| GROS | Antoine-Jean, French painter who committed suicide in 1835 (4) |
| NERO | Emperor who committed suicide in 68 AD |
| HANCOCK | Tony, English comedian who committed suicide in 1968 in Australia (7) |
| HERO | Leander's lover, who committed suicide when he drowned (4) |
| HITLER | Adolf, German dictator who committed suicide in 1945 (6) |
| MARINATSVETAEVA | Russian poet who committed suicide in 1941 after her husband was executed (6,9) |
| CHATTERTON | Thomas, British poet who committed suicide in 1770 (10) |
| EASTMAN | George ___, US photographic equipment pioneer who committed suicide in 1932 (7) |
| PEG | Actress Entwistle who committed suicide in 1932 by jumping from Hollywood's "H" |
| HIMMLER | Heinrich, German Nazi Gestapo leader who committed suicide in 1945 (7) |
| COBAIN | Kurt, rock musician who committed suicide in April 1994 (6) |
| EAST | North Carolina senator who committed suicide, 1986 |
| DUFY | Raoul, French painter who died in 1953 (4) |
| DIDO | Suicide in Aeneid accomplished nothing |
| NIRVANA | Rock group whose singer Kurt Cobain committed suicide in 1994 (7) |
| THOMASCHATTERTON | Precocious 18th-century poet who committed suicide aged 17 |
| CLEOPATRA | Ancient Egyptian Queen who committed suicide with an asp (9) (9) |
| WATTEAU | Jean-Antoine, French painter who died in 1721 (7) |
| MARIETUSSAUD | French-born sculptor of wax figures who founded a museum in central London in 1835 (5,7) |
| SAMUELCOLT | US inventor who patented the first practical single-barrelled revolver in England in 1835 (6,4) |
