Guitarist Brian Jones, a founding member of the Rolling Stones, was found dead in a swimming pool on July 3, 1969 after a party at his home. Rumors abounded that he'd been the victim of a crime, and in 2009, police in Sussex, England, began to look into his death once again.
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Jimi Hendrix died on September 18, 1970. According to Rolling Stone, police said at the time that it was a drug overdose and that he suffocated on his own vomit.
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American blues-rock singer Janis Joplin died on October 4, 1970. She was found in her hotel room, dead of a heroin overdose.
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Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors,was found dead in his Paris apartment bathtub on July 3, 1971. French officials ruled his death was heart failure and did not perform an autopsy, fueling controversial theories around his death.
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Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (center) was a member of the American psychedelic rock band The Grateful Dead. He died on March 8, 1973 of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage.
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Jean Michel Basquiat was an American artist heavily involved with the post-punk art movement and a close collaborator of Andy Warhol. He died on August 12, 1988, following a heroin overdose at his art studio on Great Jones Street, New York.
Anton Yelchin, a charismatic and rising actor best known for playing Chekov in the new "Star Trek" films, was killed in a fatal traffic collision on June 19, 2016.
