27 Club

The 27 club is the name given to a group of musicians who died at age 27. The members or number of members of this group is not fixed.

Musicians often included in the 27 Club[change | change source]

Name	Date of death	How they died	What they did	Age
Robert Johnson	August 16, 1938	Strychnine poisoning	Played the blues, the first of the 27 club.	27 years, 100 days
Brian Jones	July 3, 1969	Drowned in a swimming pool^[1]	Was in the band The Rolling Stones	27 years, 125 days
Jimi Hendrix	September 18, 1970	Too much wine, probably choked on vomit^[2]	Sang, played guitar and wrote songs for The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Band of Gypsys	27 years, 295 days
Janis Joplin	October 4, 1970	Took too much heroin^[3]	Sang and wrote songs for Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Cosmic Blues Band and Full Tilt Boogie Band	27 years, 258 days
Jim Morrison	July 3, 1971	Heart attack^[4]	Sang and wrote songs for The Doors	27 years, 206 days
Dimitar Voev	September 5, 1992	Cancer	Sang, played bass and wrote songs for Nova Generacia	27 years, 107 days
Kurt Cobain	April 5, 1994	Suicide^[5]	Sang, played guitar and wrote songs for Nirvana	27 years, 44 days
Amy Winehouse	July 23, 2011	Alcohol poisoning^[6]	Singer	27 years, 312 days

↑ "All about Brian Jones, by Anthony Bruno — "Death by Misadventure" — Crime Library on". Trutv.com. 1969-07-10. Retrieved 2011-07-23.
↑ The Final Days, Tony Brown excerpt quoted in http://woodstockhendrix.gobot.com/about.html
↑ The Washington Post. May 11, 1998 https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/features/joplin.htm. Missing or empty |title= (help)
↑ Walt, Vivienne (July 19, 2007). "Postcard: Paris". Time. Retrieved April 23, 2010.
↑ Van Gelder, Lawrence. (March 3, 1998)"Footlights", New York Times
↑ Kaufman, Gil (29 July 2011). "Amy Winehouse's Death: Family Suspects Alcohol Withdrawal". mtv.com. Retrieved 31 July 2011.