Dying young is really tragic , but at least these people made their marker on society before check out early . Below is our tilt of 59 famous mass who died before the age of 40 .
1. Jessica Dubroff (7)
pilot program – Plane clangoring – 1996
2. Heather O’Rourke (12)
kid worker – Bowel obstruction – 1988
3. Anne Frank (15)
Dutch - Judaic author – Typhus in concentration camp – 1945
4. Ritchie Valens (17)
Rock ' n ' roll Isaac M. Singer – sheet clank – 1959
5. Eddie Cochran (21)
Rockabilly musician – machine stroke – 1960
6. Aaliyah (22)
R&B singer – Plane crash – 2001
7. Buddy Holly (22)
8. Freddie Prinze (22)
Comedian / worker – Suicide – 1977
9. River Phoenix (23)
Actor – Drug overdose – 1993
10. Selena (23)
Mexican - American singer – Homicide – 1995
11. James Dean (24)
Actor – Auto accident – 1955
12. Otis Redding (26)
Soul singer – airplane collapse – 1967
13. Brian Jones (27)
British rock candy guitarist – Drug - related drowning , possibly homicide – 1969
14. Janis Joplin (27)
Rock / soul Isaac M. Singer – Heroin overdose – 1970
15. Jim Morrison (27)
Rock vocalizer – substance attack , mayhap due to drug overdose – 1971
16. Jimi Hendrix (27)
Rock guitar player / vocalizer – Asphyxiation from sleeping pill overdose – 1970
17. Kurt Cobain (27)
Grunge stone singer / guitar player – Gunshot and deadly dose of diacetylmorphine , make bold suicide – 1994
18. Reggie Lewis (27)
Basketball player – Heart attack – 1993
19. Brandon Lee (28)
Actor – Accidental dash on the set ofThe Crow– 1993
20. Shannon Hoon (28)
rock ‘n’ roll singer – Drug overdose – 1995
21. Hank Williams (29)
Country musician – nitty-gritty attack , possibly due to an inadvertent overdose of morphine and alcoholic beverage – 1953
22.Andy Gibb(30)
Singer – Heart failure due to cocaine abuse – 1988
23. Jim Croce (30)
vocaliser / ballad maker – Plane clang – 1973
24. Patsy Cline (30)
Country music vocalizer – Plane crash – 1963
Find more of our lean of famous people who go bad before the eld of 40 on the next Sir Frederick Handley Page .
Famous People Who Died Before Age 40, 25-59
Here is the rest of our list of 59 far-famed people who died before the age of 40 , starting with Sylvia Plath .
25. Sylvia Plath (30)
Poet and source – Suicide – 1963
26. Brian Epstein (32)
Beatles manager – Drug overdose – 1967
27. Bruce Lee (32)
Martial arts histrion – potential sensitised response – 1973
28. Cass Elliot (32)
Singer – Heart fire bring on by obesity – 1974
29. Karen Carpenter (32)
Singer and musician – Cardiac arrest from anorexia nervosa – 1983
30. Keith Moon (32)
Rock drummer – Overdose of medication – 1978
31. Carole Lombard (33)
Actor – Plane clangour – 1942
32. Chris Farley (33)
Comedian / actor – Overdose of cocaine and diacetylmorphine – 1997
33. Darryl Kile (33)
Major League Baseball pitcher – Coronary heart disease – 2002
34. Jesus Christ (33)
Founder of Christianity – Crucifixion – A.D. 30
35. John Belushi (33)
Comedian / actor – Overdose of cocaine and heroin – 1982
36. Sam Cooke (33)
Soul musician – Homicide – 1964
37. Charlie Parker (34)
Jazz saxophonist – Pneumonia and ulceration , impart on by drug abuse – 1955
38. Dana Plato (34)
player – Prescription drug overdose – 1999
39. Jayne Mansfield (34)
Actor – Auto accident – 1967
40. Andy Kaufman (35)
Comedian / player – Lung Cancer the Crab – 1984
41. Josh Gibson (35)
Negro League baseball game histrion – Stroke – 1947
42. Stevie Ray Vaughan (35)
bluing guitarist – eggbeater collapse – 1990
43. Bob Marley (36)
Reggae instrumentalist – Melanoma that metastasize into lung and wit malignant neoplastic disease – 1981
44. Diana, Princess of Wales (36)
British royal – automobile accident – 1997
45. Marilyn Monroe (36)
histrion – Barbiturate overdose – 1962
46. Bobby Darin (37)
vocaliser / player – complication during heart surgery – 1973
47. Lou Gehrig (37)
Major League Baseball participant – Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( ALS ) – 1941
48. Michael Hutchence (37)
stone singer – advert , perchance suicide – 1997
49. Sal Mineo (37)
histrion – Homicide – 1976
50. Florence Griffith Joyner (38)
Olympian / sprinter – potential asphyxiation during epileptic capture – 1998
51. George Gershwin (38)
Composer – Brain neoplasm – 1937
52. Harry Chapin (38)
vocalist / songster – Auto chance event – 1981
53. John F. Kennedy, Jr. (38)
Journalist / publisher – Plane crash – 1999
54. Roberto Clemente (38)
Major League Baseball player – Plane crash – 1972
55. Sam Kinison (38)
Comedian – Auto stroke induce by intoxicated number one wood – 1992
56. Anna Nicole Smith (39)
Model / thespian – Accidental prescription drug drug overdose – 2007
57. Dennis Wilson (39)
Rock ' n ' roll drummer – Drowning due to inebriation – 1983
58. Malcolm X (39)
belligerent civil rights leader – Assassination – 1965
59. Martin Luther King, Jr. (39)
civic rights activist / minister – Assassination – 1968
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS:
Helen Davies , Marjorie Dorfman , Mary Fons , Deborah Hawkins , Martin Hintz , Linnea Lundgren , David Priess , Julia Clark Robinson , Paul Seaburn , Heidi Stevens , and Steve Theunissen
