Artist | Notoriety | Died |
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Janis Joplin | Singer | October 4, 1970 |
Amy Winehouse | Singer | July 23, 2011 |
Robert Johnson | Guitarist, singer | August 16, 1938 |
Brian Jones | Guitarist of The Rolling Stones | July 3, 1969 |
Tragically, many died of overdose or under drug-related circumstances, including Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and Kurt Cobain. Janis Joplin and Amy Winehouse are among the female singers who have died at 27.
Professor Kenny concluded that the reason musicians die younger than those that don’t make a living out of singing on stage is because the ‘pop music “scene” fails to provide boundaries and to model and expect acceptable behaviour’.
Name | Age | Cause of death |
---|---|---|
Lou “L.A.” Kouvaris Riot | 66 | COVID-19 |
Alan Merrill Arrows | 69 | COVID-19 |
Bill Withers | 81 | Heart complications |
Cristina Singer with ZE Records | 64 | COVID-19 |
Rank | Name | Cause of Death |
---|---|---|
1 | Michael Jackson | Homicide |
2 | Elvis Presley | Heart attack |
3 | Charles Schulz | Cancer |
4 | Arnold Palmer | Heart disease |
Name | Age | Cause of death |
---|---|---|
Andrew Wood Malfunkshun, Mother Love Bone | 24 | Heroin overdose |
Sarah Vaughan | 66 | Lung cancer |
Thurston Harris The Sharps | 58 | Heart attack |
Little Joe Blue | 55 | Stomach cancer |
Name | Age | Date |
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Keith Godchaux The Grateful Dead | 32 | July 23, 1980 |
George Scott III | 26 | August 5, 1980 |
Jimmy Forrest | 60 | August 26, 1980 |
John Bonham Led Zeppelin | 32 | September 25, 1980 |
Name | Age | Cause of death |
---|---|---|
Lena Horne | 92 | Congestive heart failure |
Ronnie James Dio Dio, Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Elf | 67 | Stomach cancer |
Hank Jones | 91 | |
Paul Gray Slipknot | 38 | Drug overdose |
Mortality rates were between two and three times higher for popular musicians than matched population data. The median ages of popular musician death in the two Bellis studies (links above) were 41.78 and 45.2 years respectively, which closely aligned with my findings.
Artists like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Amy Winehouse all died before they reached 28. The American blues legend made the Mississippi Delta style famous, but his premature death near Greenwood, Mississippi, remains as mysterious as much of his short life.
Remembering DMX, Charlie Watts, Phil Spector, Sophie, James Levine, Chick Corea, Mary Wilson and many others who died this year.
On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and “The Big Bopper” J. P. Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger Peterson.
Name | Age | Date |
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Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 27 | September 18, 1970 |
Janis Joplin Big Brother and the Holding Company | 27 | October 4, 1970 |
Baby Huey Baby Huey & the Babysitters | 26 | October 28, 1970 |
George “Smitty” Smith Original lead singer for The Manhattans | 30 | December 16, 1970 |
Heart disease has remained the leading cause of death at the global level for the last 20 years. However, it is now killing more people than ever before. The number of deaths from heart disease increased by more than 2 million since 2000, to nearly 9 million in 2019.
Sonny Bono | Jack Lord |
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Roy Rogers | Gene Autry |
Shannon Hoon
Best known for “No Rain,” the Blind Melon singer died of a cocaine overdose in 1995 at age 28.
Three members of the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a Mississippi plane crash.
Who is the most famous musician who was murdered? John Lennon tops our list. The former Beatle died on December 8, 1980, at age 40, after being shot by Mark David Chapman. Earlier that day, Chapman had asked Lennon for his autograph.
Otis Redding/Age at death
Otis Redding, 26 years old, a former well-driller from Macon, Georgia, died in a plane crash in an icy Wisconsin lake on December 10.Dec 31, 1969
September 18, 1970
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