Deaths on October 4, 1970

This is the permanent Dead-People.com archive for notable deaths on October 4, 1970.

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Janis Joplin passed away at age 27

American singer-songwriter who first rose to fame in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psychedelic acid-rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a…