committed suicide at 94
1990 Mitch Snyder, homeless advocate, commits suicide by hanging at 46
1990 Dr. Jack Kevorkian assisted an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die
1990 Bruno Bettelhelm, Austrian/US psychoanalyst, commits suicide at 86
1989 Jay Stewart, annoucer on Lets Make a Deal, commits suicide
1989 14 year old actress Drew Barrymore, attempts suicide
1989 Tennis superstar Bjorn Borg, apparently attempts suicide in Milan
1988 Anthony Holland, AIDS sufferer committed suicide at 60
1988 Bantcho Bantchevsky, U.S. opera singer, commits suicide
1987 Young man survives 7 attempts at suicide in Somerset England
1987 Nico Slothouwer, poet (Liefdesstratenplan), commits suicide at 30
1987 Rudolph Hess, Nazi (46 years in Spandau Prison), commits suicide at 93
1987 Yogi Horton, drummer (Luther Vandross), commits suicide at 33
1987 Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide
1987 David Savoy Jr, rock manager (Husker Du), commits suicide at 24
1986 Richard Manuel, rock vocalist/pianist (Band), commits suicide at 40
1985 James Vance (20) and Raymond Belknap (18), commit suicide, sparking their families to sue rock group Judas Priest for subliminal messages
1985 Singing Nun, commits suicide in Belgium at 52
1984 Suicide car bomb attacks U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23
1983 Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 241 U.S. personnel in Beirut
1983 Walter Slezak, actor (Bedtime For Bonzo), commits suicide in New York at 80
1983 Suicide bomber kills 63, at U.S. Embassy in Lebanon
1983 Roy Horb, Suriname sergeant/putschist, commits suicide
1982 John AM "Hans" van Tongeren, actor (Hunk), commits suicide at 27
1982 Sylvestre A Guzman Fernandez, President Dominican Rep, commits suicide
1982 Louis M de Guiringaud, Fren forgn min (1976-78), commits suicide at 70
1982 Brenda Benet, actress (Track of Thunder), commits suicide by gun at 36
1982 Neil Aggett, South African worker's union leader, commits suicide
1981 Mehmet Shehu, PM Albania (1954-81)/"US-Russ spy", commits suicide
1981 Natalie Wood, actress (West Side Story), drowns at 43 (suicide)
1981 John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol
1981 Muhammad Ali talks a despondent 21 year old out of committing suicide
1980 Imogen Hassall, Countess of Cleavage (Carry on Lovng), suicide at 37
1980 Ian Curtis, English rock vocalist (Joy Division), commit suicide at 23
1980 Axel Springer Jr, German photographer, commits suicide at 38
1979 Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide
1979 Jean Seberg, actress (Breathless, Airport), commits suicide at 40
1979 Donny Hathaway, Chicago, Illinois, rocker (Ghetto), commits suicide at 33
1978 Jim Jones, U.S. pastor, leader of Jonestown Cult, commits suicide
1978 Leo J. Ryan, (Rep-Cal) and 4 killed in Jonestown, Guyana by members of Peoples Temple, followed by ritual mass suicide of 914 members
1978 Sid Vicious attempts suicide while at Riker's Detention Center in New York City
1978 Gig Young, kills his bride of 3 weeks and then commits suicide at 64
1978 Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house
1977 Avraham Ofer, Israeli minister of housing, commits suicide
1976 Phil Ochs, singer (Draft Dodger Rag), commits suicide at 35
1975 Pete Ham, rocker (Badfinger), commits suicide by hanging himself at 27
1974 Henri Smajda, Tunis/French publisher (Combat), commits suicide at 77
1973 Paul Williams, rocker (Temptations), commits suicide at 32
1973 Ray Davies, announces retirement from Kinks then attempts suicide
1972 Rory Storm, lead singer (Rory Storm and Hurricane), commits suicide
1971 Peter Deuel, actor (Gidget, Love on a Rooftop), commits suicide at 31
1971 Frank Wolff, actor (Erotic Illusion, Last Gun), suicide at 43
1971 Bella Darvi, actress (Racers), commits suicide at 42
1971 Diane Arbus, [Nemerov], photographer (Vogue), commits suicide at 48
1970 Bernd-Alois Zimmermann, Germ composer (Requiem), commits suicide at 52
1970 Inger Stevens, actress (Katy-Farmer's Daughter), commits suicide at 35
1968 Vladimir Boudnik, Czech sculptor, commits suicide at about 45
1968 Kokichi Tsuburaya, Jap marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide
1967 Mohammed Abdul Hakim Amer, Egyptian vice-PM, commits suicide at 47
1967 Joe Meek, rocker (Tornados)/producer (Telstar), commits suicide
1965 Everett Sloane, dies of apparent suicide with bartiturates at 55
1962 Clara Blandick, committed suicide at 80
1961 Ernest Hemingway, writer, commits suicide at 61
1960 Phyllis Haver, actress (Don Juan), commits suicide at 61
1959 Lou Bandy, Dutch revue-artist (Life Ain't Bad), commits suicide at 69
1959 Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/pianist, suicide at 55
1959 Grant Withers, actor (Oklahoma Annie), suicide with sleeping pills at 54
1956 Aleksandr A Fadejev, Russ author (Young Guard), commits suicide at 54
1954 Getulio D Vargas, pres/dictator Brazil: 1930-45, 51-54, suicide at 71
1954 Alan M Turing, British mathematician (Turing), commits suicide at 41
1954 Edwin H Armstrong, U.S. radio inventor (FM), commits suicide at 63
1951 Robert Joy, born in Montreal, Quebec, actor, Big Shots, Suicide Club
1948 Jan Masaryk, Czech Foreign minister, commits suicide or is murdered
1948 Tony DeMeur, rocker, Fabulous Poodles-Anna Rexia, Suicide Bridge
1946 Hermann Wilhelm Goering, German SA-leader, commits suicide at 53
1946 Heinrich George, German actor (Jud Suss), commits suicide at 52
1945 Robert van Genechten, Dutch Nazi (NSB), commits suicide
1945 Robert Ley, German nazi, commits suicide
1945 Hideki Tojo, Japanese PM during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged
1945 Lieutenant General Ushijima, Japanese commander, commits suicide at Okinawa
1945 Meinoud M Rost van Tonningen, anti semite/NSB (1937-41), suicide
1945 Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi leader and Chief of Police, committed suicide
1945 Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison at 44
1945 NSB-Fuhrer Rost van Tonningen attempts and fails at suicide
1945 900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren, commit suicide
1945 Paul Josef Goebbels, Nazi minister on propoganda, commits suicide
1945 Adolph Hitler, German dictator (1936-45), commits suicide at 56
1945 Eva Braun, mistress/wife of Hitler, commits suicide at 33
1945 Walter Model, German fieldmarshal, commits suicide at 54
1945 U.S. planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide superbattleship Yamato and four destroyers were sunk
1945 Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, French writer/poet, commits suicide at 52
1944 1st Japanse suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atol, Carolines)
1944 Erwin Rommel, German fieldmarshal (WW II-Africa), suicide at 52
1944 Killinger, German ambassador to Romania, commits suicide
1944 Gunther von Kluge, German field marshal, commits suicide, dies at 62
1944 Japanese suicide attack on U.S. lines in Guam
1944 Henning von Tresckow, Gen-Maj, "July 20th plotter", commits suicide
1943 Hans Jeschonnek, German air force general/chief-staff, commits suicide
1943 Fritz Schmidt, Nazi commissioner in Holland, commits suicide at 39
1942 Captain Moravec, Czech resistance fighter, commit suicide
1941 Earnest Udet, German general/head air pioneer, commits suicide
1941 ... Korysis, PM of Greece, commits suicide
1941 Pal Teleki-von Szek, PM Hungary (1920-21, 39-41), suicide at 61
1941 Virginia [Adeline] Woolf-Stephen, author (To Lighthouse), suicide 59
1941 Rudolf Hilferding, Germ economist/Min of Finance (SPD), suicide at 63
1941 Ioannis Metaxas, Greek gen/dictator (1936-41), commits suicide at 69
1941 Shima Iwashita, actress, Red Lion, Hara-Kiri, Double Suicide
1940 Willard Hershberger, catcher (Cin Reds), commits suicide
1940 Y G Van de Peat, Dutch director of employment, commits suicide
1940 Willem A Bonger, Dutch criminologist (Race and Crime), suicide at 63
1940 Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer (Forum, New Elite), suicide at 38
1939 Hans Langsdorff, German capt (Graaf Spee), commits suicide
1939 Owen Moore, actor (She Done Him Wrong), commits suicide at 52
1939 Matthias Sindelar, Austria soccer star, commits suicide
1938 Alfonsina Storni, Argentine poet (El dulce dano/suicide), dies at 45
1937 Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Hungarian poet, commits suicide at 36
1937 Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan author and poet, commits suicide at 58
1932 Harold "Heart" Crane, U.S. poet (Bridge), commits suicide at 32
1932 George Eastman, U.S. industrialist (Kodak-camera), suicide at 77
1932 Ivar Kreuger, "Swedish Match King" industrialist, commits suicide
1927 Adolf A Joffe, Russian author/diplomat, commits suicide at 44
1917 Emile Durkheim, French sociologist (Le suicide), dies
1914 Aleksandr Samsonov, Russian general, commits suicide
1904 Vincent Tancred, cricket (Bernard and Louis bro, Test for S A), suicide
1902 Friedrich A Krupp, cannon manufacturer, commits suicide
1886 Frederick J "Fred" Archer, English jockey, commits suicide at 29
1881 Emory Upton, U.S. Union gen-maj (Selma), commits suicide at 42
1868 Theodorus, [Kasa], emperor of Abyssinia, commits suicide
1868 Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Witiko), commits suicide at 62
1866 Faa di Bruno, Italian captain (Er d'italia, Lissa), commits suicide
1865 Edmun Ruffin, U.S. secessionist/writer, commits suicide
1861 Philip St. George Cocke, Confederate brig-gen, commits suicide at 52
1861 Laselo Teleki, Hungarian earl/revolutionary, commits suicide
1860 Count Istvan Szechenyi, statesman, commits suicide
1854 Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine
1854 Composer R Schumann is saved from suicide attempt into the Rhine
1849 Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (Death's Jest-Book), suicide at 45
1831 John CJ van Speijk, commits suicide at 29
1830 Louis H J Conde, French prince, commits suicide at 74
1822 Robert Stewart, 2nd marguess of Londonderry, commits suicide, dies
1819 Ann C Coleman, fiancee of President Buchanan, commits suicide
1809 Meriwether Lewis, (Lewis and Clark Expedition), commits suicide at 35
1794 Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort, Fr playwright, commits suicide at 53
1791 Richard earl d'Alton, Austria general of S Neth, commits suicide at 58
1768 Willem van Hairs, Fries nobleman/poet (Suicide), dies at 58
1644 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide
1644 Si Sang, last Ming-emperor of China, commits suicide
1630 John de White, calvinist/banker to Prague, commits suicide
1618 Gilles van Ledenberg, sec of Utrecht States (1588-1618), suicide at 68
1514 Richard Hunne, English "heretic", commits suicide
1242 Hendrik VII, Roman Catholics German king (1220-35), commits suicide
394 Arbogast, French general, commits suicide
68 Claudius Nero, Roman emperor (54-68), commits suicide at 31
9 Publius Quinctilius Varus, Roman viceroy of Syria, suicide at 59
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