Curated category
Male suicides
- Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway was born on the 21st of July 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, into a family where his mother kept his hair long and dressed him in frilly…
- Tiberius GemellusTiberius Gemellus entered the world on the 10th of October AD 19. This date marked a rare event in Roman history, as he was born alongside his twin brother…
- Mark AntonyMark Antony was born in Rome on the 14th of January 83 BC, into a family already marked by violent ends and broken ambitions.
- Heinrich HimmlerHeinrich Himmler was reluctant to open his mouth. A British doctor in Lüneburg leaned in to examine it on the 23rd of May 1945, and the prisoner jerked his…
- Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler was born on the 20th of April 1889 in Braunau am Inn, a town in Austria-Hungary near the German border. He died by suicide on the 30th of April…
- Hunter S. ThompsonHunter S. Thompson once wrote a line he repeated for the rest of his life. "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've…
- Judas IscariotJudas Iscariot was one of Jesus Christ's original Twelve Apostles, and his name has become, in many languages, a synonym for betrayer.
- Joseph GoebbelsOn the evening of the 1st of May 1945, Joseph Goebbels walked up from an underground bunker into the garden of the Reich Chancellery and ended his life.
- Vincent van GoghVincent van Gogh sold almost nothing in his lifetime, was called a madman and a failure, and died at 37 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest.
- Hermann GöringHermann Göring asked to die by firing squad, the death of a soldier. The Nuremberg court refused him. So on the night before his scheduled hanging in October…
- Seneca the YoungerSeneca the Younger spent his final hours in a warm bath, dictating last words to a scribe while friends gathered around him in his home.
- Death of Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler died by his own hand in the Führerbunker in Berlin on the 30th of April 1945, as Soviet artillery shelled the city above him.
- SocratesSocrates wrote nothing down. Not a single text, not a stray fragment, survives in his own hand. Everything known about the ancient Greek philosopher from…
- Jean-Luc GodardJean-Luc Godard once said: "A film consists of a beginning, a middle and an end, though not necessarily in that order." That line, delivered with the offhand…
- Oda NobunagaOda Nobunaga was born on the 23rd of June 1534 in Nagoya, Owari Province, and within five decades he had dismantled one shogunate, broken a century of feudal…
- Alexander McQueenAlexander McQueen drew a dress on the wall of his East London family home when he was three years old. That crayon scrawl in Stratford is where the story of…
- Robin WilliamsRobin McLaurin Williams was voted "Most Likely Not to Succeed" by his high school classmates in 1969. Within a decade, he was on the cover of Time magazine…
- Sergei YeseninSergei Yesenin was found dead on the 28th of December 1925 in his room at the Hotel Angleterre in Leningrad. He was thirty years old.