If you are 48 years and 57 days old today…
At your exact age, Sidney Howard died in a tractor accident. He was a playwright and screenwriter who won both a Pulitzer Prize and an Academy Award.
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Sidney Howard wasn't the only notable who died at about this age:
At your exact age, Edward Bellamy died. He was a utopian visionary and fiction writer.Comment
Grace Moore was almost a week younger than you when she died in an airplane accident on January 26, 1947. She was an opera singer and Academy Award-nominated actress for her role in "One Night of Love" (1934). She died 16 years before you were born.Comment
You've outlived Sadeq Hedayat by almost a week. He was a modernist Iranian fiction writer, translator, literary critic and Persian folklore collector. He died of suicide by gas asphyxiation on April 9, 1951, 12 years before you were born.Comment
Steve Howe was almost two weeks younger than you when he died in an auto accident on April 28, 2006. He was a 1980 Rookie-of-the-Year whose pitching career was cut short by cocaine and alcohol . You were 43 years old when he died.Comment
