- Ritchie Valens
- The girl who played "buffy" in Family Affair
- Joan of Arc
- Billy the Kid, Jesse James, and Crazy Horse
- Sid Vicious
- Both of the girls in Poltergeist
- Buddy Holly
- Freddie Prinze
- River Phoenix
- Selena
- Duane Allman
- James Dean
- Lee Harvy Oswald and John Wilkes Booth
- Randy Rhodes
- 2pac
- The Red Baron
- Sharon Tate
- Jean-Michael Basquiat
- Kurt Cobain
- Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and Janis Joplin
- The Elephant Man
- Stephen Crane
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ada Lovelace, Blaise Pascal, and Lord Byron
- Hank Williams
- Emily and Charlotte Bronte
- Patsy Cline
- Sylvia Plath
- Nero
- John Kennedy Toole
- Rudolph Valentino and Marilyn Monroe
- Alexander The Great
- Karen Carpenter
- Mama Cass
- Bill Hicks and Sam Kineson
- Bruce Lee
- 1/4 of The Who, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Beach Boys, and AC/DC
- 1/2 of Milli Vanilli
- John Belushi, Chris Farley, and Andy Kaufman
- Eva Braun
- Eva Peron
- Jeffrey Dahmer
- Mozart
- Toulouse-Lautrec, Raphael, and Van Gogh
- Princess Di
- George Gershwin
- Jesus, MLK, Malcolm X, and the guy who started the Mormons
- Amelia Earhart
All notable people with one thing in common. They were all stone dead before age 40.
And I'm 40 as of yesterday, so I managed to do something that none of them did.
I had a 40th birthday.
Bask in the glory that is me.
