Dead at age 39
338 Notable deaths
Heleno de Freitas
Brazilian footballer (1920–1959).
Born February 12th, 1920 in São João Nepomuceno. [ref]
Died November 8th, 1959 at 39 years old in Barbacena.
Tahar Djaout
Algerian writer (1953-1993).
Born January 11th, 1954 in Kabylia.
Died June 2nd, 1993 at 39 years old in Algiers.
Stephen Wooldridge
Australian cyclist (1977–2017).
Born October 17th, 1977 in Sydney.
Died August 14th, 2017 at 39 years old [ref]
Vagif Mustafazadeh
Azerbaijani musician (1940-1979).
Born March 16th, 1940 in Baku.
Died December 16th, 1979 at 39 years old in Tashkent (myocardial infarction).
Nahed Sherif
Egyptian actress (1942–1981).
Born January 1st, 1942 in Alexandria.
Died April 7th, 1981 at 39 years old in Cairo (breast cancer).
Michael O'Hanrahan
Irish rebel (1877–1916).
Born January 16th, 1877 in New Ross. [ref]
Died May 4th, 1916 at 39 years old in Kilmainham Gaol (gunshot wound).
Emanuel Feuermann
Austrian musician (1902-1942).
Born November 22nd, 1902 in Kolomyia.
Died May 25th, 1942 at 39 years old in New York City.
Ilya Ilf
Soviet writer and journalist (1897–1937).
Born October 16th, 1897 in Odesa.
Died April 13th, 1937 at 39 years old in Moscow (tuberculosis).
Georges Politzer
French philosopher, marxist theoretician and resistance member (1903-1942).
Born May 3rd, 1903 in Oradea. [ref]
Died May 23rd, 1942 at 39 years old in Fort Mont-Valérien (ballistic trauma). [ref]
Edward Adrian Wilson
English polar explorer (1872-1912).
Born July 23rd, 1872 in Cheltenham.
Died March 29th, 1912 at 39 years old in Ross Ice Shelf.
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When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. Sogyal Rinpoche