Possible Suicides

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1. George Washington Adams (1829), Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and the son of John Quincy Adams. Adams drowned after going overboard. It is generally assumed that he committed suicide.
2. Pier Angeli (1971), Italian-born actress, died of an overdose of barbiturates. Speculation that her death was a suicide has never been officially confirmed.
3. Andreas Baader (1977), leader of the German revolutionary organization RAF, founder of Baader-Meinhof gang. His suicide by gunshot to the head whilst in prison is questionable.
4. Gaetano Bresci (1901), Italian anarchist, assassin of King Umberto I (officially suicide, but he was found strangled)
5. Kurt Cobain (1994), Lead singer of grunge band Nirvana by shotgun wound. There has been an very large speculation that Courtney Love ordered Cobain’s death, with instructions to make his death appear to be a suicide; however, it has not been initiated by the Seattle police due to a lack of concern, open witnesses, and concrete evidence.
6. Michael Hutchence (1997), Australian singer with rock group INXS, hanged himself in a hotel room; officially ruled as suicide, but widely believed to be a case of autoerotic asphyxiation gone wrong.
7. Frida Kahlo, (1954), Mexican painter. Supposedly died of a pulmonary embolism, but no autopsy was performed, and many are convinced that she committed suicide.
8. Douglas Kenney (1980), writer, producer, actor of National Lampoon Magazine and Animal House. Jumped, fell or was pushed off cliff in Hawaii. Composed note "These are the best days I've chosen to ignore" in hotel room.
9. Jan Masaryk (1948), Czech statesman, found dead in the courtyard of the Foreign Ministry below his bathroom window. Though the initial 'investigation' stated that he committed suicide by jumping out of the window, it is now commonly believed that he was defenestrated by Communists.
10. Pontius Pilate (36), Roman governor and alleged judge of Jesus of Nazareth; Eusebius quotes some accounts which relate that Pilate committed suicide, but this is considered to be merely a legend.
11. Romy Schneider (1982), Austrian actress. Schneider began drinking alcohol in excess after the sudden death, in July 1981, of her 14-year-old son, who was found impaled on a fence at the home of his stepfather's parents. When she was found dead in her apartment in Paris in May 1982, it was suggested that she had committed suicide by taking a lethal cocktail of alcohol and sleeping pills. However, no post-mortem examination was carried out, and she was declared to have died from cardiac arrest.
12. Elizabeth Shin (2000), MIT student, died from burns inflicted by a fire in her dormitory room after sending emails to faculty members saying that she was depressed and wanted to kill herself.
13. Saigō Takamori (1876), Japanese samurai, injured in battle, might have committed suicide, or been killed by comrades rather than being killed or captured by the enemy.
14. Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1893), Russian composer. Generally assumed to have died of cholera, one account claims that he committed suicide by taking arsenic following an attempt to blackmail him over his homosexuality. Some believe that he wrote his Sixth Symphony as his own Requiem.
15. Kenneth Williams (1988), English actor, barbiturate overdose. Williams was taking medication for back pain and stomach trouble, which he referred to in the last sentence in his diary, concluding "oh — what's the bloody point?". The coroner recorded an open verdict.