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Drug-related suicides in New York City

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The list Drug-related suicides in New York City includes Phyllis Hyman, Chris Kanyon, Sheila Terry, Laurie Bird and Diane Arbus. The list consists of 32 members.

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  • 1.

    Phyllis Hyman
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1949–1995)
    Phyllis Hyman
    Overview: Phyllis Linda Hyman (July 6, 1949 – June 30, 1995) was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Hyman is best known for her music during the late 1970s through the early 1990s, some of her most notable ...
    Date of birth: 6 July 1949
    Date of death: 30 June 1995
    Age: 45 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Singer
    Gender: Female
    Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)
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    Singers from Pittsburgh 57T
    Singers from Philadelphia 171T
    Singer-songwriters from Pennsylvania 214T
  • 2.

    Chris Kanyon
    American professional wrestler (1970–2010)
    Chris Kanyon
    Overview: Christopher Morgan Klucsarits (January 4, 1970 – April 2, 2010) was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the World Wrestling ...
    Date of birth: 4 January 1970
    Date of death: 2 April 2010
    Age: 40 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Wrestling
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 4" (193 cm)
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    2010 suicides 78T
    People from Sunnyside, Queens 19T
    NWA/WCW/WWE United States Heavyweight Champions 98T
  • 3.

    Ona Munson
    Actress
    Ona Munson
    Overview: Ona Munson (born Owena Elizabeth Wolcott; June 16, 1903 – February 11, 1955) was an American film and stage actress. She starred in nine Broadway productions and 20 feature films in her career, which ...
    Date of birth: 16 June 1903
    Date of death: 11 February 1955
    Age: 51 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)
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    1955 suicides 22T
    Drug-related deaths in New York City 71T
    Catlin Gabel School alumni 19T
  • 4.

    Sheila Terry
    Actress
    Sheila Terry
    Overview: Sheila Terry (born Kay Clark, March 5, 1910 – January 19, 1957) was an American film actress.
    Date of birth: 5 March 1910
    Date of death: 19 January 1957
    Age: 46 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)
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    1957 suicides 22T
    Drug-related deaths in New York City 71T
    American actresses who committed suicide 77T
  • 5.

    Laurie Bird
    American actress and photographer (1953–1979)
    Laurie Bird
    Overview: Laurie Bird (September 26, 1953 – June 15, 1979) was an American film actress and photographer. She appeared in three films during the 1970s. Two of them were directed by Monte Hellman. She was ...
    Date of birth: 26 September 1953
    Date of death: 15 June 1979
    Age: 25 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century American women photographers 373T
    Drug-related deaths in New York City 80T
    1979 suicides 31T
  • 6.

    Diane Arbus
    American photographer (1923–1971)
    Diane Arbus
    Overview: Diane Arbus (March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer. Arbus worked to normalize marginalized groups and highlight the importance of proper representation of all people. She worked ...
    Date of birth: 14 March 1923
    Date of death: 26 July 1971
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Photographer
    Gender: Female
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    Photography controversies 4T
    1971 suicides 29T
    Russek family 7T
  • 7.

    Maggie McNamara
    Actress
    Maggie McNamara
    Overview: Marguerite "Maggie" McNamara (June 18, 1928 – February 18, 1978) was a stage, film, and television actress and model from the United States. McNamara began her career as a teenage fashion model. She came ...
    Date of birth: 18 February 1928
    Date of death: 18 February 1978
    Age: 50 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
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    Drug-related deaths in New York City 71T
    1978 suicides 41T
    Actresses of Irish descent 597T
  • 8.

    Nick Santino
    Actor
    Nick Santino
    Overview: Nick Santino (January 24, 1965 – January 25, 2012) was an American actor known primarily for his roles on soap operas, including six episodes of Guiding Light and seven episodes of All My Children, and ...
    Date of birth: 24 January 1965
    Date of death: 25 January 2012
    Age: 47 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
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    Drug-related deaths in New York City 71T
    2012 suicides 64T
    People from the Upper West Side 194T
  • 9.

    Jerzy Kosinski
    Novelist
    Jerzy Kosinski
    Overview: Jerzy Kosiński (born Józef Lewinkopf; June 14, 1933 – May 3, 1991) was a Polish-American novelist and two-time President of the American Chapter of P.E.N., who wrote primarily in English. Born in Poland ...
    Date of birth: 14 June 1933
    Date of death: 3 May 1991
    Age: 57 (age at death)
    Nationality: Polish
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Male
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    People from Łódź Voivodeship (1919–1939) 2T
    Drug-related deaths in New York City 71T
    1991 suicides 35T
  • 10.

    Theresa Duncan
    American video game designer (1966–2007)
    Theresa Duncan
    Overview: Theresa Duncan (October 26, 1966 – July 10, 2007) was an American video game designer, blogger, filmmaker and critic. By the late 1990s, she was recognized as one of the most critically acclaimed game ...
    Date of birth: 26 October 1966
    Date of death: 10 July 2007
    Age: 40 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Designer
    Gender: Female
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    Drug-related deaths in New York City 71T
    2007 suicides 63T
    Video game designers who committed suicide 3T
  • 11.

    Beverly Kenney
    American jazz vocalist
    Beverly Kenney
    Overview: Beverly Kenney (January 29, 1932, Harrison, New Jersey – April 13, 1960, Greenwich Village, New York City) was an American jazz singer.
    Date of birth: 29 January 1932
    Date of death: 13 April 1960
    Age: 28 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Singer
    Gender: Female
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    1960 suicides 22T
    20th-century American women singers 2,001T
    Barbiturates-related deaths 101T
  • 12.

    Mark Rothko
    American artist
    Mark Rothko
    Overview: Mark Rothko (), born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz (Russian: Ма́ркус Я́ковлевич Ротко́вич, Latvian: Markuss Rotkovičs; name not Anglicized until 1940), (September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970), was an ...
    Date of birth: 25 September 1903
    Date of death: 25 February 1970
    Age: 66 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Artist
    Gender: Male
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    1970 suicides 41T
    Barbiturates-related deaths 101T
    American male painters 3,659T
  • 13.

    Philip Loeb
    American actor
    Philip Loeb
    Overview: Philip Loeb (March 28, 1891 – September 1, 1955), was an American stage, film, and television actor, director and author. He was blacklisted under McCarthyism and committed suicide in response.
    Date of birth: 28 March 1892
    Date of death: 1 September 1955
    Age: 63 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
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    1955 suicides 22T
    Drug-related deaths in New York City 71T
    American male actors who committed suicide 118T
  • 14.

    Elsie Houston
    Brazilian singer
    Elsie Houston
    Overview: Elsie Houston (22 April 1902 – 20 February 1943) was a Brazilian singer.
    Date of birth: 22 April 1902
    Date of death: 20 February 1943
    Age: 40 (age at death)
    Nationality: Brazilian
    Occupation: Singer
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century Brazilian women singers 65T
    1943 suicides 40T
    20th-century Brazilian singers 155T
  • 15.

    Robert Quine
    American guitarist
    Robert Quine
    Overview: Robert Wolfe Quine (December 30, 1942 – May 31, 2004) was an American guitarist. A native of Akron, Ohio, Quine worked with a wide range of musicians, though he himself remained relatively unknown. Critic ...
    Date of birth: 30 December 1942
    Date of death: 31 May 2004
    Age: 61 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Guitarist
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    Drug-related deaths in New York City 71T
    2004 suicides 55T
    Rock musicians who committed suicide 104T
  • 16.

    Reynaldo Arenas
    Cuban writer
    Reynaldo Arenas
    Overview: Reinaldo Arenas (July 16, 1943 – December 7, 1990) was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright known as an early sympathizer, and later critic of Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution, and a rebel of the ...
    Date of birth: 16 July 1943
    Date of death: 7 December 1990
    Age: 47 (age at death)
    Nationality: Cuban
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Cuban male novelists 34T
    20th-century Cuban novelists 29T
    Drug-related deaths in New York City 71T
  • 17.

    Bartley Crum
    American lawyer and writer
    Bartley Crum
    Overview: Bartley Crum (November 28, 1900 – December 9, 1959) was an American lawyer who became prominent as a member of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, his book on that experience, and for defending targets ...
    Date of birth: 28 November 1900
    Date of death: 10 December 1959
    Age: 59 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Attorney
    Gender: Male
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    1959 suicides 32T
    Drug-related deaths in New York City 75T
    Barbiturates-related deaths 110T
  • 18.

    William Lindsay Gresham
    American writer
    William Lindsay Gresham
    Overview: William Lindsay Gresham (August 20, 1909 – September 14, 1962) was an American novelist and non-fiction author particularly well-regarded among readers of noir. His best-known work is Nightmare Alley ...
    Date of birth: 20 August 1909
    Date of death: 14 September 1962
    Age: 53 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Male
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    1962 suicides 20T
    20th-century memoirists 804T
    American male writers who committed suicide 108T
  • 19.

    Will Cuppy
    American writer
    Will Cuppy
    Overview: William Jacob Cuppy (August 23, 1884 – September 19, 1949) was an American humorist and literary critic, known for his satirical books about nature and historical figures. Writing funny but factual magazine ...
    Date of birth: 23 August 1884
    Date of death: 19 September 1949
    Age: 65 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
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    1949 suicides 26T
    Drug-related deaths in New York City 71T
    American male writers who committed suicide 108T
  • 20.

    Charles R. Jackson
    American writer (1903–1968)
    Charles R. Jackson
    Overview: Charles Reginald Jackson (April 6, 1903 – September 21, 1968) was an American author who wrote the 1944 novel The Lost Weekend.
    Date of birth: 6 April 1903
    Date of death: 21 September 1968
    Age: 65 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Screenwriter
    Gender: Male
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    American LGBT novelists 396T
    20th-century LGBT people 3,037T
    1968 suicides 42T
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