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Dead at age 57
975 Notable deaths
John Pope Hennessy
8th governor of hong kong (1834-1891).
Born April 5th, 1834 in County Cork.
Died October 7th, 1891 at 57 years old
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Chinese musician (1893–1950).
Born August 17th, 1893 in Wuxi.
Died December 4th, 1950 at 57 years old in Wuxi.
Battling Levinsky
American boxer (1891–1949).
Born June 10th, 1891 in Philadelphia.
Died February 12th, 1949 at 57 years old in Philadelphia.
William Henry Conley
American industrialist, and first president of zion's watch tower tract society (1840-1897).
Born June 11th, 1840 in Pittsburgh.
Died July 25th, 1897 at 57 years old in Pittsburgh (influenza).
Itzhak Katzenelson
Jewish teacher, poet and dramatist, murdered in holocaust (1886-1944).
Born July 1st, 1886 in Kareličy.
Died May 1st, 1944 at 57 years old in Auschwitz (cyanide poisoning).
Sergey Petrovich Botkin
Russian clinician, therapist, and activist (1832-1889).
Born September 17th, 1832 in Moscow. [ref]
Died December 24th, 1889 at 57 years old in Menton.
Eugen Cicero
Romanian-german jazz pianist.
Born June 27th, 1940 in Cluj-Napoca.
Died December 5th, 1997 at 57 years old in Zurich (stroke).
Jacques Bainville
French journalist, historian and academician (1879–1936).
Born February 9th, 1879 in Vincennes.
Died February 9th, 1936 at 57 years old in Rue de Bellechasse.
Elio Vittorini
Italian writer and novelist (1908–1966).
Born July 23rd, 1908 in Syracuse.
Died February 12th, 1966 at 57 years old in Milan (stomach cancer).
Osip Brik
Russian lawyer, literary critic and chekist (1888–1945).
Born January 28th, 1888 in Moscow.
Died February 22nd, 1945 at 57 years old in Moscow (myocardial infarction).
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? Edgar Allan Poe