List of suicides

The following notable people have died by suicide. This includes suicides effected under duress and excludes deaths by accident or misadventure. People who may or may not have died by their own hand, or whose intention to die is disputed, but who are widely believed to have deliberately killed themselves, may be listed.

Possible or disputed suicides

Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Terry A. Davis

Jeffrey Epstein

Primo Levi

Liam Payne

The Death of Socrates

Sid Vicious

• Clodius Albinus (197), Roman emperor, killed himself after a defeat in battle (possibly executed by Septimius Severus)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Prince Alfred of Edinburgh (1899), member of the British royal family. The exact circumstances of Alfred's death are unknown, and varying accounts have been published. His sister Marie's memoirs simply say his health "broke down", and other writers have said that he had "consumption".<ref name="QVD">Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp The Times published an account stating he had died of a tumor,<ref name="QVD" />Template:Rp while The Complete Peerage gives the generally accepted account that he "shot himself".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Gameel Al-Batouti (1999), Egyptian pilot of Egyptair and former officer of the Egyptian Air Force who was killed in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990. It is disputed on whether or not it was caused by mechanical malfunction or by Al-Batouti in a suicide by pilot<ref>{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.vox.com/2015/3/26/8294971/pilot-suicide-crash%7Ctitle=The disturbing history of pilots who deliberately crash their own planes|author=Brad Plumer|work=Vox|date=March 26, 2015|access-date=June 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170821045533/https://www.vox.com/2015/3/26/8294971/pilot-suicide-crash%7Carchive-date=August 21, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
• Suchir Balaji (2024), American artificial intelligence researcher who died several weeks after making accusations against his ex-employer, OpenAI. Both the San Francisco police and the Chief Medical Examiner concluded that his death was a suicide. Balaji's family insist that he was killed.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|web |last=Chien |first=Tomoki |date=2025-02-15 |title=Autopsy: No foul play in OpenAI whistleblower's suicide |url=https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/14/autopsy-no-foul-play-in-openai-whistleblowers-suicide/ |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=The San Francisco Standard}}</ref>
• Scotty Beckett (1968), American actor, an overdose of either barbiturates or alcohol, after seeking medical attention for blunt force trauma injuries following a severe beating<ref>Scott, Vernon (August 11, 1969). "Actress' Death One of Series of Hollywood Tragedies". Reading Eagle (Reading, Pennsylvania). p. 9. Archived at Google News.</ref><ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|title=Children of the screen|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19730717&id=OPwjAAAAIBAJ&pg=3341,755351%7Cnewspaper=The Milwaukee Journal|date=July 17, 1973|page=28}}Template:Dead link</ref>
• Wade Belak (2011), Canadian ice hockey player. Belak was found dead in his home in Toronto, and the police investigated his death as a suicide.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/ex-nhler-belak-committed-suicide-sources-1.1011307%7Ctitle=Ex-NHLer Belak committed suicide: sources|author=Harrison, Doug|publisher=CBC Sports|date=September 1, 2011|access-date=September 3, 2011}}</ref> Later, hockey analyst and former player P. J. Stock alleged that Belak's death was not a suicide, but accidental.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|author=Wyshynski, Greg|url=https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/cbc-p-j-stock-wade-belak-not-suicide-050342472.html%7Ctitle=CBC's P.J. Stock: Wade Belak not a suicide but an 'accidental death'|work=Yahoo! Sports|date=September 3, 2011|access-date=September 2, 2018}}</ref> Although Stock later stepped back from his comments, members of Belak's family also believe his death was accidental.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|url=https://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/article/1055610--feschuk-belak-s-family-trying-to-cope-with-tragic-accident?bn=1%7Ctitle=Feschuk: Belak's family trying to cope with tragic 'accident'|work=Toronto Star|date=September 18, 2011|access-date=February 27, 2018}}</ref>
• Edward Brittain (1918), British army captain, gunshot by enemy sniper, to whom Brittain may have deliberately exposed himself, to avoid a court-martial for homosexuality<ref>{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/history/somme-hero-was-fatally-outed-1584582%7Ctitle=Somme hero was fatally outed|newspaper=The Sentinel|author=Ault, Richard|date=May 18, 2018|access-date=April 16, 2021|archive-date=May 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180522013836/https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/history/somme-hero-was-fatally-outed-1584582}}</ref><ref>Mark Bostridge, Vera Brittain and the First World War: The Story of Testament of Youth (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014), Kindle edition; Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge, Vera Brittain: A Life (Chatto & Windus, 1995)</ref>
• Terry A. Davis (2018), American programmer and creator of TempleOS, struck by a train<ref>{{#invoke:cite|web|author=Cecil, Neita|title=Man killed by train had tech following|url=https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/thedalleschronicle/news/man-killed-by-train-had-tech-following/article_1f03fc0d-c223-5f20-a915-460fce4299f1.html%7Cwebsite= The Dalles Chronicle|date=September 7, 2018|access-date=February 18, 2022|archive-date=November 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108002150/https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/thedalleschronicle/news/man-killed-by-train-had-tech-following/article_1f03fc0d-c223-5f20-a915-460fce4299f1.html}}</ref>
• Jeffrey Epstein (2019), American financier and convicted sex offender, hanging.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://apnews.com/a947e0d85d31496eb5bd9ff4994c9718%7Ctitle=Medical examiner rules Epstein death a suicide by hanging|first1=Michael R.|last1=Sisak|first2=Michael|last2=Balsamo|first3=Larry|last3=Neumeister|date=August 17, 2019|publisher=Associated Press}}</ref> Whether Epstein's death was suicide or homicide is a point of controversy.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-autopsy-homicide.html%7Ctitle=Jeffrey Epstein, a Disputed Autopsy and a Claim of Homicide|date=October 31, 2019|last=Salcedo|first=Andrea|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=December 8, 2019}}</ref>
• Lolo Ferrari (2000), French pornographic actress, dancer, singer, and Guinness World Record holder, antidepressant and heroin overdose. Ferrari had been depressed, and while her death was ruled a suicide, it is speculated that her husband killed her. After it was found that mechanically induced suffocation could not be ruled out, her husband was arrested. He was released from prison after 13 months, after a second autopsy was performed.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|web |date=January 6, 2013|title=Le mari de Lolo Ferrari blanchi|publisher=20minutes.fr|url=http://www.20minutes.fr/people/140549-People-Le-mari-de-Lolo-Ferrari-blanchi.php%7Carchive-url=https://archive.today/20130106215337/http://www.20minutes.fr/people/140549-People-Le-mari-de-Lolo-Ferrari-blanchi.php%7Curl-status=dead%7Carchive-date=January 6, 2013|access-date=May 28, 2022|language=French}}</ref>
• John Fitch (1798), American inventor, opium overdose<ref>Asimov, Isaac (1982). Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Doubleday.</ref>
• James Forrestal (1949), First U.S. Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Navy, fell from 16th floor of building (disputed suicide)<ref>{{#invoke:cite|web | url=http://ariwatch.com/VS/JamesForrestal/WillcuttsReport.htm | title=Wilcutts Report}}</ref>
• Rick Genest (2018), performance artist, actor and model, fall from a balcony<ref>{{#invoke:cite|web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/zombie-boy-dead-1.4772315 |title=Model and artist known as Zombie Boy dead at 32 |publisher=CBC News |date=August 2, 2018|location=Toronto}}</ref><ref>Kaufman, Gil (August 6, 2018). "Rick 'Zombie Boy' Genest's Family Believes He Died in an Accidental Fall From a Balcony". Billboard.</ref>
• Kurt Gödel (1978), Austrian-American logician, mathematician and philosopher, died of starvation as a result of refusing to eat anything not prepared by his wife, who was hospitalized, out of fear of being poisoned. It is unclear whether this was a suicide.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• Nigel Green (1972), English actor, overdose of sleeping pills<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Hannibal (183–181 BC),<ref>Cornelius Nepos, Hannibal 13.1</ref> Carthaginian military commander and tactician, possibly poison<ref>Cornelius Nepos, Hannibal 12.5; Juvenal, Satires X.164</ref><ref>{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160:book=8:chapter=11&highlight=hannibal%7Ctitle=Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8.11.11|author=Pausanias|publisher=Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University|access-date=April 10, 2016}}</ref>
• Judas Iscariot (AD 30 or 33), Apostle turned betrayer of Jesus, hanged himself according to the Gospel of Matthew;<ref>{{#invoke:cite|citation |title=Matthew |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Matthew#27:1 |work=The King James Bible |access-date=21 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:cite|book |first=Barry D. |last=Smith |title=The Meaning of Jesus's Death: Reviewing the New Testament's Interpretations |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ww8eDQAAQBAJ |publisher=T&T Clark |year=2010 |isbn=978-0567670694 |page=93 |access-date=21 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:cite|book |last=Ehrman |first=Bart D. |date=2016 |title=Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented their Stories of the Savior |location=New York City |publisher=HarperOne |pages=28–29 |isbn=978-0-06-228520-1}} Retrieved 21 October 2025.</ref><ref>{{#invoke:cite|web |url=http://www.christnotes.org/dictionary.php?dict=ebd&q=Judas |title=Easton's Bible Dictionary: Judas |publisher=christnotes.org |access-date=21 October 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001538/http://www.christnotes.org/dictionary.php?dict=ebd&q=Judas |archive-date=27 September 2007}}</ref><ref>Raymond E. Brown, An Introduction to the New Testament, p. 114. Retrieved 21 October 2025.</ref><ref>Charles Talbert, Reading Acts: A Literary and Theological Commentary, Smyth & Helwys (2005) p. 15. Retrieved 21 October 2025.</ref><ref>Frederick Dale Bruner, Matthew: A Commentary, Eerdmans (2004), p. 703. Retrieved 21 October 2025.</ref><ref>{{#invoke:cite|journal |url=http://academic.shu.edu/btb/vol35/06Reed.pdf |title='Saving Judas': A Social Scientific Approach to Judas's Suicide in Matthew 27:3–10 |author=Reed, David A. |journal=Biblical Theology Bulletin |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=51–59 |year=2005 |access-date=21 October 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070629151614/http://academic.shu.edu/btb/vol35/06Reed.pdf |archive-date=29 June 2007 |doi=10.1177/01461079050350020301 |s2cid=144391749}}</ref><ref>Theophylact on Matthew, Chapter 27 Retrieved 21 October 2025.Template:Dead link, 3-5.</ref><ref>{{#invoke:cite|web |title=Bible Gateway passage: Matthew 27:5 – Revised Standard Version |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2027%3A5&version=RSV |access-date=21 October 2025 |website=Bible Gateway |language=en}}</ref> the Book of Acts suggests he died in an accidental fall,<ref>{{#invoke:cite|book |last=Zwiep |first=Arie W. |date=2004 |title=Judas and the Choice of Matthias: A Study on Context and Concern of Acts 1:15–26 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yUmI4US6rOUC&q=death+of+Judas&pg=PA17 |series=Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe |volume=187 |pages=16–17, 109 |location=Tübingen, Germany |publisher=Mohr Siebeck |isbn=978-3-16-148452-0 |access-date=21 October 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:cite|web |title=Bible Gateway passage: Acts 1:18 – Revised Standard Version |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%201%3A18&version=RSV |access-date=21 October 2025 |website=Bible Gateway |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:cite|web |url=https://enduringword.com/bible-commentary/matthew-27/ |title=Matthew 27 – Jesus' Trial, Death, and Burial |website=Enduring World |date=9 December 2015 |access-date=21 October 2025}}Template:Unreliable source?</ref> while the apocryphical Gospel of Judas suggests he was stoned to death by the other Apostles<ref>{{#invoke:cite|web|url=http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lostgospel/pdf/GospelofJudas.pdf%7Carchiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911005041/http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lostgospel/pdf/GospelofJudas.pdf%7Curl-status=dead%7Ctitle=Gospel of Judas 44–45|website=National Geographic Society |archivedate=11 September 2011|access-date=21 October 2025}}</ref>
• Ho Ka-i (1953), Soviet and North Korean politician and operative, officially died of suicide by gunshot but an assassination also seems likely.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Sung-jae Kim (1995), South Korean singer and former member of Deux, stabbed in the arm 28 times with a syringe containing animal anesthetic. It is unknown if it was a murder or suicide.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|url=http://stock.moneytoday.co.kr/view/mtview.php?no=2009021809323856921&type=1&TVEC |script-title=ko:광고모델로 부활한 듀스 김성재 사연 |publisher=Money Today |language=ko |author=Jeong Hyeon-su (정현수) |date=February 18, 2009}}</ref>
• David Koresh (1993), American leader of the Branch Davidians, gunshot. It is unknown if he was murdered by one of the Branch Davidians, or if he died by suicide.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|url=http://www.aetv.com/blog/real-crime/waco-siege-david-koresh-branch-davidians-facts-to-know%7Ctitle=David Koresh and the Branch Davidians: 6 Things You Should Know|date=January 24, 2018|publisher=A&E|access-date=April 16, 2019}}</ref>
• Jules Lequier (1862), French philosopher, likely swam voluntarily out into the ocean<ref>Camus, Albert. The Myth of Sisyphus, p.3</ref>
• Primo Levi (1987), Italian chemist, writer and Holocaust survivor, jumped from his third-story apartment<ref>{{#invoke:cite|web |last=Gambetta |first=Diego |title=Primo Levi's Last Moments: A new look at the Italian author's tragic death twelve years ago |url=https://www.bostonreview.net/BR24.3/gambetta.html |date=April–May 2004 |magazine=Boston Review |access-date=August 17, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608220336/http://www.bostonreview.net/BR24.3/gambetta.html |archive-date=June 8, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
• Gilbert N. Lewis (1946), American chemist, cyanide poisoning. It is disputed whether he had a heart attack or died by suicide.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/WHAT-KILLED-FAMED-CAL-CHEMIST-20th-century-2491757.php%7Ctitle=WHAT KILLED FAMED CAL CHEMIST? / 20th century pioneer who failed to win a Nobel Prize may have succumbed to a broken heart, one admirer theorizes|last1=DelVecchio|first1=Rick|date=2006-08-05|website=SFGate|access-date=2024-07-30}}</ref>
• Meriwether Lewis (1809), US explorer and partner of William Clark, gunshot. There is some debate as to whether his death was a suicide.<ref>Guice, John D. W.; Holmberg, James J.; Buckley, Jay H. (2006). By His Own Hand? The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis. University of Oklahoma Press.</ref>
• Lucretius (c. 55 BC), Roman poet and Epicurean philosopher. The only source of his suicide is Jerome, who is considered by scholars as unreliable and hostile towards Lucretius<ref>Template:Cite bookTemplate:Dead link</ref>
• Kizito Mihigo (2020), Rwandan gospel singer, genocide survivor and peace activist, hanging. Human rights organisations and Rwandan activists challenged this.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-51667168%7Ctitle=Kizito Mihigo: The Rwandan gospel singer who died in a police cell|date=February 29, 2020|publisher=BBC News|access-date=March 3, 2020}}</ref>
• Unity Mitford, (1948), British socialite and Nazi sympathiser, died eight years after shooting herself of injuries caused by the bullet; debatable if this counts as suicide<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/dec/08/letters.theobserver%7Ctitle=My sister and Hitler: Unity Mitford's war|access-date=April 5, 2021|author=Cavendish, Deborah|newspaper=The Guardian|location=London|date=December 8, 2002|archive-date=August 26, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130826190421/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/dec/08/letters.theobserver}}</ref>
• Alighiero Noschese (1979), Italian TV impersonator, gunshot while being recovered under care for clinical depression. As patients with depression are not permitted to possess firearms and other lethal objects, it was suspected that someone murdered Noschese or smuggled the gun to him.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|web|url=http://guide.supereva.it/cronaca_nera/interventi/2006/05/256057.shtml%7Cpublisher=Guide%7Ctitle=Lo 'strano' suicidio di Alighiero Noschese|last=Criscuoli|first=Lucia|language=it|date=May 18, 2006|access-date=May 23, 2009|archive-date=August 26, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090826171029/http://guide.supereva.it/cronaca_nera/interventi/2006/05/256057.shtml%7Curl-status=dead}}</ref>
• Orgetorix (60 BC), Gallic member of the ruling class of the Helvetii and conspirator. It is uncertain if he died by suicide or was executed.<ref>Template:Cite book 1.2</ref>
• Liam Payne (2024), member of the boyband One Direction. Died by falling of the 3rd floor balcony of a hotel. He might have been under the influence of alcohol or drugs. It is unsure whether he fell or jumped. Autopsy revealed he did not protect himself while falling.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|web |date=2024-10-17 |title=What we know about Liam Payne's death, including some of the unanswered questions |url=https://apnews.com/article/liam-payne-death-what-to-know-83bd8655c4c70332d4a847b9d167f1fa |access-date=2024-10-18 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref>
• Giuseppe Pinelli (1969), Italian anarchist, fall from police station window, police claim of suicide widely disputed<ref>{{#invoke:cite|web|title=Giuseppe 'Pino' Pinelli (1928–1969): the 17th victim of the Piazza Fontana bombing|url=http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/f7m14m%7Cpublisher=Kate Sharpley Library}}</ref>
• John William Polidori (1821), English writer and physician, ingestion of hydrogen cyanide. The coroner gave a verdict of death by natural causes despite strong evidence of suicide<ref>{{#invoke:cite|web |url=https://janeausten.co.uk/blogs/uncategorized/john-william-polidori-author-vampyre |title=John William Polidori: Author of The Vampyre |website=Jane Austen Centre |access-date=July 23, 2021 |archive-date=July 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210723193242/https://janeausten.co.uk/blogs/uncategorized/john-william-polidori-author-vampyre |url-status=dead}}</ref>
• Freddie Prinze (1977), American actor and comedian, gunshot to the head while under the influence of methaqualone and alcohol. His death was initially ruled suicide,<ref>{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,914757,00.html%7Ctitle=Suicides: Freddie Prinze: Too Much, Too Soon|magazine=Time|date=February 7, 1977|access-date=July 27, 2021|archive-date=July 27, 2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210727145837/http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,914757,00.html}}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:cite|news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18734066/freddie_prinze_buried_on_hill/ |title=Freddie Prinze buried on hill overlooking NBC studio |first=Vernon |last=Scott|publisher=UPI |newspaper=The Capitol Journal |location=Salem, Oregon |page=6 |date=January 31, 1977 |access-date=February 16, 2019 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> but his mother and other loved ones successfully convinced a court to change the official cause of death to accidental.<ref>Snauffer, Douglas (July 23, 2008). Show Must Go on: How the Deaths of Lead Actors Have Affected Television. McFarland & Company p. 74. Archived at Google Books. Retrieved May 23, 2015.</ref>
• Bernardo Sassetti (2012), Portuguese jazz pianist and film composer, fell or jumped off a cliff to the sea (a nearby fisherman said he saw him jump).<ref>{{#invoke:cite|web|title=A morte misteriosa de Sassetti|url=https://sol.sapo.pt/2012/05/20/a-morte-misteriosa-de-sassetti/%7Cwebsite=sol.sapo.pt%7Caccess-date=March 3, 2024|date=May 20, 2012}}</ref>
• Elliott Smith (2003), American singer, songwriter and musician, stab wounds to chest. While Smith's death was originally reported as a suicide, the official autopsy report released in December 2003 left open the question of homicide.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>{{#invoke:cite|web |url=http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/rockers-autopsy-doesnt-rule-out-homicide |title=Rocker's Autopsy Doesn't Rule Out Homicide |date=January 8, 2004 |website=The Smoking Gun}}</ref>
• Socrates (399 BC), Classical Greek Athenian philosopher, credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, poison (likely hemlock)<ref>Plato. Apology, 24–27.</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Linder, Doug (2002). "The Trial of Socrates". University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law. Retrieved September 12, 2013.</ref><ref>"Socrates (Greek philosopher)". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved September 12, 2013.</ref> Because Socrates was forced to poison himself to death as his sentence following his conviction for impiety and corrupting the minds of the youth of Athens, the question of whether this constitutes a genuine suicide is a subject of debate.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• John Hanning Speke (1864), British explorer, gunshot.<ref>Template:Cite ODNB</ref> An inquest concluded that his death was accidental, a conclusion supported by Speke's biographer Alexander Maitland, as the location of the fatal wound just below Speke's armpit made suicide unlikely.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> However, the idea of suicide has appealed to some critics of Speke.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Tsarong (1959), Tibetan diplomat, court official and reformer, died in a Chinese prison shortly before his public execution with no cause of death ever being revealed, his friend Heinrich Harrer suspects suicide<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Vincent van Gogh (1890), Dutch Post-Impressionist painter, gunshot to the chest.<ref>Hulsker, Jan. The Complete Van Gogh. Oxford: Phaidon, 1980. Template:ISBN. pp. 480-483.</ref> Naifeh and Smith 2011 biography of van Gogh argued that he was a possible victim of accidental manslaughter or foul play by René Secrétan, who led a gang of teenage hooligans who enjoyed getting drunk and bullying the tortured artist.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|web|title=Was van Gogh Killed? New Research Says He Was Shot|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/was-van-gogh-killed-new-research-says-he-was-shot-159637%7Cwebsite=Artnet%7Caccess-date=March 3, 2024|date=November 7, 2014}}</ref>
• Jeffrey "JV" Vandergrift (2023), DJ and radio show host, body found in San Francisco bay following long battle with Lyme disease. Suicide suspected.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|web|title=Wife of San Francisco DJ Jeffrey Vandergrift shares heartbreak after his body was found|url=https://nypost.com/2023/03/26/wife-of-jeffrey-vandergrift-shares-heartbreak-after-his-body-was-found/%7Cwebsite=New York Post|access-date=February 1, 2025|date=March 26, 2023}}</ref>
• Sid Vicious (1979), English musician and member of the Sex Pistols, heroin overdose.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|web|title=Sid and Nancy: A Punk Mystery Story|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/nancy-and-sid-a-punk-mystery-story-91151.html%7Cwebsite=The Independent|access-date=May 6, 2017|date=October 12, 2003}}</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He had made a suicide pact with his then recently deceased girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, as evident by a note found in his coat pocket after his death.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|web |title=Sid Vicious wrote what appears to be a suicide note. Sid's mother, Anne Beverley, found it in the pocket of his jeans after his death |url=https://www.thatericalper.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Sid-Vicious-wrote-what-appears-to-be-a-suicide-note.-Sid%E2%80%99s-mother-Anne-Beverley-found-it-in-the-pocket-of-his-jeans-after-his-death.jpg |website=That Eric Alper}}</ref>

See also

• List of deaths from drug overdose and intoxication

External links

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