Age at death - same as the year of birth

[Hartnell 1999 89]

This thread is to discuss any examples of deceased celebrities whose age at death is the same number as the last two digits of the year they were born, so for example anyone born in 1958 who died at the age of 58. I would be interested to find out how many examples there are.

 

The criteria:

- Candidates must be famous enough to be eligible for their own Wikipedia page

- Anyone who died in 2023 or 2022 must have been born in 1961 (age 61) or 2011 (age 11)

- Anyone who died in 2021 or 2020 must have been born in 1960 (age 60) or 2010 (age 10)

- Anyone who died in 2019 or 2018 must have been born in 1959 (age 59) or 2009 (age 9)

And so on, until the beginning of time…

 

EDIT: Prince example removed since he died aged 57, not 58.

SECOND EDIT: odd numbered years added to take into account people who died before their birthday that year.

[TheKeysOfMarinus 392]

Prince was 1958 when he died? Some innings.

[YoungWillz 21,118]

Extra curricular thread if I ever saw one.

[Lewd_Squirrel 331]

Prince was 57 when he died. He died before his 58th birthday.

[Hartnell 1999 89]

Some more valid examples (taken from the QEII thread)

 

Born in 1953, died at 53 (2007) - David Ervine, Steven Pimlott

Born in 1954, died at 54 (2008-09) - Anthony Minghella, Ian Anderson, Michael Majerus

Born in 1955, died at 55 (2010) - Peter Christopherson

[dimreaper 706]

Born in 1940, died at 40 (1980) - John Lennon

[Drewsky1211 4,778]

Born in 1960, died at 60 (2020) - Diego Maradona

[Handrejka 1,905]

Carol Wayne, born 6th September 1942, died 13th January 1985 aged 42

 

Edit - didn't see your second point so does not count.

[Spade_Cooley 9,591]

Heath Robinson: born 1872, died aged 72.

[Commtech Sio Bibble 2,075]

Born 1890, died at 90 (1980) - Colonel Sanders

[arghton 6,821]

 

Born in 1895, died at 95 (1990) - Nguyễn Văn Tâm, Prime Minister of South Vietnam 1952-1952

 

Born in 1914, died at 14 (1928) Bianca Ambrosetti, 1928 Summer Olympics silver medalist. (Some sources including Wikipedia say she died in 1928, some 1929)

[Fantomasss 209]

Born 1450, died at 50 (1500) : Bartolomeu Dias and thanks, because i would have lived by ignoring that  without this thread 

[Summer in Transylvania 2,202]

Martin Niemöller (1892-1984). 

 

Noted for his poem First they came... 

[dimreaper 706]

Greek Mathematician Menelaus of Alexandria was born in 70 a.d. and died in 140.

[Toast 16,187]

1 hour ago, Handrejka said:

Carol Wayne, born 6th September 1942, died 13th January 1985 aged 42

 

Edit - didn't see your second point so does not count.

 

I don't understand why it wouldn't count.  Born in '42, died aged 42, what's the problem?

[DoorSlammer 565]

Christopher Reeve and Laura Branigan. Both born in 1952 and both died in 2004 aged 52.

[Handrejka 1,905]

Just now, Toast said:

 

I don't understand why it wouldn't count.  Born in '42, died aged 42, what's the problem?

I don't see the issue, but the OP has disqualified people born in an odd year.

 

I do have another name, Chico Mendes 1944-1988, killed a week after his 44th birthday.

[Toast 16,187]

1 hour ago, Handrejka said:

I don't see the issue, but the OP has disqualified people born in an odd year.

 

I saw that, but I don't understand his reasoning. 

 

4 hours ago, Hartnell 1999 said:

 Anyone who died in an odd numbered year is immediately excluded since those numbers can’t be the sum of two identical numbers

 

[Handrejka 1,905]

15 minutes ago, Toast said:

 

I saw that, but I don't understand his reasoning. 

 

 

Me neither.

[Charlotte's Controller 195]

I don’t think that the rules account for partial years, the proof that the assumption is incorrect is given by the examples which break the rule.

[Hartnell 1999 89]

Ahh yes I see the misunderstanding now. Taking my original example, somebody born in 1958 could also have died aged 58 in 2017, depending on the exact month they were born. I will change the opening post to take account of this.

[ladyfiona 2,635]

Will edit as I find:

 

Mack Sennett - Born 1880 - Died aged 80.