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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Niether do I, though I normally play it more for it's backlit screen than it's touchability.
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Originally posted by: Bossk
I bolded the ones I know and think others might find more recognizable (purely subjective, of course). Thanks to Wikipedia for the list.
Authors and others related to writing who have committed suicide
Louis Althusser, (1990), French philosopher
Jean Améry, (1978), Austrian writer
Hubert Aquin, (1977), author
Gertrude Bell, (1926), archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq"
Blossius of Cumae, Roman philosopher who led a failed revolt
Barcroft Boake, (1892), Australian poet, hanged himself from a tree
Karin Boye, (1941), Swedish author
Richard Brautigan, (1984), American writer
Michael Buonauro, (2004), Web Cartoonist, Web author, "Marvelous Bob"
Joseph Daniel 'Danny' Casolaro, (1991), journalist
Paul Celan, (1970), Romanian poet
Iris Chang, (2004), Chinese-American author
Thomas Chatterton, (1770), English poet
Charmian Clift, (1969), Australian writer
Kurt Cobain, (1994), American musician and singer (Nirvana)
Hart Crane, (1932), American poet; born on the same date as Ernest Hemingway, another American writer who suicided
Harry Crosby, (1929), writer, publisher
Will Cuppy, (1949), American writer, humorist
Dazai Osamu, (1948), Japanese novelist
Guy Debord, (1994), French philosopher, member of Situationist International
Gilles Deleuze, (1995), French philosopher
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1945), French novelist
K. Sello Duiker, (2005), South African author
John Gould Fletcher, (1950), Pulitzer Prize winning poet
Romain Gary, (1980), Russian-French novelist, film director and diplomat
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, (1935), American feminist and author (Herland)
Adam Lindsay Gordon, (1870), Australian poet ('Life is mostly froth and bubble')
Kenneth Halliwell, (1967), English writer, lover of Joe Orton whom he killed then killed himself
James Harden-Hickey, (1898), US eccentric who wrote a book listing 88 poisons and 51 instruments that could be used for suicide; he chose an overdose of morphine
Ernest Hemingway, (1961), American novelist
James Leo Herlihy, (1993), US novelist ('Midnight Cowboy')
William Inge, (1973), US playwright (Picnic, Come Back, Little Sheba, Bus Stop, Splendor in the Grass)
Isocrates, (338 BC), Greek rhetorician
Randall Jarrell (1965), US writer and poet
Sarah Kane, (1999), British playwright
Kostas Karyotakis, (1928), Greek poet, shot himself
Heinrich von Kleist, (1811), German dramatist and poet
Fletcher Knebel, (1993), US novelist ('Seven Days in May')
Arthur Koestler, (1983), Hungarian novelist, political activist and social philosopher; suicided with his wife
Jerzy Kosinski, (1991), Polish-American author
Katherine Lawrence, (2004), writer
Primo Levi, (1987), Italian author and Auschwitz survivor
Vachel Lindsay, (1931), US poet
Peter Llewellyn-Davies, (1960), UK publisher who as a boy was the inspiration for J M Barrie's Peter Pan
Ross Lockridge, Jr., (1948}, US novelist, author of Raintree County
Jack London, (1916), US novelist (his doctor believed he had committed suicide by overdose of morphine and atropine, but his widow prevailed on a more senior doctor to ascribe the death to uremia, and had the body quickly cremated before an autopsy could be done)
Malcolm Lowry, (1957), British writer
Lucan, (65), Roman poet
Robert Maxwell, (1991), Czech-born UK newspaper magnate who jumped overboard in the Atlantic leaving a financial disaster in his wake
Vladimir Mayakovsky, (1930), Russian poet; his suicide note said 'I don't recommend it for others'
Niklaus Meienberg, (1993), Swiss author
Charlotte Mew, (1928), English poet
Walter M. Miller, Jr., (1996), science-fiction writer
Yukio Mishima, (1970), Japanese novelist; committed public ritual seppuku
Henry de Montherlant, (1972), French writer
Gérard de Nerval, (1855), French writer
John Patrick, (1995), US playwright and screenwriter; placed a plastic bag over his head
Cesare Pavese, (1950), Italian poet, novelist
Petronius Arbiter, (66), Roman satirist; opened his own veins
H. Beam Piper, (1964), American science fiction writer
Sylvia Plath, (1963), American poetess, author and essayist
Jan Potocki, (1815), Polish aristocrat, traveler, writer; shot himself with a silver bullet
Lucien Anatole Prevost-Paradol (1870), French journalist and diplomat
Iris von Roten-Meyer, (1990), artist and jurist
Akutagawa Ryunosuke, (1927), Japanese novelist
William Seabrook (1886-1945), adventurer, travel writer
Anne Sexton, (1974), American poet
Sara Teasdale, (1933), American poet
Hunter S. Thompson, (2005), American novelist and journalist
Ric Throssell, (1999), Australian diplomat, writer
Ernst Toller, (1939), German writer
John Kennedy Toole, (1969), American novelist
Marina Tsvetaeva, (1941), Russian poetess and writer
Kurt Tucholsky, (1935), German journalist and satirist
Amy Vanderbilt, (1974), etiquette writer
Gary Webb, (2004), US investigative reporter; death ruled as suicide from two gunshots
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, (1939), Polish author, novelist, painter, philosopher
Virginia Woolf, (1941), British novelist
Sergei Yesenin, (1925), poet, husband of Isadora Duncan
Stefan and Lotte Zweig, (1942), Austrian novelist and his wife