Actors who died unnaturally

Died in a plane crash in Marsh Harbour, Bahamas. The plane was heavily overloaded.

1979-2001 (22 years old)

Took her own life after her marriage with police officer and actor Rudy Diaz ended.

1920-1968 (47 years old)

Died in a car accident in Pune, India.

1963-2012 (49 years old)

Died after falling off a horse.

1967-2010 (43 years old)

Took his own life by consuming poison in Chihuahua, after struggling with depression due to alcoholism and an inability to adept to talkies.

1890-1931 (40 years old)

Found dead in a garbage dumpster in France, having told his wife he was travelling to England to work on a film. The death has been ruled a suicide by strangulation.

1938-1980 (42 years old)

Shot himself in his home in Santa Monica, after struggling with depression due to a back injury.

1915-1977 (62 years old)

Died in a car crash in Mõhküla, Estonia.

1962-2006 (44 years old)

Found dead and decaying in his car in Seoul, South Korea, having died of carbon monoxide poisoning some days prior.

1972-2008 (36 years old)

Took her own life by eating raw opium.

1912-1934 (21 years old)

Died in a car crash in France, when his car was hit by a driver committing suicide.

1962-1984 (22 years old)

Shot himself in the barn behind his home in Los Angeles. His wife, Aleta Freel, had killed herself 13 months earlier. Alexander struggled with depression due to both his private and professional problems, and was deeply in debt.

1907-1937 (29 years old)

Died two days after an attempted suicide by hanging.

1983-2013 (29 years old)

Overdosed on anti-depressant, having frequently been admitted to psychiatric hospitals during his adult life.

1939-1984 (45 years old)

Died of the injuries sustained in a fall at his nursing home in Thousand Oaks, California.

1917-2009 (91 years old)

Took his own life by asphyxiation in his home in Santa Clarita, having suffered from bladder cancer and other health issues.

1920-2005 (85 years old)

Hanged himself.

1949-1981 (32 years old)

Died of the injuries he sustained when he was hit by a motorcycle while crossing a road.

1935-2012 (76 years old)

Died in a traffic accident in Burzaco, Argentina.

1976-2002 (26 years old)

Took her own life at home.

1948-1991 (43 years old)

Murdered by his cousin.

1881-1919 (38 years old)

Took her own life at Hindlethwaite Hall in Yorkshire.

1927-1982 (55 years old)

Committed suicide.

1941-1991 (49 years old)

Shot himself at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, having suffered from severe pain due to terminal cancer in his hips.

1912-1963 (51 years old)

Died in a car crash in Kolari, Yugoslavia (today's Serbia).

1938-1976 (38 years old)

Shot himself after having struggled with depression.

1936-1992 (55 years old)

Murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp.

1861-1942 (81 years old)

Bludgeoned to death with a log in his home by Italian schoolteacher Giuseppe Perusi, who took his own life shortly after.

1918-1983 (64 years old)

Set himself on fire outside the tax office in Nacka, Sweden, after a dispute with the tax authorities.

1920-1981 (60 years old)

Died when the car she was in plunged into a canal near Mansoura, Egypt. There has been rumours of both that British intelligence and the Gestapo had ordered her death.

1912-1944 (31 years old)

Committed suicide.

1908-1979 (71 years old)

Shot himself.

1887-1943 (56 years old)

Died after a fall in her home in Lyon, France.

1943-2008 (64 years old)

Died in a car crash.

1936-2000 (63 years old)

Took his own life in his home in Los Angeles.

1873-1926 (53 years old)

Strangled and beaten to death by prison cell mate Kevin Roby.

1969-2005 (36 years old)

Died eleven days after an attempted suicide by overdose.

1903-1951 (48 years old)

Allegedly hanged herself from a ceiling fan in her apartment in Mumbai, after suffering from depression. However, Babajee's ex-girlfriend Gautam Vohra has been under investigation for a possible connection to the case.

1973-2010 (37 years old)

Jumped to her death from a hotel window.

1910-1956 (46 years old)

Murdered by her husband Zhou Chenghai, who took his life shortly after.

1983-2012 (28 years old)

Died after the landing airbag split while freefalling from the Kincaid Towers in Lexington, Kentucky, while doing stunt work for the film Steel.

1950-1978 (27 years old)

Died in a head-on collision with a log truck near Carrick, Tasmania.

1968-2014 (45 years old)

Hanged herself in her apartment in Mumbai.

1991-2016 (24 years old)

Committed suicide.

1934-1971 (37 years old)

Hanged himself in Riga, Soviet Union.

1902-1965 (62 years old)

Shot himself after a domestic dispute.

1912-1980 (68 years old)

She and her mother were shot by her father József, who took his own life afterwards.

1978-1988 (10 years old)

Threw herself in front of a train in Prague, after being hunted by the media.

1966-2014 (48 years old)

Died in a car crash on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway in India.

1948-2001 (52 years old)

Overdosed on the drug Veronal in Paris, France.

1907-1932 (24 years old)

Took her own life in her mother's garage by carbon monoxide poisoning, after years of depression.

1925-1969 (43 years old)

Hanged herself after struggling with depression due to financial issues.

1989-2014 (25 years old)

Died under mysterious circumstances during WWII.

1880-1943 (62 years old)

Died, probably due to an overdose on either barbiturates or alcohol, in a nursing home in Los Angeles. He had been severely beaten a couple of days before, and it is possible, though not likely, that he died of those injuries.

1929-1968 (38 years old)

Died in a traffic accident in Brac, Croatia.

1960-2000 (40 years old)

Died in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

1889-1942 (53 years old)

Jumped from a building in Auckland.

1944-1994 (50 years old)

Crashed with a lamp post while riding a scooter, and died of the injuries.

1976-2009 (33 years old)

Committed suicide.

1966-2006 (39 years old)

Hanged himself in a prison in Nîmes, France, having escaped Germany after stabbing three persons.

1935-1977 (42 years old)

Took his own life after struggling with depression.

1977-2014 (36 years old)

Shot herself after struggling with depression due to her son's death the year before.

1945-1982 (36 years old)

Took her own life, after several earlier attempted suicides.

1906-1958 (51 years old)

Took her own life with an overdose on quinalbarbitone, due to depression and a rough marriage to writer John Osborne.

1931-1990 (58 years old)

Hanged himself.

1968-2015 (47 years old)

Died in the plane that crashed into the northern World Trade Center on 9/11.

1948-2001 (53 years old)

Took his own life by carbon monoxide poisoning from a grill in his bedroom.

1949-2007 (58 years old)

Died in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

1875-1943 (68 years old)

Died when she war thrown out of the car in a car crash in Eure, France. The car was driven by singer and actress Dany Dauberson.

1934-1967 (32 years old)

Died of the injuries sustained in a fall, in which she broke her hip.

1886-1974 (87 years old)

Shot herself in her home, after depression due to her mother's health and worries about her job.

1961-1999 (38 years old)

Stabbed to death, probably by musician Praveen Kumar, who took his own life shortly after.

1983-2008 (25 years old)

Fell from the balcony of her apartment in Mumbai, India. The death was ruled accidental.

1974-1993 (19 years old)

Jumped to his death off Splash Point cliffs in Seaford. Bhattacharjee had been missing for a couple of days when he was found, after having been declared bankrupt.

1960-2013 (53 years old)

Died in a car crash in Shahkot, India.

1955-2012 (57 years old)

Committed suicide, after struggling with severe depression.

1978-2004 (25 years old)

Shot himself after having become depressed due to lack of work. His style of comedy was seen as outdated.

1889-1947 (57 years old)

Overdosed on Valium in an apartment she shared with boyfriend, singer Art Garfunkel.

1952-1979 (26 years old)

Died in a car accident in Calcutta, India.

1900-1962 (61 years old)

Died in a car crash in Moissac, France.

1955-1975 (20 years old)

Stabbed to death in a parking lot, probably by a professional hitman. The prime suspect was her husband, American actor Rod Strunk, who later took his own life.

1936-2001 (65 years old)

Overdosed on sleeping pills, and suffocated in a plastic bag, due to physical pain and going blind.

1876-1962 (85 years old)

Died after falling off a horse near his home in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.

1872-1928 (56 years old)

Shot herself in her home, after experiencing financial problems.

1886-1936 (50 years old)

Died after falling down the stairs in his home on the Adams Lake Indian Band, Canada.

1952-2013 (61 years old)

Drowned, possibly intentionally, off the shore of Santa Monica. Bowers had sailed out to where Henry Hathaway was filming Souls at Sea, hoping for a part. He never returned alive, and his body was found at the beach.

1885-1936 (50 years old)

Overdosed on the drug Seconal at a friend's house in Scottsdale, Arizona, two days after the death of his wife, actress Pat Paterson.

1899-1978 (78 years old)

Committed suicide.

1894-1936 (41 years old)

Hanged himself in the hallway of his apartment building in Los Angeles. Brandis had been depressed about his waning career.

1976-2003 (27 years old)

Committed suicide while terminally ill.

1891-1978 (87 years old)

Committed suicide.

1920-2002 (81 years old)

Jumped from the roof of the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam, Netherlands, having struggled with drug addiction and serious medical problems caused by drug use.

1946-2001 (54 years old)

Took his own life by carbon monoxide poisoning.

1886-1943 (56 years old)

Shot himself. Brown grew up in a dysfunctional family, surrounded by crime, alcoholism and drug abuse. His sister Marilyn Brown also killed herself.

1951-1978 (27 years old)

Jumped to her death off a Los Angeles freeway overpass, after struggling for years with drug abuse and alcoholism.

1953-1997 (44 years old)

Hanged herself in the bathroom of her home.

1999-2015 (15 years old)

Committed suicide.

1905-1995 (89 years old)

Died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

1871-1944 (73 years old)

Jumped to his death from his apartment in Manhattan, after struggling with schizophrenia.

1939-1978 (39 years old)

Died in a car accident near Kiev, Soviet Union, in today's Ukraine.

1928-1979 (50 years old)