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Most of the musicians had been shot or stabbed to death. Some of them have received extensive media attention, including the murder of John Lennon in 1980, the killing of Marvin Gaye in 1984, the murder of Selena in 1995, the murder of Tupac Shakur in 1996, the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. in 1997, the murder of XXXTentacion in 2018, and the ...
The 27 Club is an informal list consisting mostly of popular musicians, [2][3][4][5][6] often expanded by artists, actors, and other celebrities who died at age 27. Although the claim of a "statistical spike" for the death of musicians at that age has been refuted by scientific research, it remains a common cultural conception that the ...
Charles Manson. Charles Milles Manson (né Maddox; November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who led the Manson Family, a cult based in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [ 1 ] Some cult members committed a series of at least nine murders at four locations in July and August 1969.
Ricardo López (1996), Uruguayan-born American stalker who attempted to kill Icelandic singer Björk by sending a letter bomb, gunshot [782] Lu Xiufu (1279), Chinese statesman, bureaucrat and general, murder-suicide by drowning Emperor Bing of Song and himself [783] Lu Zhaolin (684 or 686), Chinese poet, drowning in the Ying River [784]
Carlos Prats, exiled Chilean general, former Commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army. Michael Townley. Killed by the secret service of the Pinochet dictatorship. 1975. Hipólito Acuña, National Deputy for Santa Fe Province. Montoneros. 1975. John Egan, U.S. Honorary Consul in Córdoba. Montoneros.
Lawrence Sigmund Bittaker (September 27, 1940 – December 13, 2019) and Roy Lewis Norris (February 5, 1948 – February 24, 2020), also known as the Tool Box Killers, were two American serial killers and rapists who committed the kidnapping, rape, torture and murder of five teenage girls in Southern California over a five-month period in 1979.
Ariel Castro. 2013. Puerto Rican American man convicted in August 2013 of kidnapping, rape, and aggravated murder for holding Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight, and Gina DeJesus in his Cleveland, Ohio, home over the course of a decade, hanging [100] Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart.
This is a list of notable rappers and hip hop musicians murdered since 1987. Two studies in the mid-2010s concluded that murder was the cause of half of hip hop musician deaths. The average age of death is between 25–30 years of age. Hip hop artists have a higher rate of homicide than artists of any other genre of music, ranging from five to ...