Born on this day in 1967, Kurt Donald Cobain, the American singer, songwriter, and musician, best known as the guitarist and frontman of Nirvana, would have turned 59. Regarded as one of the most iconic and influential musicians in history, we lost Kurt on April 5, 1994, when he took his own life at the age of 27. In his memory, check out the VH1 Special Documentary Rise & Rise of Kurt Cobain, above.