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Here is an extensive list of Famous Musicians Who Died Too Young (Dead Before Their Time).

I didn't even know that some of them were dead,

Laura Branigan 47
Tom Fogerty 48
Laura Nyro 49

or others, that they died so young

Richie Valens 17
Eddie Cochran 21
Sid Vicious 21

The list seems pretty 20th century centric and omits:

Franz Schubert 31
Wolfgang Mozart 35
Felix Mendelssohn 38
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Having lived the life of a rock group player for 7 years 1967-1973, I'd say that list, and its excellent presentation, is pretty sobering.

I did not see these two very important musicians there:

Great American blues guitarist Mike Bloomfield, drug overdose, 1981.

In the case of Schubert and friends, that was not particually young

In those days the average age of a labourer was 25, not that there were no a lot over that age, just that the mortality rate was very very high in those days briging the average down

A lot of the modern ones are self inflicted by act or chosen lifestyle, not all but a large proprtion of them :-/

The list is also rock-pop centric and thereby omits the great, great, classical pianist Glenn Gould, who died on Sept 25, 1982, age 50, from a stroke.  Gould was a hypocondriac and a Rx pill popper, that may have contributed to his untimely demise.

By then, Gould had recorded, on piano, along with a huge amount of other stuff, every single piece of Bach's compositions for harpsichord.

I didn't know that.

What a genius.

I have his Well-Tempered Clavier.

Gould died on Oct 04, 1982, not Sept 25 as I originally said.

Gould's genius was not only reflected in his recordings, but, according to biographer Friedrich, Otto (1989) in 'Glenn Gould: A Life and Variations':

How about Wallace Hartley, leader of the band aboard the TITANIC?  He was only in his late twenties as I understand it.