Born on January 19, 1943.
Died at the age of 27 on October 4, 1970.
Cause of Death: Heroin overdose.
Janis Joplin was a part of the Silent Generation demographic cohort.
Janis Joplin was not a boomer. The boomer generation started in 1945, whereas she was born in 1943.
That is a 2 year difference!
The "boomer" label is often applied to older people by mistake.
She was one of the most widely-known rock stars of the 1960s.
She had the star sign Capricorn.
Her Life Path Number was 1.
Janis Joplin was around 5 ft 5 inches tall. In centimeters, her height was 165 cm.
Statistically speaking, this means that she was slightly taller than the average American female. However, she was not tall by conventional standards.
See also: Celebrities who are 5 ft 5 inches.
If she were still alive today, she would be 82 years old.
That means that she'd be roughly the same age as the following people:
She died 55 years, 2 months, and 4 days ago.
She was born on a Tuesday.
She died on a Sunday.
She died in October 1970, which was over 55 years ago. Five decades have passed since her death. That's over half a century.
To put that into perspective.
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Died on Nov 9, 1970, at the age of 79.
Star Sign: Sagittarius
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