Dead at age 47
546 Notable deaths
Pierre Lallement
French inventor (1843-1891).
Born October 21st, 1843 in Pont-à-Mousson.
Died August 29th, 1891 at 47 years old in Boston.
Joseph Schillinger
American musician (1895-1943).
Born September 1st, 1895 in Kharkiv.
Died March 23rd, 1943 at 47 years old in New York City (lung cancer).
William Robertson Smith
Scottish orientalist and minister of the free church of scotland (1846–1894).
Born November 8th, 1846 in Aberdeenshire.
Died March 31st, 1894 at 47 years old in Cambridge (tuberculosis).
Jacek Kaczmarski
Polish singer, songwriter, poet and author (1957–2004).
Born March 22nd, 1957 in Warsaw.
Died April 10th, 2004 at 47 years old in Gdańsk (laryngeal cancer).
Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev
Soviet politician (1892-1940).
Born July 13th, 1892 in Karmaskaly.
Died January 28th, 1940 at 47 years old in Moscow.
John Akii-Bua
Ugandan athletics competitor (1949–1997).
Born December 3rd, 1949 in Lira.
Died June 20th, 1997 at 47 years old in Kampala.
Nikolai Astrup
Norwegian painter (1880-1928).
Born August 30th, 1880 in Bremanger Municipality.
Died January 21st, 1928 at 47 years old in Førde (pneumonia).
John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow
British colonial governor (1860-1908).
Born September 25th, 1860 in South Queensferry.
Died February 29th, 1908 at 47 years old in Pau.
Irina Slavina
Russian journalist.
Born January 8th, 1973 in Nizhny Novgorod. [ref]
Died October 2nd, 2020 at 47 years old in Nizhny Novgorod (self-immolation). [ref]
John Clarkson
American baseball player (1861-1909).
Born July 1st, 1861 in Cambridge.
Died February 4th, 1909 at 47 years old in Belmont (pneumonia).
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The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. Mark Twain