If you are 50 years and 51 days old today…
At your exact age, Jean-Paul Marat died of assassination by stabbing. He was a French Revolution-era physician, political theorist, radical journalist and advocate for the poor.
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Jean-Paul Marat wasn't the only notable who died at about this age:
You've outlived Kurt Weill by almost three weeks. He was a German composer of "The Threepenny Opera" (1928). He died of a complications of a heart attack on April 3, 1950, 11 years before you were born.Comment
Catherine of Aragon was more than a month younger than you when she died of an unknown illness on January 7, 1536. She was the first wife of King Henry VIII. She died 425 years before you were born.Comment
You've outlived Charles III of France by more than a month. He was the king of France (898-923) who gave the lower Seine region, later Normandy, to Vikings. He died on October 7, 0929, 1031 years before you were born.Comment
Sergei Eisenstein was more than a month younger than you when he died of a heart attack on February 11, 1948. He was a Soviet film director ("Potemkin," "Ten Days That Shook the World") who pioneered the use of montage. He died 13 years before you were born.Comment
