If you are 40 years and 101 days old today…
At your exact age, Henri II of France died of an injury from a shattered lance. He was the king of France (1547-59) who persecuted Protestant Huguenots and started the Italian War.
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Henri II of France wasn't the only notable who died at about this age:
That’s exactly half the life of somebody famous. In another 40 years and 101 days, you will have lived exactly as long as Alan Dugan. He was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who wrote ironic, provocative and barbed verse about everyday life who died at the age of 80 years, 203 days of pneumonia.Comment
You've lived half as long as Dr. Lewis E. Gibson, a pediatrician and Cystic Fibrosis researcher who developed reliable tests and treatments for CF, who died on April 15, 2008 of respiratory failure at 80 years old.Comment
That’s exactly half the life of somebody famous. In another 40 years and 101 days, you will have lived exactly as long as Jimmy Slyde. He was a big-band-era tap virtuoso who continued dancing into his 70s who died at the age of 80 years, 202 days.Comment
Michael Bennett was about two weeks younger than you when he died on July 2, 1983. He was an Award-winning American choreographer honored for his work in "A Chorus Line" (1975). You were 13 years old when he died.Comment
