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===L=== <!--DO NOT ADD ANY PEOPLE WITHOUT AN INLINE CITATION OF A RELIABLE, SECONDARY SOURCE. OTHER WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES CANNOT BE CITED AS SOURCES BECAUSE THAT IS CIRCULAR. IF THE OTHER ARTICLE HAS A CITATION, CITE THAT INSTEAD.--> [[File:Lee Seon-gun in Oct 2018.png|thumb|[[Lee Sun-kyun|Lee Sun-Kyun]]]] [[File:L'inconnue de la Seine (masque mortuaire).jpg|thumb|right|[[L'Inconnue de la Seine]]]] [[File:Lucretia MR.jpg|thumb|[[Lucretia]]'s suicide by [[Marcantonio Raimondi]] (1534)]] [[File:Albert, Joseph - König Ludwig II. (Zeno Fotografie).jpg|thumb|right|[[Ludwig II of Bavaria]]]] * [[L'Inconnue de la Seine]] (late 1880s), unidentified French woman pulled out of the [[Seine]], known for the influence of her [[death mask]] on literature and art<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/dec/01/france.art |title=Ophelia of the Seine|newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=December 1, 2007|access-date=February 19, 2019}}</ref> * [[Deborah Laake]] (2000), American columnist and writer, overdose of pills<ref>{{cite news |title=In Memory of Deborah Laake |date=February 10, 2000 |url=http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2000-02-10/news/in-memory-of-deborah-laake/1 |work=[[Phoenix New Times]] |access-date=February 19, 2010 |archive-date=November 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102224045/http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2000-02-10/news/in-memory-of-deborah-laake/1/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[Titus Labienus (historian)|Titus Labienus]] (8 AD), Roman lawyer, orator and historian<ref>{{cite book|last=Holland|first=Tom|title=Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar|year=2015|publisher=Random House|location=New York|page=260}}</ref> * [[Kyren Lacy]] (2025), American football player, gunshot<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-04-14 |title=Officials: Ex-LSU WR Lacy died in apparent suicide |url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/44664128/former-lsu-wr-kyren-lacy-died-apparent-suicide-police-chase-authorities-say |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=ESPN.com |language=en}}</ref> * [[Leonard Lake]] (1985), American serial killer, ingesting cyanide capsules<ref>{{cite book|last=Greig|first=Charlotte|title=Evil Serial Killers: In the Minds of Monsters|year=2005|publisher=Barnes & Noble|location=New York|isbn=978-0-7607-7566-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/evilserialkiller00char/page/93 93]|url=https://archive.org/details/evilserialkiller00char/page/93}}</ref> * [[Paul Lambert (media producer)|Paul Lambert]] (2020), British television journalist, producer and communications director<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://internewscast.com/westminster-lobby-journalist-and-ukip-communications-gobby-paul-lambert-dies-aged-61/|title=Westminster lobby journalist and UKIP communications 'Gobby' Paul Lambert dies aged 61|date=April 9, 2020|website=Internewscast|access-date=April 9, 2020}}</ref> * [[Vilho Lampi]] (1936), Finnish painter, jumped from bridge<ref>{{cite book |last=Junttila |first=Marja |date=1998 |title=Vilho Lampi 1898–1936 |edition=1st |publisher=Ars Nordica: Pohjoinen |location=Oulu, Finland |isbn=951-749-312-6 |language=fi}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://vilholampi.ouka.fi/biografia/viimeisetvuodet.php |title=Viimeiset vuodet |website=Oulu Art Museum |access-date=January 25, 2021 |language=fi |archive-date=April 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407052801/http://vilholampi.ouka.fi/biografia/viimeisetvuodet.php |url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[Karen Lancaume]] (2005), French pornographic film actress, overdose of [[temazepam]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liberation.fr/culture/0101517378-le-geste-ultime-de-karen-bach|title=Le geste ultime de Karen Bach|newspaper=[[Libération]]|date=February 1, 2005|access-date=December 9, 2009|author=de Baecque, Antoine|language=fr|archive-date=September 25, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120925184907/http://www.liberation.fr/culture/0101517378-le-geste-ultime-de-karen-bach|url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[Carole Landis]] (1948), American actress, overdose of [[Secobarbital]] pills<ref>{{cite book|last=Parish|first=James Robert |title=The Hollywood Book of Death: The Bizarre, Often Sordid, Passings of More Than 125 American Movie and TV Idols|publisher=Contemporary Books|year=2002|edition=3|page=315|isbn=978-0-8092-2227-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Gans|first=Eric Lawrence|title=Carole Landis: A Most Beautiful Girl|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4m7nPlavJi8C&pg=PA197|access-date=June 13, 2009|year=2008|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-60473-013-5|pages=197–199 |chapter=The Good Die Young (1948)}}</ref> * [[James Henry Lane (Union general)|James Henry Lane]] (1866), American partisan, [[abolitionist]], senator and [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] general, gunshot to the head<ref>{{cite book|last=Spurgeon|first=Ian Michael|title=Man of Douglas, Man of Lincoln: The Political Odyssey of James Henry Lane|url=https://archive.org/details/mandouglasmanlin00spur|url-access=limited|publisher=University of Missouri Press|year=2008|page=[https://archive.org/details/mandouglasmanlin00spur/page/n274 262]|isbn=9780826218148}}</ref> * [[Andrew E. Lange]] (2010), American astrophysicist<ref>{{cite web|title=Frances H. Arnold Biographical|publisher=[[The Nobel Prize]]|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2018/arnold/biographical/|access-date=November 1, 2022}}</ref> * [[Hans Langsdorff]] (1939), German naval officer and ''[[Kapitän zur See]]'', gunshot<ref>{{cite book|last1=Adam|first1=Thomas|title=Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History: a Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia, Volume 1|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8uxfTF4Lm-kC&pg=PA45|access-date=March 4, 2018|date=November 7, 2005|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-85109-628-2|page=45|chapter=Admiral Graf Spee}}</ref> * [[Adam Lanza]] (2012), perpetrator of the [[Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting]], gunshot to the head<ref>{{cite web|title=Adam Lanza: Biography|publisher=Biography.com|url=https://www.biography.com/people/adam-lanza-21068899|access-date=April 22, 2018}}</ref> * [[Don Lapre]] (2011), American television pitchman noted for several products, cut throat with a razor blade<ref>{{cite news|author=Abramovitch, Seth |title='King of Infomercials' Don Lapre Commits Suicide |date=October 4, 2011 |url=http://gawker.com/5846351/king-of-infomercials-don-lapre-commits-suicide |publisher=[[Gawker]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150105020525/http://gawker.com/5846351/king-of-infomercials-don-lapre-commits-suicide |archive-date=January 5, 2015}}</ref> * [[William Larnach]] (1898), New Zealand politician<ref>{{DNZB|id=2l2|first=Keith|last=Sinclair|title=Larnach, William James Mudie}}</ref> * [[Mariano José de Larra]] (1837), Spanish writer, gunshot<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LJtz0iWO4O4C&pg=PA466|author=Chevalier, Tracy|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of the Essay|title=Mariano José de Larra|page=466|publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn|via=[[Google Books]]|url-status=live|isbn=978-1-884964-30-5|date=November 1, 1997|access-date=April 16, 2022|archive-date=May 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508180645/https://books.google.com/books?id=LJtz0iWO4O4C&pg=PA466}}</ref> * [[Anna Laughlin]] (1937), American actress, gas poisoning<ref>{{cite news |title=Anna Laughlin, Broadway Idol Of 1900s Ends Her Life in N.Y.|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=April 6, 1937|page=14}}</ref> * [[Killing of Gabby Petito|Brian Laundrie]] (2021), American partner of formerly missing woman [[Killing of Gabby Petito#Gabby Petito|Gabby Petito]], gunshot to head weeks after killing Petito<ref name="Laundrie">{{cite web|last=Haynes|first=Danielle|date=November 23, 2021|title=Brian Laundrie died of self-inflicted gunshot wound, family says|url=https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/11/23/Brian-Laundrie-autopsy-suicide/7171637694586/|url-status=live|work=United Press International|access-date=November 23, 2021|archive-date=November 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123225932/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/11/23/Brian-Laundrie-autopsy-suicide/7171637694586/}}</ref> * [[Margaret Laurence]] (1987), Canadian writer, overdose<ref>{{Cite web |title=Memorable Manitobans: Jean Margaret "Peggy" Wemyss Laurence (1926-1987) |url=http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/laurence_jmw.shtml |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=www.mhs.mb.ca}}</ref> * [[Florence Lawrence]] (1938), Canadian-American silent film actress, poisoning<ref>{{cite book|last=Brown|first=Kelly R.|title=Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl: America's First Movie Star|year=1999|publisher=McFarland & Company|isbn=978-0-7864-3089-5|pages=146–147}}</ref> * [[Lee Eun-ju]] (2005), South Korean actress, slit wrists and hanging<ref>[http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2005/02/22/2005022261032.html "Top Actress Lee Eun-ju's Suicide Shocks Nation"]. ''The Chosunilbo''. February 22, 2005</ref> * [[Lee Hye-Ryeon]] (2007), South Korean singer, known as U;Nee, hanging<ref>Looi, Elizabeth (January 25, 2007). [http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/1/25/nation/16668473&sec=nation "Korean singer found hanged"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111017111604/http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=%2F2007%2F1%2F25%2Fnation%2F16668473&sec=nation|date=October 17, 2011}}. ''The Online Star''.</ref> * [[Jon Lee (drummer)|Jon Lee]] (2002), Welsh drummer for the British rock band [[Feeder (band)|Feeder]], hanging<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/1750644.stm|title=Feeder drummer dies|publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=January 9, 2002}}</ref> * [[Sara Lee (wrestler)|Sara Lee]] (2022), American professional wrestler, combined drug intoxication<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://nypost.com/2023/05/05/ex-wwe-wrestler-sara-lees-cause-of-death-revealed/ |access-date=July 28, 2024 |title=Ex-WWE wrestler Sara Lee's cause of death revealed |publisher=New York Post}}</ref> * [[Lee Sun-kyun|Lee Sun-Kyun]] (2023), Korean actor, carbon monoxide poisoning<ref>{{Cite web |last=Seo |first=Tara Subramaniam, Yoonjung |date=2023-12-29 |title=Death of 'Parasite' star puts spotlight on pressures facing South Korean celebrities |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/29/asia/lee-sun-kyun-death-south-korea-celebrity-losses-analysis-intl-hnk/index.html |access-date=2023-12-29 |website=[[CNN]] |language=en}}</ref> * [[Thomas H. Lee (businessman)|Thomas H. Lee]] (2023), American financier, gunshot<ref>{{cite web|url=https://people.com/human-interest/billionaire-financier-thomas-h-lee-cause-of-death-suicide/|magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]]|title=Billionaire Financier Thomas H. Lee's Cause of Death Ruled a Suicide by NYC Medical Examiner|author=White, Chelsea; Vasquez, Ingird|url-status=live|date=February 24, 2023|access-date=February 27, 2023|archive-date=February 25, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230225001203/https://people.com/human-interest/billionaire-financier-thomas-h-lee-cause-of-death-suicide/}}</ref> * [[Valery Legasov]] (1988), Soviet-Russian inorganic chemist, member of the [[Chernobyl nuclear disaster]] commission, hanging<ref>{{cite news |title= 'This Reactor Model Is No Good': Documents Show Politburo Skepticism of Chernobyl |first=Christian |last=Neef |translator-first=Christopher |translator-last=Sultan|newspaper=[[Der Spiegel]]|date=March 24, 2011 |url=https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/this-reactor-model-is-no-good-documents-show-politburo-skepticism-of-chernobyl-a-752696.html |quote=But he did not die of radiation sickness, even though he spent four months in Chernobyl after the explosion there. Legasov hanged himself in his office on April 27, 1988, almost two years to the day after the reactor accident in present-day Ukraine.}}</ref> * [[Friedrich Leibacher]] (2001), Swiss mass murderer, gunshot<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1566321.stm|title=Gunman kills 14 in Swiss assembly|date=September 27, 2001|access-date=February 16, 2020}}</ref> * [[Megan Leigh]] (1990), American pornographic actress, gunshot wound to the head<ref name="LATimes7.16.94">Johnson, John (July 16, 1994). [https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/59548226.html?dids=59548226:59548226&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current "Suicide of Young Superstar Weighs on Porn Industry Tragedy: Pampered, wild Shannon Wilsey, known as Savannah, was the third actress to take her life"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003012504/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/59548226.html?dids=59548226:59548226&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current |date=October 3, 2012}}. ''Los Angeles Times''.</ref> *[[Lemp Mansion|Lemp Family]] (1949), Four members of the [[St. Louis]] [[Lemp Brewery|Lemp Brewing]] family, gunshots<ref>{{cite news|author=O'Neil Tim|title=A Look Back • Lemp Mansion, home of beer dynasty and suicide |url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/a-look-back-lemp-mansion-home-of-beer-dynasty-and/article_3f697156-1b22-54b8-947c-f582edcf702e.html |newspaper=[[St. Louis Post Dispatch]]|date=February 12, 2012}}</ref> * [[Dave Lepard]] (2006), Swedish singer and guitarist ([[Crashdïet]]), hanging<ref>[http://www.fullinbloommusic.com/chrislaneyletter.html "Crashdiet vocalist Dave Lepard"]. Full In Bloom Music. Retrieved November 12, 2014.</ref><ref>Hoffman, K. Ross [https://www.allmusic.com/artist/crashd%C3%AFet-mn0000756884/biography "Crashdïet – Music Biography, Credits and Discography"]. AllMusic. Retrieved September 11, 2012.</ref> * [[Marc Lépine]] (1989), Canadian perpetrator of the [[École Polytechnique massacre]], shot himself after killing 14 women<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.biography.com/people/marc-lepine-235980|title=Marc Lepine: Biography|publisher=Biography.com|access-date=April 8, 2018|archive-date=April 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180409044112/https://www.biography.com/people/marc-lepine-235980|url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[Andrzej Lepper]] (2011), Polish politician known as the leader of Samoobrona RP (Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland), hanging<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wyborcza.pl/1,75478,13074777,Prokuratura_ustalila__dlaczego_Andrzej_Lepper_popelnil.html|title=Prokuratura ustaliła, dlaczego Andrzej Lepper popełnił samobójstwo (The public prosecutor's office determined suicide motives)|work=Kraj|date=December 19, 2012|access-date=June 22, 2013|author=Kącki, Marcin|language=pl}}</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14424247 "Scandal-hit Polish politician Andrzej Lepper dead"] BBC News. August 5, 2018.</ref> * [[Arnie Lerma]] (2018), American former Scientologist and critic of [[Scientology]], gunshot<ref>{{Cite web|author=Ortega, Tony|url=https://tonyortega.org/2018/03/18/noted-scientology-critic-arnie-lerma-shoots-and-injures-wife-then-kills-himself/|title=Noted Scientology critic Arnie Lerma shoots and injures wife, then kills himself|website=The Underground Bunker|date=March 19, 2018|access-date=September 2, 2018}}</ref> * [[Eugene Lester]] (1940), former Justice and Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, gunshot to the head<ref>[http://genealogytrails.com/oka/oklahoma/news_crime.html "Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Genealogy Trails: CRIME NEWS ARTICLES"]. Genealogy Trials. Genealogy Trails History Group. Retrieved April 22, 2018.</ref> * [[Amy Levy]] (1889), British writer<ref>[https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/amy-levy "Poet: Amy Levy"]. Poets.org. Retrieved July 23, 2018.</ref> inhaling charcoal gas<ref>{{cite web|author=Diniejko, Andrzej|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/levy/bio.html|title=Amy Levy: A Tragic Late Victorian Anglo-Jewish Poet and Novelist|website=The Victorian Web|date=May 22, 2012|access-date=July 24, 2018}}</ref> * [[Suicide of Harry Lew|Harry Lew]] (2011), United States Marine, gunshot<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna46520079|publisher=[[NBC News]]| first=Audrey|last=McAvoy|title=Marine found not guilty in hazing suicide case | date=April 3, 2011}}</ref><ref>McAvoy, Audrey (February 24, 2012). [https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna46520079 "Marine found not guilty in hazing suicide case"]. NBC News.</ref> * [[Ephraim Lewis]] (1994), English singer, jumped off a fourth floor balcony<ref>"Genius Plus Soul: Ephraim Lewis". ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'', August 2009, p. 75.</ref> * [[Robert Ley]] (1945), German Nazi politician and leader of the [[German Labour Front]], hanging<ref>{{cite book|last=Smelser|first=Ronald|title=Robert Ley: Hitler's Labor Front Leader|year=1988|publisher=Oxford: Berg|isbn=978-0-85496-161-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/robertleyhitlers0000smel/page/573 573]|url=https://archive.org/details/robertleyhitlers0000smel/page/573}}</ref> * [[Chris Lighty]] (2012), American [[music industry]] executive and manager, gunshot<ref>Greenburg, Zack O'Malley (August 30, 2012). [https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2012/08/30/hip-hop-business-pioneer-chris-lighty-dead-at-44/ "Hip-Hop Business Pioneer Chris Lighty Dead At 44"]. ''[[Forbes]]''.</ref> * [[lil' Chris]] (2015), English pop singer, hanging<ref>{{cite web|last1=Shenton|first1=Zoe|title=Lil' Chris dead: TV personality Chris Hardman famous for Rock School passes away aged 24|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/lil-chris-dead-tv-personality-5391327|newspaper=[[Daily Mirror]]|date=March 24, 2015}}</ref> * [[Lil Loaded]] (2021), American rapper, gunshot to head<ref>{{Cite news|title=Rapper Lil Loaded dies aged 20|publisher=[[BBC News]]|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-57275571|date=June 1, 2021|access-date=June 1, 2021|archive-date=January 30, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130065909/https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-57275571}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Woods |first1=Aleia |title=New Details Surface in Lil Loaded's Death |url=https://www.xxlmag.com/lil-loaded-death-details/ |website=[[XXL (magazine)|XXL]]|date=June 3, 2021|access-date=February 2, 2022|archive-date=June 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210615054515/https://www.xxlmag.com/lil-loaded-death-details/}}</ref> * [[Max Linder]] (1925), French film and stage actor, double suicide with wife Hélène "Jean" Peters, [[veronal]] and [[morphine]] ingestion, cut wrists<ref>Canby, Vincent (April 1, 1988). [https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/01/movies/review-film-homage-to-max-linder-early-french-film-comic.html "Review/Film; Homage to Max Linder, Early French Film Comic"]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved June 13, 2009.</ref> * [[Vachel Lindsay]] (1931), American poet, poison<ref>Masters, Edgar Lee (b1935). ''Vachel Lindsay: A Poet in America''. p. 361. {{ISBN|978-0819602398}}</ref> * [[Diane Linkletter]] (1969), American actress and daughter of [[Art Linkletter]], jump from a sixth story window<ref>{{cite web|author=Mikkelson, Barbara|url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-scarlet-linkletter/ |title=Death of Diane Linkletter |date=August 15, 2005 |access-date=November 13, 2018 |work=[[Snopes.com]]|author-link=Mikkelson, Barbara}}</ref> * [[Mark Linkous]] (2010), American musician, gunshot to the heart<ref>Barton, Chris (March 7, 2010). [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/03/mark-linkous-aka-sparklehorse-takes-own-life.html "Mark Linkous, aka Sparklehorse, takes his own life, his family says"]. ''Los Angeles Times''.</ref> * [[Carlo Lizzani]] (2013), Italian film director, jumped from a balcony.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.corriere.it/13_ottobre_05/lizzani-come-monicelli-si-buttato-finestra-d61d9d9c-2dc4-11e3-89d5-cdac03f987bf.shtml|title= Lizzani choc: si è lanciato dal terzo piano. Biglietto ai figli: "Stacco la spina"|work=Corriere della Sera|date=October 5, 2013|access-date=October 6, 2013}}</ref> * [[Liu Rushi]] (1664), Chinese [[Gējì]], poet, artist and [[Ming dynasty|Ming]] loyalist, hanging<ref>{{cite book|author=Bonnie G. Smith|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History: 4 Volume Set|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EFI7tr9XK6EC&pg=RA2-PA126 |year=2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-514890-9|pages=125–6}}</ref> * [[Willie Llewelyn]] (1893), Welsh cricketer, gunshot<ref>{{cite news|title=The Tragic Death Of Mr W D Llewelyn – The Western Mail|date=August 30, 1893|publisher=Abel Nadin|hdl = 10107/4327419}}</ref> * [[Philip Loeb]] (1955), American actor, sleeping pill overdose<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1955/09/02/archives/philip-loeb-dead-prominent-actor-body-found-in-midtown-hotel.html "Philip Loeb Dead; Prominent Actor; Body Found in Midtown Hotel; Overdose of Sleeping Pills Apparent Cause"]. ''The New York Times'', September 2, 1955. p. 38.</ref> *[[Kevin James Loibl]] (2016), assassin of [[Christina Grimmie]], gunshot<ref>{{cite news|last=Tziperman Lotan|first=Gal|url=http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-christina-grimmie-dead-investigation-20160622-story.html|title=Police: Man who killed singer Christina Grimmie was 'infatuated' with her|work=[[Orlando Sentinel]]|date=June 22, 2016|access-date=June 22, 2016}}</ref> * [[Bernard Loiseau]] (2003), French chef, shotgun blast to the head<ref>Leopold, Todd (July 28, 2005). [http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/07/26/the.perfectionist/index.html "The master chef who killed himself: A story of a star 'Perfectionist'"]. [[CNN]].</ref> * [[Terry Long (American football)|Terry Long]] (2005), American football player, poisioning<ref>Associated Press (January 26, 2006). [https://www.espn.com/nfl/news/story?id=2307003 "Ex-Steeler Long drank antifreeze to commit suicide"]. [[ESPN]].</ref> * [[Ellen Joyce Loo]] (2018), Canadian-Hong Kong musician, singer, songwriter, and co-founder of the folk-pop rock group at 17, fall from her high-rise apartment building<ref>{{cite news | last=Lam | first=Jeffie | title=Pop star Ellen Joyce Loo dies in fall from her Happy Valley flat | newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] | date=August 5, 2018 | url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/2158323/hong-kong-pop-star-ellen-joyce-loo-dies-fall-happy-valley-building | access-date=August 5, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last=Luo | first=Charlotte | title=Lesbian pop star's suicide stuns fans | newspaper=[[The Standard (Hong Kong)|The Standard]] | date=August 6, 2018 | url=http://www.thestandard.com.hk/section-news.php?id=198668 | access-date=August 6, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last=Frater | first=Patrick | title=Hong Kong Singer Ellen Loo Dies in Apparent Suicide at 32 | newspaper=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] | date=August 5, 2018 | url=https://variety.com/2018/music/asia/hong-kong-singer-ellen-loo-dead-dies-in-apparent-suicide-1202895875/ | access-date=August 5, 2018}}</ref> *[[Daniele Alves Lopes]] (1993), teen whose jump from a building was broadcast on Brazilian national television<ref>{{cite news|last1=De Castro|title=Em 1993, Aqui Agora exibiu suicídio de adolescente e chocou o Brasil|url=http://noticiasdatv.uol.com.br/noticia/televisao/em-1993-aqui-agora-exibiu-suicidio-de-adolescente-e-chocou-o-brasil-4722|work=Televisao|date=September 5, 2014}}</ref> * [[Ricardo López (stalker)|Ricardo López]] (1996), Uruguayan-born American stalker who attempted to kill Icelandic singer [[Björk]] by sending a letter bomb, gunshot<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=132422|title=Inside the Mind of a Celebrity Stalker|date=December 11, 1996|publisher=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|access-date=November 29, 2017}}</ref> * [[Lu Xiufu]] (1279), Chinese statesman, bureaucrat and general, murder-suicide by drowning [[Emperor Bing of Song]] and himself<ref name="DefendingHeaven">{{cite book|last=Waterson|first=James|title=Defending Heaven: China's Mongol Wars, 1209-1370|page=209|year=2013|publisher=Frontline Books, London}}</ref> * [[Lu Zhaolin]] (684 or 686), Chinese poet, drowning in the [[Ying River]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Mair|first=Victor H.|author-link=Victor H. Mair|title=The Columbia History of Chinese Literature|page=289|year=2013|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-52851-1}}</ref> * [[Andreas Lubitz]] (2015), co-pilot of [[Germanwings Flight 9525]], plane crash<ref>{{cite web|author=Clark, Nicola|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/04/world/europe/germanwings-crash.html|title=Germanwings Plane Crash Investigation|date=April 3, 2015|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=April 4, 2015}}</ref> * [[Lucan]] (65 AD), Roman poet, cut veins<ref>Tacitus (62-65 AD). Book XV, Chapter 70.1. ''Annals''. Scholars have vainly tried to locate Lucan's last words in his work but no passage in Lucan's extant poem exactly matches Tacitus's description at ''Annals'' 15.70.1. See, e.g., P. Asso, "A Commentary on Lucan 'De Bello Civili IV.'" Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010, p. 9n38.</ref> * [[Lucretia]] (c. 510 BC), Roman noblewoman, stabbed herself<ref>[[Dionysius of Halicarnassus]]. ''Roman Antiquities'', Book IV, 67</ref> * [[Ludwig II of Bavaria]] (1886), King of Bavaria, drowning<ref>{{cite news |url=https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&d=THWG18860617.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------|title=The Deposed King Of Bavaria Suicides |newspaper=Terre Haute Weekly Gazette|page=1| date=June 17, 1886}}</ref> * [[Roman Lyashenko]] (2003), Russian [[NHL]] hockey player, hanging<ref>{{cite news|title=N.Y. Ranger is found dead in hotel room; Lyashenko on vacation in Turkey Cause of death reported to be suicide|work=[[Toronto Star]]|date=July 8, 2003|page=E02}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Lyashenko's death a suicide, police say|work=[[Edmonton Journal]]|date=July 10, 2003|page=D6}}</ref> * [[David Lytton]] (2015), a formerly unidentified British man found on [[Saddleworth Moor]], strychnine<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/resources/idt-e8c6cbab-da44-4a3c-8f9b-c4fccd53dd24|title=Body on the Moor|first=Jon|last=Manel|publisher=[[BBC News]]|access-date=March 12, 2018}}</ref>
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