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If you are 36 years and 356 days old today…

At your exact age, Otho died of suicide by stabbing heart. He was a Roman Emperor (69 AD).
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Otho wasn't the only notable who died at about this age:

You've outlived Ada Lovelace by three days. She was the daughter of Lord Byron, translator, mathematician and the first computer programmer. She died of uterine cancer on November 27, 1852, 121 years before you were born.Comment

Gail Russell was about two weeks younger than you when she died of a heart attack as a result of alcoholism on August 27, 1961. She was an actress who starred in "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay" (1944) and "Angel and the Badman" (1947). She died 13 years before you were born.Comment

You've outlived Karl Philipp Moritz by more than a month. He was an author of the Sturm und Drang school who wrote both novels and essays on psychology and aesthetics. He died of tuberculosis on July 26, 1793, 181 years before you were born.Comment

Heinrich Hertz was about 2 months younger than you when he died of Wegener's granulomatosis on January 1, 1894. He was a physicist who discovered electromagnetic waves and for whom the hertz, a unit of frequency, is named. He died 80 years before you were born.Comment