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Suicide
Suicide (Latin suicidium, from sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the intentional killing of one's self. Suicide may occur for a number of reasons, including depression, shame, guilt, desperation, physical pain, emotional pressure, anxiety, financial difficulties, or other undesirable situations. The...
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Frank Stanford
Frank Stanford (August 1, 1948 – June 3, 1978) was a prolific American poet. He is most known for his epic, The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You— a labyrinthine, highly lexical book absent stanzas and punctuation. In addition, Stanford...
Date of birth:
- Aug 1, 1948
Date of death:
- Jun 3, 1978 (age 29 years)
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (Влади́мир Влади́мирович Маяко́вский) (July 19 [O.S. July 7] 1893 – April 14, 1930) was a Russian and Soviet poet and playwright, among the foremost representatives of early-20th century Russian Futurism.
He was...
Date of birth:
- 1893
Date of death:
- Apr 14, 1930 (age 37 years)
Alan Turing
Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS (pronounced /ˈtjʊərɪŋ/, TYOOR-ing; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954), was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He was influential in the development of computer science and provided an...
Date of birth:
- Jun 23, 1912
Date of death:
- Jun 7, 1954 (age 41 years)
Titus Pomponius Atticus
Titus Pomponius Atticus, born Titus Pomponius (112/109 BC – 35/32 BC), came from an old but not strictly noble Roman family of the equestrian class and the Gens Pomponia. He was a celebrated editor, banker, and patron of letters with residences in...
Date of birth:
- 109 B.C.E.
Date of death:
- 32 B.C.E. (age 77 years)
Nero
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (15 December AD 37–9 June AD 68), born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, also called Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, was the fifth and last Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Nero was adopted by...
Date of birth:
- Dec 15, 37 C.E.
Date of death:
- Jun 9, 68 C.E. (age 30 years)
Marcus Junius Brutus
Marcus Junius Brutus (early June 85 BC – late October 42 BC), often referred to simply as Brutus, was a politician of the late Roman Republic. He is best known in modern times for taking a leading role in the assassination conspiracy against Julius...
Date of birth:
- 85 B.C.E.
Date of death:
- 42 B.C.E. (age 43 years)
Mark Antony
Marcus Antonius (in Latin: M·ANTONIVS·M·F·M·N) (c. January 14, 83 BC–August 1, 30 BC), known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman politician and General. He was an important supporter and the loyal friend of Gaius Julius Caesar as a military...
Date of birth:
- Jan 14, 83 B.C.E.
Date of death:
- Aug 1, 30 B.C.E. (age 52 years)
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853–29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th century art for its vivid colors and emotional impact. He suffered from anxiety and increasingly frequent...
Date of birth:
- Mar 30, 1853
Date of death:
- Jul 29, 1890 (age 37 years)
Eleanor Marx
Eleanor "Tussy" Marx (1855 – 1898), also known as Eleanor Marx Aveling, was the English-born youngest daughter of Karl Marx. She was herself a socialist activist, who sometimes worked as a literary translator. Involved in an unhappy personal...
Date of birth:
- Jan 16, 1855
Date of death:
- Mar 31, 1898 (age 43 years)
B. S. Johnson
B. S. Johnson (Bryan Stanley Johnson) (5 February 1933 - 13 November 1973) was an English experimental novelist, poet, literary critic, producer of television programmes and film-maker.
Born into a working class family, Johnson was evacuated from...
Date of birth:
- Feb 5, 1933
Date of death:
- Nov 13, 1973 (age 40 years)
Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928, Newton, Massachusetts–October 4, 1974, Weston, Massachusetts) was an influential American poet and writer known for her highly personal, confessional poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967. Themes of her...
Date of birth:
- Nov 9, 1928
Date of death:
- Oct 4, 1974 (age 45 years)
Klaus Mann
Klaus Mann (November 18, 1906 – May 21, 1949) was a German writer.
Born in Munich, Klaus Mann was the son of German writer Thomas Mann and his wife, Katia Pringsheim. His father was baptized as a Lutheran, while his mother was from a family of...
Date of birth:
- Nov 18, 1906
Date of death:
- May 21, 1949 (age 42 years)
Sanmao
Sanmao (三毛) (March 26, 1943 - January 4, 1991), literally "three hairs" though it is not considered to have a meaning, was the pseudonym of the popular Taiwanese author Chen Ping (陈平). She adopted her pseudonym from the acclaimed caricaturist Zhang...
Date of birth:
- Mar 26, 1943
Date of death:
- Jan 4, 1991 (age 47 years)
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American writer and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation." He received the...
Date of birth:
- Jul 21, 1899
Date of death:
- Jul 2, 1961 (age 61 years)
Qiu Miaojin
Qiu Miaojin (Chinese: 邱妙津; 1969-1995) was a lesbian author from Changhua, Taiwan.
She graduated from Taipei First Girls' High School, and the Department of Psychology at National Taiwan University. Later she worked at The Journalist (新新聞) as a...
Date of birth:
- 1969
Date of death:
- 1995 (age 26 years)
John O'Brien
John O'Brien (May 21, 1960 – April 10, 1994) was an American author. His first novel Leaving Las Vegas was published in 1990 by Watermark Press and made into a film of the same name in 1995.
O'Brien was born in Oxford, Ohio, where his parents, Bill...
Date of birth:
- May 21, 1960
Date of death:
- Apr 10, 1994 (age 33 years)
Lao She
Lao She (Chinese: 老舍; pinyin: Lǎo Shě, February 3, 1899 – August 24, 1966) was a notable Chinese writer. A novelist and dramatist, he was one of the most significant figures of 20th century Chinese literature, and is perhaps best known for his novel...
Date of birth:
- Feb 3, 1899
Date of death:
- Aug 24, 1966 (age 67 years)
John Gould Fletcher
John Gould Fletcher (January 3, 1886] – May 20, 1950) was a Pulitzer Prize winning Imagist poet and author. He was born in Little Rock, Arkansas to a socially prominent family. After attending Phillips Academy, Andover Fletcher went on to Harvard...
Date of birth:
- Jan 3, 1886
Date of death:
- May 20, 1950 (age 64 years)
Harry Crosby
Harry Crosby (June 4, 1898 – December 10, 1929) was an American heir, bon vivant, poet, and for some, an exemplar of the Lost Generation in American literature.
Born Henry Sturgis Crosby (his parents later changed his middle name to "Grew") in...
Date of birth:
- Jun 4, 1898
Date of death:
- Dec 10, 1929 (age 31 years)
Iris Chang
Iris Shun-Ru Chang (simplified Chinese: 张纯如; traditional Chinese: 張純如; pinyin: Zhāng Chúnrú; March 28, 1968 – November 9, 2004) was an American historian and journalist. She was best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre,...
Date of birth:
- Mar 28, 1968
Date of death:
- Nov 9, 2004 (age 36 years)
James Robert Baker
James Robert Baker (October 18, 1946 – November 5, 1997) was an American author of sharply satirical, predominantly gay-themed transgressional fiction. A native Californian, his work is set almost entirely in Southern California. After graduating...
Date of birth:
- Oct 18, 1946
Date of death:
- Nov 5, 1997 (age 51 years)
John Kennedy Toole
John Kennedy Toole (December 17, 1937–March 26, 1969) was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces.
Toole's novels remained unpublished during his lifetime. Some years...
Date of birth:
- Dec 17, 1937
Date of death:
- Mar 26, 1969 (age 31 years)
Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933), was an American lyrical poet. She was born Sarah Trevor Teasdale in St. Louis, Missouri.
Throughout her life, Teasdale suffered poor health and it was only at age 9 that she was well enough to begin...
Date of birth:
- Aug 8, 1884
Date of death:
- Jan 29, 1933 (age 48 years)
Wendy O. Williams
Wendy Orlean Williams (May 28, 1949 – April 6, 1998), better known as Wendy O. Williams, was the lead singer for the American punk band the Plasmatics, whose stage theatrics included blowing up equipment, near nudity and chain-sawing guitars.
Dubbed...
Date of birth:
- May 28, 1949
Date of death:
- Apr 6, 1998 (age 48 years)
Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler CBE (5 September 1905, Budapest – 1 March 1983, London) was a prolific writer of essays, novels and autobiographies.
He was born into a Hungarian Jewish family in Budapest but, apart from his early school years, was educated in...
Date of birth:
- Sep 5, 1905
Date of death:
- Mar 1, 1983 (age 77 years)
Boudica
Boudica (pronounced /ˈbuːdɨkə/; also spelled Boudicca), formerly known as Boadicea (/boʊˌædɨˈsiːə/) and known in Welsh as "Buddug") (d. AD 60 or 61) was a queen of the Brittonic Iceni tribe of what is now known as East Anglia in England, who led an...
Date of death:
- 61 C.E.
Barney Bubbles
Colin Fulcher aka Barney Bubbles (July 1942 - Nov 1983) was a radical English graphic artist, whose work primarily encompassed the disciplines of graphic design, painting and music video direction. He is most renowned for his distinctive...
Date of birth:
- Jul 1942
Date of death:
- Nov 1983 (age 41 years)
Dana Plato
Dana Michelle Plato (November 7, 1964 – May 8, 1999) was an American actress notable for playing the role of Kimberly Drummond in the U.S. television sitcom Diff'rent Strokes. Plato's career declined after her departure from the show, with...
Date of birth:
- Nov 7, 1964
Date of death:
- May 8, 1999 (age 34 years)
Erwin Rommel
Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel ( listen (help·info)) (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944) (known as the Desert Fox, Wüstenfuchs, listen (help·info)), was perhaps the most famous German Field Marshal of World War II.
He was a highly decorated officer...
Date of birth:
- Nov 15, 1891
Date of death:
- Oct 14, 1944 (age 52 years)
Empedocles
Empedocles (Greek: Ἐμπεδοκλῆς, ca. 490–430 BC) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a citizen of Agrigentum, a Greek city in Sicily. Empedocles' philosophy is best known for being the origin of the cosmogenic theory of the four classical...
Date of birth:
- 490 B.C.E.
Date of death:
- 430 B.C.E. (age 60 years)
Eva Braun
Eva Anna Paula Braun, died Eva Anna Paula Hitler (6 February 1912 – 30 April 1945) was the longtime companion and, for a brief time, wife of Adolf Hitler. Braun met Hitler in Munich when she was 17 years old while working as an assistant and model...
Date of birth:
- Feb 6, 1912
Date of death:
- Apr 30, 1945 (age 33 years)
Edwin Armstrong
Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 – January 31, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. Armstrong was the inventor of frequency modulation (FM) radio, regeneration, and the superheterodyne.
Edwin Howard Armstrong was born in...
Date of birth:
- Dec 18, 1890
Date of death:
- Jan 31, 1954 (age 63 years)
Felix Hausdorff
Felix Hausdorff (November 8, 1868 – January 26, 1942) was a German mathematician who is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology and who contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, function theory,...
Date of birth:
- Nov 8, 1868
Date of death:
- Jan 26, 1942 (age 73 years)
Francesco Borromini
Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli (25 September 1599 - 3 August 1667) was a Swiss Italian architect who, with his contemporaries, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque...
Date of birth:
- Sep 25, 1599
Date of death:
- Aug 3, 1667 (age 67 years)
Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze (French pronunciation: [ʒil dəløz]), (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher of the late 20th century. From the early 1960s until his death, Deleuze wrote many influential works on philosophy, literature, film,...
Date of birth:
- Jan 18, 1925
Date of death:
- Nov 4, 1995 (age 70 years)
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( listen (help·info) 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945), one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany, served as Chief of the German Police and Minister of the Interior. As Reichsführer-SS, he oversaw all internal and external...
Date of birth:
- Oct 7, 1900
Date of death:
- May 23, 1945 (age 44 years)
Hermann Göring
Hermann Wilhelm Göring (also spelled Goering) ( listen) (12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German politician, military leader and a leading member of the Nazi Party. Among many offices, he was Hitler's designated successor and commander of...
Date of birth:
- Jan 12, 1893
Date of death:
- Oct 15, 1946 (age 53 years)
Herman Brood
Herman Brood (pronounced "Hairmon Broat" /bro:t/; Zwolle, 5 November 1946 – Amsterdam, 11 July 2001) was a Dutch musician, painter and media personality. Initially a musician who achieved artistic and commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s, and...
Date of birth:
- Nov 5, 1946
Date of death:
- Jul 11, 2001 (age 54 years)
Hani Hanjour
A pilot who had lived intermittently in the United States for ten years, Hani Saleh Hanjour, (Arabic: هاني صالح حنجور, Hānī Ṣalāt Ḥanjūr) (August 13, 1972 – September 11, 2001) was one of five men named by the FBI as hijackers of American Airlines...
Date of birth:
- Aug 13, 1972
Date of death:
- Sep 11, 2001 (age 29 years)
Hannibal Barca
Hannibal, son of Hamilcar Barca, (248–183 or 182 BC), commonly known as Hannibal (in Punic: Annobal, meaning "Ba'al's grace/help/blessing", Greek: ο Άννίβας), was a Carthaginian military commander and tactician who is popularly credited as one of...
Date of birth:
- 248 B.C.E.
Date of death:
- 182 B.C.E. (age 66 years)
Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, most famous for his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting where reporters...
Date of birth:
- Jul 18, 1937
Date of death:
- Feb 20, 2005 (age 67 years)
Jerzy Kosiński
Jerzy Kosiński (June 14, 1933 – May 3, 1991) was a Polish-American novelist, best known for the novels The Painted Bird (1965) and Being There (1971), the latter of which was adapted into a film in 1979.
Kosiński was born Józef Lewinkopf to Jewish...
Date of birth:
- Jun 14, 1933
Date of death:
- May 3, 1991 (age 57 years)
Jacques Mayol
Jacques Mayol (April 1, 1927 – December 22, 2001) was the holder of many world records in free diving.
Jacques Mayol was a French national born in Shanghai, China. He was the first free diver to descend to 100 meters (330 ft) (November 23, 1976),...
Date of birth:
- Apr 1, 1927
Date of death:
- Dec 22, 2001 (age 74 years)
Josef Terboven
Josef Antonius Heinrich Terboven (May 23, 1898 - May 8, 1945) was a Nazi leader, best known as the Reichskommissar during the German military occupation of Norway.
Terboven was born in Essen, the son of minor landed gentry. He served in the German...
Date of birth:
- May 23, 1898
Date of death:
- May 8, 1945 (age 46 years)
Joseph Goebbels
Paul Joseph Goebbels (German pronunciation: [ˈɡœbəls]; UK: /ˈɡɝːbəlz/, US: /ˈɡʌbəlz/; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German politician and Reichsminister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. He was one of German dictator Adolf...
Date of birth:
- Oct 29, 1897
Date of death:
- May 1, 1945 (age 47 years)
James Whale
James Whale (22 July 1889 – 29 May 1957) was a British film director, theatre director and actor. He is best remembered for his work in the horror film genre, having directed Frankenstein (1931), The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933)...
Date of birth:
- Jul 22, 1889
Date of death:
- May 29, 1957 (age 67 years)
John Polidori
John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821) was an Italian-English physician and writer, known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. His most...
Date of birth:
- Sep 7, 1795
Date of death:
- Aug 24, 1821 (age 25 years)
James Tiptree, Jr
James Tiptree, Jr. (August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987) was the pen name of American science fiction author Alice Bradley Sheldon, used from 1967 to her death. She also occasionally wrote under the pseudonym Raccoona Sheldon (1974–77). Tiptree/Sheldon...
Date of birth:
- Aug 24, 1915
Date of death:
- May 19, 1987 (age 71 years)
Kamikaze
The Kamikaze (神風, common translation: "divine wind") ( [ˌkamiˈkaːzɛ] (help·info)) were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed...
Kurt Cobain
Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – c. April 5, 1994) was an American musician, best known as the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter of the rock band Nirvana.
With the lead single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from Nirvana's second album...
Date of birth:
- Feb 20, 1967
Date of death:
- Apr 5, 1994 (age 27 years)
Fumimaro Konoe
Prince Fumimaro Konoe (Kyūjitai: 近衞 文麿, Shinjitai: 近衛 文麿, Konoe Fumimaro) (often Konoye, October 12, 1891 – December 16, 1945) was a Japanese politician who served as the 34th, 38th and 39th Prime Minister of Japan.
Prince Fumimaro Konoe was born...
Date of birth:
- Oct 12, 1891
Date of death:
- Dec 16, 1945 (age 54 years)
Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (Russian: Мари́на Ива́новна Цвета́ева, Marina Ivanovna Cvetaeva) (8 October [O.S. 26 September] 1892–31 August 1941) was a Russian and Soviet poet and writer.
Marina Tsvetaeva was born in Moscow. Her work was not looked...
Date of birth:
- Oct 8, 1892
Date of death:
- Aug 31, 1941 (age 48 years)
Mohamed Atta
Mohamed Atta (محمد عطا السيد, Muḥammad ‘Aṭṭa as-Sayyid) (September 1, 1968 – September 11, 2001) was an Egyptian student who studied in Germany in the late 1990s and soon became friends with Ziad Jarrah, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ramzi Binalshibh who...
Date of birth:
- Sep 1, 1968
Date of death:
- Sep 11, 2001 (age 33 years)
Martin Bormann
Martin Ludwig Bormann (17 June 1900 – 2 May 1945) was a prominent Nazi official. He became head of the Party Chancellery (Parteikanzlei) and private secretary to Adolf Hitler. He gained Hitler's trust and derived immense power within the Third Reich...
Date of birth:
- Jun 17, 1900
Date of death:
- May 2, 1945 (age 44 years)
Otho
For other uses, see Otho (disambiguation).
Marcus Salvius Otho (28 April 32 – 16 April 69), also called Marcus Salvius Otho Caesar Augustus, was Roman Emperor from 15 January to 16 April 69, the second emperor of the Year of the four emperors.
Otho...
Date of birth:
- Apr 28, 32 C.E.
Date of death:
- Apr 16, 69 C.E. (age 36 years)
Phil Ochs
Philip David Ochs (pronounced /ˈoʊks/) (December 19, 1940 – April 9, 1976) was a U.S. protest singer (or, as he preferred, a topical singer) and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism,...
Date of birth:
- Dec 19, 1940
Date of death:
- Apr 9, 1976 (age 35 years)
Rudolf Diesel
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (German pronunciation: [ˈʁuːdɔlf ˈkʁɪstjan ˈkaʁl ˈdiːzəl]; March 18, 1858 – last seen alive September 29, 1913) was a European inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the diesel engine.
Diesel was...
Date of birth:
- Mar 18, 1858
Date of death:
- Sep 29, 1913 (age 55 years)
Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. His most famous character — created in the pages of the Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales — is Conan the...
Date of birth:
- Jan 22, 1906
Date of death:
- Jun 11, 1936 (age 30 years)
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud (German pronunciation: [ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfʁɔʏt]), Sigismund Schlomo Freud (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939), was an Austrian neurologist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the...
Date of birth:
- May 6, 1856
Date of death:
- Sep 23, 1939 (age 83 years)
Suad Husni
Soad Mohamed Hosny (Arabic:سعاد حسني January 26, 1943 – June 21, 2001) was an Egyptian actress born in the Beau Lac district of Cairo. Hosny was known as the "Cinderella of Egyptian cinema" and one of the most influential actresses in the artistic...
Date of birth:
- Jan 26, 1943
Date of death:
- Jun 21, 2001 (age 58 years)
