diplomats who died of suicide

Leszek Józef Serafinowicz, the 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

Pietro della Vigna,, the Italian jurist and diplomat, who acted as chancellor and secretary to Emperor Frederick II. Accused of lèse majesté, he, imprisoned and blinded and committed suicide soon after

John Gilbert Winant OM (February 23, 1889 – November 3, 1947), the American politician with the Republican party after a brief career as a teacher in Concord, New Hampshire

José Manuel Emiliano Balmaceda Fernández (July 19, 1840 – September 18, 1891), the 11th President of Chile from September 18, 1886 to August 29, 1891

Adolph Abramovich Joffe (alternative transliterations Adolf Ioffe or, rarely, Yoffe) (October 10, 1883, Simferopol - November 16, 1927, Moscow), the Communist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and a Soviet diplomat of Karaite descent

Ivan Hribar (19 September 1851 - 28 December 1941), the Slovene and Yugoslav banker, politician, diplomat and journalist

Manfred Freiherr von Killinger (July 14, 1886-September 2, 1944), the German naval officer, Freikorps leader, military writer and Nazi politician

Alexandru Ioan Odobescu (23 June 1834 – 10 November 1895), the Romanian author, archaeologist and politician

Richard J. Egan (1936 – August 28, 2009), the American engineer, businessman, political fundraiser and US Ambassador to Ireland

Charles Jonas (born Karel Jonáš - October 30, 1840-January 15, 1896), the Czech journalist, linguist and political activist, who became a Wisconsin journalist and politician

Egerton Herbert Norman (September 1, 1909 - April 4, 1957), the Canadian diplomat and historian

Walther Hewel (2 January 1904 - 2 May 1945), the German diplomat before and during World War II, an early and active member of the Nazi Party, and one of German dictator Adolf Hitler's few personal friends

Romain Gary (2 December 1980), the French diplomat, novelist, film director and World War II aviator of Litvak origin

Richard Edgar Funkhouser (September 10, 1917 - May 15, 2008), the American diplomat and geologist, specializing in oil

Tamar Golan, the Israeli journalist and diplomat, who was known especially for her work to promote relations between Israel and African nations, and for her effort to increase knowledge and awareness to African culture in Israel

William Stuart Brown (16 April 1952 - 12 May 2004), the Australian diplomat and convicted child molester

Thomas K. Mooney (January 30, 1962 - June 28, 2007), the American diplomat and Army officer until his disappearance and death in 2007

Leonid Vladimirovich Shebarshin (March 24, 1935 - March 30, 2012) became head of the First Chief Directorate of the KGB in January 1989, when the former FCD chief, Vladimir Kryuchkov, promoted to KGB chief

Georgios Papoulias (1927 - 11 September 2009, Athens), the Greek politician and diplomat

Francisco Romão de Oliveira e Silva (October 1, 1942 – July 25, 2004), the Angolan politician who served as the deputy foreign minister

Alexander Dmitrievich Ogorodnik, the Soviet "Diplomat", operating under the code name Trianon and Trigon who, while stationed in Bogotá, blackmailed by Colombian intelligence agents into spying against the Soviet Union

Jaime Torres Bodet (17 April 1902 – 13 May 1974), the prominent Mexican politician and writer who served in the executive cabinet of three Presidents of Mexico

Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol (8 August 1829, Paris - 20 July 1870, Washington, D.C.), the French journalist and essayist

Sir Peter Henry Berry Otway Smithers (9 December 1913 in Yorkshire, England – 8 June 2006 in Vico Morcote, Switzerland), the United Kingdom Conservative Party politician

Marin Ceauşescu (1916 - December 28, 1989), the Romanian economist and diplomat, the older brother of Communist Romania's President Nicolae Ceauşescu

Philip Merrill (April 28, 1934—10 June 2006), the American diplomat, publisher, banker, and philanthropist who committed suicide while traveling alone on his boat in the Chesapeake Bay