Suicides by poison

Socrates (; ; – 399 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher from Classical Athens, perhaps the first Western moral philosopher, and a major inspiration on his student Plato, who largely founded the tradition of Western philosophy. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no texts and is known mainly through the posthumous accounts of classical writers, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. These accounts are written as dialogues, in which Socrates and his interlocutors examine a subject in the style of question and answer; they gave rise to the Socratic dialogue literary genre. Contrad

Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (; 70/69 BC10 or 12 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and the last active Hellenistic pharaoh. A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great. Her first language was Koine Greek, and she is the only Ptolemaic ruler known to have learned the Egyptian language, among several others. After her death, Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire, marking the end of the Hellenistic period in the Mediterranean,

Hannibal (; ; 247 – between 183 and 181 BC) was a Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded the forces of Carthage in their battle against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War. Hannibal lived during a period of great tension in the Mediterranean Basin, triggered by the emergence of the Roman Republic as a great power with its defeat of Carthage in the First Punic War. Revanchism prevailed in Carthage, symbolized by the pledge that Hannibal made to his father to "never be a friend of Rome".

Demosthenes (; ; ; 384 – 12 October 322 BC) was a Greek statesman and orator in ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual prowess and provide insight into the politics and culture of ancient Greece during the 4th century BC. Demosthenes learned rhetoric by studying the speeches of previous great orators. He delivered his first judicial speeches at the age of 20, in which he successfully argued that he should gain from his guardians what was left of his inheritance. For a time, Demosthenes made his living as a professional s

Boudica or Boudicca (, from Brythonic * 'victory, win' + * (adjectival suffix), i.e. 'Victorious Woman', known in Latin chronicles as Boadicea or Boudicea, and in Welsh as '''''', ) was a queen of the ancient British Iceni tribe, who led a failed uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61. She is considered a British national heroine and a symbol of the struggle for justice and independence.

Chinese official credited with inventing paper (died 121)

writer, journalist, literary critic and revolutionary; also known for being Karl Marx's son-in-law (1842-1911)

German philosopher (1869-1946)

English poet and forger (1752-1770)

English-born activist and daughter of Karl Marx (1855–1898)

Canadian-American actress (1886-1938)

Chinese merchant and politician of the Qin state (291–235 BC)

German navy officer, U-boot commander, Admiral in the Kriegsmarine (1895-1945)

leader of the anti-Nazi Jewish Combat Organization (1919–1943)

Egyptian military officer and politician (1919–1967)

Greek children's writer (1874–1941)

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American poet (1879–1931)

Czech physician and writer (1882-1940)

French writer, photographer and journalist (1955-1991)

Hungarian writer, playwright, musician, music critic and psychiatrist (1887–1919)

American cult leader (1931–1997)

Khong Tayiji or khan of the Dzungaria in the 17th century

German painter (1885–1933)

English poet

American silent film actor, stuntman, ranch hand (1890–1931)

Soviet and Russian actor (1930–2014)

German chemist (1850–1902)

British poet (1869–1928)

French anarchist pedagogue

English actress (1945–2011)

8th-century Ispahbadh of Tabaristan

Canadian novelist and short story writer (1926-1987)

Ottomon governor

Polish explorer and geologist (1833–1876)

Chinese Jin dynasty empress consort (257–300)

Romanian writer (1850-1889)

Prince of Zhao and Jin dynasty usurper (died 301)

a significant event marking the death of the penultimate Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt in 30 BC

Chinese politician (1905-1954)

Polish anthropologist (1884–1921)

Japanese general (1884-1946)

Magazine editor, stylist, actress, model (1958–2007)

French writer and business woman (1892-1955)

English poet, dramatist and physician (1803–1849)

English poet (1865–1904)

Romanian singer (1967–2010)

actress from the United States

German Nazi SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator (1903–1959)

Romanian bobsleddert (1906–1946)

German general (1899–1946)

actress, journalist and television presenter (1959-2009)

Frisian-Danish revolutionary and writer (1798-1870)

Ancient Macedonian general

Swazi model (1988–2009)

American philosopher and theologian (1836-1903)

Chinese official and scholar (1845–1900)

Austrian physician (1879-1946)

actor (1874-1940)

Swiss Nazi collaborator (1915-1996)