Famous figures who took their own lives

Updated: 2014-09-10 13:51

(chinadaily.com.cn)

 

Rezso Seress. [Photo/nx.cn]

Hungarian pianist and composer Rezso Seress lived most of his life in poverty in Budapest. His most famous composition, Gloomy Sunday, was blamed for being associated with a spate of suicides and he plunged into depression in his later years, killing himself in 1968.