List of people who died by hanging
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This is a list of people who died as a result of hanging. These deaths are notable due to history or due to media exposure.
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[edit] Suicide
[edit] Real life suicides by hanging
[edit] Before the 20th century
- Chongzhen Emperor, emperor of China's Ming Dynasty (April 25, 1644)
- Gérard de Nerval, French poet and essayist (January 26, 1855)
[edit] 20th century
- Ludwig Boltzmann, physicist, pioneer of statistical mechanics (September 5, 1906)
- Sergei Yesenin, a Russian poet, ex-husband of Isadora Duncan (December 27, 1925)
- Nishinoumi Kajirō II, 25th yokozuna (January 27, 1931)
- Santos Dumont, Brazilian aviation pioneer (1932)
- Hans Berger, German inventor of electroencephalography (June 1, 1941)
- Marina Tsvetayeva, a Russian poet (August 31, 1941)
- Eduard Wirths, Chief SS doctor (September 20, 1945)
- Charles Armijo Woodruff, 11th Governor of American Samoa (November 23, 1945)[1]
- Wilfrid Garfield Case, former Canadian Member of Parliament and war veteran. (September 22, 1959)
- Frederick Fleet, lookout on the Titanic who first spotted the iceberg (1965)
- Pete Ham, guitarist and singer of rock band Badfinger (April 23, 1975)
- Ulrike Meinhof, imprisoned member of the German Red Army Faction, (May 9, 1976)
- Phil Ochs, political folksinger (1976)
- David Munrow, musician and early music historian, (May 15, 1976)
- Ian Curtis, lead singer of Joy Division (May 18, 1980)
- Trent Lehman, former child actor of Nanny and the Professor (January 18, 1982)
- Richard Manuel, Musician best known for his membership in The Band (March 4, 1986)
- Buster Edwards, British Great Train Robber (1994)
- Tom Evans, a member of the rock band Badfinger (5 June 1947 – 19 November 1983)
- Michael Gothard, British actor (December 2, 1992)
- Fred West, British serial killer (January 1, 1995)
- Cheyenne Brando, daughter of Marlon Brando (April 16, 1995)
- Kim Kwang-Seok, South Korean folk rock singer (January 6, 1996)
- Ray Combs, host of Family Feud from 1988 to 1994 (June 2, 1996)
- Terence Donovan, British fashion photographer (1996)
- Michael Hutchence, lead singer of INXS (November 22, 1997)
- Rozz Williams, American musician (April 1, 1998)
- Justin Fashanu, British footballer (May 2, 1998)
- Hideto Matsumoto, Japanese rock musician (May 2, 1998)
- Sarah Kane, British playwright (February 20, 1999)
- David Strickland, American actor, best known for his character Todd on Suddenly Susan, (March 22, 1999)
[edit] 21st century
- Stuart Adamson, British musician (December 16, 2001)
- Jon Lee, drummer with Feeder (2002)
- Ryan Halligan, a 13 year old schoolboy (October 7, 2003)
- Jonathan Brandis, American actor (November 12, 2003)
- Tesia Samara (Ben Brownlee), a fifteen year old transgender MTF (November 18 2003)
- Harold Shipman, English doctor and serial killer, convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment (January 13, 2004)
- Lee Eun-ju, South Korean actress and singer (February 22, 2005)
- Paul Hester, former drummer of Crowded House (March 26, 2005)
- Megan Meier, a 13 year old schoolgirl (October 17, 2006)
- Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress (February 10, 2007)
- Mike Awesome, former professional wrestler, twice ECW Champion (February 17, 2007)
- Kevin Whitrick, online suicide via webcam (March 21, 2007)
- Toshikatsu Matsuoka, Japanese politician (May 28, 2007)
- Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (June 24, 2007)
- Mark Speight, British children's television presenter Smart (April 7, 2008)
- Deborah Jeane Palfrey, operator of an escort agency in Washington, D.C. (May 1, 2008)
- David Foster Wallace, the American author of Infinite Jest (September 12, 2008)[2]
- Jang Ja-yeon, South Korean actress (March 7, 2009)
- Lucy Gordon, English actress and model (May 20, 2009)
- Daul Kim, a South Korean born model who modeled in France, died on November 20, 2009[3]
- Phoebe Prince, a 15 year old schoolgirl (January 14, 2010)
- Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer (February 11, 2010)
- Ambrose Olsen, American male model (April 22, 2010)[4]
- Choi Jin Young, the brother of Choi Jin Shil (March 29, 2010)
- Viveka Babajee, Indian model (June 25, 2010)[5]
- Ismail Mohamed Didi, air traffic controller at the Malé International Airport Maldives[6][7] (July 13, 2010)
- Alex Whybrow, American professional wrestler better known as Larry Sweeney (April 11, 2011)
- Miyu Uehara, Japanese gravure idol (May 12, 2011)[8]
- Andrzej Lepper, former Deputy Prime Minister of Poland and former Minister of Agriculture of Poland (August 5, 2011)
- Gary Speed, Wales national football team manager and former football player (November 27, 2011)
[edit] In literature
- Judas Iscariot in The Bible
- Jocasta and Antigone in Sophocles' Three Theban Plays
- John the Savage in Huxley's Brave New World
- Able Frye in Hangman's Curse
[edit] Capital punishment
- Bhagat Singh, Indian Revolutionary freedom fighter (March 19, 1931)
- Rajguru, Indian Revolutionary freedom fighter (March 19, 1931)
- Sukhdev, Indian Revolutionary freedom fighter (March 19, 1931)
- John André, British officer, for espionage (1780)
- George Atzerodt, Abraham Lincoln assassination conspirator (July 7, 1865)
- Kevin Barry, Irish nationalist militant (November 1, 1920)
- Rainey Bethea, last public hanging in U.S., for rape and murder (August 14, 1936)
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani politician (1979)
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (1945)
- John Brown, militant U.S. anti-slavery activist (December 2, 1859)
- William Henry Bury, murderer and Jack the Ripper suspect (April 24, 1889)
- Charles Rodman Campbell, convicted murderer (May 27, 1994)
- Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (August 3, 1916)
- Hawley Harvey Crippen, alleged wife murderer (November 23, 1910)
- Westley Allan Dodd, serial killer and child molester (January 5, 1993)
- Tom Dula, inspiration for the song Tom Dooley, for murder (1868)
- Adolf Eichmann, Nazi war criminal (May 31, 1962)
- Hans Frank Nazi official (October 16, 1946)
- Wilhelm Frick Hitler's Minister of the Interior 1933-1943 (October 16, 1946)
- Nathuram Godse, Mahatma Gandhi's Assassin (November 15, 1949)
- Charles Guiteau, assassin of President Garfield (June 30, 1882)
- Nathan Hale, American patriot (September 22, 1776)
- Boone Helm, "The Kentucky Cannibal" (January 14, 1864)
- David Herold, Abraham Lincoln assassination conspirator (July 7, 1865)
- Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, murderers of the Clutter family (1965)
- Tom Horn, Old West "Range Detective" (1903)
- Saddam Hussein, Iraq President (December 30, 2006)
- Alfred Jodl, Chief of Operations Staff of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (October 16, 1946)
- William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), Nazi propagandist (January 3, 1946)
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner, highest surviving SS leader (October 16, 1946)
- Kiyotaka Katsuta, Japanese serial killer (2000)
- Wilhelm Keitel, German head of army (October 16, 1946)
- Ned Kelly, Australian Bushranger, (1880)
- Tom Ketchum, American old west outlaw (April 26, 1901)
- Yoshio Kodaira, Japanese serial killer (1949)
- Genzo Kurita, Japanese serial killer (1959)
- Norio Nagayama, Japanese serial killer (1997)
- Akira Nishiguchi, Japanese serial killer (1970)
- Kiyoshi Ōkubo, Japanese serial killer (1976)
- Lewis Powell, Abraham Lincoln assassination conspirator (July 7, 1865)
- Joachim Ribbentrop, German Reichminister, for war crimes (October 16, 1946)
- Louis Riel, Canadian political activist, for high treason (November 6, 1885)
- Alfred Rosenberg, early member of the Nazi Party (October 16, 1946)
- Mary Surratt, Abraham Lincoln assassination conspirator (July 7, 1865)
- Mamoru Takuma, Japanese mass murderer (2004)
- Hideki Tōjō, Japanese war criminal (December 23, 1948)
- Aleksandr Ulyanov, Russian revolutionary, for Tsar assassination plot (May 8, 1887)
- Henry Wirz, Confederate commandant of the notorious Andersonville, Georgia POW camp (November 10, 1865)
- Michael X, black revolutionary, for murder (1975)
- Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general, for war crimes (1946)
- Ali Hassan al-Majid, Military commander and chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, for war crimes (January 25, 2010)
- Flor Contemplacion, convicted of murder in Singapore (March 17, 1995)
- Zahra BahramiThe Dutch-Iranian Zahra Bahrami was hanged in Iran. She was convicted of smuggling drugs.
- Marguerite Pitre Mass Murderess/Airliner Bomber, last woman executed in Canada (Jan 9, 1953)
- Ronald Turpin patrolman-killer, and Arthur Lucas FBI Agent killer, last executions in Canada, side by side in Toronto (December 11, 1962)
[edit] Questionable circumstances
- David Carradine, American Actor (June 3, 2009)
- Gudrun Ensslin, imprisoned member of the German Red Army Faction, (October 18, 1977)
[edit] References
- ^ "Ship Captain Ends Life: Despondent, He Hangs Himself in Room in a Brooklyn Hotel". The New York Times. The New York Times Company (New York City): p. 21. 24 November 1945.
- ^ David Foster Wallace, 46, Writer, Dies
- ^ Nelson, Katie (November 20, 2009). "Daul Kim, famed South Korean Fashion Week model, found dead in Paris in apparent suicide: cops". Daily News (New York). http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/11/20/2009-11-20_runway_model_daul_kim_found_dead_in_paris.html.
- ^ "AMBROSE OLSEN DEAD: Male Model Dies At Age 24", 23 March 2011, The Huffington Post
- ^ "Supermodel-actress Viveka Babajee hangs self in India", 26 June 2010, Manila Bulletin Publishing
- ^ http://www.haveeru.com.mv/?page=details&id=98401
- ^ http://minivannews.com/society/airport-traffic-controller-in-suspected-suicide-9343
- ^ "'Talent' Miyu Uehara dead after apparently hanging herself at home", 12 May 2011, Japan Today
