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11,416

Johnny Ace (John Marshall Alexander, Jr.) - singer
1954 --- suicide playing Russian roulette.

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11,417

Janet Elaine Adkins
1990 --- 1st suicide assisted by Jack Kevorkian.

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11,418

Clara Blandick - actress (Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz)
1962 --- sleeping pills, with a plastic bag tied over her head. She was 81-years-old and suffering from crippling arthritis.

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Ray Combs - talk show host (Family Feud)
1996 --- hanged himself on the night of June 2, 1996, with bed sheets in his hospital room at Glendale Adventist Hospital while on a 72-hour "suicide watch."

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11,420

Hart Crane - poet
1932 --- suicide by drowning. On a steamship, he bid his fellow passengers farewell and jumped overboard.

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11,421

Thich Quang Duc - Buddhist monk
1963 --- set himself on fire on the streets of Saigon to protest government persecution of Buddhists.

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11,422

R. Budd Dwyer - politician (Pennsylvania)
1987 --- Convicted of bribery and conspiracy in federal court and about to be sentenced, he called a press conference; there, in front of spectators and TV cameras, he shot himself in the mouth.

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11,423

Lillian Millicent Entwistle - actress
1932 --- suicide by jumping from the 'H' of the 'HOLLYWOOD(LAND)' sign.

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11,424

Joseph Goebbels - Nazi politician
1945 --- with his wife, poisoned their five children, then committed suicide at Hitler's Berlin bunker.

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11,425

Hermann Goering - Nazi politician
1946 --- poisoned himself hours before he was to have been executed.

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11,426

Donny Hathaway - singer
1979 --- suicide by jumping from his room on the 15th floor of New York's Essex House Hotel.

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11,427

Rudolf Hess - Nazi politician
1987 --- last member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle, strangled himself with an electrical cord at age 93, in Spandau Prison.

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11,428

Chris Hubbock - newscaster
1970 --- shot herself in the head during a prime time news broadcast on Florida TV station WXLT-TV. She died 14 hours later.

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Michael Hutchence - rock musician (Inxs)
1997 --- hanged himself with a belt in his room in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, in Sydney, Australia.

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