Actors who died young list: 59 Photos
Indian Actors And Actresses Who Died Young: Heres photo images
300 Famous Hollywood Actors Died Too YOUNG Before 50 AGE
FAQs
The list of famous people who died before the age of 40 is unfortunately long and includes Marilyn Monroe, Aaliyah, John Belushi, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Anna Nicole Smith.
In music they call it the 27 club, of which Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain are members, and the art world has its own list of young artists snatched by death. Gothic engraver Aubrey Beardsley died at 26 of tuberculosis.
Sounes refers to members of the club as “the 27s” and focuses on “the big six”: Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse.
died in their 20s
- Heath Ledger. Actor. Director. ...
- River Phoenix. Actor. Soundtrack My Own Private Idaho (1991) ...
- Jim Morrison. Music Artist. ...
- Brandon Lee. Actor. ...
- Jimi Hendrix. Music Artist. ...
- Stuart Sutcliffe. Stuart Sutcliffe was born on 23 June 1940 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. ...
- Aaliyah. Music Artist. ...
- The Notorious B.I.G. Music Artist.
Cultural phenomenon. Beginning with the deaths of several 27-year-old popular musicians between 1969 and 1971 (such as Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison), dying at the age of 27 came to be, and remains, a perennial subject of popular culture, celebrity journalism, and entertainment industry lore.