Ron “Pigpen” McKernan
Pigpen was a founding member of the Grateful Dead. Unlike the rest of the band, Pigpen didn’t do a lot of drugs. There was no room in his life for drugs because of how much he loved booze. That, in combination with a congenital liver disorder, meant his liver was already pretty destroyed by his mid-20s, and he had to quit touring. Pigpen died of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage on March 8, 1973. He was 27.