If you are 75 years and 137 days old today…
At your exact age, Ike Pappas died of congestive heart failure. He was a CBS reporter who covered Vietnam and Kent State and broadcast live Lee Harvey Oswald's shooting.
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Ike Pappas wasn't the only notable who died at about this age:
At your exact age, H.L. Mencken died. He was a journalist known for his literary and cultural criticism and for "The American Language" (1919).Comment
Sir Ronald Ross was almost two weeks younger than you when he died on September 16, 1932. He was a British physician who won the 1902 Nobel Prize for proving that mosquitoes transmit malaria. He died 3 years before you were born.Comment
You've outlived George Baldwin Selden by almost two weeks. He was an American attorney and inventor who received the first U.S. automobile patent. He died on January 17, 1922, 14 years before you were born.Comment
Charles Gounod was about two weeks younger than you when he died on October 18, 1893. He was a French composer who abandoned plans to become a priest to write operas. He died 42 years before you were born.Comment
