List of people who died by hanging

This is a list of people who died as a result of hanging, including suicides and judicial, extrajudicial, or summary executions.

These deaths are notable due to history or due to media exposure.

Serbs being executed in Austria-Hungary in World War I
Ludwig Boltzmann , Austrian physicist and philosopher; while on vacation with family in Duino
Alberto Santos-Dumont , Brazilian aviator; in his hotel room
Robert Ley , German Nazi Reichsorganisationsleiter ; in prison cell
Gustav Simon , German Nazi NSKK- Obergruppenführer ; in prison cell
Ilse Koch , German Nazi overseer at Buchenwald concentration camp and Majdanek concentration camp ; in prison cell
Rudolf Hess , German Nazi Deputy Führer to Hitler; in prison
Robin Williams , American actor and comedian; in his home
Daryl Easton , American magician; in his dressing room at Hollywood's Magic Castle
Anthony Bourdain , American chef; in his hotel room
Jeffrey Epstein , American financier and convicted sex offender ; in prison cell
Sushant Singh Rajput , Indian actor; in his home
John McAfee , American businessman; in prison cell
Execution of Lincoln assassination conspirators Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt
Saddam Hussein , President of Iraq and war criminal
Adolf Eichmann , German Nazi major organizer of the Holocaust and war criminal
Wilhelm Keitel , German Nazi head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and war criminal
Joachim von Ribbentrop , German Nazi foreign minister and war criminal
Alfred Jodl , German Nazi Chief of the Operations Staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and war criminal
Irma Grese , German Nazi concentration camp guard and war criminal
Hideki Tojo , Prime Minister of Japan and war criminal
Newspaper photo taken shortly after the arrest of Sada Abe (center) in Tokyo in 1936