Aged 64
Famous people who died at 64
220 of the 11,867 best-known people in our data died aged 64, including Karl Marx, Lyndon B. Johnson and Ibn Battuta. Here are the 100 best known.
- Karl MarxGerman-born philosopher · 1818–1883
- Lyndon B. JohnsonPresident of the United States from 1963 to 1969 · 1908–1973
- Ibn Battuta14th century Muslim Maghrebi scholar and explorer · c. 1304–1368
- HafezPersian poet and mystic · c. 1325–1389
- Ivan TurgenevRussian writer · 1818–1883
- William FaulknerAmerican writer · 1897–1962
- HannibalCarthaginian general · c. 247–183 BC
- Franklin PiercePresident of the United States from 1853 to 1857 · 1804–1869
- C. S. LewisBritish writer, lay theologian, and scholar · 1898–1963
- Napoleon IIIPresident of the Second French Republic, Emperor of the Second French Empire and last monarch of France · 1808–1873
- Grazia DeleddaItalian novelist · 1871–1936
- Bobby FischerAmerican chess player · 1943–2008
- Robert BoyleAnglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor · 1627–1691
- AnaximanderPre-Socratic Greek philosopher · c. 610–546 BC
- Darius IThe fourth and greatest Achaemenid emperor · c. 550–486 BC
- Gregory I6th-century Roman Pope, theologian and Church Father, Catholic and Orthodox saint, 64th Bishop of Rome and Doctor of the Church · c. AD 540–604
- Edvard GriegNorwegian composer and pianist · 1843–1907
- AishaMuhammad's third wife · c. AD 614–678
- Bram StokerIrish novelist and short story writer · 1847–1912
- Ignatius of LoyolaSpanish Catholic priest and theologian · 1491–1556
- Louis XV of FranceKing of France and Navarre 1715 to 1774 · 1710–1774
- Slobodan MiloševićYugoslav–Serbian politician · 1941–2006
- Béla BartókHungarian composer and pianist · 1881–1945
- Jacqueline Kennedy OnassisFirst Lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963 · 1929–1994
- Urban II11th century pope and initiator of the Crusades · c. 1035–1099
- Wilhelm WienGerman physicist · 1864–1928
- Hasan NasrallahLeader of Hezbollah · 1960–2024
- Nikolai Rimsky-KorsakovRussian composer · 1844–1908
- Martial1st-century Latin poet from Hispania · c. AD 40–104
- Adrian VIPope of the Catholic Church from 1522 to 1523 · 1459–1523
- Howard CarterBritish egyptologist · 1874–1939
- Eugene IVPope of the Catholic Church from 1431 to 1447 · c. 1383–1447
- Rudolf SteinerAustrian social reformer, occultist and esotericist · 1861–1925
- Edward III of EnglandKing of England from 1327 to 1377 · 1312–1377
- Roland BarthesFrench philosopher and essayist · 1915–1980
- Joseph PulitzerHungarian-American newspaper publisher and politician · 1847–1911
- Pius IIIPope of the Catholic Church from 22 September to 18 October 1503 · 1439–1503
- Bayezid IIThe eighth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire · 1447–1512
- Claude BernardFrench physiologist · 1813–1878
- Hippolyte TaineFrench literary critic and historian · 1828–1893
- Victor GrignardFrench chemist · 1871–1935
- Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-SimonFrench early socialist theorist · 1760–1825
- Simone SignoretFrench actress · 1921–1985
- Eliezer Ben-YehudaRussian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist · 1858–1922
- Josiah Willard GibbsAmerican scientist · 1839–1903
- Wilhelm KeitelGerman field marshal · 1882–1946
- Benedict XIPope of the Catholic Church from 1303 to 1304 · c. 1240–1304
- Philo of AlexandriaHellenistic Jewish philosopher who lived in Alexandria · c. 15 BC–AD 50
- ValerianRoman emperor · c. AD 200–264
- Wilhelm SteinitzAustrian-American chess player · 1836–1900
- Leopold I, Holy Roman EmperorHoly Roman Emperor (1658-1705), King of Hungary and Croatia and King of Bohemia · 1640–1705
- Abdul Hamid I27th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire · 1725–1789
- Gustav I of SwedenKing of Sweden from 1523 to 1560 · 1496–1560
- Muhammad Zia-ul-HaqPresident of Pakistan from 1978 to 1988, of Saudi origin · 1924–1988
- Nicholas IVPope of the Catholic Church from 1288 to 1292 · 1227–1292
- Edvard BenešCzechoslovak politician · 1884–1948
- Georges BatailleFrench intellectual and literary figure · 1897–1962
- Paolo RossiItalian footballer · 1956–2020
- Richard Adolf ZsigmondyAustrian chemist · 1865–1929
- Ernst AbbeGerman physicist · 1840–1905
- Sherwood Anderson ↗American writer · 1876–1941
- Christina Rossetti ↗English poet · 1830–1894
- George Gamow ↗Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist · 1904–1968
- Jean-Baptiste Colbert ↗French statesman · 1619–1683
- Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg ↗German politician · 1856–1921
- Alcuin ↗8th-century Northumbrian scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher · c. AD 740–804
- Duccio di Buoninsegna ↗Italian painter · c. 1255–1319
- Friedrich Bergius ↗German chemist · 1884–1949
- Hjalmar Branting ↗Prime Minister of Sweden · 1860–1925
- Sennacherib ↗King of Assyria · c. 745–681 BC
- Mansur Al-Hallaj ↗Persian mystic, poet and Sufi teacher · c. AD 858–922
- Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve ↗French literary critic · 1804–1869
- Shen Kuo ↗Chinese scientist and statesman · c. 1031–1095
- Bolesław Prus ↗Polish novelist · 1847–1912
- Roger Y. Tsien ↗American biochemist · 1952–2016
- Alberto Giacometti ↗Swiss sculptor and painter · 1901–1966
- Antonio Canova ↗Italian Neoclassical sculptor · 1757–1822
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak ↗Indian nationalist leader, writer and journalist · 1856–1920
- François Duvalier ↗40th President of the Republic of Haiti · 1907–1971
- Thelonious Monk ↗American jazz pianist and composer · 1917–1982
- Bernardo O'Higgins ↗Chilean independence leader · 1778–1842
- Nikolai Leskov ↗Russian writer · 1831–1895
- Anne of Austria ↗Queen, consort of Louis XIII, King of France, lived · 1601–1666
- Lee Van Cleef ↗American actor · 1925–1989
- Naser al-Din Shah Qajar ↗Shah of Qajar Iran from 1848 to 1896 · 1831–1896
- Simeon I of Bulgaria ↗Bulgarian Tsar who ruled from 893 to 927 · c. AD 863–927
- Witold Gombrowicz ↗Polish writer · 1904–1969
- Anton Rubinstein ↗Russian pianist, composer and conductor · 1829–1894
- Donna Reed ↗American film and television actress · 1921–1986
- François Couperin ↗French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist · 1668–1733
- Joseph Beuys ↗German artist, teacher, and theorist of art · 1921–1986
- Francis Poulenc ↗French composer and pianist · 1899–1963
- Augustus De Morgan ↗British mathematician and logician · 1806–1871
- Dorothy L. Sayers ↗English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer · 1893–1957
- Fedor von Bock ↗German field marshal · 1880–1945
- George Minot ↗American physician · 1885–1950
- Louis Blériot ↗French aviator, inventor and engineer · 1872–1936
- Tirso de Molina ↗Spanish writer · 1583–1648
- Vera Mukhina ↗Soviet sculptor · 1889–1953
- Yongle Emperor ↗Emperor of Ming dynasty China from 1402 to 1424 · 1360–1424
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