2019 suicides

Leader of the Islamic State (1971-2019)

Jeffrey Edward Epstein was an American financier and child sex offender. He began his career as a math teacher at the Dalton School, before entering the banking and finance sector. Over several decades, he made much of his fortune providing tax and estate services to billionaires, and cultivated an elite social circle of prominent individuals. In 2008, he was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution, and was indicted in 2019 for sex trafficking minors in the 2000s. He died in custody awaiting his trial; his death was ruled a suicide.

President of Peru (1985–1990 and 2006–2011)

Choi Jin-ri (; March 29, 1994 – October 13 or 14, 2019), known professionally as Sulli (), was a South Korean singer and actress. She first made her debut as a child actress, appearing as a supporting cast member on the SBS historical drama Ballad of Seodong (2005). Following this, she earned a number of guest roles, appearing in the television series Love Needs a Miracle (2005) and Drama City (2007), and the film Vacation (2006). She then subsequently appeared in the independent films Punch Lady (2007) and BA:BO (2008), the former being her first time cast in a substantial dramatic role.

South Korean pop singer (1991–2019)

British dancer and vocalist (1969-2019)

American actor (1940–2019)

Norwegian author (1972–2019)

Russian ethnographer and Udmurt language activist

American cyclist

Spanish alpine skier

American professional wrestler, reality television contestant and model (1979-2019)

American economist (1960–2019)

Desmond Daniel Amofah (May 12, 1990 – ), better known as Etika, was an American YouTuber and live streamer. Amofah became known online for his dramatic reactions to Super Smash Bros. character trailers, Nintendo Direct presentations, and for playing and reacting to various games. He resided in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, his father is the Ghanaian politician Owuraku Amofah and his granduncle is the former Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo. Starting his online career in 2007, Amofah created his main YouTube channel, "EWNetwork" (Etika World Network), in 2012. His fanbase was dubbed

South Korean actress

Iranian football fan

New Zealand actor (1980–2019)

American comedian (1970–2019)

The death of Jeffrey Epstein, an American financier and child sex offender, occurred on August 10, 2019. Guards claimed to have found Epstein unresponsive in his jail cell at 6:30 a.m. at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, hanging off the side of his cell's bed, where he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. After prison guards reportedly performed CPR, he was transported in cardiac arrest to the New York Downtown Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:39 am. The New York City medical examiner and the Justice Department Inspector General ruled that Epstein's death was a suicide by hanging. Epstein's lawyers challenged the medical examiner's conclusion and opened their own investigation, hiring pathologist Michael Baden.

British judoka

Canadian ice hockey player (1971-2019)

Czech ice hockey player and coach (1978–2019)

Lithuanian footballer (1983-2019)

Belgian cyclist (1950–2019)

American musician, singer, poet and cartoonist (1967–2019)

Dutch politician, trade unionist and social worker (1949-2019)

German cyclist (1966-2019)

American military officer and occultist

re-recording mixer (1955-2019)

Canadian Inuit indie-pop singer-songwriter

Italian marathon runner (1967-2019)

school shooting, mass murder, murder–suicide and infanticide in Brazil

Mexican actress (1981–2019)

Brazilian pornographic actress (1982–2019)

German blogger and confabulator (1987-2019)

Russian tennis player (1992-2019)

Indian actor

American pair skater (1985–2019)

Indian cricket player. (1961-2019)

Polish boxer (1981-2019)

mass shooting in the Czech Republic

Canadian video game developer (1983–2019)

American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer (1968–2019)

Jamaican sprinter

Croatian footballer (1993-2019)

Dutch mental health activist and author

Serbian handball player

South Korean politician (1957-2019)

association football player (1979-2019)

Argentine footballer and manager (1967-2019)

Norwegian association football player (1975-2019)

Indian businessman

American actor (1977–2019)

French rugby league and rugby union footballer (1942–2019)

American businessman

American murderer

Dutch fashion designer (1962–2019)

American football player (1987-2019)