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The 27 Club is an informal list consisting mostly of popular musicians, [2][3][4][5][6] often expanded by artists, actors, and other celebrities who died at age 27. Although the claim of a "statistical spike" for the death of musicians at that age has been refuted by scientific research, it remains a common cultural conception that the ...
The 27 Club members who ranked in the top 1% of notability were 170% more notable than they would have been if they had died at a different age, Dunivin said. Likewise, other members who ranked in ...
Lists of deaths by year. This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in November 2024) and then linked below.
Emile Jansen, 64, Dutch actor (Winter in Wartime). [34] J. Saul Kane, 55, English DJ and musician. [35] (death announced on this date) Jan Keizer, 84, Dutch football referee. [36] Amar Kudin, 32, Croatian-born Italian rugby union player (Fiamme Oro Rugby, Benetton Rugby, Rugby San Donà), traffic collision.
Death of Jimi Hendrix. On September 18, 1970, American musician Jimi Hendrix died in London at the age of 27. One of the 1960s' most influential guitarists, he was described by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music." [1] In the days before his death, Hendrix had been in poor health ...
Spangler was a promising American actress and dancer born in Seattle, Washington. She disappeared on October 7, 1946 and was 26-years-old. She was just starting to make her way in show business by ...
7 July: Funk ostentação singer and rapper MC Daleste was fatally shot in the abdomen during a free performance in Campinas, São Paulo, before a crowd of four thousand people. 27 July: Mick Farren died on-stage at The Borderline, London, while performing with his band, The Deviants. The cause of death was stated to be a heart attack.
The white lighter myth or white lighter curse is an urban legend based on the 27 Club in which it is claimed several musicians and artists died while in possession of a white disposable cigarette lighter, leading such items to become associated with bad fortune. [1][2] The myth is primarily based on the deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim ...