Kurt Cobain was born on 20 February 1967 in Aberdeen. An American singer, guitarist and songwriter, Cobain was the frontman of Nirvana, the Seattle band that brought grunge into the mainstream. Their album Nevermind, released in 1991 with the single Smells Like Teen Spirit, displaced Michael Jackson at the top of the charts and made them leading voices of Generation X. He followed with In Utero in 1993, a rawer record. He struggled with chronic stomach pain, heroin addiction and the pressures of fame, and was found dead at his Seattle home from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of twenty-seven.
Before and after
- 27 January 1967Apollo 1
- 27 January 1967Outer Space Treaty
- 14 February 1967Birth of Mark Rutte
- 18 February 1967Death of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- 20 February 1967Birth of Kurt Cobain
- 27 February 1967Founding of Saint Kitts and Nevis
- 1 March 1967Founding of Saint Lucia
- from 11 March 1967 to 17 April 1975Cambodian Civil War
- 17 April 1967Launch of Surveyor 3
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