’27 Club’ Famous Musicians Who Died At 27.
Dead: July 23, 2011, 27 years and 313 days, probable drugs overdose.
Brian Jones
Dead: July 3, 1969, 27 years and 125 days, drowned in a swimming pool
Band: Rolling Stones
Jimi Hendrix
Dead: September 18, 1970, 27 years and 295 days, asphyxiated on vomit after combining sleeping pills with wine.
Band: The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Band of Gypsys
Janis Joplin
Dead: October 4, 1970, 27 years and 258 days, drugs overdose
Band: The Kozmic Blues Band and Full Tilt Boogie Band
Jim Morrison
Dead: July 3, 1971, 27 years and 207 days, cause of death listed as “heart failure”
Band: The Doors
Kurt Cobain
Dead: April 5, 1994, 27 years and 44 days, ruled as suicide by shotgun
Band: Nirvana
Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson
Dead: September 3, 1970, Barbiturate overdose, possible suicide
Band: Canned Heat
Ron “Pigpen” McKernan
Dead: March 8, 1973, Gastrointestinal hemorrhage associated with alcoholism
Band: Grateful Dead
Les Harvey
Dead: May 3, 1972, Electrocution by live microphone after touching it with his wet hands
Band: Stone the Crows