Yeah, Murdoch's death was a real tragedy, he died far too young.
When one takes a moment to look one finds that there are far too many brilliant minds that fall into this misfit category. Often they are their own worst enemy and the world doesn't respond kindly to the fact.
Another worth noting is Oliver Heaviside. He's almost forgotten these days and much of the fact was of his own making (his name really should be more prominent). Yet he reformulated Maxwell's equations into the four that we know and use today; he gave us coaxial cable, figured out impedance matching on telephony lines, essentially invented vector calculus (along with Josiah Willard Gibbs who did so independently on the US side of the Atlantic), and much, much more. Essentially, Heaviside put the finishing touches on mathematics and classical electromagnetic theory just in time and ready for the quantum mob to take over.
That said, he had little idea how to handle the scientific
establishment and he was always the outsider. It's worth taking a moment to read his Wiki bio:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside
Another tragic case is this damn, damn stupid boy (he was hardly more than one and clearly acted like one):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89variste_Galois
Galois was dead at the age of just 20 through his own utter stupidity. To have such a great mind to leave the planet at this age is almost incalculable - in fact, he died 15 years younger than did Mozart (and we continually lament his death at such a young age).