Dead at age 51
514 Notable deaths
Karl Theodor Helfferich
German diplomat (1872-1924).
Born July 22nd, 1872 in Neustadt an der Weinstraße.
Died April 23rd, 1924 at 51 years old in Bellinzona (traffic collision).
Mallika Sengupta
Bengali poet.
Born March 27th, 1960 in Krishnanagar.
Died May 28th, 2011 at 51 years old in Kolkata.
Sverre Hassel
Norwegian antarctic explorer (1876-1928).
Born July 30th, 1876 in Christiania.
Died June 6th, 1928 at 51 years old in Oslo.
Sasha Chorny
Russian poet, satirist and children's writer (1880–1932).
Born October 15th, 1880 in Odesa.
Died August 5th, 1932 at 51 years old in La Favière.
Gerardo Matos Rodríguez
Uruguayan musician, pianist, journalist, and tango composer.
Born March 28th, 1897 in Montevideo.
Died April 25th, 1948 at 51 years old in Montevideo.
Paul Héroult
French inventor.
Born April 10th, 1863 in Thury-Harcourt.
Died May 9th, 1914 at 51 years old in Antibes.
Mustafa Shokay
Kazakhstani politician (1890–1941).
Born December 25th, 1890 in Kyzylorda.
Died December 27th, 1941 at 51 years old in Berlin.
D. R. Fulkerson
American mathematician.
Born August 14th, 1924 in Tamms.
Died January 10th, 1976 at 51 years old in Ithaca.
Markku Peltola
Finnish actor and musician.
Born July 12th, 1956 in Helsinki.
Died December 31st, 2007 at 51 years old in Kangasala.
Yakov Kreizberg
Russian-american conductor.
Born October 24th, 1959 in Saint Petersburg.
Died March 15th, 2011 at 51 years old in Monte Carlo. [ref]
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I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner