List of people who died by hanging

List of people who died by hanging

This is a list of people who died as a result of hanging.

Death as a result of suicide

*Stuart Adamson, former lead singer and guitarist of Big Country and guitarist with The Skids
*Mike Awesome, former professional wrestler, twice ECW Champion. (February 17 2007)
*Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (June 24 2007)
*Hans Berger, German inventor of electroencephalography (Jun 1, 1941)
*Ludwig Boltzmann, physicist, pioneer of statistical mechanics (September 5, 1906)
*Jung Da Bin, a South Korean actress
*Jonathan Brandis, an American actor
*Cheyenne Brando, daughter of Marlon Brando (April 16, 1995)
*Ray Combs, former host of Family Feud
*Ian Curtis, lead singer of Joy Division
*Santos Dumont, Brazilian aviation pioneer (1932)
* Rosemary Edwards, former artist and horse woman
*Chongzhen Emperor, emperor of China's Ming Dynasty (April 25 1644)
*Lee Eun-ju, South Korean actress and singer (February 22, 2005)
*Justin Fashanu, footballer
*Frederick Fleet, Lookout on the Titanic who first spotted the iceberg, 1965
*Pete Ham, guitarist and singer of rock band Badfinger (April 23, 1975)
*Rudolf Hess, Deputy Fuhrer to Adolf Hitler (August 17, 1987)
*Paul Hester, former drummer of Crowded House
*Michael Hutchence, former lead singer of INXS
*Judas Iscariot, a prominent figure in the Christian gospels (c. 30AD)
*Jocasta and Antigone in Sophocles' Three Theban Plays
*Nishinoumi Kajirō II, 25th yokozuna
*Richard Manuel, Musician best known for his membership in The Band (March 4, 1986)
*Hideto Matsumoto, Japanese rock musician
*Toshikatsu Matsuoka, Japanese politician (May 28 2007)
*Megan Meier, a 13 year old schoolgirl (October 17, 2006)
*David Munrow, musician and early music historian, (May 15 1976)
*Gérard de Nerval, french poet and essayist (January 26 1855)
*Phil Ochs, political folksinger (1976)
*Deborah Jean Palfrey, operator of an escort agency in Washington, D.C. (May 1, 2008)
*Harold Shipman, English doctor, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment (January 13 2004)
*Mark Speight, English children's television presenter (April 2008)
*Nicholas Charles Stahl, a comedian and family man
*Marina Tsvetayeva, a Russian poet
*David Foster Wallace, the American author of Infinite Jest (September 12, 2008) [ [http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/books/AP-Obit-Wallace.html David Foster Wallace, 46, Writer, Dies ] ]
*Fred West, serial killer
*Kevin Whitrick, first online suicide via webcam
*Sergei Yesenin, a Russian poet, ex-husband of Isadora Duncan

Death as a result of capital punishment

*Bhagath Singh, Indian freedom fighter (March 19, 1931)
*Rajguru, Indian freedom fighter (March 19, 1931)
*Sukhdev, Indian freedom fighter (March 19, 1931)
*John André, British officer, for espionage (1780)
*George Atzerodt, Abraham Lincoln assassination conspirator (July 7, 1865)
*Kevin Barry, Irish patriot (November 1, 1920)
*Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani politician (1979)
*Charles Rodman Campbell, convicted murderer (May 27, 1994)
*Roger Casement, Irish patriot (August 3, 1916)
*Hawley Harvey Crippen, alleged wife murderer (November 23, 1910)
*Westley Allan Dodd, serial killer and child molester (January 5, 1993)
*Tom Dula, inspiration for the song Tom Dooley, for murder (1868)
*Adolf Eichmann, Nazi war criminal (May 31, 1962)
*Hans Frank Nazi official (October 16, 1946)
*Wilhelm Frick Hitler's Minister of the Interior 1933-1943 (October 16, 1946)
*Nathuram Godse, Mahatma Gandhi's Assassin (November 15, 1949)
*Charles Guiteau, assassin of President Garfield (June 30, 1882)
*Nathan Hale, American patriot (September 22, 1776)
*Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, murderers of the Clutter family (1965)
*David Herold, Abraham Lincoln assassination conspirator (July 7, 1865)
*Tom Horn, Old West "Range Detective" (1903)
*Saddam Hussein, Iraq President (December 30, 2006)
*Alfred Jodl, Chief of Operations Staff of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (October 16, 1946)
*William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), Nazi propagandist (January 3, 1946)
*Ernst Kaltenbrunner, highest surviving SS leader (October 16, 1946)
*Kiyotaka Katsuta, Japanese serial killer (2000)
*Wilhelm Keitel, German head of army (October 16, 1946)
*Ned Kelly, for multiple murder, (1880)
*Tom Ketchum, American old west outlaw (April 26, 1901)
*Yoshio Kodaira, Japanese serial killer (1949)
*Genzo Kurita, Japanese serial killer (1959)
*Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese serial killer (June 17, 2008)
*Norio Nagayama, Japanese serial killer (1997)
*Akira Nishiguchi, Japanese serial killer (1970)
*Kiyoshi Okubo, Japanese serial killer (1976)
*Lewis Powell, Abraham Lincoln assassination conspirator (July 7, 1865)
*Joachim Ribbentrop, German Reichminister, for war crimes (October 16, 1946)
*Alfred Rosenberg, early member of the Nazi Party (October 16, 1946)
*Mary Surratt, Abraham Lincoln assassination conspirator (July 7, 1865)
*Mamoru Takuma, Japanese mass murderer (2004)
*Hideki Tojo, Japanese war criminal (December 23, 1948)
*Aleksandr Ulyanov, Russian revolutionary, for Tsar assassination plot (May 8, 1887)
*Michael X, black revolutionary, for murder (1975)
*Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general, for war crimes (1946)


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