List of people who died by hanging

WW I execution of Serbs

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.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

List

Suicide

• 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)
• Adnan Menderes, Turkish Prime Minister between 1950–1960 (September 17, 1961)
• 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)
• Ulrike Meinhof, imprisoned member of the German Red Army Faction, (May 9, 1976)
• Phil Ochs, political folksinger (April 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)
• Richard Manuel, musician best known for his membership in The Band (March 4, 1986)
• Buster Edwards, British Great Train Robber (28 November 1994)
• Tom Evans, a member of the rock band Badfinger (19 November 1983)
• Rudolf Hess, Nazi politician and convicted criminal (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 (22 November 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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, a 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 (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, 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 (13 April 2015)
• Julia Buencamino, Filipino teen actress (July 7, 2015)
• Rohith Vemula, Indian PhD student (17 January, 2016)

Capital punishment

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

• Abdul Quader Molla, Bangladeshi Islamist leader and politician of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, charged with rape and mass murder (December 12, 2013)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Leo Frank, Manager of a Pencil Factory, extrajudicial, convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan (August 17, 1915)
• 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

1. "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.
2. David Foster Wallace, 46, Writer, Dies
3. 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).
4. "AMBROSE OLSEN DEAD: Male Model Dies At Age 24", 23 March 2011, The Huffington Post
5. "Supermodel-actress Viveka Babajee hangs self in India", 26 June 2010, Manila Bulletin Publishing
6. "'Talent' Miyu Uehara dead after apparently hanging herself at home", 12 May 2011, Japan Today
7. Levs, Josh; Duke, Alan. "Officials: Robin Williams apparently hanged himself with a belt". CNN. Retrieved August 12, 2014.