People who died on hunger strike

Soviet dissident (1938–1986)

German revolutionary (1941-1974)

Cuban activist (1967-2010)

Palestinian political activist and prisoner (1978-2023)

Turkish singer of Kurdish ancestry (1991–2020)

Turkish attorney (1978–2020)

Moroccan English teacher, feminist, poet and activist

Indian revolutionary (1845–1883)

Indian independence movement activist

Thai political activist (1995-2024)

British arsonist (1952-2001)

Indian activist (1901–1952)

Russian musician and dissident (1984–2024)

Romanian revolutionary (1898–1924)

Cuban writer and dissident (1931–1972)

environmentalist

Co-founder of Kurdistan Workers Party (1952–1982)

Turkish musician (1980–2020)

Estonian chemist and freedom fighter (1940–1981)

Iranian activist (1969–2006)

Iranian journalist, translator and political activist who died on hunger strike (1959-2011)

Vietnamese general

British suffragette

Iranian human rights activist and political prisoner

Turkish musician (1991–2020)

Rasaiah Parthipan (; 29 November 1963 – 26 September 1987; commonly known by the nom de guerre Thileepan) was a Tamil Eelam revolutionary and member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a separatist Tamil militant organisation in Sri Lanka. He died while on hunger strike.