Nico:
Age 49

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b. Christa Paffgen (Pavolsky), 16 Oct. 1938, Cologne, Germany,   d. 18 July 1988, Ibiza, Spain.  

Known to the music world as the chanteuse of Andy Warhol and  The Velvet Underground fame, Nico's celebrity begins with her being introduced to a European social set which included film director Federico Fellini.  Nico began an acting career with a memorable appearance in LA DOLCE VITA.  Later, after her star had faded, signs of an artistic revival followed treatment for drug addiction, but this unique artist died in Ibiza on 18 July 1988, after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage while cycling in intense heat.  

Another perspective: For one whose life was bedecked with musty glamour, Nico died an absurdly ungracious death. While holidaying in Ibiza in 1988, she fell off her push-bike, and later died in hospital from a brain hemorrhage. No one knew who she was — just another junkie looking for drugs in the sun. ~Pat Gilbert, Record Collector.

Sandy Denny:
Age 31  

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Alexandra Elene Maclean Denny,   b. 6 Jan 1947, Wimbledon, London,  d. 21 April 1978, London. 

A former student at Kingston Art College where her contemporaries included John Renbourn and Jimmy Page, Sandy Denny forged her early reputation in London folk clubs. Following a fall down the staircase at a friend's house Sandy died from a cerebral hemorrhage on 21 April 1978.  

Added 3-13-99: 
I'm Sandy Denny's biographer..  The fall down the stairs seems to have occurred quite a bit before her death, sometime between 1 and 13 April 1978.  She went to stay with a friend in London on 13 April.  On the following Monday, she was found unconscious by a friend of that friend and was taken to the hospital, where she remained in a coma until her death on 21 April.  The death was ruled accidental.  The cause was indeed a cerebral hemorrhage.  It's not clear, though, that there was a second fall downstairs at the friend's house; Sandy may have collapsed from the effects of the first fall.  She had headaches after that earlier fall but never sought medical help.~ Pam Winters 

There are plenty of online colleges to study more about cerebral hemorrhage.

 Django Reinhardt:
Age 43

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Jean Baptiste Reinhardt, b. 23 January 1910, Liberchies, Belgium,  d. 16 May 1953.

Following serious injuries which he suffered in a caravan fire in 1928 he lost the use of two fingers on his left hand. To overcome this handicap, he devised a unique method of fingering and soon embarked on a solo career in Parisian clubs.  His remarkable playing caused a sensation and it is not an exaggeration to state that he was the first non-American to make an impact upon jazz and become an important influence upon the development of the music.  Reinhardt died of a brain hemorrhage in 1953.