Too Young To Die

Author Patricia Fox-Sheinwold wrote the book "Too Young To Die" in 1979 (published by Ottenheimer Publications).  You can buy the book at Amazon here, here, or here.

Name	Born	Died	Famous As	Birthplace	Deathplace	Cause
Rudolph Valentino	1895	1926	actor	Italy	New York City	blood poisoning
Jeanne Eagels	1890	1929	actress	Kansas City, Kansas	New York City	kidney disease
Jean Harlow	1911	1937	actress	Kansas City, Kansas	Los Angeles	gall bladder inflammation
George Gershwin	1898	1937	composer	Brooklyn	Los Angeles	cystic tumor
Carole Lombard	1908	1942	actress	Fort Wayne, Indiana	Las Vegas, Nevada	airplane crash
John Garfield	1913	1952	actor	New York City	New York City	died in bed - cause unstated
Hank Williams	1923	1953	singer	Mt Olive, Alabama	Kentucky	heart attack
James Dean	1931	1955	actor	Marion, Indiana	Paso Robles, California	car crash
Mike Todd	1909	1958	producer	Minneapolis, Minnesota	Grants, New Mexico	airplane crash
Buddy Holly	1936	1959	singer	Lubbock, Texas	Mason City, Iowa	airplane crash
Billie Holiday	1915	1959	singer	Baltimore, Maryland	New York City	cause unstated
Marilyn Monroe	1926	1962	actress	Los Angeles	Los Angeles	barbiturate overdose
Sam Cooke	1935	1964	singer	Chicago	Los Angeles	shot and clubbed
Montgomery Clift	1920	1966	actor	Omaha, Nebraska	New York City	blocked arteries
Lenny Bruce	1925	1966	comedian	Mineola, New York	Hollywood	morphine overdose
Brian Epstein	1934	1967	Beatles manager	Liverpool, England	London	sleeping pill overdose
Otis Redding	1941	1967	singer	Dawson, Georgia	Madison, Wisconsin	airplane crash
Judy Garland	1922	1969	actress	Grand Rapids, Minnesota	London	"wore out" (as stated)
Brian Jones	1944	1969	musician	Cheltenham, England	Cheltenham, England	drowned in own pool
Jimi Hendrix	1942	1970	singer	Seattle, Washington	London	suffocation/sleeping pill overdose
Janis Joplin	1943	1970	singer	Port Arthur, Texas	Hollywood	heroin/morphine overdose
Duane Allman	1946	1971	musician	Nashville, Tennessee	Macon, Georgia	motorcycle crash
Bruce Lee	1940	1973	actor	San Francisco	Hong Kong	unstated
Jim Croce	1943	1973	singer	Philadelphia	Natchitoches, Louisiana	airplane crash
Bobby Darin	1936	1973	singer	New York City	Los Angeles	surgery complications
Cass Elliot	1941	1974	singer	Baltimore, Maryland	London	heart attack
Sal Mineo	1939	1976	actor	New York City	Hollywood	murdered
Flo Ballard	1943	1976	singer	Detroit	Detroit	heart attack
Jack Cassidy	1927	1976	actor	Long Island, New York	Los Angeles	burned in a fire
Freddie Prinze	1954	1977	actor	New York City	Los Angeles	suicide by gunshot
Elvis Presley	1935	1977	singer	East Tupelo, Mississippi	Memphis, Tennessee	cardiac arrythmia - undetermined cause