Thomas Chatterton (1770), English poet and forger, arsenic poisoning
Heinrich von Kleist (1811), German author, poet and journalist, gunshot
Manuel Acuña (1873), Mexican poet, ingestion of potassium cyanide
Amy Levy (1889), British writer, inhaling charcoal gas
Per Sivle (1904), Norwegian poet and novelist, gunshot
Sergei Yesenin (1925), Russian and Soviet poet, hanging
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1927), Japanese writer, overdose of barbital
Kostas Karyotakis (1928), Greek poet, gunshot
Charlotte Mew (1928), English poet, Lysol poisoning
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1930), Russian and Soviet poet, gunshot
Vachel Lindsay (1931), American poet, poison
Hart Crane (1932), American poet, jumped off ship
Austra Skujiņa (1932) Latvian poet, jump from a bridge
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935), American writer, chloroform overdose
Robert E. Howard (1936), American author, gunshot to the head
Horacio Quiroga (1937), Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer, drank a glass of cyanide
Alfonsina Storni (1938), Argentine poet, drowning
Walter Benjamin (1940), German-Jewish literary critic and culture theorist, morphine overdose
Walter Hasenclever (1940), German poet and playwright, overdose of Veronal
Marina Tsvetaeva (1941), Russian poet, hanging
Virginia Woolf (1941), English author, essayist, and publisher, drowning
Stefan Zweig (1942), Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer, barbiturate overdose
Osamu Dazai (1948), Japanese author, drowning in the Tamagawa Aqueduct
Cesare Pavese (1950), Italian author, overdose of barbiturates
Sadegh Hedayat (1951), Iranian writer, carbon monoxide poisoning
Ernest Hemingway (1961), American writer and journalist, gunshot to head
Sylvia Plath (1963), American poet, novelist, children’s author, gas inhalation
Charles R. Jackson (1968), American writer, barbiturate overdose
José María Arguedas (1969), Peruvian novelist and poet, gunshot
John Kennedy Toole (1969), American novelist, carbon monoxide poisoning
Paul Celan (1970), Romanian poet, drowning in the Seine
Yukio Mishima (1970), Japanese author, poet, playwright, film director and activist, ritual seppuku disembowelment
John Berryman (1972), American poet, jumped off the Washington Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Yasunari Kawabata (1972), Japanese writer, gas inhalation
Alejandra Pizarnik (1972), Argentine poet, secobarbital overdose
William Inge (1973), American writer, carbon monoxide poisoning
B. S. Johnson (1973), English novelist, poet, literary critic, sports journalist, television producer and filmmaker, cut his wrists
Anne Sexton (1974), American poet, carbon monoxide poisoning
Jens Bjørneboe (1976), Norwegian novelist, hanging
Frank Stanford (1978), American poet, gunshot
Jean-Louis Bory (1979), French writer, gunshot to the chest
Breece D’J Pancake (1979), American short story writer, gunshot
Wally Wood (1981), American comic book writer and artist, gunshot
Arthur Koestler (1983), Hungarian-British author, novelist, barbiturates
Richard Brautigan (1984), American writer, gunshot
Alice Bradley Sheldon (James Tiptree, Jr.) (1987), American writer, gunshot
Hai Zi (1989), Chinese poet, lying down on railroad tracks
Jerzy Kosinski (1991), Polish-born American writer, suffocation with plastic bag
Charles Crumb (1992), American comics writer and artist, overdosed on pills
Gu Cheng (1993), Chinese poet, hanging
John O’Brien (1994), American novelist, gunshot to the head
Walter M. Miller Jr. (1996), American writer, gunshot
Hunter S. Thompson (2005), gonzo journalist, author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, gunshot
Thomas M. Disch (2008), American writer, gunshot
David Foster Wallace (2008), American author, hanging
Ned Vizzini (2013), American author of young adult fiction, leapt from a building
Mark Fisher (2017), English writer and political theorist, hanging
Anthony Bourdain (2018), American chef, author, and television personality, hanging
Victor Heringer (2018), Brazilian novelist and poet, winner of the 2013 Prêmio Jabuti, self-defenestration
David Berman (2019), American musician and poet, hanging
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