Who died when they were your age?

In My Humble Opinion
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Phil Hartman
Joey Ramone
Verne Troyer
Davy Crockett
Dale Earnhardt
Bob Crane
James Garfield

But the saddest of all is my mom, who died in March of her 49th year. It was a hard birthday for me, and the months creeping by have been even harder. I know she was sick for many years, but she just seemed so damned OLD when I was 25. And now I’m where she was.

22

When they were 64:

Papa Doc Duvalier
Bram Stoker
Stan Getz
Philo T. Farnsworth
Howard Carter
Slobodan Milosevic
Joseph Pulitzer
Lucky Luciano
Thelonious Monk
Carry Nation

23

I once posted a trivia note pointing out that Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr, Yasser Arafat, and Ed Asner all feel like they belong in different eras of history. But all four of them were born in the same year.

24

People who died at 57:

Chester Arthur
Humphrey Bogart
Geoffrey Chaucer
Peter Cook
Warren Harding
Gregory Hines
Vince Lombardi
Sir Thomas Moore
Prince
Cardinal Richelieu
Patrick Swayze
Amerigo Vespucci

25

At 54:

Eliot Ness
Wilma Rudolph
Paul Lynde
John Calvin (it was predestined)
Luther Vandross
Peter Sellers
Michael O’Donoghue (Mr. Mike)
Raul Julia

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At age 46 -
JFK
Oscar Wilde
HP Lovecraft
George Orwell

And a guy from my workplace passed a few days ago. Pulmonary embolism after a blood clot in his leg broke free. A bit sobering as I have a very sedentary job and sit for hours at a time at work.

27

Today’s my birthday, so timely thread; the above folks are my list (though Thomas More was beheaded so not the same kind of death as the others on the list).

I’ll add Edward R. Murrow and Nellie Bly as I used to be in the journalism biz and so they have extra interest for me.

28

You know how history records that Marie Curie handled radioactive materials without any protection, destroyed her bone marrow, and died tragically?

Yeah, she was my age.:eek:

29

I’m with you. Here is an extensive list of people who died at 51, including…

Calamity Jane
Virgil
Pliny the Younger
El Cid
…

30

John Candy and Natalie Wood both died at 43.

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Did it ever occur to you that they stumbled into a hobby that payed the bills and got credit for having the time of their lives?

I don’t think about who died when they were my age. I think of who died at the age my friends died.

32

Ditto. Although I will also note a special fondness for the Shah of Iran; a great-uncle made his custom Weatherby rifle. Get guns and put money in our pockets gets you some cred on our farm.

33

Douglas Adams is the one I took particular note of. He achieved considerably more in his life than I have managed to, though.

34

My list, as per Markn+ 's link, consists of a dozen people, most not all that known today. Alongside obscure actors / actresses and semi-ancient royalty, there are Ted Bundy and Robert Kennedy. The prize, however, goes to Elvis, who died the same year I was born, and died the same age as I am now.

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At 61, among others:

Eliot, George (died of natural causes at 61 years 30 days on December 22, 1880)
Scott, Sir Walter (died of a stroke at 61 years 37 days on September 21, 1832)
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (at 61 years 79 days on November 14, 1831)
Mendel, Gregor (at 61 years 168 days on January 6, 1884)
Mussolini, Benito (was shot to death at 61 years 273 days on April 28, 1945)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (died of a heart attack at 61 years 277 days on July 25, 1834)
Prokofiev, Sergei (died of cerebral hemorrhage at 61 years 316 days on March 5, 1953)
Hemingway, Ernest (committed suicide at 61 years 346 days on July 2, 1961)
Cooper, James Fenimore (at 61 years 364 days on September 14, 1851)

36

I’m 65 - still waiting on my Medicare card…
Pryor, Richard
Disney, Walt
O’Neill, Eugene
Von Braun, Wernher
Zapruder, Abraham
Bach, J. S.
Bakker, Tammy Faye
Bradley, Ed
Stevenson, Adlai
Taylor, Zachary
Audubon, John J.
Lewis, Sinclair
Pope John Paul I
Carroll, Lewis
Hayes, Isaac

Interesting mix there…

37

Don’t forget Bill Evans and Billy Strayhorn.

38

That’s my age too.

I guess knowing that I outlived my dad when I turned 55 and my grandpa when I turned 57 always gives me pause.

39

And at 55 we have, among others:
Del Shannon
Woody Guthrie
Bill Haley
Louisa May Alcott
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Emily Dickinson
Will Rogers
King Henry VIII
Frederich Nietzsche

But not I, no way. As the song says, I can’t die 55!

40

Robin Williams.
FDR.
Patrick Henry.
Rembrandt.
Audrey Hepburn.
Robert E Lee.

John Banner, who played Sergeant Schultz on Hogan’s Heroes, died at 63 and he had the same birthday as me. But I have already passed my birthday, which proves - something or other.

Regards,
Shodan