List of Deaths/Depression/Suicide/Heroin

Heroin Addicts Who Died from OD:

Musicians

Janis Joplin

Sid Vicious

James Honeyman Scott

Pete Farndon,

Adny Wood

Jonathon Melvoin

Layne Stanley

Dee Dee Ramone

Mike Bloomfield

Robin Crosby

Howie Epstein

GG Allin

John Balance

Florence Ballard

Lester Bands

Matty Blagg

Billie Holliday

Zac Foley

Rick Evers

Tim Buckley

Brian Cole

Darby Crash

John Dougherty

Dwaye Goettel

Sean Greenway

Stacy Guess

Tim Hardin

Tim Hemensley

Hollywood Fats

Rob Jones

John Kahn

Wells Kelly

Kenny Kiland

Phil Lynott

Frankie Lyman

David McComb

Jimmy McCulloch

Robbie McIntosh

Jim Morrison (?)

Miss Christine

Kristine Pfaff

Esther Phillips

Tobert Quine

Jimmy Reilly

Andy Rogers

Micheal Rudetsky

Brady Nowell

Malcom Owen

Judy Sill

Hillel Slovak

Vinny Taylor

Actor/Comedians:

John Belushi

Chris Farley

Max Cantor (became an addict while researching for a role)

Jean Eagels

Mitch Hedberg

Robert Pastorelli

River Phoenix

Glenn Quinn

Alma Reubens

Brett Whitely

Other

Pamela Coursen, Jim Morrison’s gf

Elisa Bridges, Model

Paul DeMayo, Bodybuilder

Eric Snow (athlete)

Paula Yates (Michael Hutchen’s gf)

Poets/Artists/Writers:

Jean Basquiet

Michael Dransfield

Jack Kerouac

Brett Whitely

Other Creative types who have been:

(H) Hospitalized for depression or mental illness

(SA) Made a suicide attempt

(D) Committed suicide

WRITERS:

Hans Christian Andersen (H)

Honore de Balzac (H)

James Barrie (H)

William Faulkner (H)

F. Scott Fitzgerald (H)

Ernest Hemingway (H, S)

Hermann Hesse (H, SA)

Henrik Ibsen, (H, SA)

Henry James, (H, SA)

William James, (H, SA)

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), (SA)

Joseph Conrad (SA)

Charles Dickens, (SA)

Isak Dinesen (SA)

Ralph Waldo Emerson, (SA)

Herman Melville, (H, SA

Eugene O'Neill (H, SA)

Mary Shelley, (H)

Robert Louis Stevenson, (H)

Leo Tolstoy, (H)

Tennessee Williams (H)

Mary Wollstonecraft (SA)

Virginia Woolf (H, S)

POETS:

William Blake, (S)

Robert Burns, (S)

George Gordon, (S)

Lord Byron, (S)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (S)

Hart Crane (S)

Emily Dickinson, (H)

T.S. Eliot (H)

Oliver Goldsmith, (S)

Gerard Manley Hopkins, (S)

Victor Hugo, (S)

Samuel Johnson, (S)

John Keats, (S)

Vachel Lindsay (S)

James Russell Lowell, (H)

Robert Lowell (H)

Edna St. Vincent Millay (H)

Boris Pasternak (H)

Sylvia Plath (H, S)

Edgar Allan Poe (SA)

Ezra Pound (H)

Anne Sexton (H, S)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (SA)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, (H)

Dylan Thomas, (H)

Walt Whitman (H)

ARTISTS:

Richard Dadd (H)

Thomas Eakins, (SA)

Paul Gauguin (SA)

Vincent van Gogh (H, S)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (H, S)

Edward Lear, (H)

Michelangelo, (H)

Edvard Meunch (H)

Georgia O'Keeffe (H)

George Romney, (SA)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (SA)