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Dead at age 84

1,606 Notable deaths

Thurgood Marshall

Us supreme court justice from 1967 to 1991.

Born July 2nd, 1908 in Baltimore. [ref]

Died January 24th, 1993 at 84 years old in Bethesda (cardioplegia). [ref]

Joe DiMaggio

American baseball player, member of the national baseball hall of fame (1914-1999).

Born November 25th, 1914 in Martinez.

Died March 8th, 1999 at 84 years old in Hollywood (lung cancer).

Gemini Ganesan

Indian actor.

Born November 17th, 1920 in Pudukkottai.

Died March 22nd, 2005 at 84 years old in Chennai (multiple organ dysfunction syndrome).

Leslie Nielsen

Canadian actor and comedian (1926-2010).

Born February 11th, 1926 in Regina. [ref]

Died November 28th, 2010 at 84 years old in Fort Lauderdale (pneumonia). [ref]

Kurt Vonnegut

American writer (1922–2007).

Born November 11th, 1922 in Indianapolis. [ref]

Died April 14th, 2007 at 84 years old in New York City (fall). [ref]

Madeleine Albright

U.s. politician and former secretary of state of the united states from 1997 to 2001.

Born May 15th, 1937 in Prague. [ref]

Died March 23rd, 2022 at 84 years old in Washington, D.C. (cancer). [ref]

Pranab Mukherjee

President of india from 2012 to 2017.

Born December 11th, 1935 in Mirati.

Died August 31st, 2020 at 84 years old in New Delhi (COVID-19). [ref]

Greta Garbo

Swedish-american actress (1905-1990).

Born September 18th, 1905 in Katarina church parish. [ref]

Died April 15th, 1990 at 84 years old in New York City (pneumonia, kidney failure). [ref]

Clement Attlee

Prime minister of the united kingdom from 1945 to 1951.

Born January 3rd, 1883 in Putney. [ref]

Died October 8th, 1967 at 84 years old in Westminster Hospital (pneumonia).

Gordon Lightfoot

Canadian singer-songwriter.

Born November 17th, 1938 in Orillia. [ref]

Died May 1st, 2023 at 84 years old in Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. [ref]

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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde