1917–2012
Eric Hobsbawm
British academic historian and Marxist historiographer
95years old at death
34,813days lived
97%of the people on this site died younger
Eric Hobsbawm was born on 9 June 1917 and died on 1 October 2012, aged 95 years and 114 days. That is 34,813 days in all.
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