These Celebrities Died Tragically Young

Kurt Cobain, 27 Years Old

The Nirvana frontman changed the world of grunge rock. He plowed through the Seattle music scene and his influence over the genre remains relevant to this day. The band's critically acclaimed sophomore release, "Nevermind," has been a revered classic album. He was involved in a tumultuous marriage with Courtney Love at the time of his death, and the two have a daughter, Francis Bean Cobain. His death was ruled as a suicide, though there have been several open theories about whether or not that's true.

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The More You Know

  • Matthew McConaughey has a phobia about revolving doors.
  • Jonah Hill had to go to the hospital for bronchitis while filming Wolf of Wall Street. For seven months, he was snorting vitamin D (almost) daily, pretending it was cocaine.
  • Leonardo DiCaprio is fluent in German.
  • Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was also the voice of Shredder from the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon.
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