- marquis de sade (1740 - 1814) french aristocrat, revolutionary and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle; best known for his erotic novels
- pheneas gage (1823 - 1860) "the american crowbar case" one of the most famous and earliest documented cases of severe brain injury
- arthur rimbaud (1854 - 1891) "infant shakespeare" boy-poet of french symbolism; wrote all his works in 5 years before age 21; affair with poet paul verlaine
- henry darger (1892 - 1973) the story of the vivian girls, in what is known as the realm of the unreal, of the glandeco-angelinnian war storm, caused by the child slave rebellion
- charles bukowski(1920 - 1994) american novelist, short story writer, and poet; "laureate of American lowlife"
- jack kerouac (1922 - 1969) (french) american poet and novelist; pioneer of the beat generation; on the road, literary iconoclast
- evelyn mchale (1924 - 1947) "most beautiful suicide" 23 year old who jumped from the observation deck of the empire state building, subject of andy warhol's print suicide (fallen body)
- ray edward johnson (1927 - 1995) founding father of mail art
- sylvia plath (1932 - 1963) american poet and novelist; committed suicide by way of carbon monoxide poison by putting her head in the oven on february 10 1963; mad girl's love song
- leonid ivanovich rogozov (1934 - 2000) surgeon who performed an appendectomy on himself while stationed at a remote research station in antartica at 28 years old
- hunter s. thompson (1937 - 2005) american journalist and author; gonzo journalism; fear and loathing; committed suicide by a self inflicted gun shot wound to the head on february 20th 2005
- peter fetchter (1944 - 1962) one of the first victims of the berlin wall's boarder guards at 18 years old
- ian curtis (1956 - 1980) lead singer of the english post punk band joy division; committed suicide by hanging on the morning of may 18th 1980
- richey edwards (1967 - (presumably) 1995) lyricist and rhythmic guitarist of the welsh alternative welsh rock band the manic street preachers; disappeared february 1st 1995
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