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2011 Event - In an effort to suppress riots, the Algerian government cuts food prices and commits to punishing those responsible for the riots

2010 Event - Philip Markoff, accused Craigslist killer, commits suicide and is found dead in Nashua Street jail prison

2010 Event - An employee at ABB Power building in St. Louis, Missouri, commits suicide after shooting eight people, 3 fatally

2009 Event - Under investigation for bribery during his Presidency, former President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, commits suicide

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 Death - Andrew Cunanan, serial killer (Gianni Versage), commits suicide

1997 Death - Brian Keith, actor (Family Affair), commits suicide at 75

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 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 - Mike Jeremy Boorda, commandant (NATO), commits suicide at 57

1995 Death - Mordechai Gur, Israeli general, commits suicide at 65

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 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 - 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 - Kurt Cobain, grunge rocker (Nirvana), commits suicide by gun at 27

1994 Death - Lady Caithness, wife of British undersecretary, commits 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 - 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 - David Jones, actor, commits suicide (had terminal cancer) at 76

1991 Event - Cubs Doug Dascenzo commits his 1st career error after 242 games

1991 Death - Sergei Ajromeiev, soviet general, commits suicide

1991 Death - Boris Pugo, U.S.S.R. minister of Interior (1990), commits suicide

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

1990 Death - Mitch Snyder, homeless advocate, commits suicide by hanging at 46

1990 Death - Bruno Bettelhelm, Austrian/US psychoanalyst, commits suicide at 86

1989 Death - Jay Stewart, annoucer on Lets Make a Deal, commits suicide

1988 Event - Tommy John commits rec 3 errors on 1 play as Yankees rout Brewers 16-3

1988 Death - Bantcho Bantchevsky, U.S. opera singer, commits suicide

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 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 - Singing Nun, commits suicide in Belgium at 52

1983 Death - Walter Slezak, actor (Bedtime For Bonzo), commits suicide in New York at 80

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

1980 Death - Axel Springer, Jr., German photographer, commits suicide at 38

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 - Gig Young, kills his bride of 3 weeks and then commits suicide at 64

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

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 - Bella Darvi, actress (Racers), commits suicide at 42

1971 Event - 16 time gold glover Brook Robinson commits 3 errors in 6th inning

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

1969 Event - Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders

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

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

1956 Death - Aleksandr A Fadejev, Russian author (Young Guard), commits suicide at 54

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

1948 Event - Columbia commits to 33 1/3 rpm records, plans to phase out 78's as Dr. Peter Goldmark of CBS demonstrates "long playing record"

1948 Death - Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian Foreign minister, commits suicide or is murdered

1946 Death - Heinrich George, German actor (Jud Suss), commits suicide at 52

1945 Death - Fumimaro Konu, Japanese prince/Prime Minister 1937 - 1939, 1940 - 1941, commits harakiri

1945 Death - Robert van Genechten, Dutch Nazi (NSB), commits suicide

1945 Death - Robert Ley, German nazi, commits suicide

1945 Death - Lieutenant General Ushijima, Japanese commander, commits suicide at Okinawa

1945 Death - Isamu Tsjo, Japanese chief-staff 32nd Army, commits harakiri

1945 Death - Mitsuri Ushijima, Japanese Lieutenant-General/commandant 32nd Army, commits harakiri

1945 Death - Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison at 44

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 Death - Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, French writer/poet, commits 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 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

1941 Death - Earnest Udet, German general/head air pioneer, commits suicide

1941 Death - Ioannis Metaxas, Greek gen/dictator (1936-41), commits suicide at 69

1940 Death - Willard Hershberger, catcher (Cincinnati Reds), commits suicide

1940 Death - Y G Van de Peat, Dutch director of employment, commits suicide

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

1937 Death - Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Hungarian poet, commits suicide at 36

1937 Death - Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan author and poet, commits suicide at 58

1934 Event - Acting President Constantine Pats commits coup in Tallinn Estonia

1932 Death - Harold "Heart" Crane, U.S. poet (Bridge), commits suicide at 32

1932 Death - Ivar Kreuger, "Swedish Match King" industrialist, commits suicide

1927 Death - Adolf A Joffe, Russian author/diplomat, commits suicide at 44

1914 Death - Aleksandr Samsonov, Russian general, commits 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

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

1644 Death - Si Sang, last Ming-emperor of China, commits suicide

1630 Death - John de White, calvinist/banker to Prague, commits suicide

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

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