Here is a compilation of a list of people who achieved fame, power and money but did not last long to enjoy. These are set of people who died quite young, leaving behind full of questions on life and death.
Eric Fleming _[Ht 6’3] (July 4, 1925 – September 28, 1966) was an American actor, known primarily for his role as Gil Favor in the long running CBS television series Rawhide. Died while acting in a scene when his canoe overturned and he was swept away by the current in the Huallaga River, tributary of the Maronon River, part of the Amazon Basin. He was 41
Elvis Presley_[Ht_6' (1.83 m)]_(January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American musician and actor. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King". Question mark on his death being caused by stimulants and depressants He was 42
James Byron Dean_[Ht_5' 8" (173 cm)]_(February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was an American film actor. Dean's status as a cultural icon is best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause, in which he starred as troubled Los Angeles teenager Jim Stark. Death due to Car Crash. He was 24
James Douglas "Jim" Morrison_[Ht_5' 11" (1.80 M)]_ (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an American singer, songwriter, poet, writer and filmmaker. He was best known as the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors and is widely considered to be one of the most charismatic frontmen in rock music history.[1] He was also the author of several books of poetry[1] and the director of a documentary and short film. Morrison died on July 3, 1971. In the official account of his death, he was found in a Paris apartment bathtub by Courson. Pursuant to French law, no autopsy was performed because the medical examiner claimed to have found no evidence of foul play. The absence of an official autopsy has left many questions regarding Morrison's cause of death.. He was 27.
Marilyn Monroe_[Ht_5’ 5½ “ (166.62 cm)_ (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962), born Norma Jeane Mortenson, but baptized Norma Jeane Baker, was an American actress, singer, and model. Her death was ruled to be "acute barbiturate poisoning" by Dr. Thomas Noguchi of the Los Angeles County Coroners office and listed as "probable suicide." Many individuals, including Jack Clemmons, the first Los Angeles Police Department officer to arrive at the death scene,[1] believe that she was murdered. No murder charges were ever filed. The death of Marilyn Monroe is arguably one of the most debated conspiracy theories of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She was 36.
John Lennon_[Ht 5’ 10” (178 cm)]_MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English rock musician, singer-songwriter, author, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. On the night of 8 December 1980, at around 10:50 pm, Mark David Chapman shot Lennon in the back four times in the entrance of the Dakota apartment building. He was 40
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix_[Ht. 5' 11" (1.80 m)]_(born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is often considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in the history of rock music by other musicians and commentators in the industry, and one of the most important and influential musicians of his era across a range of genres. Early on September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix died in London under circumstances which have never been fully explained. He was 27
Charles Hardin Holley_[Ht. 5' 11½" (1.82 m)]_(September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his death in an airplane crash, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll."[1] His works and innovations inspired and influenced both his contemporaries and later musicians, notably The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, Don McLean, and Bob Dylan, and exerted a profound influence on popular music.[2] Following a performance at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa on February 2, 1959, Holly chartered a small airplane to take him to the next stop on the tour. He, Valens, Richardson, and the pilot were killed en route to Moorhead, Minnesota, when their plane crashed soon after taking off from nearby Mason City in the early morning hours of February 3. Don McLean referred to it as "The Day the Music Died" in his song "American Pie". He was 22
Guru Dutt or Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone _(9 July 1925 - 10 October 1964) was an Indian film director, producer and actor. He is often credited with ushering in the golden era of Hindi cinema. On 10 October 1964, Guru Dutt was found dead in his bed in his rented apartment at Pedder Road in Mumbai. He is said to have been mixing alcohol and sleeping pills. His death may have been suicide, or just an accidental overdose. It would have been his third suicide attempt, He was 39.
John Denver_[Ht, 6' (183 cm)]_(December 31, 1943 – October 12, 1997) was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s in terms of record sales,[1] recording and releasing around 300 songs, of which about 200 were composed by him. He was named Poet Laureate of Colorado in 1977. A pilot with over 2,700 hours of experience, Denver had single-engine land and sea, multi-engine land, glider, and instrument ratings. He also held a type rating in a Learjet. He had recently purchased the Long-EZ aircraft and had taken a half-hour checkout flight with the aircraft the day before the accident. The NTSB cited Denver's unfamiliarity with the aircraft and his failure to have the aircraft refueled as causal factors in the accident. Denver was the sole occupant of the aircraft. He was 54
Edward Montgomery Clift_[Ht 5’ 10” (178 cm)]_(October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966) was an American film and stage actor. He was known for his brooding, sensitive working-class character roles. Clift received four Academy Award nominations during his career. On July 22, 1966, Clift spent most of the day in his bedroom in his New York City townhouse, 217 East 61st Street. He and his live-in personal secretary, Lorenzo James, had not spoken much all day. At 1a.m., Lorenzo went up to say goodnight. The Misfits was on TV that night, and Lorenzo asked Clift if he wanted to watch it. "Absolutely NOT!" was the reply. This turned out to be the last time Montgomery Clift spoke to anyone. At 6 a.m. the next morning, Lorenzo went to wake him but found the bedroom door locked. Unable to break it down, he ran down to the garden and climbed a ladder to the bedroom window. When he got inside, he found Clift dead. He was undressed, lying on his back in bed, with glasses on and fists clenched.[5] Clift's body was taken to the city morgue at 520 First Avenue and autopsied. The autopsy report cited the cause of death as a heart attack brought on by "occlusive coronary artery disease". No evidence was found that suggested foul play or suicide. He was 45
River Jude Phoenix_[Ht 5' 10" (1.78 m)]_ (August 23, 1970 — October 31, 1993) was an American film actor. He was listed on John Willis's Screen World, Vol. 38 as one of twelve "promising new actors of 1986," and was hailed as highly talented by such critics as Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel. He was also well known for his animal rights activism. He was the oldest sibling of actors and actresses Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Liberty Phoenix and Summer Phoenix. On October 31, 1993, Phoenix collapsed from a drug overdose of heroin and cocaine (known as a speedball) outside the Viper Room, a Hollywood night club partially owned, at the time, by actor Johnny Depp. During the episode, Johnny Depp and his band P (featuring Flea and Phoenix's friend Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers) were onstage. He was 23.
Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances; née Spencer;)_[Ht. 5' 10" (1.78 m)]_1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. On 31 August 1997, Diana died having sustained fatal injuries in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris along with Dodi Al-Fayed and the acting security manager of the Hôtel Ritz Paris, Henri Paul, who was instructed to drive the hired Mercedes-Benz through Paris in order to elude the paparazzi. She was 36
Rajiv Ratna Gandhi (20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991), the elder son of Indira Nehru and Feroze Gandhi, was the 7th Prime Minister of India from his mother's death on 31 October 1984 until his resignation on 2 December 1989 following a general election defeat. He became the youngest Prime Minister of India when he took office (at the age of 40). Rajiv Gandhi's last public meeting was at Sriperumbudur on 21 May 1991, in a village approximately 30 miles from Madras, Tamil Nadu, where he was assassinated while campaigning for the Sriperumbudur Lok Sabha Congress candidate.[15] The assassination was carried out by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide bomber Thenmozhi Rajaratnam also known as Gayatri and Dhanu. He was 46.
Janis Lyn Joplin_[Ht 5' 6" (1.68 M)]_ (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer, songwriter and music arranger. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Joplin number 46 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, and number 28 on its 2008 list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Found dead on the Landmark Motor Hotel (since renamed the Highland Gardens Hotel) room floor . The official cause of death was an overdose of heroin, possibly combined with the effects of alcohol. Joplin may have accidentally been given heroin which was much more potent than normal, as several of her dealer's other customers also overdosed that week. She was 27
Heath Andrew Ledger_ [Ht 6' 1]_ (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008) was an Australian television and film actor. After performing roles in Australian television and film during the 1990s, Ledger moved to the United States in 1998 to develop his film career. His work encompassed nineteen films, including 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), The Patriot (2000), Monster's Ball (2001), A Knight's Tale (2001), Brokeback Mountain (2005), and The Dark Knight (2008). In addition to his acting, he produced and directed music videos and aspired to be a film director. Heath Ledger died as the result of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine."[9][11] It states definitively: "We have concluded that the manner of death is accident, resulting from the abuse of prescription medications. He was 28
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy_[Ht 6’[_ (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time on November 22, 1963, while on a political trip to Texas to smooth over factions in the Democratic Party between liberals and conservative representatives. He was shot once in the upper back and was killed with a final shot to the head. He was pronounced dead at 1:00 p.m. He was 46.
Bruce Lee_[ Height: 5' 7"]_ (Lee Jun Fan,_ 27 November 1940 – 20 July 1973) was a Chinese American and Hong Kong actor, martial artist, philosopher, film director, screenwriter, practitioner of Wing Chun and founder of the Jeet Kune Do concept. He is considered by many as the most influential martial artist of the 20th century, and a cultural icon. Lee's death is still a subject of controversy. He was 32.
Brandon Bruce Lee_[Ht 6' (1.83 m)]_(February 1, 1965 – March 31, 1993) was an American actor. He was the son of the late legendary martial arts film star Bruce Lee and Linda Lee Cadwell and the brother of actress Shannon Lee. He was also the nephew of Robert Lee, a musician and member of various Hong Kong beat bands. Lee was accidentally shot and killed at the age of 28 while filming The Crow (1994).
Thomas Richard Fogerty_[Ht 5' 10½" (179 cm)]_(November 9, 1941, in Berkeley, California – September 6, 1990, in Scottsdale, Arizona) was a musician best known as the guitarist in Creedence Clearwater Revival and the elder brother of John Fogerty, the lead singer and guitar player in that band. On September 6, 1990 Tom Fogerty died of AIDS (specifically from a tuberculosis infection), having contracted HIV from blood transfusions for back ailments. He was 48.
Stevie Ray Vaughan _[Ht 5'9" ]_(born Stephen Ray Vaughan; October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990) was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is often considered to be one of the most important electric guitarists in the history of rock music by other musicians and commentators. Six albums of Vaughan's work have been released. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Stevie Ray Vaughan #7 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, and Classic Rock Magazine ranked him #3 in their list of the 100 Wildest Guitar Heroes in 2007. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential blues guitarists in history. With fame and fortune came excess. Vaughan cocaine habit rose to 4 grams a day. To cure hangovers he would dissolve some of the cocaine into a glass of whiskey for a morning pick me up. BUT he did not die of cocaine overdose. For travel to the next venue, his tour manager reserved four helicopters to circumvent congested highway traffic. The helicopters, not certified for flight under instrument flight rules, lifted off in dense fog at 12:40 A.M. on August 27. Just past the lift-off zone was a 300-foot hill. Vaughan's pilot, unfamiliar with the area, did not climb to sufficient altitude immediately after take-off, and the helicopter crashed into the hill. According to the report by the National Transportation Safety Board, the cause of the accident was determined to be inadequate planning by the pilot and failure to attain sufficient altitude to clear an obstacle. Fog and haze, as well as the rising terrain, were listed as contributing factors. All occupants—including Vaughan, the pilot and three members of Eric Clapton's travel group—were killed on impact. He was 35
Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley _[Ht 5' 7 ]_(February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands The Wailers (1964–1974) and Bob Marley & The Wailers (1974–1981). Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited for helping spread both Jamaican music and the Rastafari movement to a worldwide audience. In July 1977, Marley was found to have acral lentiginous melanoma, a form of malignant melanoma, in a wound reportedly picked up in a friendly football match. The spread of melanoma (skin cancer) to his lungs and brain caused his death. His final words to his son Ziggy were "Money can't buy life." He was 36.
Martin Luther King, Jr._[Ht 5' 6½" (1.69 M)]_ (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States, and he has become a human rights icon. King was shot at 6:01 p.m. April 4, 1968 while he was standing on the Lorraine Motel's second floor balcony. The bullet entered through his right cheek smashing his jaw and then traveled down his spinal cord before lodging in his shoulder. He was 39.
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