Loads of well-known figures died at age 27 earlier than the Nineteen Sixties — however the thought of the 27 Membership actually took off when Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison all died at that age. (Jones died in July 1969, Hendrix and Joplin within the fall of 1970, and Morrison in July 1971.) Although all of their causes of demise had been vastly totally different — Jones drowned, Hendrix and Joplin as a result of problems from drug use, and Morrison from coronary heart failure — it sparked the concept that celebrities normally die on the age of 27, and it ought to be stated right here that the coincidence of their ages at their time of demise is sort of eerie.
Years after these 4 handed away, two extra high-profile figures died at 27. Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat died from a drug overdose in 1988 and Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain died by suicide in 1994, sparking the concept of the 27 Membership another time. (Once more, there have been different “members” of the 27 Membership in between, however these two males had been among the many most well-known of them.) The superstition over the age of 27 was born anew, and seventeen years after Cobain’s demise, one other beloved musician joined the “membership.”