7. Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain's suicide is extremely famous and it is unavoidable in modern life to see eight year olds in Nirvana t-shirts walking down the street, who simply haven't heard of the band but recognise inexplicable pop culture when they see it. Were that not enough of an affront to the memory of a strongly philosophical man, CNN (all together now, again!) managed to report the death of Cobain in March of 1994 after he fell into a overdose fuelled coma in Roma. Unfortunately, they were only a few weeks off, as Cobain committed suicide in April of the same year.