Famous People Who Died at Age 50

From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:

• Eisenstein, Sergei (died of heart failure at 50 years 19 days on February 11, 1948)

• Catherine of Aragon (natural causes at 50 years 22 days on January 7, 1536)

• Carver, Raymond (died of lung cancer at 50 years 69 days on August 2, 1988)

• Veidt, Conrad (died of a heart attack at 50 years 71 days on April 3, 1943)

• Larsson, Stieg (died of a heart attack at 50 years 86 days on November 9, 2004)

• Cook, James (at 50 years 110 days on February 14, 1779)

• Duncan, Isadora (died in an automobile crash at 50 years 111 days on September 14, 1927)

• DMX (at 50 years 112 days on April 9, 2021)

• Flynn, Errol (at 50 years 116 days on October 14, 1959)

• Ladd, Alan (at 50 years 148 days on January 29, 1964)

• Davy, Sir Humphry (at 50 years 163 days on May 29, 1829)

• Serling, Rod (died of heart failure at 50 years 185 days on June 28, 1975)

• McCullers, Carson (at 50 years 222 days on September 29, 1967)

• Versace, Gianni (was shot to death at 50 years 225 days on July 15, 1997)

• McQueen, Steve (died of a cancer-induced heart attack at 50 years 228 days on November 7, 1980)

• Lavoisier, Antoine (was beheaded at 50 years 255 days on May 8, 1794)

• Morton, Jelly Roll (died of heart failure at 50 years 263 days on July 10, 1941)

• Jackson, Michael (died of heart failure at 50 years 300 days on June 25, 2009)

• Mahler, Gustav (at 50 years 315 days on May 18, 1911)

• Tompkins, Daniel D. (at 50 years 355 days on June 11, 1825)

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