If you are 73 years and 10 days old today…
At your exact age, Georg von Békésy died of natural causes. He was a Nobel prize-winning physiologist who discovered how the ear's cochlea communicates sound.
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Georg von Békésy wasn't the only notable who died at about this age:
You've outlived Utah Phillips by one day. He was an anarchist and social activist folk singer/songwriter and spoken word performer. He died of congestive heart failure on May 23, 2008, when you were 70 years old.Comment
Hermann von Helmholtz was two days younger than you when he died on September 8, 1894. He was a German scientist whose law of conservation of energy is basic to physics. He died 43 years before you were born.Comment
You've outlived Eric Silver by two days. He was a journalist, highly respected commentator on Israeli politics and biographer of Menachem Begin. He died of pancreatic cancer on July 15, 2008, when you were 70 years old.Comment
Howard Hathaway Aiken was almost a week younger than you when he died on March 14, 1973. He was a computer expert who built IBM's Mark 1 electromagnetic calculator (1939). You were 35 years old when he died.Comment
