Famous People Who Died of suicide

• Antony, Marc

  Cleopatra's ill-fated lover

• Arbus, Diane

  New York photographer of oddball humans

• Bourdain, Anthony

  The celebrity chef who starred in the TV shows No Reservations and Parts Unknown

• Brautigan, Richard

  Author of Trout Fishing in America

• Cho, Seung-Hui

  The student who killed 32 others at Virginia Tech in 2007

• Cobain, Kurt

  Lead singer of the group Nirvana

• Cornelius, Don

  The creator and host of the musical TV show Soul Train

• Crane, Hart

  Suicidal poet of The Bridge

• De Hory, Elmyr

  Art forger and author of the book Fake!

• Goebbels, Joseph

   Adolf Hitler's Minister of Propaganda, 1933-45

• Göring, Hermann

  Commander of the Nazi Luftwaffe in World War II

• Hemingway, Ernest

  The famously manly author of For Whom the Bell Tolls

• Hitler, Adolf

  The leader of Nazi Germany during World War II

• Judas Iscariot

  The disciple who betrayed Jesus of Nazareth

• Kaczynski, Ted

  The so-called Unabomber

• Muenter, Erich

  The Germany-sympathizing bomber who shot J.P. Morgan, Jr.

• Nero

  The emperor who "fiddled while Rome burned"

• Plath, Sylvia

  Poet and author of The Bell Jar

• Rocket, Charles

  One-time Saturday Night Live actor who killed himself

• Rothko, Mark

  Abstract expressionist painter of 1958's "Black on Maroon"

• Santos-Dumont, Alberto

  Brazilian "Father of Aviation"

• Seneca

  Stoic philospher and playwright of the first century

• Troyer, Verne

  'Mini-Me' in the Austin Powers movies

• Turing, Alan

  The famous British pioneer of computers and artificial intelligence

• Wallace, David Foster

  The author of the novel Infinite Jest

• Young, Gig

  Oscar-winner from They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

• Yukio, Mishima

  Seppuku-committing Japanese author

See: All Causes of Death