If you are 90 years and 316 days old today…
At your exact age, Andrée de Jongh died. She was a nurse and WWII Belgian Resistance worker who organized the Comet Line for escaping Allied soldiers.
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Andrée de Jongh wasn't the only notable who died at about this age:
You've outlived Kay Boyle by almost a week. She was an anti-Vietnam War activist and recipient of two O. Henry awards for short fiction. She died on December 27, 1992, when you were 73 years old.Comment
Leonid Hurwicz was almost two weeks younger than you when he died of complications of diabetes on June 24, 2008. He was a Nobel Prize-winning economist who studied how individuals, markets and institutions interact. You were 88 years old when he died.Comment
You've outlived Mary Berry by almost two weeks. She was a musicologist, Cambridge don, and founder of the Schola Gregoriana who revived Gregorian chant. She died on May 1, 2008, when you were 88 years old.Comment
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was almost two weeks younger than you when he died on August 26, 1723. He was a Dutch microscope maker who was the first to actually see bacteria. He died 197 years before you were born.Comment
