high-profile French personality to die of AIDS after contracting HIV. 1986 – Simone de Beauvoir died of pneumonia. 1990 – Louis Althusser died of a heart attack. 1992 – Félix Guattari died of a heart attack. 1994 – David Stove committed suicide by hanging himself after a painful struggle with disease. 1994 – Sarah Kofman committed suicide on Nietzsche’s birthday. 1994 – Guy Debord committed suicide by shooting himself after a painful struggle with polyneuritis. 1995 – Gilles Deleuze committed suicide by jumping out of his fourth-story apartment window. 1998 – Dimitris Liantinis committed suicide on the mountains of Taygetos. 2000 – Willard Van Orman Quine died of Alzheimer's disease. 2001 – David Lewis died of diabetes related complications. 2004 – Jacques Derrida died of pancreatic cancer. 2007 – André Gorz committed joint suicide with his wife by lethal injection. 2017 – Anne Dufourmantelle drowned while trying to rescue two children. 2017 – Mark Fisher committed suicide by hanging. 2019 – Ágnes Heller drowned in Lake Balaton near Balatonalmádi while she was swimming. 2020 – Bernard Stiegler committed suicide. 2022 - Saul Kripke died of pancreatic cancer. References Further reading Ava Chitwood, Death by Philosophy, University of Michigan Press, 2004. Simon Critchley, Book of Dead Philosophers, Vintage, 2009. David Palfrey, "How Philosophers Die", British Academy Review, Issue 10 (2007) Anthony Quinton, 'Deaths of philosophers', The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Oxford, 1995, 2005. Philosophers Lists of philosophers