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17. Burt Bacharach
Burt Bacharach is another performer who lived through some tragedies that he has placed in some of his songs. His daughter died at the age of 40. His daughter Nikki had problems since she was a child.
She had very deep emotional issues that unfortunately went unnoticed when she was young. On top of that, she also had Asperger’s, which went undiagnosed for a very long time as well. These emotional and psychological problems led her to have a pretty rough life growing up. She struggles in school and throughout her entire adult like with these issues. She died of an apparent suicide in 2007 at the age of 40. According to the police report, she used helium and a plastic bag to suffocate herself.
Nikki was the daughter of Bacharach and his wife Angie Dickinson, who is also a celebrity. She was a very popular American actress that appeared in over 50 feature films.