- Nasty Suicide
Nasty Suicide (born as Jan Stenfors on February 27, 1963) is the ex-rhythm guitarist for Hanoi Rocks, a Finnish outfit, who combined elements of punk, glam rock, rock and roll, and blues. After the breakup of Hanoi, he and former bandmate Andy McCoy recorded an acoustic album under the name of The Suicide Twins. Nasty went on to form Cheap And Nasty. Afterwards, he released one album under his own name. He is currently working as a pharmacist (M. Sci. - Youth Suicide
Andre Verdun (born October 25, 1981), better known by his ring name, Youth Suicide, is an American professional wrestler who wrestles for a number of American independent federations. - Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 - 30 April 1945) was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (The Nazi party). He was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, and became FAhrer (leader) [2] in 1934, remaining in power until his suicide in 1945. - Kurt Cobain
Kurt Donald Cobain was the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the Seattle-based rock band Nirvana. Cobain was born in Aberdeen, Washington and grew up with a troubled childhood, which he frequently addressed in his songs and interviews. Known for his abrasive and often disturbing songwriting as well as his distinctive vocal style, Cobain is often cited among the most influential musicians of his time. Cobain formed Nirvana in 1986 with Krist Novoselic. - Jack Black
Jack Black was a late 19th century/early 20th century hobo and professional burglar, living out the dying age of the Wild West. He wrote "You Can't Win", a memoir or sketched autobiography describing his days on the road and life as an honorable outlaw. Black's book was written as an anti-crime book urging criminals to go straight but is also his statement of belief in the futility of prisons and the criminal justice system, hence the title of the book. - Jim Jones
James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 - November 18, 1978) was the American founder of the Peoples Temple group, which became synonymous with group suicide after the November 18, 1978 mass murder - suicide by poison in their isolated agricultural intentional community called Jonestown, located in the country of Guyana. Nine-hundred-and-nine (909) people drank cyanide after Jim Jones ordered his men to kill visiting Congressman Leo Ryan and numerous members of his entourage - Elliott Smith
Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith was an Academy Award-nominated American singer-songwriter and musician. His primary instrument was the guitar, but he was also proficient at piano, clarinet, bass, harmonica and drums. Smith had a distinctive vocal style characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery", and use of multi-tracking to create vocal harmonies. Although Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and died in Los Angeles, California, … - Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Nicknamed "Papa", he was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris known as "the Lost Generation", as described in his memoir "A Moveable Feast." He led a turbulent social life, was married four times, and allegedly had various romantic relationships during his lifetime. - Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of the macabre and mystery, Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction and crime fiction. He is also credited with contributing to the emergent science fiction genre. Poe died at the age of 40. - Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 - February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Known primarily for her poetry, Plath also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, "The Bell Jar", under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, detailing her struggle with depression. Along with Anne Sexton, Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry that Robert Lowell and W.D. Snodgrass initiated. - Suicide By Cop
Suicide-by-cop is a suicide method in which someone deliberately acts in a threatening way towards a law enforcement officer, with the goal of provoking a lethal response, such as being shot to death. Similar phrases include suicide-by-police, and officer- (or police-) assisted suicide. A veteran Canadian police officer researching the topic for his Master's and Ph.D. theses used the phrase "Victim-Precipitated Homicide". (Parent 2004) - David Kelly
David Christopher Kelly CMG (May 17, 1944 – July 17, 2003) was an employee of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MoD), an expert in biological warfare, and a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq. Kelly's discussion with Today programme journalist Andrew Gilligan about the British government's dossier on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq inadvertently caused a major political scandal. - Vince Foster
Vincent Walker Foster, Jr. was a deputy White House counsel during the first term of President Bill Clinton, and also a law partner and personal acquaintance of Hillary Clinton. He was found dead in Fort Marcy Park off the George Washington Parkway in Virginia, outside Washington, D.C. His death was ruled a suicide by investigations conducted by the United States Park Police, the United States Congress, and Independent Counsels Robert B. Fiske and Kenneth Starr.. - Alan Vega
Alan Vega (real name: Alan Bermowitz) was born in Brooklyn in 1948 and is the vocalist for 1970s and 80s no wave duo Suicide. Alan Vega's vocals are said to be influenced by Elvis Presley and rockabilly. He began his artistic career doing light sculptures, and in 1974 he opened a small gallery in lower Manhattan, where he started to create the "Project of Living Artists", a pluri-artistic place to develop various happenings or artistic attempts. - Samuel Johnson
"'Samuel Johnson"(Born 1977 or early 1978)' is an Australian actor. He is a voiceover artist on Network Ten, promoting advertisements for upcoming shows. He also appeared in 2001 as one of the main characters, Evan Wylde on "The Secret Life of Us" also on Network Ten, for which he received an AFI award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Television Drama Series. In 2002 he appeared in the Australian movie Crackerjack. - Seung-Hui Cho
Seung-Hui Cho (January 18 1984 – April 16 2007) was a mass murderer who killed 32 people and wounded 25 others in a shooting spree known as the Virginia Tech massacre. The massacre took place on April 16 2007 at the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. Cho, a senior English major at Virginia Tech, committed suicide that day after law enforcement officers breached the doors of the academic building where he had wounded and killed most of his potential victims. - Paul Williams
Paul Williams was an American second tenor/baritone singer. Williams is noted for being one of the founding members and original lead singer of the popular Motown group The Temptations. Along with David Ruffin, Otis Williams (no relation), and fellow Alabamians Eddie Kendricks and Melvin Franklin, Williams was a member of The Temptations during their most successful years in the 1960s, later dubbed the "Classic 5" period. - Cy Young
Cy (also known as Sy) Young (died 1964) was a Chinese American special effects animator, best known for his work for The Walt Disney Company. Young's first work was as lead animator on the 1931 short "Mendelssohn's Spring Song", a project completed while he was a student in New York City. Disney was so impressed with his work that he hired him to be head of the new special effects animation department. - David Healy
David Healy is an Irish psychiatrist who is currently a professor in Psychological Medicine at Cardiff University College of Medicine, Wales.He is also the director of North Wales School of Psychological Medicine. He became the centre of controversy concerning the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on medicine and academia. - James Webb
James Webb (January 13, 1946 - May 9, 1980) was a Scottish historian and biographer. Webb, born in Edinburgh, was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He is remembered primarily for two works "The Occult Underground" and "The Occult Establishment". "Occult Underground" was originally titled "Flight from Reason". He also wrote an important, and somewhat debated biography of G. I. Gurdjieff, "The Harmonious Circle". - Martin Rev
Martin Rev (full name Martin Reverby) is the instrumentalist from New York punk-era electronic band Suicide. He has also released a number of solo albums for a handful of labels, including ROIR and Puu. His style on these recordings varies wildly from release to release, from prototypical electronic no wave ("Martin Rev") to bubblegum pop ("See Me Ridin," "Strangeworld") to heavy synthesizer rock ("To Live"). - Lana Clarkson
Lana Clarkson (April 5, 1962 - February 3, 2003) was an American actress. She was born in Long Beach, California. Clarkson is best known for her film work with Roger Corman, appearing first in his fantasy epic "Deathstalker" (1983). Her work as a sword weilding vixen led to her being offered the title role in Corman's next film, the cult classic "Barbarian Queen" (1985), … - Mark Antony
Marcus Antonius (Latin: <small>M·ANTONIVS·M·F·M·N</small>) ("c." January 14, 83 BC - August 1, 30 BC), known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman politician and general. He was an important supporter of Gaius Julius Caesar as a military commander and administrator. After Caesar's assassination, Antony allied with Octavian and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus to form an official triumvirate which modern scholars have labelled the second triumvirate. - Kristin Hersh
Kristin Hersh (born August 7, 1966) is an American singer/songwriter who performs solo acoustic concerts; she also has performed as lead singer and guitarist for alternative rock group Throwing Muses and currently leads the hardcore punk-influenced power trio 50 Foot Wave. Her best-known songs are "Your Ghost" and "Bright Yellow Gun", which received national commercial airplay in the mid-1990s. Hersh's music is known for its creative chord chemistry, … - Houston
Houston Summers IV (born on October 26 1983), professionally known as Houston, is an American R&B singer best known for the hit single "I Like That". Houston grew up in Los Angeles, California and performed on the streets with his friends who rapped, his niche was he sang freestyle lyrics since he discovered he had a real knack for it.. He also grew up without a father. Summers comes from a very devout Christian background, … - Amy Tan
Amy Tan is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and what it means to grow up as a first generation Asian American. In 1993, Tan's adaptation of her most popular fiction work, "The Joy Luck Club", became a commercially successful film. She has written several other books, including "The Kitchen God's Wife", "The Hundred Secret Senses", and "The Bonesetter's Daughter", … - Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler (September 5, 1905, Budapest - March 3, 1983, London) was a Hungarian polymath who became a naturalized British subject. He wrote journalism, novels, social philosophy, and books on scientific subjects. In 1931, he joined the Communist Party of Germany, but left the party seven years later, after emigrating to the United Kingdom. By the late 1940s, he was one of the most recognized and outspoken British anti-communists, … - Ric Ocasek
Ric Ocasek (born Richard Otcasek on March 23, 1949, in Baltimore, Maryland) is the former vocalist and frontman for The Cars and a producer for several other groups including Weezer, Bad Brains, and Suicide. - Harold Shipman
Harold Frederick Shipman (January 14, 1946-January 13, 2004) was an English general practitioner who was one of the most prolific known serial killers in modern history. He was better known, before his arrest, as Fred Shipman. He was convicted on 15 sample charges in 2000 and sentenced to 15 consecutive life sentences. He committed suicide in 2004 at HMP Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, without admitting or explaining his crimes. - John Ellis
John Ellis was a British executioner from 1901 to 1924. Born in Rochdale, England, he took the responsibility of his position very seriously and hoped to "despatch" the condemned person with as little fuss and pain to the individual concerned. He was a very professional man. An insight into his behaviour and methods can be read in the book "Diary of a Hangman" in which he describes his methods and recalls the final moments of some of the people he executed. - Bernard Sumner
Bernard Sumner (born Bernard Dicken, 4 January 1956 in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire, England, and also known as Bernard Albrecht) is a British guitarist and keyboardist, originally with Joy Division. After the May 1980 suicide of Joy Division's vocalist, Ian Curtis, Sumner and remaining bandmates Peter Hook and Stephen Morris started a new band named New Order, later taking in Gillian Gilbert. - Bill Thomas
Bill Thomas is a Houston photographer known for photos of elaborate, humorous ways to commit suicide. - Budd Dwyer
Robert "Budd" Dwyer (November 21, 1939 - January 22, 1987) was a former Pennsylvania politician who, on the morning of January 22, 1987, committed suicide by shooting himself in the mouth with a revolver during a televised press conference. - Iris Chang
Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 - November 9, 2004) was an American historian and journalist. She was best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, "The Rape of Nanking". She committed suicide on November 9, 2004, after a depressive episode resulting from a nervous breakdown. - Michael Gira
Michael Gira (pronounced jeer-AH) (born 1954) is a musician, author, and artist. He was the main force behind the now dissolved New York City musical group Swans and currently fronts The Angels of Light. He is also the founder of Young God Records. Gira lived with his parents in a relatively affluent suburb of Los Angeles, California though they divorced when he was a young teenager. After staying with his alcoholic mother for much of his youth, … - Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. - Dana Plato
Dana Michelle Plato (November 1, 1963 - May 8, 1999) was an American actress who became famous playing the role of Kimberly Drummond in the U.S. television sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes". Plato's career declined after her departure from the show, with appearances in low-budget films, including some softcore pornography. She had chronic drug problems and committed suicide on May 8, 1999. - John Kennedy Toole
John Kennedy Toole (December 17, 1937 - March 26, 1969) was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, best known for his novel "A Confederacy of Dunces". Toole's novel remained unpublished during his lifetime. Some years after his death by suicide, Toole's mother brought the manuscript of "A Confederacy of Dunces" to the attention of the novelist Walker Percy, who ushered the book into print. - Ravi Zacharias
Ravi Zacharias (full name Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias, born 1946) is an Indian-born, Canadian-American evangelical Christian philosopher, apologist and evangelist. Zacharias is a descendant of two rich religious traditions, first Hindu priests (of the Nambudiri Brahmin caste), and later as Christian ministers. In one of his lectures, Zacharias asserts that a Swiss-German priest spoke to one of his ancestors about Christianity, … - Alan Carr
Alan Carr (born 14 June, 1976) is an openly gay English stand-up comedian and TV presenter, renowned for his camp demeanour and saucy innuendo-based jokes. He won the New Comedian Of The Year Award at the 2001 BBC New Comedy Awards and in 2005 was named Best Stand up comedian in the North West at the North West Comedy Awards. He has also featured in three Edinburgh shows and appeared at the Reading and Leeds Festivals, Yet more recently, Latitude Festival, in Suffolk.
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