wiki: The 27 Club , also occasionally known as the Forever 27 Club or Club 27 , is a name for a group of influential rock and blues musicians who all died at the age of 27, sometimes under mysterious circumstances. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The 27 Club consists of two related phenomena, both in the realm of popular culture . The first is a list of five famous musicians who died at age 27 -- Brian Jones , Jimi Hendrix , Janis Joplin , Jim Morrison , and Kurt Cobain . The second is the idea that many other notable musicians have also died at the age of 27. Musicians usually included in the 27 Club: There is some debate as to the criterion used to include musicians who died at the age of 27 in the "27 Club". The impetus for the club's creation were the deaths of a seemingly unusual number of prominent 27-year-old musicians within a two-year period of time, exactly: Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. [ 4 ] Morrison and Jones died on the same date tw...