This Day in History: , Kurt Cobain Dies By Suicide.<br />April 5, 1994.<br />The Nirvana frontman died by suicide in his Seattle home after struggling with drug addiction and depression for years.<br />The rock icon had checked himself out of a Los Angeles rehab just a week earlier.<br />His body wasn't discovered until three days later when an electrician visited the home to install a security system.<br />Police found a suicide note written by Cobain, in which he quoted the Neil Young lyric that it's “better to burn out than to fade away.”<br />Despite being ruled a suicide by authorities, Cobain's death has been widely blamed on his partner, singer Courtney Love.<br />After the song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" rocketed Nirvana to worldwide fame, Cobain had been referred to as "the spokesman of a generation."<br />He was 27 years old.
