List of people who died by hanging
This is a list of people who died as a result of hanging, including suicides and judicial, extrajudicial, or summary executions. These deaths are notable due to history or due to media exposure.
List
Suicide
- Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ, betrayed him for 30 pieces of silver according to the New Testament (c. 30-33)
- Chongzhen Emperor, emperor of China's Ming dynasty (April 25, 1644)
- Gérard de Nerval, French poet and essayist (January 26, 1855)
- 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)
- Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviation pioneer (July 23, 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 (January 10, 1965)
- Pete Ham, guitarist and singer of rock band Badfinger (April 23, 1975)
- Phil Ochs, political folksinger (April 9, 1976)
- Ulrike Meinhof, imprisoned member of the German Red Army Faction, (May 9, 1976)
- David Munrow, musician and early music historian (May 15, 1976)
- Gudrun Ensslin, imprisoned member of the German Red Army Faction, circumstances questionable (October 18, 1977)
- Ian Curtis, lead singer of Joy Division (May 18, 1980)
- Trent Lehman, former child actor of Nanny and the Professor (January 18, 1982)
- Tom Evans, a member of the rock band Badfinger (19 November 1983)
- Richard Manuel, musician best known for his membership in The Band (March 4, 1986)
- Rudolf Hess, Nazi politician and convicted criminal (August 17, 1987)
- Michael Gothard, British actor (December 2, 1992)
- Buster Edwards, British Great Train Robber (28 November 1994)
- 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 (22 November 1996)
- Michael Hutchence, lead singer of INXS (November 22, 1997)
- Rozz Williams, American musician, founder of Christian Death (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)
- Stuart Adamson, British musician (December 16, 2001)
- Jon Lee, drummer with Feeder (7 January 2002)
- Ryan Halligan, a 13-year-old schoolboy (October 7, 2003)
- Jonathan Brandis, American actor (November 12, 2003)
- Harold Shipman, English doctor and serial killer, convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment (January 13, 2004)
- Jason Raize, American actor and singer (February 4, 2004)
- Nafisa Joseph, Indian model and video jockey (July 29, 2004)
- Norman "Dinky" Diamond, drummer with Sparks in the 1970s (September 10, 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)
- Kuljeet Randhawa, Indian model and actress (8 February 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 wrestler (June 24, 2007)
- Kunal Singh, Indian actor (February 7, 2008)
- 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)[2]
- Choi Jin-sil, ex-wife of Cho Sung-min (October 2, 2008)
- Jang Ja-yeon, South Korean actress (March 7, 2009)
- Lucy Gordon, English actress and model (May 20, 2009)
- Daul Kim, South Korean-born model who modeled in France (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-sil (March 29, 2010)
- Viveka Babajee, Indian model and actress (June 25, 2010)[5]
- Alex Whybrow, American professional wrestler better known as Larry Sweeney (April 11, 2011)
- Miyu Uehara, Japanese glamour model (May 12, 2011)[6]
- 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, a 15-year-old schoolgirl (October 10, 2012)
- Cho Sung-min, the ex-husband of Choi Jin-sil (January 6, 2013)
- Aaron Swartz, a 26-year-old computer programmer and Internet activist (January 11, 2013)
- Jiah Khan, Bollywood actress (June 3, 2013)
- Gia Allemand (August 14, 2013)
- Ariel Castro, convicted rapist (September 3, 2013)
- Uday Kiran, South Indian actor (January 5, 2014)
- Charlotte Dawson, New Zealand-born Australian television personality (February 22, 2014)
- L'Wren Scott, American fashion model, fashion designer, and costume designer (March 17, 2014)
- Yoshiki Sasai, Japanese stem cell researcher (August 5, 2014)
- Robin Williams, American actor and comedian (August 11, 2014)[7]
- Simone Battle, X-Factor contestant, singer and member of the band G.R.L (September 5, 2014)
- Sean O'Haire, American professional wrestler (September 8, 2014)
- Alok Nembang, Nepali film and music video director (November 6, 2014)
- Lil' Chris, English singer-songwriter, actor and television personality (March 23, 2015)
- Joseph A. Bennett, English actor (April 13, 2015)
- Julia Buencamino, Filipino teen actress (July 7, 2015)
- Ranganath, South Indian actor (December 19, 2015)
- Rohith Vemula, Indian PhD student (January 17, 2016)
- Pratyusha Banerjee, Indian television actress (April 1, 2016)
- Katelyn Davis, a 12-year-old schoolgirl (December 30, 2016)
- Aaron Hernandez, former NFL player and convicted murderer (April 19, 2017)
- Chris Cornell, musician, frontman of Soundgarden, Audioslave and Temple of the Dog (May 18, 2017)
- Chester Bennington, musician, frontman of Linkin Park, singer of Stone Temple Pilots, and founder/frontman of Dead by Sunrise (July 20, 2017)
Capital punishment
- Abdul Quader Molla, Bangladeshi Islamist leader and politician of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, charged with rape and mass murder (December 12, 2013)
- Adnan Menderes, Turkish Prime Minister between 1950–1960 (September 17, 1961)
- Afzal Guru, an Indian convicted for the 2001 Indian Parliament attack (February 9, 2013)
- Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani militant and a member of the Lashkar-e-Taiba Islamist group, convicted for the 2008 Mumbai attacks (November 21, 2012)
- Zahra Bahrami, Dutch-Iranian dual citizen, for narcotics trafficking (January 29, 2011)
- 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)
- Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq and war criminal (December 30, 2006)
- Van Tuong Nguyen, Australian drug trafficker (December 2, 2005)
- Dhananjoy Chatterjee, Indian convicted of rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl (August 14, 2004)
- Mamoru Takuma, Japanese mass murderer (September 14, 2004)
- Kiyotaka Katsuta, Japanese serial killer (November 30, 2000)
- Norio Nagayama, Japanese serial killer (August 1, 1997)
- Flor Contemplacion, Filipino domestic worker convicted of murder in Singapore (March 17, 1995)
- Charles Rodman Campbell, convicted murderer (May 27, 1994)
- Auto Shankar, Indian serial killer (April 27, 1995)
- Westley Allan Dodd, American serial killer and child molester (January 5, 1993)
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani politician (April 4, 1979)
- Kiyoshi Ōkubo, Japanese serial killer (January 22, 1976)
- Michael X, black revolutionary, for murder (16 May 1975)
- Deniz Gezmiş, Turkish Marxist-Leninist revolutionary and political activist (May 6, 1972)
- Akira Nishiguchi, Japanese serial killer (December 11, 1970)
- Ronald Ryan (murderer), the last person executed in Australia (3 February 1967)
- Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, murderers of the Clutter family (April 14, 1965)
- Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin, murderers, executed side by side in the last executions performed in Canada (December 11, 1962)
- Adolf Eichmann, major organizer of the Holocaust and war criminal (May 31, 1962)
- Genzo Kurita, Japanese serial killer (October 14, 1959)
- Derek Bentley, English man hanged for aiding the murder of a police officer during an attempted robbery (January 28, 1953)
- Marguerite "Madame le Corbeau" Pitre, conspirator in the bombing of Canadian Pacific Flight 108, last woman executed in Canada (January 9, 1953)
- Nathuram Godse, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (November 15, 1949)
- Narayan Apte, executed for his role in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi (November 15, 1949)
- Yoshio Kodaira, Japanese serial killer (October 5, 1949)
- Hideki Tōjō, Prime Minister of Japan and war criminal (December 23, 1948)
- 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)
- Alfred Jodl, Chief of the Operations Staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and war criminal (October 16, 1946)
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner, highest surviving SS leader and war criminal (October 16, 1946)
- Wilhelm Keitel, head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and war criminal (October 16, 1946)
- Joachim Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister and war criminal (October 16, 1946)
- Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi theorist and propagandist and war criminal (October 16, 1946)
- Amon Leopold Göth, commandant of the Nazi concentration camp in Płaszów and war criminal (13 September 1946)
- William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), Nazi propagandist (January 3, 1946)
- Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general and war criminal (February 23, 1946)
- Irma Grese, Nazi war criminal (December 13, 1945)
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (9 April 1945)
- Udham Singh, Indian revolutionary (July 31, 1940)
- Rainey Bethea, last public hanging in U.S., for rape and murder (August 14, 1936)
- Tarakeswar Dastidar, Indian revolutionary (January 12, 1934)
- Surya Sen, Indian revolutionary (January 12, 1934)
- Dinesh Gupta, Indian revolutionary (July 7, 1931)
- Harikishan Talwar, Indian revolutionary (June 9, 1931)
- Bhagat Singh, Indian revolutionary (March 19, 1931)
- Sukhdev, Indian revolutionary (March 19, 1931)
- Rajguru, Indian revolutionary (March 19, 1931)
- 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)
- Promode Ranjan Chaudhury, Indian revolutionary (September 28, 1927)
- Gopinath Saha, Indian revolutionary (March 1, 1924)
- Kevin Barry, Irish nationalist militant (November 1, 1920)
- Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (August 3, 1916)
- Manoranjan Sengupta, Indian revolutionary (October 15, 1915)
- Niren Dasgupta, Indian revolutionary (October 15, 1915)
- Basanta Kumar Biswas, Indian revolutionary (May 11, 1915)
- Hawley Harvey Crippen, convicted wife murderer (November 23, 1910)
- Satyendranath Basu, Indian revolutionary (November 21, 1908)
- Khudiram Bose, Indian revolutionary (August 11, 1908)
- Tom Horn, American frontier scout, lawman, private detective, and hired killer (1903)
- Tom "Black Jack" Ketchum, American old west outlaw (April 26, 1901)
- William Henry Bury, murderer and Jack the Ripper suspect (April 24, 1889)
- Aleksandr Ulyanov, Russian revolutionary and brother of Vladimir Lenin, for plot to assassinate Tsar Alexander III (May 8, 1887)
- Louis Riel, Canadian political activist, for high treason (November 6, 1885)
- Charles Guiteau, assassin of President James A. Garfield (June 30, 1882)
- Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger, (11 November 1880)
- Kate Webster, murderer of Julia Martha Thomas (July 29, 1879)
- Tom Dula, inspiration for the song Tom Dooley, for murder (May 1, 1868)
- Henry Wirz, Confederate commandant of the notorious Andersonville POW camp (November 10, 1865)
- George Atzerodt, conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (July 7, 1865)
- David Herold, conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (July 7, 1865)
- Lewis Powell, conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (July 7, 1865)
- Mary Surratt, conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (July 7, 1865)
- Boone Helm, American frontier outlaw and serial killer known as "The Kentucky Cannibal" (January 14, 1864)
- John Brown, militant U.S. anti-slavery activist (December 2, 1859)
- John André, British officer, for espionage (October 2, 1780)
- Nathan Hale, American patriot (September 22, 1776)
- Maharaja Nandakumar, Indian tax collector on false allegations which led to the impeachment of Warren Hastings (August 5, 1775)
- Dulla Bhatti, a Punjabi who led a revolt against Mughal rule during the rule of the emperor Akbar (1599)
References
- ^ "Ship Captain Ends Life: Despondent, He Hangs Himself in Room in a Brooklyn Hotel". The New York Times. New York City. The New York Times Company. 24 November 1945. p. 21.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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
- ^ "'Talent' Miyu Uehara dead after apparently hanging herself at home", 12 May 2011, Japan Today
- ^ Levs, Josh; Duke, Alan. "Officials: Robin Williams apparently hanged himself with a belt". CNN. Retrieved August 12, 2014.