Deaths by hanging

Roman emperor from 375 to 392

Russian oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician (1946-2013)

Iron Age bog body from Denmark that was hanged before death

Welsh association football player and manager (1969–2011)

British dancer and vocalist (1969-2019)

Italian anarchist regicide of King Umberto I of Italy (1869-1901)

circus elephant (died 1916)

American actress (1966–2006)

Ukrainian composer and poet (1949-1979)

Execution of former president of Iraq

British biologist (1954-2012) Professor of Animal Development at the University of Nottingham

German film director (1904–1942)

Archbishop of Pisa

Iron Age bog body found in Denmark

British actress, model, singer and YouTuber

Christian martyrs

Czech Jewish Arabist (1904–1944)

group of Hunchakian activists who were hanged by the Muslim Ottoman rulers in the Armenian genocide

Belarusian political activist

2026 Israeli law

British criminal (1931–1994)

English footballer (born 1971)

three bog bodies found in the Borremose peat bog in Himmerland, Denmark

Dutch Catholic priest and martyr

Christian saint

incident in which the Irgun kidnapped and hanged two British soldiers

Dutch Catholic clerics killed in 1572

kashmiri poet and independence activist

Eastern Orthodox saint

German politician (1906-1934)

English pirate

José Gervasio Viera Rodríguez (27 February 1948 – 28 October 1990), also simply known as Gervasio, was an Uruguayan singer who achieved popularity in Chile in 1983, when he won the international competition of the Viña del Mar International Song Festival, with the song "Alma, Corazón y Pan". One of Gervasio's most famous compositions is "Con Una Pala y Un Sombrero", which he wrote in honour of his father, who died of lung cancer.