Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

female, deceased (1963) (United States)
American women writer, Autobiographical novel, expatriate, depression, Smith College alumni, committed suicide…suicidebygas, suicide
Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 - February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Known primarily for her poetry, Plath...
Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton

female, deceased (1974)
suicidebygas, Colgate University faculty, Writing Teacher, Boston University faculty, bipolar disorder, Oberlin College faculty…committed suicide
Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928, Newton, Massachusetts - October 4, 1974, Weston, Massachusetts), born Anne Gray Harvey, was an American poet and...

Bernard Spilsbury

male, deceased (1947)
Sir Bernard Henry Spilsbury, forensic scientist, From warwickshire, Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford, Pathologist, magdalen college…suicide, committed suicide, suicidebygas
Sir Bernard Henry Spilsbury was a British pathologist. His cases include the Brides in the Bath Murders, the Dr Crippen case, Brighton trunk...
Bella Darvi

Bella Darvi

female, deceased (1971)
Jewish, actor, Polish-American, Bajla Zigelbaum, Hell and High Water, Sam Fuller…suicidebygas, committed suicide
Bella Darvi was an actress of Jewish parentage, although promotional materials refer to her as French. She was born Bajla Zigelbaum (later known as...
Assia Wevill

Assia Wevill

female, deceased (1969)
murderer of children, Murder-suicide, committed suicide, From Berlin, suicidebygas
Assia Wevill was born in Berlin, the daughter of a Russian-Jewish father and a German Lutheran mother. She is best-known for her relationship with...
Chris McKinstry

Chris McKinstry

male, deceased (2006)
Push Singh, CR6, European Southern Observatory, Canadian, Artificial intelligence researcher, usenet…committed suicide, suicidebygas
Kenneth Christopher McKinstry was a researcher in artificial intelligence. He led the development of the MISTIC project which was launched in May...
Sadeq Hedayat

Sadeq Hedayat

male, deceased (1951)
buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, vegetarian, hedayat, persian, tehran, novelist…committed suicide, suicidebygas
Sadegh (or Sadeq) Hedayat (in Persian: صادق هدایت; February 17 1903, Tehran - 4 April, 1951, Paris, France) was Iran's foremost modern writer of...
Don Hollenbeck

Don Hollenbeck

male, deceased (1954)
journalist, from Nebraska, hearst, CBS, suicide, American…natural gas, committed suicide, suicidebygas
Don Hollenbeck (March 30, 1905 - June 22, 1954) was a CBS newscaster and commentator and colleague of Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly. He...
Minnie Vautrin

Minnie Vautrin

female, deceased (1941)
furlough, nanking massacre, safety zone, American, nanjing, nanking…committed suicide, suicidebygas
Wilhelmina (Minnie) Vautrin was an American missionary renowned for saving the lives of many women at the Ginling Girls College in Nanking, China...
Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata

male, deceased (1972)
Magic realism writer, novelist, Nobel Laureate, Short story writer, Japanese, from Osaka Prefecture…suicidebygas, committed suicide
was a Japanese short story writer and novelist whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first...