Famous People Who Died at Age 75

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

• Ellington, Duke (died of cancer at 75 years 25 days on May 24, 1974)

• Mason, Shirley (at 75 years 32 days on February 26, 1998)

• Boyington, Gregory 'Pappy' (at 75 years 38 days on January 11, 1988)

• Weber, Dick (at 75 years 53 days on February 14, 2005)

• Mitchell, John (at 75 years 65 days on November 9, 1988)

• Stone, Lucy (at 75 years 66 days on October 18, 1893)

• Mason, James (at 75 years 73 days on July 27, 1984)

• Havel, Václav (at 75 years 74 days on December 18, 2011)

• Gillespie, Dizzy (at 75 years 77 days on January 6, 1993)

• Clay, Henry (at 75 years 78 days on June 29, 1852)

• Arafat, Yasser (died of complications from a blood disorder at 75 years 79 days on November 11, 2004)

• Johnson, Samuel (at 75 years 86 days on December 13, 1784)

• Scheider, Roy (at 75 years 92 days on February 10, 2008)

• Bewick, Thomas (at 75 years 99 days on November 8, 1828)

• Cornelius, Don (committed suicide at 75 years 127 days on February 1, 2012)

• Mencken, H.L. (at 75 years 139 days on January 29, 1956)

• Bell, Alexander Graham (at 75 years 152 days on August 2, 1922)

• Miller, Joaquin (at 75 years 162 days on February 17, 1913)

• Ocasek, Ric (at 75 years 176 days on September 15, 2019)

• Hauer, Rutger (at 75 years 177 days on July 19, 2019)

• Wharton, Edith (at 75 years 199 days on August 11, 1937)

• Peck, George W. (at 75 years 202 days on April 16, 1916)

• Beach, Sylvia (at 75 years 205 days on October 5, 1962)

• Ferraro, Geraldine (died of multiple myeloma at 75 years 212 days on March 26, 2011)

• Leary, Timothy (died of prostate cancer at 75 years 222 days on May 31, 1996)

• Bainbridge, Beryl (died of cancer at 75 years 223 days on July 2, 2010)

• Zimmermann, Arthur (at 75 years 245 days on June 6, 1940)

• Perelman, S.J. (at 75 years 258 days on October 17, 1979)

• Lear, Edward (at 75 years 262 days on January 29, 1888)

• Dreyfus, Alfred (at 75 years 276 days on July 12, 1935)

• Verdon, Gwen (natural causes at 75 years 279 days on October 18, 2000)

• Moon, William (at 75 years 295 days on October 9, 1894)

• Stevens, Wallace (at 75 years 304 days on August 2, 1955)

• Faraday, Michael (at 75 years 337 days on August 25, 1867)

• Morgan, J. P. (at 75 years 348 days on March 31, 1913)

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