Sylvia Plath
Dylan Thomas
Don’t forget
Writers who died young include:
Anne Brontë, 29, tuberculosis
Emily Brontë, 30, tuberculosis
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 29, boat accident/drowning
John Keats, 25, tubeculosis
The same London apartment owned by Harry Nilsson… who was 53 when he died. Way too young, as far as I (a huge fan) am concerned!
Yes. He should have been on my list with Parker and Coltrane.
Do pro wrestlers count? Because I would add Owen Hart who died after falling from the rafters of the Kemper Arena attempting to rappel down for his ring entrance at the age of 34.
<Dr. Cox> No, No they don’t. Absolutely not. Now go stand in the corner and think about what you’ve done. </Dr. Cox>
Lots of wonderful artists mentioned here. Thought I’d add Israel Kamakawiwoʻole.
Looking through the posts, I’m staggered at the artists I missed. Kirsty MacColl, Hank Williams, Gram Parsons - to name but three. How did I manage to forget them?
(Plus, sorry to hear your news. Best wishes.)
j
Marilyn Monroe, 36
(If she were alive today, she’d be 95.)
Chadwick Boseman, 43. I loved to watch him work. Such a shame to lose him. He did amazing work while he was here.
Among others not yet mentioned:
Mike Bloomfield
Marc Bolan
Sam Cooke
Magic Sam (Maghett)
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Donyale Luna
Jayne Mansfield
Edie Sedgwick
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Aubrey Beardsley
Raphael
Originally came to post Eric Dolphy but see it’s been noted, so, with punk / hc / metal, there’s too many to mention, but per the OP my faves among them would have been
D. Boon, 27, of The Minutemen
Chuck Schuldinder, 34, of Death
I thought about Mark. E. Smith but he was 61! 
Into a different neighbourhood - was Werner Fassbinder mentioned yet? Only 37, with a considerable body of work already under his belt.
Ha! Seth Puttnam doesn’t qualify!
For classical music I see that the usual suspects of Mozart / Schubert / Mendelssohn have already been mentioned, so I’ll throw in a vote for Frederic Chopin who died at 39.
I forgot Phil Ochs.
In the dim corners of my brain I think Peter Laughner, early guitarist for Pere Ubu, was already mentioned. That fine number “Humour Me” was dedicated to him.
Not a fave, more of a somewhat-noteworthy-legend-in-his-own-mind sorta goomba, 36.
Jim Croce
“Seth Putnam was wrong about a lot of things but Seth Putnam was right about you!”