27 Club

The 27 club is the name given to a group of musicians, artists, actors and other celebrities who died at age 27. The members or number of members of this group is not fixed.

Musicians often included in the 27 Club

Name	When they died	How they died	What they did	Age
Robert Johnson	August 16, 1938	Poisoned	Played as a solo artist and became well known for being so good at guitar, he could play two different riffs at the same time.	27 years, 97 days
Malcolm Hale	October 30, 1968	Carbon Monoxide poisoning	Sang and wrote songs for Spanky and Our Gang	27 years, 166 days
Brian Jones	July 3, 1969	Drowned in a swimming pool from asthmatic attack and drugs ^[1]	Was in the band The Rolling Stones	27 years, 125 days
Jimi Hendrix	September 18, 1970	choked on vomit caused by intoxication by multiple substances	Sang, played guitar and wrote songs for The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Band of Gypsys	27 years, 295 days
Janis Joplin	October 4, 1970	Overdosed on heroin and other drugs ^[2]	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	Cardiac Arrytmia^[3]	Sang and wrote songs for The Doors	27 years, 206 days
Jean-Michel Basquiat	August 12, 1988	Heroin overdose	Artist who rose to success during the 1980s as a part of the neo-expressionism movement.	27 years, 234 days
Kurt Cobain	April 5, 1994	Suicide by gunshot under the effects of heroin^[4]	Sang, played guitar and wrote songs for Nirvana	27 years, 44 days
Amy Winehouse	July 23, 2011	Alcohol Intoxication^[5]	Singer	27 years, 312 days