If you are 68 years and 113 days old today…
At your exact age, Cal Collins died. He was a jazz guitarist featured in Benny Goodman's 1970s band.
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Cal Collins wasn't the only notable who died at about this age:
You've outlived Francis William Aston by more than a month. He was a Nobel Prize winner who invented the mass spectrograph to analyze atomic isotopes. He died on November 20, 1945, when you were 3 years old.Comment
Jack Johnson was about 2 months younger than you when he died on June 10, 1946. He was the first African-American heavyweight boxing champ. You were 4 years old when he died.Comment
You've outlived Nuala O'Faolain by about 2 months. She was an award-winning journalist and best-selling memoirist and novelist admired for her frankness. She died of lung cancer on May 9, 2008, when you were 65 years old.Comment
William Henry Harrison was about 2 months younger than you when he died of pneumonia on April 4, 1841. He was a ninth U.S. president best known for serving only one month before dying of pneumonia. He died 102 years before you were born.Comment
