Suicides by cyanide poisoning

English computer scientist (1912–1954)

German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS & main architect of the Holocaust (1900–1945)

German field marshal (1891-1944)

Hermann Wilhelm Göring was a German politician, aviator, military commander, and convicted war criminal. He was one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party, which controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945. He also served as Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe, a position he held until the final days of the regime.

photographer, longtime companion and later wife of Adolf Hitler (1912–1945)

German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery (1900–1945)

American physical chemist

Bosnian Croat general and war criminal (1945–2017)

politician and former Prime Minister of Japan (1891–1945)

German general (1882-1944)

American organic chemist (1896–1937)

Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer (1878–1937)

German field marshal (1892–1945)

The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name Jonestown, was a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, an American religious cult under the leadership of Jim Jones. Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 918 people died at the settlement, at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, and at a Temple-run building in Georgetown, Guyana's capital city. The name of the settlement became synonymous with the incidents at those locations.

English writer and physician (1795–1821)

Austrian-German SS officer, SS-Group Leader and Lieutenant General of the Police, temporary leader of Operation Reinhardt (1904–1945)

Argentine poet

German general, head of Nazi Action T4 euthanasia program for children and the handicapped (1899–1945)

German chemist (1848-1897)

SS physician (1910-1945)

Malagasy poet who is widely considered to be Africa's first modern poet and the greatest literary artist of Madagascar. (1901–1937)

German politician (1889-1946)

Spanish euthanesia activist (1943–1998)

Polish politician (1880–1942)

German general (1889-1945); SS-Gruppenführer, head of the inspection of the concentration camps

German diplomat (1904-1945)

British Indian Bengali woman freedom fighter (1911–1932)

Manuel Marinho Alves, best known as Maneca (January 28, 1926 – July 14, 1961), was an association footballer in striker role. He was born in Salvador Bahia, Brazil.

American writer (1917-1960)

South African ichthyologist (1897–1968)

writer (1858-1914)

German general (1901-1945)

German SS officer and SS-Oberfuhrer (Senior Colonel/Brigadier)

Deputy to Adolf Eichmann (1913-1945)

American serial killer (1945–1985)

Mexican writer (1849–1873)

Lieutenant Colonel Douglas McGlashan Kelley was a United States Army Military Intelligence Corps officer who served as chief psychiatrist at Nuremberg Prison during the first months of the Nuremberg trials. He worked to ascertain defendants' competency before they stood trial.

Czech anatomist and patologist (1819-1872)

German politician (1888-1945)

German writer (1881–1920)

Officer/Imperial Japanese army (1891-1945)

Vietnamese writer (1906-1963)

American poet and playwright (1869-1926)

German politician, industrialist and entrepreneur (1877-1945)

German psychiatrist (1889–1945)

German politician (1899-1945)

German-American biochemist (1898-1941)

German SS officer

British chemist (1926-1981)

Member of the Danish resistance group Holger Danske during World War II (1921–1944)

German general (1898-1945)

English chemist and alchemist

American socialite and photographer (1843–1885)

Australian musician (1922-1953)

Japanese physiologist and bureaucrat

Indian revolutionary activist

Italian psychologist (1878–1927)

Romanian politician (1891-1940)

Jewish Nazi collaborator (1892-1943)

German Nazi politician & SS-Gruppenführer