page_title: List of suicides
section_title: S
hierarchical_section_title: List of suicides / Confirmed suicides / S
caption_attribution_description: Sybille Schmitz
context_page_description: The following are lists of notable people who died by suicide. Suicides effected under duress are included. Deaths by accident or misadventure are excluded. People who might or might not have died by their own hand, or whose intention to die is in dispute, but who are widely believed to have deliberately killed themselves, may be listed under "possible suicides".
context_section_description: El Hedi ben Salem (1977), Moroccan actor, hanging
  Mark Salling (2018), American actor, hanging
  Johanna Sällström (2007), Swedish actress
  Alexander Samsonov (1914), Russian cavalry officer and general, gunshot
  George Sanders (1972), Russian-born English actor, singer, composer and author, overdose
  Sanmao (1991), Taiwanese writer and translator, hanged with silk stockings
  Mónica Santa María (1994), Peruvian model and TV presenter, gunshot
  Nick Santino (2012), American soap opera actor, overdosed on pills
  Alberto Santos-Dumont (1932), Brazilian aviation pioneer, hanging.
  Vytautas Šapranauskas (2013), Lithuanian actor, hanging
  Carl Sargeant (2017), Welsh politician and former member of the Welsh Government, hanging
  Sam Sarpong (2015), British-born American model and actor, jump from a bridge
  Satanta (1878), Kiowa war chief, jumping out a window
  Drake Sather (2004), American screenwriter, gunshot
  Jiro Sato (1934), Japanese tennis player, drowning
  Saul (1012 BC), Jewish king, pierced himself with his sword
  Savannah (1994), American adult film actress, gunshot to the head
  Marcus Ostorius Scapula (65 AD), Roman senator, consul and military tribune, severed his veins and stabbed himself with help from a slave
  Mamercus Aemilius Scaurus (34 AD), Roman rhetorician, poet, senator and consul
  Thomas Schäfer (2020), German politician, jumped in front of a train
  Aleko Schinas (1913), Greek assassin of King George I of Greece, jumped out of a Thessaloniki police station window
  Sybille Schmitz (1955), German actress, overdose of sleeping pills
  Robert Schommer (2001), American astronomer
  Conrad Schumann (1998), German Democratic Republic soldier who famously defected to West Germany during the construction of the Berlin Wall, hanging
  Tom Schweich (2015), American politician, gunshot
  Metellus Scipio (46 BC), Roman consul and military commander, stabbing himself
  L'Wren Scott (2014), American fashion designer, hanging
  Tony Scott (2012), English film director of films such as Top Gun, jumped off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles
  Junior Seau (2012), American football All-Pro player, gunshot to the chest
  Sonia Sekula (1963), Swiss painter, hanging
  Seneca the Younger (65 AD), Roman philosopher, cut his veins
  Arma Senkrah (1900), American violinist, gunshot
  Rezső Seress (1968), Hungarian pianist and composer, choked himself with a wire
  Marcus Sedatius Severianus (161 or 162), Roman senator, consul and general, starved himself
  Sextia (34 AD), Roman wife of Mamercus Aemilius Scaurus
  Anne Sexton (1974), American poet, carbon monoxide poisoning
  Frances Ford Seymour (1950) Canadian-American socialite, cut her throat
  Oksana Shachko (2018), Ukrainian artist and activist, cofounder of FEMEN, hanging
  Shahrzad (1937), Iranian dramatist and playwright
  Del Shannon (1990), American musician, gunshot
  Samir Sharma (2020), Indian actor, hanging
  H. James Shea Jr. (1970), American politician, gunshot
  Alice Bradley Sheldon (James Tiptree, Jr.) (1987), American writer, gunshot
  Harold Shipman (2004), English family doctor and serial killer, hanging
  Shoba (1980), Indian actress, hanging
  Manuel Fernández Silvestre (1921), Spanish general, gunshot
  Tiffany Simelane (2009), Swazi beauty queen, ingestion of weevil tablet
  Per Sivle (1904), Norwegian poet and novelist, gunshot
  Mykola Skrypnyk (1933), Ukrainian Bolshevik leader, gunshot
  Austra Skujiņa (1932) Latvian poet, jump from a bridge.
  Walter Slezak (1983), Austrian actor, gunshot
  Everett Sloane (1965), American actor, drug overdose
  Smiley Culture (2011), English reggae singer and DJ, stabbing
  James Vinton Smith (1952), Australian politician, gunshot
  Someshvara I (1068), King of Western Chalukya, drowning in the Tungabhadra river
  David Sonboly (2016), Iranian-German perpetrator of the 2016 Munich shooting, gunshot
  Peu Sousa (2013), Brazilian guitarist for Nove Mil Anjos and Pitty, hanging
  Barea Soranus (66 AD), Roman consul, senator and governor of Asia
  Kate Spade (2018), American fashion designer, hanging
  Gary Speed (2011), Welsh footballer and manager, hanging
  Mark Speight (2008), English television presenter, ha
caption: Sybille Schmitz
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