If you are 49 years and 289 days old today…
At your exact age, Andreas Vesalius died. He was a Renaissance physician and teacher who was the first to dissect human bodies in anatomy lessons.
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Andreas Vesalius wasn't the only notable who died at about this age:
You've outlived Dave Griggs by almost a week. He was a NASA astronaut who took first unscheduled space walk. He died on June 17, 1989, when you were 28 years old.Comment
Jack Cassidy was almost a week younger than you when he died in an apartment fire on December 12, 1976. He was an actor who won a Tony award for "She Loves Me" and was married to Shirley Jones. You were 16 years old when he died.Comment
You've outlived Morris Louis by almost a week. He was an abstract expressionist painter and pioneer in color field painting and stain painting. He died of lung cancer on September 7, 1962, when you were 1 year old.Comment
William Desmond Taylor was almost two weeks younger than you when he died of murder by gunshot on February 1, 1922. He was the early Hollywood silent film director who made "Tom Sawyer" (1917) and "Anne of Green Gables" (1919). He died 39 years before you were born.Comment
