Suicides by self-immolation

King Zhou (Chinese: 紂王; pinyin: Zhòu Wáng) was the pejorative posthumous name given to Di Xin (Chinese: 帝辛; pinyin: Dì Xīn), the last king of the Shang dynasty of ancient China.

Self-immolation is an act of killing oneself as a sacrifice.

Hartmut Gründler (11 January 1930 – 21 November 1977) was a German teacher from Tübingen, engaged in environmental protection, who burned himself out of protest against the misinformation in the atomic policy of the German Federal Government at that time, which were documented by him, but officially never taken back, and the denial of the relevant dialogue with Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.

Rajiv Goswami was a commerce student at the Deshbandhu College, Delhi University who came into prominence when he attempted self-immolation to protest against Prime Minister V.

Peregrinus Proteus (Greek: Περεγρῖνος Πρωτεύς; c. 95 – 165 AD) was a Greek Cynic philosopher, from Parium in Mysia.

Cheng Nan-jung (Chinese: 鄭南榕; pinyin: Zhèng Nánróng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tēⁿ Lâm-iông; from time to time an anglicised name is used: Nylon Deng; September 12, 1947 – April 7, 1989) was a Taiwanese publisher and pro-democracy activist.

Moshe Silman (Hebrew: משה סילמן‎‎; 26 November 1954 – 20 July 2012) was an Israeli activist who set himself on fire during a social justice demonstration in protest of Israel's welfare system on 14 July 2012.

Neda Hassani (born 1977, Tehran, Iran; d. June 23, 2003, London, England) is notable as an Iranian protester who committed suicide by self-immolation.

Artin Penik (1921 – August 15, 1982) was a Turkish-Armenian who committed suicide by self-immolation in protest of the Esenboga airport attack by the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA, also known as Third October) on August 10, 1982.

Li Congke (simplified Chinese: 李从珂; traditional Chinese: 李從珂; pinyin: Lǐ Cóngkē) (11 February 885 – 11 January 937), also known posthumously as Emperor Mo of Later Tang (後唐末帝, "last emperor of Later Tang"), Emperor Fei of Later Tang (後唐廢帝, "deposed emperor of Later Tang"), Wang Congke (王從珂) (particularly during succeeding Later Jin, which did not recognize him as a legitimate Later Tang emperor), or Prince of Lu (潞王, a title Li Congke carried prior to his reign), nickname Ershisan (二十三, "23") or, in short, Asan (阿三), was the last emperor of the Later Tang - the second of the Five Dynasties following the fall of the Tang Dynasty.

K. Muthukumar was a Tamil journalist and activist based in Tamil Nadu, who came into prominence when he set himself on fire protesting against the brutal atrocities against the Sri Lankan Tamil people at the peak of civil war in the country.

Homa Darabi (January 1940 – February 21, 1994 in Tehran) was a pediatrician from Iran licensed to practice medicine in New Jersey, New York, and California.

Per-Axel Daniel Rank Arosenius (7 November 1920 – 21 March 1981) was a Swedish film and television actor of mostly supporting parts.

Kathleen Chang (October 10, 1950 – October 22, 1996), better known as Kathy Change, was an American performance artist and political activist who killed herself in an act of self-immolation on the University of Pennsylvania campus in 1996.

Liangqing (良卿法师) was a Chinese Buddhist Monk and Abbot of Famen Temple (Chinese: 法门寺; pinyin: Fǎmén Sì).

Alfredo's Fire (2014) is a documentary film, directed by Andy Abrahams Wilson, about self-immolation victim Alfredo Ormando, who set fire to himself in January 1998 outside St.

Charles Robert "Charlie" Moore was an American Methodist minister, social justice activist and racial activist who drew attention to himself when he committed suicide through immolation in the East Texas town of Grand Saline, Texas.

Baba Bilal ogly Aydamirov, also known as Mashadibaba, (Azerbaijani: Məşədibaba Aydəmirov, born February 13, 1971 in Mastaga, Baku, Azerbaijani SSR, USSR - January 10, 2011 in Mashtaga, Baku, Azerbaijan) was a legendary performer of Azerbaijani meykhana music.

Huguette Gaulin Bergeron (1944 – June 4, 1972), was a French Canadian novelist, who committed suicide publicly by self-immolation in a major street of the Old Port of Montreal, Place Jacques-Cartier, while screaming “Vous avez détruit la beauté du monde!” (“You have destroyed the beauty of the world!”).

Kentaro Kawatsu (河津憲太郎 Kawatsu Kentarō, September 26, 1914 – March 23, 1970) was a Japanese swimmer who competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Younes Asakere (Arabic: یونس عساکرة) is an Iranian Arab citizen that committed self-immolation because of his shop confiscation by municipality in March 2015, in front of municipality building.

Kalanos, also spelled Calanus (c. 398 – 323 BC) was a gymnosophist, a philosopher from Taxila who accompanied Alexander the Great to Persis and later committed suicide by self-immolation.

Liang Huazhi (Chinese: 梁化之; pinyin: Liáng Huàzhī; Wade–Giles: Liang Hua-chih) (1906, Dingxiang, Shanxi – April 24, 1949, Taiyuan, Shanxi) was a Kuomintang official who served in the warlord Yan Xishan's government.

Karl Werner Lothar Koch (July 22, 1965 – ca. May 23, 1989) was a German hacker in the 1980s, who called himself "hagbard", after Hagbard Celine.