If you are 62 years and 107 days old today…
At your exact age, Ruggiero Leoncavallo died. He was a globe-hopping Italian café pianist and composer best known for the opera "Pagliacci" (1892).
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Ruggiero Leoncavallo wasn't the only notable who died at about this age:
You've outlived Martin Luther by a week. He was a monk and theologian who challenged the Catholic papacy and sparked the Protestant Reformation. He died on February 18, 1546, 403 years before you were born.Comment
R.B. Woodward was about two weeks younger than you when he died on July 8, 1979. He was a Nobel prize-winning U.S. chemist who helped create synthetic quinine to fight malaria. You were 31 years old when he died.Comment
You've outlived Arthur Lyons by more than a month. He was a detective novelist and co-founder of the Palm Springs Film Noir Festival. He died of pneumonia and complications of a stroke on March 21, 2008, when you were 59 years old.Comment
Noah Beery was more than a month younger than you when he died on April 1, 1946. He was a silent-movie actor best known as the heavy in "Beau Geste" (1926). He died 3 years before you were born.Comment
