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If you are 68 years and 177 days old today…

At your exact age, King Edward VII of England died of pneumonia. He was the son of Queen Victoria and hugely popular King of England from 1901 to 1910.
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King Edward VII of England wasn't the only notable who died at about this age:

You've outlived E.A. Markham by three days. He was a multi-personae poet, dramatist, fiction writer and editor of Caribbean writing anthologies. He died of a heart attack on March 23, 2008, when you were 66 years old.Comment

James Rainwater was almost a week younger than you when he died on May 31, 1986. He was a Nobel prize-winning U.S. physicist who studied the shape of atomic nuclei. You were 44 years old when he died.Comment

You've outlived George Lewis by almost a week. He was a clarinetist who gained recognition in the 1940s during the New Orleans jazz revival. He died on December 31, 1968, when you were 26 years old.Comment

Dick York was almost two weeks younger than you when he died of emphysema on February 20, 1992. He was a star of TV's "Bewitched" (1964-1972). You were 49 years old when he died.Comment