May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938
murdered by the jealous husband of a woman with whom he had flirted, a bottle of whiskey poisoned by her husband

March 30, 1914 – June 1, 1948
killed in a robbery on Chicago's South Side

January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964
shot by Bertha Franklin, the manager of the Hacienda Motel in Los Angeles, California

May 1, 1930 – February 15, 1968

June 13, 1943–March 13, 1971
fatally shot on a Phoenix street

February 7, 1934 – August 13, 1971
stabbed during an argument with a pair of drug dealers he discovered on the steps outside his Manhattan apartment

July 10, 1938 – February 19, 1972
killed by his wife

September 28, 1932 – September 15, 1973
killed by the Pinochet's Chilean Army

November 27, 1935 – October 1, 1975
killed during house invasion

August 3, 1918 – May 9, 1979
shot and killed at Baker's Keyboard Lounge

July 2, 1939 - 14 June 1980
murdered in Los Angeles during a street robbery

9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980
killed by a "fan"

December 29, 1945 - June 3, 1982

December 30, 1939 – April 17, 1983
shot and killed by his wife

c. 1944 – 15 September 1983
shot at his home in Kingston, Jamaica, during a robbery, allegedly relating to a dispute over money

14 June 1962 – 14 October 1983
shot to death while sitting in his vehicle Grant's Pen Avenue, Kingston, Jamaica

April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984
shot by his father

17 December 1950 – 17 April 1987
murdered outside his home in Jamaica

March 2, 1962 – August 27, 1987

19 October 1944 – 11 September 1987
murdered in 1987 during a home invasion

December 1, 1951 – September 21, 1987
engaged in a violent confrontation with a club bouncer

28 January 1941 – 6 February 1989
shot and killed outside his home in Duhaney Park, Kingston, upon returning from a session at his Waterhouse studio

November 14, 1936 – February 26, 1990
shot by unknown assassin in his car in Las Vegas, Nevada

1958 – 8 November 1991
murdered with a lathe hammer

April 10, 1961 – December 19, 1991
American author, writer, actor and roadie for Black Flag, Rollins Band and Hole