List of people who died by hanging
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This is a list of people who died as a result of hanging.
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[edit] 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
- Lee Eun-ju, South Korean actress and singer
- Ludwig Boltzmann, physicist, pioneer of statistical mechanics
- Jung Da Bin, a South Korean actress
- Jonathan Brandis, an American actor
- Ray Combs, former host of Family Feud
- Ian Curtis, lead singer of Joy Division
- Santos Dumont, Brazilian aviation pioneer
- Chongzhen Emperor, emperor of China's Ming Dynasty (April 25, 1644)
- 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)
- Paul Hester, former drummer of Crowded House
- Michael Hutchence, former lead singer of INXS
- Judas Iscariot, a prominent figure in the Christian gospels
- 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)
- David Munrow, musician and early music historian, (May 15, 1976)
- Gérard de Nerval, french poet and essayist (January 26, 1855)
- Phil Ochs, political folksinger
- Deborah Jean Palfrey, operator of an escort agency in Washington, D.C.
- Harold Shipman, English doctor, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment
- Mark Speight, English children's television presenter (April 2008)
- Marina Tsvetayeva, a Russian poet
- Fred West, serial killer
- Sergei Yesenin, a Russian poet, ex-husband of Isadora Duncan
- Nicholas Charles Stahl, a comedian and family man
[edit] Death as a result of capital punishment
- Saddam Hussein, Iraq President(December 30, 2006)
- Bhagath Singh, Indian freedom fighter (March 19, 1931)
- Rajguru, Indian freedom fighter (March 19, 1931)
- Sukhdev, Indian freedom fighter (March 19, 1931)
- George Atzerodt, Abraham Lincoln assassination conspirator (1865)
- Kevin Barry, Irish patriot (1920)
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani politician (1979)
- Roger Casement, Irish patriot (1916)
- Tom Dula, inspiration for the song Tom Dooley, for murder (1868)
- Adolf Eichmann, Nazi war criminal (1961)
- Nathuram Godse, Mahatma Gandhi's Assassin (1949)
- Charles Guiteau, assassin of President Garfield (1881)
- Nathan Hale, American patriot (1776)
- Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, murderers of the Clutter family (1965)
- David Herold, Abraham Lincoln assassination conspirator (1865)
- William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), Nazi propagandist (1946)
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner, highest surviving SS leader (1946)
- Kiyotaka Katsuta, Japanese serial killer (2000)
- Wilhelm Keitel, German head of army (1946)
- Tom Ketchum, American old west outlaw (1901)
- Yoshio Kodaira, Japanese serial killer (1949)
- Genzo Kurita, Japanese serial killer (1959)
- Norio Nagayama, Japanese serial killer (1997)
- Akira Nishiguchi, Japanese serial killer (1970)
- Kiyoshi Okubo, Japanese serial killer (1976)
- Lewis Powell, Abraham Lincoln assassination conspirator (1865)
- Joachim Ribbentrop, German ReichMinister, for war crimes (1946)
- Mary Surratt, Abraham Lincoln assassination conspirator (1865)
- Mamoru Takuma, Japanese mass murderer (2004)
- Hideki Tojo, Japanese war criminal (1948)
- Aleksandr Ulyanov, Russian revolutionary, for Tsar assassination plot (1887)
- Michael X, black revolutionary, for murder (1975)
- Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general, for war crimes (1946)
- John André, British officer, for espionage (1780)
- Ned Kelly, for multiple murder, 1880
- Tom Horn, Old West "Range Detective" (1903)
