List of people who died by hanging

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.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Suicide

See also: Suicide by hanging and Category:Suicides by hanging

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)

20th century

• Ludwig Boltzmann, physicist, pioneer of statistical mechanics (September 5, 1906)
• Leo Frank, Manager of a Pencil Factory, accused of the murder of Mary Phagan(1915)
• Sergei Yesenin, a Russian poet, ex-husband of Isadora Duncan (December 27, 1925)
• Nishinoumi Kajirō II, 25th yokozuna (January 27, 1931)
• Alberto 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)
• 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)
• Rudolf Hess Nazi politician (August 17, 1987)
• 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)
• hide, 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)

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)
• Charlie Brandt, American murderer and suspected serial killer (September 13, 2004)
• Lee Eun-ju, South Korean actress and singer (February 22, 2005)
• Paul Hester, former drummer of Crowded House (March 26, 2005)
• Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq (December 20, 2006)
• 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 WWE wrestler (June 24, 2007)
• Mark Speight, British children's television presenter (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)
• 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
• 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)
• Choi Jin Young, the brother of Choi Jin Shil (March 29, 2010)
• Viveka Babajee, Indian model (June 25, 2010)
• Ismail Mohamed Didi, air traffic controller at the Malé International Airport Maldives (July 13, 2010)
• Alex Whybrow, American professional wrestler better known as Larry Sweeney (April 11, 2011)
• Miyu Uehara, Japanese glamour model (May 12, 2011)
• 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)
• Amanda Todd, 15 year old schoolgirl (October 10, 2012)
• Cho Sung-min,the ex-husband of Choi Jin Shil (January 6, 2013)
• Aaron Swartz, a 26 year old computer programmer and Internet activist (January 11, 2013)
• Jiah Khan, Bollywood actress (June 3, 2013)
• Ariel Castro, convicted rapist and murderer (September 3, 2013)
• Gia Marie Allemand (August 14, 2013)

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

Capital punishment

See also: Category:People executed by hanging

Execution of Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt

• Ali Hassan al-Majid, chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, military commander, cousin of Saddam Hussein, and war criminal (January 25, 2010)
• Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, half brother of Saddam Hussein, leader of the Mukhabarat, decapitated due to the wrong measurements of the rope (January 15, 2007)
• Maharaja Nandakumar, Indian tax collector on false allegations (1775) which led to the impeachment of Warren Hastings.
• John André, British officer, for espionage (1780)
• George Atzerodt, conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (July 7, 1865)
• Zahra Bahrami, Dutch-Iranian dual citizen, for narcotics trafficking (January 29, 2011)
• 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)
• Flor Contemplacion, convicted of murder in Singapore (March 17, 1995)
• 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, major organizer of the Holocaust and war criminal (May 31, 1962)
• Hans Frank, Nazi Governor-General of occupied Poland and war criminal (October 16, 1946)
• Wilhelm Frick, Nazi Minister of the Interior 1933-1943 and war criminal (October 16, 1946)
• Charles Guiteau, assassin of President James A. Garfield (June 30, 1882)
• Amon Leopold Göth, commandant of the Nazi concentration camp in Płaszów and war criminal (13 September, 1946)
• Nathan Hale, American patriot (September 22, 1776)
• Boone Helm, American frontier outlaw and serial killer known as "The Kentucky Cannibal" (January 14, 1864)
• David Herold, conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (July 7, 1865)
• Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, murderers of the Clutter family (1965)
• Tom Horn, American frontier scout, lawman, private detective, and hired killer (1903)
• Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq and war criminal (December 30, 2006)
• Alfred Jodl, Chief of the Operations Staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and war criminal (October 16, 1946)
• William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), Nazi propagandist (January 3, 1946)
• Ernst Kaltenbrunner, highest surviving SS leader and war criminal (October 16, 1946)
• Kiyotaka Katsuta, Japanese serial killer (2000)
• Wilhelm Keitel, head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and war criminal (October 16, 1946)
• Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger, (1880)
• Tom "Black Jack" Ketchum, American old west outlaw (April 26, 1901)
• Yoshio Kodaira, Japanese serial killer (1949)
• Genzo Kurita, Japanese serial killer (1959)
• Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin, murderers, executed side by side in the last executions performed in Canada (December 11, 1962)
• Norio Nagayama, Japanese serial killer (1997)
• Akira Nishiguchi, Japanese serial killer (1970)
• Kiyoshi Ōkubo, Japanese serial killer (1976)
• Marguerite "Madame le Corbeau" Pitre, conspirator in the bombing of Canadian Pacific Flight 108, last woman executed in Canada (January 9, 1953)
• Lewis Powell, conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (July 7, 1865)
• Joachim Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister and war criminal (October 16, 1946)
• Louis Riel, Canadian political activist, for high treason (November 6, 1885)
• Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi theorist and propagandist and war criminal (October 16, 1946)
• Khudiram Bose, Indian revolutionary (August 11, 1908), at the age of 18 years.
• Satyendranath Basu, Indian revolutionary (November 21, 1908)
• Manoranjan Sengupta, Indian revolutionary (October 15, 1915)
• Niren Dasgupta, Indian revolutionary (October 15, 1915)
• Gopinath Saha, Indian revolutionary (March 1, 1924)
• Promode Ranjan Chaudhury, Indian revolutionary (September 28, 1927)
• Rajendra Lahiri, Indian revolutionary (December 17, 1927)
• Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian revolutionary (December 19, 1927)
• Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian revolutionary (December 19, 1927)
• Roshan Singh, Indian revolutionary (December 19, 1927)
• Bhagat Singh, Indian revolutionary (March 19, 1931)
• Sukhdev, Indian revolutionary (March 19, 1931)
• Rajguru, Indian revolutionary (March 19, 1931)
• Harikishan Talwar, Indian revolutionary (June 9, 1931)
• Dinesh Gupta, Indian revolutionary (July 7, 1931)
• Surya Sen, Indian revolutionary (January 12, 1934)
• Tarakeswar Dastidar, Indian revolutionary (January 12, 1934)
• Udham Singh, Indian revolutionary (July 31, 1940)
• Nathuram Godse, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (November 15, 1949)
• Mary Surratt, conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (July 7, 1865)
• Mamoru Takuma, Japanese mass murderer (2004)
• Hideki Tōjō, Prime Minister of Japan and war criminal (December 23, 1948)
• Aleksandr Ulyanov, Russian revolutionary and brother of Vladimir Lenin, for plot to assassinate Tsar Alexander III (May 8, 1887)
• Kate Webster, murderer of Julia Martha Thomas (July 29, 1879)
• Henry Wirz, Confederate commandant of the notorious Andersonville POW camp (November 10, 1865)
• Michael X, black revolutionary, for murder (1975)
• Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general and war criminal (1946)

Questionable circumstances

• David Carradine, American actor (June 3, 2009)
• Gudrun Ensslin, imprisoned member of the German Red Army Faction, (October 18, 1977)