Suicide Events in History

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

1994 Event - Palestinian suicide bomber kills 7 Israelis and himself

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

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