If you are 84 years and 239 days old today…
At your exact age, Nona Beamer died. She was a songwriter, performer, hula teacher, author and Hawaiian culture expert.
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Nona Beamer wasn't the only notable who died at about this age:
You've outlived Wayne C. Booth by almost two weeks. He was a scholar of literature and rhetoric who inspired followers with work at the University of Chicago . He died of complications of dementia on October 10, 2005, when you were 79 years old.Comment
P.B.S. Pinchback was about two weeks younger than you when he died on December 21, 1921. He was a Louisiana politician who became the first black governor in U.S. history. He died 5 years before you were born.Comment
You've outlived Noah Webster by about two weeks. He was a dictionary author who gave American English its own place and respectability. He died on May 28, 1843, 83 years before you were born.Comment
Don Budge was about two weeks younger than you when he died on January 20, 2000. He was an American tennis player who won the sport's first grand slam. You were 74 years old when he died.Comment
