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If you are 49 years and 260 days old today…

At your exact age, Dee Dee Ramone died of an accidental overdose of heroin. He was a founding member of influential New York punk band The Ramones.
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Dee Dee Ramone wasn't the only notable who died at about this age:

At your exact age, Christian Brando died of pneumonia. He was the son of Marlon Brando who was convicted for killing his half-sister's abusive boyfriend.Comment

Ladislav Klíma was almost a week younger than you when he died of tuberculosis on April 19, 1928. He was a proto-existentialist philosopher and author who wrote "Glorious Nemesis" (1932). He died 33 years before you were born.Comment

You've outlived Joseph G. Baldwin by a week. He was a California Supreme Court Justice and author of "Flush Times in Alabama and Mississippi" (1855). He died of tetanus on September 30, 1864, 97 years before you were born.Comment

Elisha Graves Otis was almost two weeks younger than you when he died on April 8, 1861. He was a U.S. inventor who developed the first safe and practical passenger elevator. He died 100 years before you were born.Comment