1943–2008
Bobby Fischer
American chess player
64years old at death
23,690days lived
38%of the people on this site died younger
Bobby Fischer was born on 9 March 1943 and died on 17 January 2008, aged 64 years and 314 days. That is 23,690 days in all.
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- Ibn Battuta14th century Muslim Maghrebi scholar and explorer · c. 1304–1368c. 64 yrs
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- Ivan TurgenevRussian writer · 1818–188364 yrs
- William FaulknerAmerican writer · 1897–196264 yrs
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Everyone famous who died at 64
Also born on 9 March
- Yuri GagarinSoviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space · 1934–196834 yrs
- Taras ShevchenkoUkrainian poet and artist · 1814–186147 yrs
- Vyacheslav MolotovSoviet politician, statesman and diplomat · 1890–198696 yrs
- Paul IIIPope of the Catholic Church from 1534 to 1549 · 1468–154981 yrs
- Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de MirabeauFrench writer, orator and statesman · 1749–179142 yrs
- Mátyás Rákosi ↗Former First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party · 1892–197178 yrs
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Dates are from Wikidata (free to use under CC0), last updated 22 October 2026. Dates in old records are sometimes disputed.
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