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2009 Under investigation for bribery during his Presidency, former President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, commits suicide
2008 David Foster Wallace, dies in California, of suicide, at 46 2008 Taliban suicide bombing kills 80 in Kandahar, Afghanistan 2007 Multiple suicide bombings kill over 550 people in Qahtaniya, Iraq 2007 Brad Delp, dies in New Hampshire, of suicide, at 55 2003 Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, author and feminist, 'In the Last Analysis' and 'Writing a Woman's Life', committed suicide 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, 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 39 cult memebers in California commit mass suicide (Hale-Bopp) 1997 John Curtis, Jr., president/CEO (Luby's Cafe), commits suicide at 58 1996 Faron Young, country singer and actor (Hidden Guns), 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 1996 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 Suicide bomber blasts into Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, kills 16 1995 Mordechai Gur, Israeli general, commits suicide at 65 1995 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 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, English 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 Jerry Hunt, composer, used live electronics to create new works, employed ritualistic performance techniques, dies in Canton, Texas, of suicide 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, Prime Minister of France 1992 - 1993, 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 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 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, French Foreign Minister (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, Prime Minister Albania 1954 - 1981, American 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, Czechoslovakian sculptor, commits suicide at about 45 1968 Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Olympic-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, Russian author (Young Guard), commits suicide at 54 1954 Getulio D Vargas, president/dictator Brazil: 1930 - 1945, 1951 - 1954, 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, Czechoslovakian Foreign minister, commits suicide or is murdered 1948 Tony DeMeur, rocker, Fabulous Poodles-Anna Rexia, Suicide Bridge 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 Prime Minister 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, 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 Adolf Hitler, genocidal leader of Germany commits suicide 1945 Walter Model, German Field Marshal, 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 Field Marshal (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, General-Major, "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 Hermann Burger, born in Burg, Switzerland, writer, essayist, novelist, poet, wrote 'Tractatus logico-suicidalis' 1988, advocating suicide 1942 Captain Moravec, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, commit suicide 1941 Earnest Udet, German general/head air pioneer, commits suicide 1941 Pal Teleki-von Szek, Prime Minister Hungary 1920 - 1921, 1939 - 1941, suicide at 61 1941 Virginia [Adeline] Woolf-Stephen, author (To Lighthouse), suicide 59 1941 Rudolf Hilferding, Germ economist/Minister 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 (Cincinnati 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 Captain (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 General-Major (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 Brigadier-General, 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 Nicolas de Chamfort, known for aphorisms and witty epigrams, wrote successful comedy, 'La Jeune Indienne', commits suicide at 53 1791 Richard earl d'Alton, Austria general of S Netherlands, 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, Secretary 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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