page_title: List of suicides
section_title: B
hierarchical_section_title: List of suicides / Confirmed suicides / B
caption_attribution_description: Charles Boyer
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: Andreas Baader (1977), German RAF terrorist, gunshot
  Nikki Bacharach (2007), American daughter of Burt Bacharach and Angie Dickinson, suffocation using plastic bag and helium
  Josef Bachmann (1970), German anti-communist, who made an assassination attempt on the German student movement-leader Rudi Dutschke, asphyxiation with plastic bag
  Faith Bacon (1956), American burlesque dancer and actress, jumped from hotel window
  Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (2019), Iraqi-born Islamic terrorist and leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, detonation of a suicide vest
  Bai Qi (257 BC), Chinese general and commander of the Qin army, cut his throat with a sword
  David Bairstow (1998), English cricketer, hanging
  James Robert Baker (1997), American writer, asphyxiation
  Mark Balelo (2013), American cast member on the reality TV series Storage Wars, carbon monoxide asphyxiation
  Joe Ball (1938), American serial killer, gunshot
  José Manuel Balmaceda (1891), President of Chile, gunshot
  Lou Bandy (1959), Dutch singer and comedian
  Pratyusha Banerjee (2016), Indian actress, hanging
  Somen Banerjee (1994), Indian American entrepreneur, co-founder of Chippendales and convicted criminal, hanging
  Herculine Barbin (1868), French intersex memoirist, gas
  Erich Bärenfänger (1945), German general
  Robert Hayward Barlow (1951), American writer and anthropologist, barbiturate overdose
  Boris Barnet (1965), Russian film director, hanging
  Mark O. Barton (1999), American spree killer, gunshot
  Ralph Barton (1931), American artist, gunshot
  Johanna Bassani (2020), Austrian combined Nordic skier and ski jumper
  Pierre Batcheff (1932), French actor, overdose of barbital
  Simone Battle (2014), American pop singer and member of the band G.R.L., hanging
  Herb Baumeister (1996), American serial killer, gunshot
  J. Clifford Baxter (2002), American Enron Corporation executive, gunshot
  Amelie "Melli" Beese (1925), German pioneer aviator, gunshot
  Ari Behn (2019), Norwegian author and painter
  Jovan Belcher (2012), American football player, gunshot
  Peter Bellamy (1991), English folk musician and member of the band The Young Tradition
  Helena Belmonte (2014), Filipina model, jumped off building
  Malik Bendjelloul (2014), Swedish documentary filmmaker, jumped in front of moving train
  Brenda Benet (1982), American television and film actress, gunshot
  Walter Benjamin (1940), German-Jewish literary critic and culture theorist, morphine overdose
  Jill Bennett (1990), English actress, secobarbital overdose
  Chester Bennington (2017), American lead singer of Linkin Park, hanging
  Louis Bennison (1929), American actor, gunshot
  Chris Benoit (2007), Canadian professional wrestler, hanging
  Pierre Bérégovoy (1993), French politician and Prime Minister (1992–93), gunshot
  Mary Kay Bergman (1999), American voice actress, gunshot
  David Berman (2019), American musician and poet, hanging
  John Berryman (1972), American poet, jumped off the Washington Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota
  Bruno Bettelheim (1990). Austrian-born U.S. psychologist and writer, asphyxiation with plastic bag
  Paul Bhattacharjee (2013), British actor, jumped from a clifftop
  Brian Bianchini (2004), American model, hanging
  Steve Bing (2020), American businessman and film producer, jumped from 27th floor of apartment building
  Bob Birch (2012), American musician, gunshot
  David Birnie (2005), Australian serial killer and rapist, hanging
  Jens Bjørneboe (1976), Norwegian novelist, hanging
  Eli M. Black (1975), CEO of United Fruit Co., jumped out of a building
  Junius Blaesus (31 AD), Roman consul, general and governor of Africa,  fell on a sword
  Jeremy Blake (2007), American artist, drowning
  Clara Blandick (1962), American stage and screen actress
  Miguel Blesa (2017), Spanish banker and businessman, involved in various corruption scandals, gunshot to chest
  Adele Blood (1936), American actress, gunshot
  Clara Bloodgood (1907), American Broadway actress, gunshot
  Isabella Blow (2007), English magazine editor, and muse to fashion designer Alexander McQueen, poisoning
  Ludwig Boltzmann (1906), Austrian physicist, known for thermodynamics and a
caption: Charles Boyer
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