A list of famous people who have committed Suicide .
''See also'': Deaths By Accidental Drug Overdose , People By Cause Of Death
See Also: List of songs about suicide
List of films about suicide
- Johnny Ace , ( 1954 ), Singer
- George Washington Adams , ( 1829 ), son of John Quincy Adams , jumped off a boat
- Robert Adams Jr. , ( 1906 ), congressman from Pennsylvania, shot self after heavy losses in stock speculation
- Stuart Adamson , ( 2001 ), lead singer of the Scottish bands Big Country and the Skids
- Chris Adkisson a.k.a. Chris Von Erich , ( 1991 ), professional wrestler
- Kerry Adkisson a.k.a Kerry Von Erich , ( 1993 ), professional wrestler
- Mike Adkisson a.k.a. Mike Von Erich , ( 1987 ), professional wrestler, overdosed on the tranquilizer Placidyl .
- Neil Aggett , ( 1982 ), South Africa n worker's union leader; hanged in prison, murder is suspected by some
- General Sergei Akhromeev , ( 1991 ), Soviet military commander who led an unsuccessful coup against Mikhail Gorbachev
- Leandro Alem ( 1896 ), Argentine politician, founder of the Radical Civic Union
- Prince Alfred Of Edinburgh , ( 1899 ), member of the British Royal Family
- Salvador Allende , ( 1973 ), democratically elected president of Chile (elected 1970), and uncle of renowned author Isabel Allende - shot himself after he was ousted from office by the military regime of dictator Augusto Pinochet. It was later revealed that Pinochet had plans to execute Allende after the coup and Allende may have taken his own life to avoid the public disgrace.
- Jason Altom , ( 1998 ), Ph.D. student
- Jean Améry , ( 1978 ), Austrian writer
- Jack Z. Anderson , ( 1981 ), U.S. Representative from California
- Fridolin Anderwert , ( 1880 ), Swiss Federal Councilor
- Aman Andom , ( 1974 ), military ruler of Ethiopia ; committed suicide to avoid his execution in an internal purge
- Pier Angeli , ( 1971 ) (on the same day that Bella Darvi also took her own life)
- Roger Angleton , ( 1998 ), brother of imprisoned Texas extortionist who admitted in his suicide note to killing his sister-in-law, socialite Doris Angleton .
- Mark Antony , ( 30 BC ), Roman politician and general
- Marshall Applewhite , ( 1997 ), leader of the Heaven's Gate Cult
- Hubert Aquin , ( 1977 ), author
- Diane Arbus , ( 1971 ), art photographer
- Reinaldo Arenas , ( 1990 ), Cuban-American artist and writer
- Edwin Armstrong , ( 1954 ), US inventor of FM Radio ; jumped from a 13th Floor window believing FM was a failure.
- Mohamed Atta , ( 2001 ), Arabian suicide pilot responsible for damages on 11 September 2001 .
- Mohand Al-Shehri ( 2001 ), Arabian suicide hijacker responsible for damages on 11 September 2001 .
- Marwan Al-Shehhi ( 2001 ), Arabian suicide hijacker responsible for damages on 11 September 2001 .
- Andreas Baader , ( 1977 ), leader of the German revolutionary organization RAF, founder of Baader-Meinhof gang
- Milan Babić , ( 2006 ), former leader of Republic Of Serbian Krajina who pleaded guilty to war crimes
- Mary Bacon , ( 1991 ), thoroughbred race horse jockey
- Albert Ballin , ( 1918 )
- José Manuel Balmaceda ( 1891 ), President Of Chile
- Barney Barnato , ( 1897 ), South African diamond entrepreneur, jumped overboard while his ship was south of Madeira
- Isobel Barnett , ( 1980 ), British TV personality
- Diana Barrymore , ( 1960 ), US actress, writer ('Too Much, Too Soon')
- Uwe Barschel , ( 1987 ), German politician
- Carl Barth , ( 1853 )
- Gert Bastian , ( 1992 )
- Gameel Al-Batouti , ( 1999 ), Pilot who deliberately crashed Egyptair Flight 990 into the Atlantic Ocean
- J. Clifford Baxter , ( 2002 ), Enron vice-chairman
- Thomas M. Bayne , ( 1894 ), congressman from Pennsylvania
- Scotty Beckett , ( 1968 ), child actor, Our Gang films
- Gertrude Bell , ( 1926 ), archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq"
- Peter Bellamy , ( 1991 ), English folk singer
- Ota Benga ( 1916 ), African Pygmy put on "display" in United States
- Walter Benjamin , ( 1940 ), German cultural theorist
- Jill Bennett , ( 1990 ), British film actress
- Pierre Bérégovoy , ( 1993 ), French Prime Minister, killed himself a month after losing a general election
- Hans Berger , ( 1941 ), German physician and inventor of Electroencephalography , by hanging
- Mary Kay Bergman ( 1999 ), American voice actress
- Paul Bern , ( 1932 ), American film producer, director and writer, husband of Jean Harlow , bullet wound to the head, generally believed to be murdered by Dorothy Millette
- Alain Bernardin , ( 1994 ), founder/owner of " Le Crazy Horse Saloon" - Paris
- Ricky Berry , ( 1989 ), American NBA Basketball player ( Sacramento Kings )
- John Berryman , ( 1972 ), American poet, jumped from the Washington Avenue Bridge (Minneapolis) after waving to passers-by
- Bruno Bettelheim , ( 1990 ), child psychologist
- Ward Beysen , ( 2005 ), Belgian politician
- Blossius Of Cumae , Roman philosopher who led a failed revolt
- Robert Bishop , ( 1991 ), Fetish Artist
- Jens Bjørneboe , ( 1976 ), Norwegian author
- Clara Blandick , ( 1962 ), played Auntie Em in The Wizard Of Oz
- Barcroft Boake , ( 1892 ), Australian poet, hung himself from a tree
- Ludwig Boltzmann , ( 1906 ), Austrian physicist
- Jeremy Michael Boorda , ( 1996 ), 4-star Admiral, 25th Chief Of Naval Operations in the U.S. Navy
- Ricardo Bordallo , ( 1990 ), two-time Governor Of Guam
- Adrian Borland , ( 1999 ), British musician
- Ernest Borneman , ( 1995 ), German Sexologist
- Francesco Borromini , ( 1667 ), architect
- Georges Boulanger , ( 1891 ), French politician and general
- Tommy Boyce , ( 1994 ), with Bobby Hart, songwriter for The Monkees
- Karin Boye , ( 1941 ), Swedish Author
- Charles Boyer , ( 1978 ), French actor
- Jonathan Brandis , ( 2003 ), American actor
- Frank B. Brandegee , ( 1924 ), U.S. Senator from Connecticut, died in office
- Eva Braun , ( 1945 ), mistress and then wife of Adolf Hitler
- Richard Brautigan , ( 1984 ), American writer
- Gaetano Bresci , ( 1901 ), Italian anarchist, assassin of King Umberto I (officially suicide, but he was found strangled)
- Herman Brood , ( 2001 ), Dutch musician and painter
- Barry Brown , ( 1978 ), actor and writer
- Oskar Brüsewitz , ( 1976 )
- Brutus , ( 42 BC ), Roman politician, assassin of Julius Caesar
- Eustace Budgell , ( 1737 ), remembered because his death was discussed in a conversation between Samuel Johnson and his friend and biographer Boswell
- Bernard Buffet , ( 1999 ), French painter ('The Crucifixion')
- Rembrandt Bugatti ( 1916 ), Italian sculptor
- Dan Burros , ( 1965 ), Jew ish Neo-Nazi
- Andres Caicedo , ( 1977 ), Colombian novelist
- Wallace Hume Carothers , ( 1937 ), World renowned chemist, suffered chronic depression; killed himself in a hotel in 1937 .
- Don Carpenter ( 1995 ), American novelist, friend of Richard Brautigan
- Dora Carrington , ( 1932 ), artist
- Kevin Carter , ( 1994 ), award-winning South African photographer and member of the Bang-Bang Club
- Capucine , ( 1990 ), French actress
- Joseph Daniel 'Danny' Casolaro , ( 1991 ), journalist
- Adolphe Mouron Cassandre ( 1968 ), painter
- Paul Cassirer , ( 1926 )
- Gaius Cassius Longinus , ( 42 BC ), Roman politician, co-assassin of Julius Caesar
- Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh , ( 1822 ), British politician
- Cato The Younger , ( 46 BC ), Roman republican statesman
- Ugo Cavallero , ( 1943 ), Italian Field Marshal
- Paul Celan , ( 1970 ), Romanian poet
- Valerie Chacon , ( 1982 ), wife of Bobby Chacon
- Iris Chang , ( 2004 ), Chinese-American author
- Claude Chappe , ( 1805 ), French inventor
- Thomas Chatterton , ( 1770 ), English poet
- Leslie Cheung , ( 2003 ), Hong Kong movie star and singer
- Vere Gordon Childe , ( 1957 ), Australian archaeologist and historian, jumped off Govett's Leap in the Blue Mountains
- Vern Christie , ( 1991 ), Australian businessman, General Manager of the Commonwealth Bank
- Edwin P Christy , ( 1862 ), American entertainer, founder of the Christy Minstrels
- Christine Chubbuck , ( 1974 ), US newsreader, shot herself in the head on live TV after reading the news
- Chung Mong-hun , ( 2003 ), Korean businessman, chairman of Hyundai Asan
- Diana Churchill , ( 1963 ), UK social worker, eldest daughter of Sir Winston Churchill
- Jeremiah Clarke , ( 1707 ), composer of Trumpet Voluntary , shot himself
- Cleopatra , ( 30 BC ), Queen of Egypt
- Charmian Clift , ( 1969 ), Australian writer, wife of George Johnston ; her namesake, Cleopatra 's maid Charmian also committed suicide
- Robert Clive , ( 1774 ), British conqueror of India and founder of the Empire, cut throat with pen-knife
- Kurt Cobain , ( 1994 ), American musician, founder of grunge band Nirvana, shot self in head with shotgun (disputed- some believe the case should be reopened)
- Billy Collins Jr. , ( 1984 ), young boxer
- Ray Combs , ( 1996 ), former host of popular American game show '' Family Feud ''
- Pamela Courson , ( 1974 ), long time girlfriend of Jim Morrison
- F. W. S. Craig , ( 1989 ), UK election expert
- Hart Crane , ( 1932 ), American poet; born on the same date as Ernest Hemingway , another American writer who committed suicide
- Darby Crash , ( 1980 ), American songwriter, singer of The Germs
- René Crevel , ( 1935 ), French writer, gassed himself
- Harry Crosby , ( 1929 ), writer, publisher
- Andrew Cunanan , ( 1997 ), killer of Gianni Versace and four others
- Will Cuppy , ( 1949 ), American writer, humorist
- Ian Curtis , ( 1980 ), English Singer and songwritter ( Joy Division )
- Adam Czerniakow , ( 1942 ), Warsaw Ghetto leader killed himself rather than obey Nazi orders
- Dalida , ( 1987 ), French singer
- Dorothy Dandridge , ( 1965 ), American singer and actress, first black woman nominated for Academy Award as Lead Actress for "Carmen Jones" , death ruled suicide by overdose
- Monika Dannemann , ( 1996 ), Girlfriend of Jimi Hendrix
- Bella Darvi , ( 1971 ), Polish-US actress (on the same day that Pier Angeli also took her own life)
- Dazai Osamu , ( 1948 ), Japanese novelist
- Guy Debord , ( 1994 ), French philosopher, member of Situationist International
- Jeanine Deckers , ( 1985 ), Belgian religious, known as The Singing Nun
- C J De Garis , ( 1926 ), Australian financier
- Delphine Delamare , ( 1848 ), French woman, the basis for Flaubert 's Madame Bovary
- Gilles Deleuze , ( 1995 ), French philosopher
- Patrick Dewaere , ( 1982 ), French actor
- Rudolf Diesel , ( 1913 ), Inventor of the Diesel engine.
- Dioxippus , ( 336 BC ?), Greek Pankration fighter who nakedly defeated an armored and armed soldier of Alexander The Great 's... he was framed for theft and forced into suicide for his victory
- Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev , ( 2001 ), young King of Nepal , committed suicide after assassinating his father, King Birendra , and other members of the royal family
- Hugo Distler , ( 1942 ), German composer, is believed to have committed suicide to avoid conscription into the German army
- Jenny Dolly , ( 1941 ), Hungarian/US entertainer, one of The Dolly Sisters
- Desmond Donnelly , ( 1974 ), British politician who fitted into none of the parties he tried
- Terence Donovan , ( 1996 ), English celebrity photographer
- Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado ( 1983 ), former president of Cuba
- Chris Doty ( 2006 ), Canadian Filmmaker and Playwright
- Nick Drake ( 1974 ), British Singer-songwriter , overdose (possibly accidental though officially ruled a suicide) of the anti-depressant, Tryptizol .
- Pierre Drieu La Rochelle ( 1945 ), French novelist
- Dr. Jonathan Drummond-Webb ( 2004 ), American heart surgeon
- Pete Duel , ( 1971 ), American actor
- K. Sello Duiker , ( 2005 ), South African author
- Isaak Dunayevsky , ( 1955 ), Soviet composer
- James Dungy , ( 2005 ), son of Indianapolis Colts head coach Tony Dungy
- Micke Dubois , ( 2005 ), Swedish comedian, hung himself
- Budd Dwyer , ( 1987 ), American politician, shot himself on live Television
- Jeanne Eagels , ( 1929 ), American silent film actress
- John P. East , ( 1986 ), U.S. Senator from North Carolina
- George Eastman , ( 1932 ), inventor
- Ronnie Edwards , ( 1994 ), British Great Train Robber And Flower Seller
- Tristan Egolf , ( 2005 ), writer, musician and campaigner
- Paul Ehrenfest , ( 1933 ), Austrian physicist
- John Ellis ( 1932 ), remorseful hangman
- Empedocles , ( 432 BC ), Greek philosopher, threw himself into Mt Etna
- Gudrun Ensslin , ( 1977 ), German criminal, member of Baader-Meinhof gang
- Peg Entwistle , ( 1932 ), US actress, the first person to jump from the letter 'H' of the Hollywood sign; step-mother of Brian Keith who also committed suicide
- Tom Evans , ( 1983 ), Bass guitarist for Badfinger
- Richard Farnsworth , ( 2000 ), US actor, Oscar nominee
- Justin Fashanu , ( 1998 ), British footballer
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder , ( 1982 ), German film director (often listed as a drug overdose)
- René Favaloro , ( 2000 ), creator of the Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
- Andrea Feldman , ( 1972 ) Actor, Warhol superstar
- Lolo Ferrari , ( 2000 ), actress, singer
- George Fiske , ( 1918 ), photographer
- Ed Flanders , ( 1995 ), US actor
- John Gould Fletcher , ( 1950 ), Pulitzer Prize winning poet
- Luca Flores , ( 1995 ), Italian pianist
- Bernard Floud , ( 1967 ), British politician
- James V Forrestal , ( 1949 ), Former U.S. Secretary of Defense who quoted Sophocles in his suicide note
- Vincent Foster , ( 1993 ), Deputy White House Counsel
- Wade Frankum , ( 1991 ), Spree shooter of Strathfield Massacre
- Sigmund Freud , ( 1939 ), founder of psychoanalysis (lethal dose of morphine)
- John Friedrich , ( 1991 ), Australian businessman and fraudster
- Mike Furber , ( 1973 ), Australian singer
- Zviad Gamsakhurdia , ( 1993 ), former president of Georgia
- Ted Gärdestad , ( 1997 ), Swedish pop musician
- Dave Garroway , ( 1982 ), television host
- Romain Gary , ( 1980 ), Russian-French novelist, film director and diplomat
- Danny Gatton , ( 1994 ), American Guitar ist
- Michel Gauquelin , ( 1991 ), French psychologist and astrology researcher
- Mark Gertler , ( 1939 ), British artist
- Henri Giffard , ( 1882 ), French aeronautical engineer
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman , ( 1935 ), American feminist and author ('' Herland '')
- Gregor Glenn , ( 2006 ), Student
- Joseph Goebbels , ( 1945 ), German Nazi leader
- Fritha Goodey ( 2004 ), British actress
- Adam Lindsay Gordon , ( 1870 ), Australian poet ('Life is mostly froth and bubble')
- Kurt Gödel , ( 1978 ), German logician and mathematician (refused to eat any food)
- Hermann Göring , ( 1946 ), German Nazi leader
- Arshile Gorky , ( 1948 ), Armenian painter
- Eddie Graham , ( 1985 ), American professional wrestler
- Shauna Grant , ( 1984 ), American adult film actress
- Spalding Gray , ( 2004 ), American playwright. Drowned in Atlantic after jumping off Staten Island Ferry
- Richard Greene , ( 1983 ), boxing referee
- Robert Von Greim , ( 1945 ), German Air Marshal
- Anton Gustafsson , ( 2003 ), Swedish singer ( Anton Maiden )
- Antonio Guzmán Fernández , ( 1982 ), serving president of the Dominican Republic
- Kenneth Halliwell , ( 1967 ), English writer, lover of Joe Orton whom he killed before killing himself
- Mitch Halpern , ( 2000 ), boxing referee
- Peter Ham , ( 1975 ), rock musician ( Badfinger )
- Rusty Hamer , ( 1990 ), former child actor ('' The Danny Thomas Show '')
- Lois Hamilton , ( 1999 ), actress, model, author, aviatrix
- Tony Hancock , ( 1968 ), British comedian
- Hani Hanjour , ( 2001 ), Arabian suicide pilot responsible in part for the 11 September, 2001 Attacks .
- Hannibal , ( 182 BC ), military commander
- Lewis Vernon Harcourt , ( 1922 ), British politician who killed himself after knowledge of his attempted seduction of a 12 year old boy became public
- James Harden-Hickey , ( 1898 ), US eccentric who wrote a book listing 88 poisons and 51 instruments that could be used for suicide; he chose an overdose of morphine
- Mary Hardy , ( 1985 ), Australian TV personality (found dead in the bath and was presumed to have committed suicide)
- Larry James Harper , ( 2001 ), member of the Texas 7
- Michael D. Harter , ( 1896 ), congressman from Ohio
- Brynn Hartman , ( 1998 ), wife of actor Phil Hartman whom she killed before turning the gun on herself
- Elizabeth Hartman , ( 1987 ), US actress who emulated a character in her film ' The Group ' who jumped from a window
- Donny Hathaway , ( 1979 ), singer, best known for his duets with Roberta Flack
- Felix Hausdorff , ( 1942 ), mathematician. He committed suicide with his wife and sister-in-law in the Concentration Camp .
- Phyllis Haver , ( 1960 ), American Actress of the Silent Film era
- Benjamin Haydon , ( 1846 ), British painter
- Jeanne Hébuterne ( 1898 - 1920 ), painter, partner of Modigliani
- Sadegh Hedayat , ( 1951 ), Iranian writer. He gassed himself.
- Ernest Hemingway , ( 1961 ), American Novelist
- Margaux Hemingway , ( 1996 ), American Actress and model; Ernest Hemingway 's granddaughter
- Jimi Hendrix , ( 1970 ), American Musician ; drowned in vomit after overdosing on Vesperax sleeping pills.
- James Leo Herlihy , ( 1993 ), US novelist (' Midnight Cowboy ')
- Eric Harris , ( 1999 ) US mass murderer, famous for the Columbine High School Massacre shootings with Dylan Klebold
- John Heddle , ( 1989 ), British politician
- Willard Hershberger , ( 1940 ), Baseball player, only major league player to commit suicide during the season.
- Rudolf Hess , ( 1987 ) Nazi leader
- Paul Hester , ( 2005 ) Australian musician
- Heinrich Himmler , ( 1945 ), German SS leader
- Adolf Hitler , ( 1945 ), Nazi Germany 's leader. Shot/poisoned himself in bunker.
- Abbie Hoffman , ( 1989 ), US political activist and political demonstrator
- Frederick Holliday , ( 1985 ), Cleveland, OH school board president
- Doug Hopkins , ( 1993 ), musician, founding member of rock group The Gin Blossoms . Killed himself with a .38 pistol December 5
- Elmyr De Hory , ( 1976 ), Hungarian art forger
- Robert E. Howard , ( 1936 ), "Pulp" writer of Conan the Barbarian. Shot himself in head on June 11, 1936 after learning his mother was in a permanent coma.
- Francis Hughes ( 1981 ), IRA activist starved himself.
- Hong Xiuquan , ( 1864 ), Chinese leader of the Taiping Rebellion
- Chuck Humphrey , ( 1998 ), Heaven's Gate cult member
- Michael Hutchence , ( 1997 ), Australian lead singer of rock group INXS , hanged himself in hotel room. Speculated to be Autoerotic asphyxiation gone bad.
- Phyllis Hyman , ( 1995 ), singer
- William Inge , ( 1973 ), US playwright ( Picnic , Come Back, Little Sheba , Bus Stop , Splendor In The Grass )
- Isocrates , ( 338 BC ), Greek rhetorician
- Wafa Idis , ( 2002 ), first Palestinian female suicide bomber
- Judas Iscariot , ( 1st Century ), according to the Bible , betrayed Jesus
- Vittorio Jano , ( 1965 ), automobile design engineer
- Randall Jarrell ( 1965 ), US writer and poet
- Rick Jason , ( 2000 ), US actor best known in 'Combat'
- Jiang Qing , ( 1991 ), 3rd wife of Mao Zedong , leader of the Gang Of Four
- David Johnson , ( 1995 ), Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts
- Jim Jones , ( 1978 ), reverend, leader of the " Peoples Temple " cult. Died during mass suicide that cost the lives of more than 900 in Guyana .
- Nafisa Joseph , ( 2004 ), Miss India 1997 , killed herself four weeks before being married.
- Attila József , ( 1937 ), Hungarian poet
- Lee Eun Ju , ( 2005 ), South Korean Actress
- Frida Kahlo , ( 1954 ), Mexican painter, unknown whether she accidentally or purposely overdosed
- Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin , ( 1918 ), Cossack leader during the Russian Civil War
- Sarah Kane , ( 1999 ), British playwright
- Kostas Karyotakis , ( 1928 ), Greek poet, shot himself
- Yasunari Kawabata ( 1972 ), Japanese writer and Nobel Prize For Literature laureate, gassed himself.
- Ivar Kreuger , ( 1932 ) Swedish match industrialist, was found dead in a hotel room in Paris .
- Terry Kath , ( 1978 ), Guitarist , Chicago (Died of an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound. He pointed a gun to his head thinking it wasn't loaded and pulled the trigger.)
- Kawakami Bizan , ( 1908 ), Japanese novelist
- Brian Keith , ( 1997 ), American actor ('' Family Affair '')
- Dr. David Kelly , ( 2003 ), British scientist, source of BBC story about the September Dossier
- Samuel A. Kendall , ( 1933 ), congressman from Pennsylvania, self inflicted gunshot wound in the House Office Building
- Douglas Kenney , ( 1980 ), Writer, producer, actor of National Lampoon Magazine and Animal House. Fell or was pushed off cliff in Hawaii. Composed note "These are the best days I've chosen to ignore" in hotel room.
- Preston King , ( 1865 ), senator from New York, leapt from ferryboat in New York Harbor
- Heinrich Von Kleist , ( 1811 ), German dramatist and poet
- Jochen Klepper , ( 1942 )
- Günther Von Kluge , ( 1944 ), German Field Marshal
- Fletcher Knebel , ( 1993 ), US novelist (' Seven Days In May ')
- William F. Knowland , ( 1974 ), former Senate Majority Leader , self inflicted gunshot
- Sándor Kocsis , ( 1979 ), Hungarian Football (soccer) player, killed himself in Barcelona after diagnosis of cancer
- Arthur Koestler , ( 1983 ), Journalist , Novelist , Political Activist , and social Philosopher
- Hannelore Kohl , ( 2001 ), wife of ex-chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl
- Nestor Kombot-Naguemon ( 2004 ) diplomat and politician from the Central African Republic , jumped out of a window in Paris while serving as ambassador to France
- Prince Fumimaro Konoe , ( 1945 ), Japanese war criminal
- Jerzy Kosinski , ( 1991 ), Polish-American author
- Philip Taylor Kramer , ( 1995 ), Rock musician and physicist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger , ( 1945 ) Nazi official during WWII
- Friedrich Alfred Krupp , ( 1902 ), German industrialist; committed suicide when his homosexuality was revealed
- Alan Ladd , ( 1964 ), U.S. film star, overdose of alcohol and pills, highly disputed for many years
- Paul Lafargue , ( 1911 ), son-in-law of Karl Marx , communist theorist and author of '' The Right To Be Lazy ''
- Robert M. La Follette, Jr. , ( 1953 ), senator from Wisconsin .
- Karen Lancaume , ( 2005 ), French adult film star.
- Carole Landis , ( 1948 ), actress
- James H. Lane , ( 1866 ), senator from Kansas, general in Civil War, shot himself after being charged with financial irregularities
- Hans Langsdorff , ( 1939 ), captain of the '' Admiral Graf Spee ''
- Florence Lawrence , ( 1938 ), Hollywood's first movie Star
- George P. Lawrence , ( 1917 ), representative from Massachusetts, jumped out of building to death due to stress caused by World War I
- Katherine Lawrence , ( 2004 ), writer
- Lee Kyung Hae , ( 2003 ), South Korean activist
- Marshall Ledbetter Jr. , ( 2003 ), lone man of non-violent protest within an office in Tallahassee,FL capitol building in 1991
- Victoria Lee , ( 1888 ), daughter of Emma Lee French
- Primo Levi , ( 1987 ), Italian author and Auschwitz survivor
- Meriwether Lewis , ( 1809 ), US explorer with Clark; died in mysterious circumstances, either murder or suicide
- Robert Ley , ( 1945 ), Nazi war criminal
- Vachel Lindsay , ( 1931 ), US poet
- Peter Llewelyn-Davies , ( 1960 ), UK publisher who as a boy was the inspiration for J M Barrie 's Peter Pan
- Ross Lockridge, Jr. , ( 1948 }, US novelist, author of '' Raintree County ''
- Philip Loeb ( 1955 ), Blacklisted American actor
- Mark Lombardi , ( 2000 ), US artist whose art described international white-collar crime networks; hanged himself in his Williamsburg, New York studio
- Jack London , ( 1916 ), US novelist (his doctor believed he had committed suicide by overdose of morphine and atropine, but his widow prevailed on a more senior doctor to ascribe the death to uremia, and had the body quickly cremated before an autopsy could be done)
- Terry Long , ( 2005 ), Former NFL player
- Hans Loritz ( 1946 ), concentration camp commandant at various times - Esterwegen, Dac
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