Who shares your day?

Lives as shapes

Majorly Cool lines up the careers of 180 film and music icons on one year axis. Tick two to four names above and the Career Strip draws each as a ribbon, marks the birth, debut, peak, last work and death, and paints the years they overlapped in saffron.

Died at 27 lists the members of that club. Died young widens it to anyone gone before 40.

Try these pairings

• Jean Harlow with Marilyn MonroeTwo screen blondes, a generation apart
• Janis Joplin with Jimi HendrixTwo careers that burned out inside three years
• Errol Flynn with Humphrey BogartSwashbuckler and tough guy, same studio era
• Janis Joplin with Jim MorrisonTwo voices, both gone at 27

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Every day of the year

Days in bold have at least one icon on the bill.