Flashcards: Suicides by jumping in the United States

Evelyn Francis McHale (September 20, 1923 – May 1, 1947) was an American bookkeeper who committed suicide by jumping from the 86th floor Observation Deck of the Empire State Building on May 1, 1947.

Anton Furst (6 May 1944 – 24 November 1991) was a production designer who won an Academy Award for designing the noirish nightmare version of Gotham City in Tim Burton's Batman (1989).

Richard Vance Maxfield (February 2, 1927 – June 27, 1969) was a composer of instrumental, electro-acoustic, and electronic music.

Kiki Preston, née Alice Gwynne (1898 - December 23, 1946) was an American socialite, a member of the Happy Valley set, and the alleged mother of a child born out of wedlock with Prince George, Duke of Kent, fourth son of King George V.

Irene Maud Lentz (December 8, 1900–November 15, 1962), also known mononymously and professionally as Irene, was an American fashion designer and costume designer.

George Pelton Lawrence (May 19, 1859 – November 21, 1917) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.

Courtney Everald Dewar, Jr.

Lon Walter Jourdet (1888/1889 – August 31, 1959) was the head men's basketball coach for the University of Pennsylvania from 1914–1920 and then again from 1930–1943.

Ruslana Sergeyevna Korshunova (Russian: Руслана Серге́евна Коршунова; 2 July 1987 – 28 June 2008) was a Kazakhstani model of Russian descent.

Marion Anthony Zioncheck (December 5, 1901 – August 7, 1936) was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1933 until his death.

James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 – May 22, 1949) was the last Cabinet-level United States Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense.

Adolph Herman Joseph Coors, Sr.

Allyn S. King (February 1, 1899 – March 31, 1930) was an American stage and film actress and singer who began her career in vaudeville, and later as a Ziegfeld Follies performer.

Joseph John Lannin (April 23, 1866 – 15 May 1928) was a Canadian-born American baseball entrepreneur.

Roy Larson Raymond (April 15, 1947 – August 26, 1993) was an American businessman who founded the Victoria's Secret lingerie retail store.

Born to a middle class Jewish family in Washington Heights, New York, Cowen wrote poetry from a young age, influenced by the works of Emily Dickinson, T.

Bill Schmitz (March 30, 1954 – August 26, 2013) was an American football coach.

Ephraim Lewis (1968 – 18 March 1994) was an English soul/neo-soul and R&B singer and songwriter.

Faith Bacon (July 19, 1910 – September 26, 1956) was an American burlesque dancer and actress.

Gary Charles Evans (October 7, 1954 – August 14, 1998) was a confessed serial killer in and around the Capital District of Upstate New York.

E. M. Black (April 9, 1921 – February 3, 1975) was a Polish-born American businessman.

Francis Otto Matthiessen (February 19, 1902 – April 1, 1950) was an educator, scholar and literary critic influential in the fields of American literature and American studies.

Holly Jo Glynn (previously known as the Dana Point Jane Doe or locally as Jane Doe 87-04457-EL) was a formerly unidentified American woman who is believed to have committed suicide in 1987 by jumping off a cliff in Dana Point, California.

Count Arnaldo Casella Tamburini, Jr.

Eddie James Lusk, Jr.

Pepi Lederer (March 18, 1910 – June 11, 1935) was an American actress and writer.

Leszek Józef Serafinowicz (pen name: Jan Lechoń; March 13, 1899 in Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire – June 8, 1956 in New York City) was a Polish poet, literary and theater critic, diplomat, and co-founder of the Skamander literary movement and the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America.

Dorothy Hale (January 11, 1905 – October 21, 1938) was an American socialite and aspiring actress who killed herself by jumping off a building in New York City.

Frederick Charles "Freddie" Herko (February 23, 1936 – October 27, 1964) was an artist, musician, actor, dancer, choreographer and teacher.

Reuben Melville Wanamaker (August 2, 1866 – June 18, 1924) was a judge in the U.

Susannah McCorkle (January 1, 1946 – May 19, 2001) was an American jazz singer much admired for her direct, unadorned singing style and quiet intensity.

Robert Warne Wilson (November 3, 1926 – December 23, 2013) was an American hedge fund manager, philanthropist and art collector.

Robert Magnus Martinson (May 19, 1927 – August 11, 1979) was an American sociologist, whose 1974 study "What Works?", concerning the shortcomings of existing prisoner rehabilitation programs, was highly influential, creating what became known as the "nothing works" doctrine.

Petrus Graf Schaesberg (November 7, 1967 – September 22, 2008) was a German art historian, artist, editor, and teacher.

Neil Bernstein (July 17, 1939 – November 1, 1978) known as Neil Nephew, was an American actor, writer and story editor.

Deborah Digges (February 6, 1950 – April 10, 2009) was an American poet and teacher.

Mirit Cohen (1945, Russia - May 3, 1990, New York City, United States) was a Russian-born Israeli artist.

Rod Lawrence Strunk (March 20, 1940 – July 11, 2007), popularly known as Rod Lauren, was an American actor and singer.

Tyler Clementi (December 19, 1991 – September 22, 2010) was an 18-year-old American student at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, who jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge on September 22, 2010.

Andrea Feldman (April 1, 1948 – August 8, 1972) was an American actress and Warhol Superstar.

George Washington Vanderbilt III (September 23, 1913 New York City, New York – June 24, 1961 San Francisco, California) was a yachtsman and a scientific explorer who was a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family.

Charles Dunsmore Millard (December 1, 1873 – December 11, 1944) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.

Clarence John Boettiger (March 25, 1900 – October 31, 1950) was an American newspaperman and military officer.

Diane Linkletter (October 31, 1948 – October 4, 1969) was the daughter and youngest child of popular American media personality Art Linkletter, and his wife Lois Foerster.

Alan Crofoot (June 2, 1929 – March 5, 1979) was a Canadian operatic Heldentenor, character tenor specialist, and actor.

Anton Kaufman (1883 – January 1, 1943) was a reporter for the Berliner Morgen-Zeitung and later the publisher of the Detroit Daily Chronicle and the Newark Jewish Chronicle.

Charles "Chuck" Stuart (December 18, 1959 – January 4, 1990) was an American suspect in a 1989 Boston area murder that generated national headlines.

Deborah "Debbie" Weems (February 3, 1951 - February 22, 1978) was an American actress and singer.

Denice Dee Denton (August 27, 1959 – June 24, 2006) was an American professor of electrical engineering and academic administrator.

Edwin Pearce Christy (November 28, 1815 – May 21, 1862) was an American composer, singer, actor and stage producer.

James Ashmore Creelman (September 21, 1894 – September 18, 1941) was a film writer in Hollywood.

Malcolm "Mal" Douglass Whitman (born March 15, 1877 – December 28, 1932) was an American tennis player.