# Dead at your age **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 25, 2009, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-at-your-age/490773 "2009-03-25T18:36:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-at-your-age/490773/1 "2009-03-25T18:36:05Z")
Have you ever had a morbid curiosity to know if someone famous died at your exact age? Well, now you can find out. [http://dead.atyourage.com/](http://dead.atyourage.com/) will let you input your birth date and let you know who died at your age to the exact day. Don’t be confused, this doesn’t necessarily list someone who died on today’s exact date. Rather, it tells who has shared your lifespan, no matter when they died. For example, here’s the info for my age, 51 years and 313 days: > [@](#): > > At your exact age, Wendy O. Williams died of suicide by gunshot. She was a bombastic lead singer of early 1980s punk group the Plasmatics and natural foods activist. > > Countdown: 4 days… > > In 4 days, when you reach 51 years and 317 days of age, your lifespan will surpass that of John Peale Bishop. He was a member of a group of American expatriate writers living in Europe after World War I. > > Wendy O. Williams wasn’t the only notable who died at about this age: > > That’s exactly half the life of somebody famous. In another 51 years and 313 days, you will have lived exactly as long as Fyodor Uglov. He was a Guinness Book of World Records’ oldest practicing surgeon (1994) who worked until he was 102 who died at the age of 103 years, 262 days. > > Nicolette Goulet was one day younger than you when she died of breast cancer on April 17, 2008. She was a soap opera actress and daughter of Robert Goulet. You were 50 years old when she died. > > You’ve outlived Edward Miller by two days. He was an American doctor who co-founded the first U.S. medical journal. He died on March 17, 1812, 146 years before you were born. > > Letitia Tyler was almost two weeks younger than you when she died on September 10, 1842. She was the first wife of President John Tyler. She died 115 years before you were born. So, who died at your age? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-at-your-age/490773/2 "2009-03-25T18:38:42Z")
At your exact age, Reinaldo Arenas died of suicide by overdose of drugs and alcohol. He was a Cuban Exile novelist, poet and playwright who worked for Cuban freedom and battled against AIDS. ---
**Author:** ![lalenin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@lalenin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lalenin)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-at-your-age/490773/3 "2009-03-25T18:43:19Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > At your exact age, Reinaldo Arenas died of suicide by overdose of drugs and alcohol. He was a Cuban Exile novelist, poet and playwright who worked for Cuban freedom and battled against AIDS. If you get a chance read his autobiography “Before Night Falls”, great book. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-at-your-age/490773/4 "2009-03-25T18:48:53Z")
I’m 27, so quite a few. I just passed Kurt Cobain two weeks ago, and will hopefully pass Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison before I turn 28 in January. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-at-your-age/490773/5 "2009-03-25T18:57:38Z")
I’m not happy with this site. It says for several people, “died of injuries sustained . . .” If you sustained your injuries, you wouldn’t have died. However, I am happy to be alive. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-at-your-age/490773/6 "2009-03-25T19:02:03Z")
Frank Burns is dead?? ☹[http://dead.atyourage.com/age/60/204](http://dead.atyourage.com/age/60/204) ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-at-your-age/490773/7 "2009-03-25T19:06:08Z")
It seems that William F. Buckley Jr. has a half-life of…me. > [@](#): > > You are 41 years and 46 days old today. > > That’s exactly half the life of somebody famous. In another 41 years and 46 days, you will have lived exactly as long as William F. Buckley Jr.. He was a creator of the right-wing political journal “National Review” and author of popular espionage novels who died at the age of 82 years, 95 days of emphysema and complications of diabetes. ---
**Author:** ![Jsb5391](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jsb5391](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jsb5391)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-at-your-age/490773/8 "2009-03-25T19:24:28Z")
At my exact age, John Wilkes Booth died of murder by gunshot. Also, at my exact age, Louis X died of dehydration or poisoning. ---
**Author:** ![schnuckiputzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@schnuckiputzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnuckiputzi)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-at-your-age/490773/9 "2009-03-25T19:38:14Z")
Joe Pyne, who was some talk show host. And I’ve lived two weeks longer than Freddie Mercury. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-at-your-age/490773/10 "2009-03-25T19:45:42Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > I’m not happy with this site. It says for several people, “died of injuries sustained . . .” > > If you sustained your injuries, you wouldn’t have died. > > However, I am happy to be alive. You’re reading it wrong. ‘Sustained’ is used in the sense of ‘obtained’, not ‘kept going’. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-at-your-age/490773/11 "2009-03-25T20:15:11Z")
> [@Captain\_Carrot](#): > > You’re reading it wrong. ‘Sustained’ is used in the sense of ‘obtained’, not ‘kept going’. One definition of sustained is “to bear up under”. It can be argued if you died, you didn’t bear up all that great. ---
**Author:** ![Estilicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Estilicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Estilicon)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-at-your-age/490773/12 "2009-03-25T20:19:41Z")
> [@](#): > > You are 29 years and 103 days old today. > > You’ve outlived Lebo Mathosa by almost a week. She was a South African singer and actress who gained fame with her group Boom Shaka. She died in an auto accident on October 23, 2006, when you were 26 years old. Who the frack is Lebo Mathosa? Couldn’t I outlive someone a little more famous like Britney? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-at-your-age/490773/13 "2009-03-25T20:24:18Z")
Closest to me (42y 127d): Robert Mapplethorpe. ---
**Author:** ![Minnie\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Minnie\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minnie_Luna)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-at-your-age/490773/14 "2009-03-25T20:32:33Z")
You’ve outlived Bruce Lee by one day. He was a martial-arts expert and star of “Enter the Dragon” who died mysteriously in 1973. He died of a cerebral edema on July 20, 1973, 4 years before you were born. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-at-your-age/490773/15 "2009-03-25T20:40:13Z")
This is my closest match. “You’ve outlived Marvin Stone by almost a week. He was a University of Kentucky and Louisville basketball player who also played professionally overseas. He died of a heart attack on April 1, 2008, when you were 25 years old.” A heart attack at 26? Strange. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-at-your-age/490773/16 "2009-03-25T20:57:05Z")
> [@](#): > > You’ve outlived Douglas Fairbanks by almost two weeks. He was an actor famed for his swashbuckler roles in silent films. He died of a heart attack on December 12, 1939, 13 years before you were born. > > You’ve outlived Jay Gould by almost a month. He was an unscrupulous speculator, financier, and railroad baron. He died of tuberculosis and lung hemorrhage on December 2, 1892, 60 years before you were born. > > Ludwig van Beethoven was about 2 months younger than you when he died of liver disease on March 26, 1827. He was a German composer whose work was crucial to the development of tonal music.. He died 126 years before you were born. > > You’ve outlived Julius Carry by about 2 months. He was a character actor best known as Sho’nuff, The Shogun of Harlem in “The Last Dragon” (1985). He died of complications from pancreatic cancer on August 19, 2008, when you were 55 years old. > > Alfred Jodl was about 2 months younger than you when he died by execution on October 16, 1946. He was a German general who was given almost total autonomy by Hitler in WWII. He died 6 years before you were born. I knew Julius Carry; we were at college together. Although I can’t believe they didn’t also mention that he was Lord Bowler in _The Adventures of Briscoe County Jr_. Oddly enough, last September I was wondering if he’d done anything recently and looked him up on IMDb, only to find out that he’d died just a few weeks before. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-at-your-age/490773/17 "2009-03-25T21:04:29Z")
> [@Estilicon](#): > > Who the frack is Lebo Mathosa? She was a South African singer and actress who gained fame with her group Boom Shaka. I heard about her on the internets. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-at-your-age/490773/18 "2009-03-25T21:09:18Z")
> [@Omega\_Glory](#): > > A heart attack at 26? Strange. I have one of those too (sort of) Maggie Dixon, basketball player and coach who died at 29. Died of an enlarged heart and mitral valve malfunction. I have outlived Joseph P. Kennedy JR. by about two months and also Mary Jo Kopechne (killed by Ted Kennedy) by more than two months. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-at-your-age/490773/19 "2009-03-25T21:24:14Z")
> [@Jsb5391](#): > > At my exact age, John Wilkes Booth died of murder by gunshot. Also, at my exact age, Louis X died of dehydration or poisoning. Then you have a birthday coming up!😃 ETA: My bad- well, sort of. I had thought JWB died a couple of days before his birthday though a quick google shows it was 2 weeks. Still close enough to say happy early birthday I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Jsb5391](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jsb5391](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jsb5391)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-at-your-age/490773/20 "2009-03-25T21:32:28Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > ETA: My bad- well, sort of. I had thought JWB died a couple of days before his birthday though a quick google shows it was 2 weeks. Still close enough to say happy early birthday I suppose. Hmmm…while I appreciate the early birthday wishes, they’re actually rather more than 2 weeks premature. I probably should have looked into whether or not the site was accurate before posting the results. You’re correct in that JWB died 2 weeks shy of his birthday…but my birthday isn’t until July 25. So the site’s calculator is off by quite a few days. :smack: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-at-your-age/490773.md?page=2)