2013 Event The group of hackers known as Anonymous, hacks into the U.S. Sentencing Commission website as a response to the suicide of Aaron Swartz, an American computer programmer, and internet activist 2011 Event Top airport security officials are fired after a suicide bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport kills 35 people, injures 130 2010 Event The U.N. compound in Herat, western Afghanistan, is attacked by a suicide bomber 2010 Event A funeral for 65 Shia Muslim suicide attack victims in Quetta, Pakistan attracts thousands 2010 Event U.S. military forces use an air strike to kill an al-Qaeda leader responsible for planning suicide bombings 2010 Event Philip Markoff, accused Craigslist killer, commits suicide and is found dead in Nashua Street jail prison 2010 Event Timothy Torlot, British ambassador to Yemen, survives an attempted suicide bombing 2010 Event At least 38 are killed and 60 injured when two female suicide bombers carry out two separate terrorist attacks at Moscow Metro stations Lubyana and Park Kultury 2010 Event A suicide bomb attack in Geresh, Helmand Province, Afganistan kills ten people and injures 7 2010 Event At least 33 people are killed, more than 50 wounded, by multiple suicide bombers in Baquoba, Iraq 2010 Event Suicide bombers carry out a number of attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing at least 17 people 2010 Event A suicide bomber kills 20 people at a market in Afghanistan's Oruzgan Province 2010 Event An employee at ABB Power building in St. Louis, Missouri, commits suicide after shooting eight people, 3 fatally 2010 Event A suicide bomber kills 95 people, injures over 100, and destroys 20 houses at a volleyball game in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan 2009 Event Under investigation for bribery during his Presidency, former President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, commits suicide 2008 Death David Foster Wallace, dies in California, of suicide, at 46 2008 Event Taliban suicide bombing kills 80 in Kandahar, Afghanistan 2007 Event Multiple suicide bombings kill over 550 people in Qahtaniya, Iraq 2007 Death Brad Delp, dies in New Hampshire, of suicide, at 55 2004 Death Gary Webb, investigative journalist, wrote articles for 'San Jose Mercury News' about Nicaraguan cocaine smugglers linked to CIA-backed Contras, dies from two gunshot wounds to the head, judged a suicide 2003 Death Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, author and feminist, 'In the Last Analysis' and 'Writing a Woman's Life', committed suicide 1999 Event EgyptAir flight 990 crashes 60m off coast of Nantucket, killing 217, likely cause was an Islamist suicide replacement pilot 1998 Death Sandy Hume, correspondent (Fox News), commits suicide at 28 1998 Death Robert Merrill, songwriter (Funny Girl), commits suicide at 76 1997 Death Juzo Itami, Japanese director, commits suicide at 64 1997 Death Michael Hutchence, rocker (INXS), commits suicide at 37 1997 Event Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14 1997 Death Andrew Cunanan, serial killer (Gianni Versage), commits suicide 1997 Event Supreme Court upholds doctor-assisted suicide ban 1997 Death Brian Keith, actor (Family Affair), commits suicide at 75 1997 Death J. Anthony Lukas, writer, Pulitizer, Common Ground, suicide at 64 1997 Death Michael Dorris, writer, scholar, first unmarried man to adopt child, Raynold Abel, wrote about Reynold in 'The Broken Cord', commits suicide in Concord, New Hampshire, at age 52 1997 Event 39 cult memebers in California commit mass suicide (Hale-Bopp) 1997 Death John Curtis, Jr., president/CEO (Luby's Cafe), commits suicide at 58 1996 Death Faron Young, country singer and actor (Hidden Guns), commits suicide at 64 1996 Death James Leo Herlihy, author (Midnight Cowboy), commits suicide at 66 1996 Death Margaux Hemingway, model/actress (Lipstick), commits suicide at 41 1996 Death Ray Combs, comedian, host of 'Family Feud' television game show, dies in Glendale, California, at age 40, by suicide 1996 Death Mike Jeremy Boorda, commandant (NATO), commits suicide at 57 1996 Death Jeremy Boorda, admiral, U.S. Navy, 25th Chief of Naval Operations, dies of suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, in Washington, D.C. 1995 Event Suicide bomber blasts into Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, kills 16 1995 Death Mordechai Gur, Israeli general, commits suicide at 65 1995 Death Phyllis Hyman, Phyllis Linda Hyman, soul singer, songwriter, actress, jazz, soul, rhythm and blues, disco genres, first solo Top Ten Hit, 'Can't We Fall In Love Again', received Tony-nomination for Broadway musical, Sophisticated Ladies, dies from suicide at 45 1995 Death Sunil Jayasinghe, Sri Lankan wicketkeeper (1979 World Cup), suicide 1995 Death Cheyenne Brando, daughter of Marlon, commits suicide 1995 Death Jacques Lefebvre, Belgian air force gen, commits suicide at 64 1995 Death Ed Flanders, actor (Dr. Westphall-St. Elsewhere), commits suicide at 60 1995 Death Frederick West, English contractor/serial killer, commits suicide at 53 1994 Event Radio personality Howard Stern talks a man out of attempting suicide 1994 Death Ronald "Buster" Edwards, Great Train Robber, commits suicide at 62 1994 Death Tommy Boyce, U.S. songwriter (Be My Guest), commits suicide at 55 1994 Death Danny Gatton, U.S. guitarist, commits suicide at 48 1994 Death Alain Berdarin, founder/owner of "Crazy Horse Saloon," suicide at 78 1994 Death Patrick Crommelynck, Belgian pianist, commits suicide 1994 Death Taeko Kuwata, Japanese/Belgian pianist, commits suicide 1994 Death Luis Ocana, Span cyclist (Tour de France 1973), commits suicide at 48 1994 Death Lewis B Puller, U.S. writer (Pulitzer 1992), commits suicide at 48 1994 Death Steven Keats, actor (Death Wish), dies of apparent suicide at 48 1994 Death Francois de Grossouvre, President Mitterrand advisor, suicide at 76 1994 Event Palestinian suicide bomber kills 7 Israelis and himself 1994 Death Kurt Cobain, grunge rocker (Nirvana), commits suicide by gun at 27 1994 Death Lady Caithness, wife of British undersecretary, commits suicide 1993 Death Zviad Gamsachurdia, President of Georgia SSR (1991-1993), suicide at 54 1993 Death Jerry Hunt, composer, used live electronics to create new works, employed ritualistic performance techniques, dies in Canton, Texas, of suicide 1993 Death Adriaan Venema, Dutch journalist/art dealer, commits suicide at 52 1993 Death Will Rogers, Jr., (Rep-D)/actor (Boy from Okla), commits suicide at 81 1993 Death June Smaney, actress (Sainted Sister), dies of apparent suicide at 71 1993 Death Patrick Haemers, Belgian criminal, commits suicide at 40 1993 Death Pierre Beregovoy, Prime Minister of France 1992 - 1993, commits suicide at 67 1993 Death Jeff Ward, drummer (9 Inch Nails), commits suicide at 30 1993 Death Fletcher Knebel, author (7 Days in May), commits suicide at 81 1993 Death Sathasivam Krishnakumar, Sri Lanka commander, commits suicide 1992 Death Bruce Vorhauer, inventor (Today contraceptive sponge), suicide at 50 1992 Death David Jones, actor, commits suicide (had terminal cancer) at 76 1991 Event Rob Pilatus, 27, of Milli-Vanilli attempts suicide 1991 Death Kelly Jean Van Dyke-Nance, (Jerry Van Dyke's daughter), suicide at 33 1991 Event Dr. Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills 2 women 1991 Death Sergei Ajromeiev, soviet general, commits suicide 1991 Death Boris Pugo, U.S.S.R. minister of Interior (1990), commits suicide 1991 Event Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long treated for an apparent suicide attempt after he learned he tested positive for steroid use 1991 Death Mary Bacon, jockey, dying of cancer, commits suicide by gun at 43 1991 Death Jiang Qing, widow of Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung, commits suicide 1991 Death Dennis Crosby, son of Bing, commits suicide at 54 1991 Death Harry Krimer, actor (Napoleon), committed suicide at 94 1990 Death Mitch Snyder, homeless advocate, commits suicide by hanging at 46 1990 Event Dr. Jack Kevorkian assisted an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die 1990 Death Bruno Bettelhelm, Austrian/US psychoanalyst, commits suicide at 86 1989 Death Jay Stewart, annoucer on Lets Make a Deal, commits suicide 1989 Event 14 year old actress Drew Barrymore, attempts suicide 1989 Death Hermann Burger, writer, essayist, novelist, poet, wrote 'Tractatus logico-suicidalis' 1988, advocating suicide, dies of suicide, from overdose of sleeping pills, in Brunegg, Switzerland 1989 Event Tennis superstar Bjorn Borg, apparently attempts suicide in Milan 1988 Death Anthony Holland, AIDS sufferer committed suicide at 60 1988 Death Bantcho Bantchevsky, U.S. opera singer, commits suicide 1987 Event Young man survives 7 attempts at suicide in Somerset England 1987 Death Nico Slothouwer, poet (Liefdesstratenplan), commits suicide at 30 1987 Death Rudolph Hess, Nazi (46 years in Spandau Prison), commits suicide at 93 1987 Death Yogi Horton, drummer (Luther Vandross), commits suicide at 33 1987 Event Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide 1987 Death David Savoy, Jr., rock manager (Husker Du), commits suicide at 24 1986 Death Richard Manuel, rock vocalist/pianist (Band), commits suicide at 40 1985 Death James Vance (20) and Raymond Belknap (18), commit suicide, sparking their families to sue rock group Judas Priest for subliminal messages 1985 Death Singing Nun, commits suicide in Belgium at 52 1984 Event Suicide car bomb attacks U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23 1983 Event Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 241 U.S. personnel in Beirut 1983 Death Walter Slezak, actor (Bedtime For Bonzo), commits suicide in New York at 80 1983 Event Suicide bomber kills 63, at U.S. Embassy in Lebanon 1983 Death Roy Horb, Suriname sergeant/putschist, commits suicide 1982 Death John AM "Hans" van Tongeren, actor (Hunk), commits suicide at 27 1982 Death Sylvestre A Guzman Fernandez, President Dominican Rep, commits suicide 1982 Death Louis M de Guiringaud, French Foreign Minister (1976-78), commits suicide at 70 1982 Death Brenda Benet, actress (Track of Thunder), commits suicide by gun at 36 1982 Death Neil Aggett, South African worker's union leader, commits suicide 1981 Death Mehmet Shehu, Prime Minister Albania 1954 - 1981, American spy, commits suicide 1981 Event John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol 1981 Event Muhammad Ali talks a despondent 21 year old out of committing suicide 1980 Death Imogen Hassall, Countess of Cleavage (Carry on Lovng), suicide at 37 1980 Death Ian Curtis, English rock vocalist (Joy Division), commit suicide at 23 1980 Death Axel Springer, Jr., German photographer, commits suicide at 38 1979 Event Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide 1979 Death Jean Seberg, actress (Breathless, Airport), commits suicide at 40 1979 Death Donny Hathaway, Chicago, Illinois, rocker (Ghetto), commits suicide at 33 1978 Death Jim Jones, U.S. pastor, leader of Jonestown Cult, commits suicide 1978 Death 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 Event Sid Vicious attempts suicide while at Riker's Detention Center in New York City 1978 Death Gig Young, kills his bride of 3 weeks and then commits suicide at 64 1978 Event Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house 1977 Death Avraham Ofer, Israeli minister of housing, commits suicide 1976 Death Phil Ochs, singer (Draft Dodger Rag), commits suicide at 35 1975 Death Pete Ham, rocker (Badfinger), commits suicide by hanging himself at 27 1974 Death Henri Smajda, Tunis/French publisher (Combat), commits suicide at 77 1973 Death Paul Williams, rocker (Temptations), commits suicide at 32 1973 Event Ray Davies, announces retirement from Kinks then attempts suicide 1972 Death Rory Storm, lead singer (Rory Storm and Hurricane), commits suicide 1971 Death Peter Deuel, actor (Gidget, Love on a Rooftop), commits suicide at 31 1971 Death Frank Wolff, actor (Erotic Illusion, Last Gun), suicide at 43 1971 Death Bella Darvi, actress (Racers), commits suicide at 42 1971 Death Diane Arbus, Nemerov, photographer (Vogue), commits suicide at 48 1970 Death Bernd-Alois Zimmermann, Germ composer (Requiem), commits suicide at 52 1970 Death Inger Stevens, actress (Katy-Farmer's Daughter), commits suicide at 35 1968 Death Vladimir Boudnik, Czechoslovakian sculptor, commits suicide at about 45 1968 Death Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Olympic-bronze-1964), commits suicide 1967 Death Mohammed Abdul Hakim Amer, Egyptian vice-PM, commits suicide at 47 1967 Death Joe Meek, rocker (Tornados)/producer (Telstar), commits suicide 1965 Death Everett Sloane, dies of apparent suicide with bartiturates at 55 1962 Death Clara Blandick, committed suicide at 80 1961 Death Ernest Hemingway, writer, commits suicide at 61 1960 Death Phyllis Haver, actress (Don Juan), commits suicide at 61 1959 Death Lou Bandy, Dutch revue-artist (Life Ain't Bad), commits suicide at 69 1959 Death Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/pianist, suicide at 55 1959 Death Grant Withers, actor (Oklahoma Annie), suicide with sleeping pills at 54 1956 Death Aleksandr A Fadejev, Russian author (Young Guard), commits suicide at 54 1954 Death Getulio D Vargas, president/dictator Brazil: 1930 - 1945, 1951 - 1954, suicide at 71 1954 Death Alan M Turing, British mathematician (Turing), commits suicide at 41 1954 Death Edwin Armstrong, U.S. radio inventor (FM), commits suicide at 63 1951 Birthday Robert Joy, born in Montreal, Quebec, actor, Big Shots, Suicide Club 1948 Death Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian Foreign minister, commits suicide or is murdered 1948 Birthday Tony DeMeur, rocker, Fabulous Poodles-Anna Rexia, Suicide Bridge 1946 Death Heinrich George, German actor (Jud Suss), commits suicide at 52 1945 Death Robert van Genechten, Dutch Nazi (NSB), commits suicide 1945 Death Robert Ley, German nazi, commits suicide 1945 Event Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged 1945 Death Lieutenant General Ushijima, Japanese commander, commits suicide at Okinawa 1945 Death Meinoud M Rost van Tonningen, anti semite/NSB (1937-41), suicide 1945 Death Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison at 44 1945 Event NSB-Fuhrer Rost van Tonningen attempts and fails at suicide 1945 Event 900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren, commit suicide 1945 Death Paul Josef Goebbels, Nazi minister on propoganda, commits suicide 1945 Death Adolph Hitler, German dictator (1936-45), commits suicide at 56 1945 Death Eva Braun, mistress/wife of Hitler, commits suicide at 33 1945 Death Adolf Hitler, genocidal leader of Germany commits suicide 1945 Death Walter Model, German Field Marshal, commits suicide at 54 1945 Event U.S. planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide superbattleship Yamato and four destroyers were sunk 1945 Death Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, French writer/poet, commits suicide at 52 1944 Event 1st Japanse suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atol, Carolines) 1944 Death Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal (WW II-Africa), suicide at 52 1944 Death Killinger, German ambassador to Romania, commits suicide 1944 Death Gunther von Kluge, German field marshal, commits suicide, dies at 62 1944 Event Japanese suicide attack on U.S. lines in Guam 1944 Death Henning von Tresckow, General-Major, "July 20th plotter", commits suicide 1943 Death Hans Jeschonnek, German air force general/chief-staff, commits suicide 1943 Death Fritz Schmidt, Nazi commissioner in Holland, commits suicide at 39 1942 Birthday Hermann Burger, born in Burg, Switzerland, writer, essayist, novelist, poet, wrote 'Tractatus logico-suicidalis' 1988, advocating suicide 1942 Death Captain Moravec, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, commit suicide 1941 Death Earnest Udet, German general/head air pioneer, commits suicide 1941 Death Pal Teleki-von Szek, Prime Minister Hungary 1920 - 1921, 1939 - 1941, suicide at 61 1941 Death Virginia [Adeline] Woolf-Stephen, author (To Lighthouse), suicide 59 1941 Death Rudolf Hilferding, Germ economist/Minister of Finance (SPD), suicide at 63 1941 Death Ioannis Metaxas, Greek gen/dictator (1936-41), commits suicide at 69 1941 Birthday Shima Iwashita, actress, Red Lion, Hara-Kiri, Double Suicide 1940 Death Willard Hershberger, catcher (Cincinnati Reds), commits suicide 1940 Death Y G Van de Peat, Dutch director of employment, commits suicide 1940 Death Willem A Bonger, Dutch criminologist (Race and Crime), suicide at 63 1940 Death Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer (Forum, New Elite), suicide at 38 1939 Death Hans Langsdorff, German Captain (Graaf Spee), commits suicide 1939 Death Owen Moore, actor (She Done Him Wrong), commits suicide at 52 1939 Death Matthias Sindelar, Austria soccer star, commits suicide 1938 Death Alfonsina Storni, Argentine poet (El dulce dano/suicide), dies at 45 1937 Death Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Hungarian poet, commits suicide at 36 1937 Death Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan author and poet, commits suicide at 58 1932 Death Harold "Heart" Crane, U.S. poet (Bridge), commits suicide at 32 1932 Death George Eastman, U.S. industrialist (Kodak-camera), suicide at 77 1932 Death Ivar Kreuger, "Swedish Match King" industrialist, commits suicide 1927 Death Adolf A Joffe, Russian author/diplomat, commits suicide at 44 1917 Death Emile Durkheim, French sociologist (Le suicide), dies 1914 Death Aleksandr Samsonov, Russian general, commits suicide 1904 Death Vincent Tancred, cricket (Bernard and Louis bro, Test for S A), suicide 1902 Death Friedrich A Krupp, cannon manufacturer, commits suicide 1886 Death Frederick J "Fred" Archer, English jockey, commits suicide at 29 1881 Death Emory Upton, U.S. Union General-Major (Selma), commits suicide at 42 1868 Death Theodorus, Kasa, emperor of Abyssinia, commits suicide 1868 Death Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Witiko), commits suicide at 62 1866 Death Faa di Bruno, Italian captain (Er d'italia, Lissa), commits suicide 1865 Death Edmun Ruffin, U.S. secessionist/writer, commits suicide 1861 Death Philip St. George Cocke, Confederate Brigadier-General, commits suicide at 52 1861 Death Laselo Teleki, Hungarian earl/revolutionary, commits suicide 1860 Death Count Istvan Szechenyi, statesman, commits suicide 1854 Event Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine 1854 Event Composer R Schumann is saved from suicide attempt into the Rhine 1849 Death Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (Death's Jest-Book), suicide at 45 1831 Death John CJ van Speijk, commits suicide at 29 1830 Death Louis H J Conde, French prince, commits suicide at 74 1822 Death Robert Stewart, 2nd marguess of Londonderry, commits suicide, dies 1819 Death Ann C Coleman, fiancee of President Buchanan, commits suicide 1809 Death Meriwether Lewis, (Lewis and Clark Expedition), commits suicide at 35 1794 Death Nicolas de Chamfort, known for aphorisms and witty epigrams, wrote successful comedy, 'La Jeune Indienne', commits suicide at 53 1791 Death Richard earl d'Alton, Austria general of S Netherlands, commits suicide at 58 1768 Death Willem van Hairs, Fries nobleman/poet (Suicide), dies at 58 1644 Event 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide 1644 Death Si Sang, last Ming-emperor of China, commits suicide 1630 Death John de White, calvinist/banker to Prague, commits suicide 1618 Death Gilles van Ledenberg, Secretary of Utrecht States 1588 - 1618, suicide at 68 1514 Death Richard Hunne, English "heretic", commits suicide 1242 Death Hendrik VII, Roman Catholics German king (1220-35), commits suicide 394 Death Arbogast, French general, commits suicide 68 Death Claudius Nero, Roman emperor (54-68), commits suicide at 31 9 Death Publius Quinctilius Varus, Roman viceroy of Syria, suicide at 59
