1941–2011
Kim Jong-il
Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011
70years old at death
25,871days lived
52%of the people on this site died younger
Kim Jong-il was born on 16 February 1941 and died on 17 December 2011, aged 70 years and 304 days. That is 25,871 days in all.
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Who lived about as long
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Slightly shorter lives
- Denis DiderotFrench Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist · 1713–178470 yrs
- Charles Albert GobatSwiss politician and lawyer · 1843–191470 yrs
- Abdus SalamTheoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient · 1926–199670 yrs
- G.H. HardyBritish mathematician · 1877–194770 yrs
Slightly longer lives
- Allen GinsbergAmerican poet and writer · 1926–199770 yrs
- Joseph PriestleyEnglish chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist · 1733–180470 yrs
- Emma GoldmanRussian-born American anarchist · 1869–194070 yrs
- Cemal Gürsel4th President of the Republic of Turkey · 1895–196670 yrs
Others who died at 70
- Hans Christian AndersenDanish writer and poet · 1805–187570 yrs
- Nicolaus CopernicusPolish mathematician and astronomer · 1473–154370 yrs
- Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGerman mathematician and philosopher · 1646–171670 yrs
- Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer · c. AD 780–850c. 70 yrs
- Stanley KubrickAmerican filmmaker and photographer · 1928–199970 yrs
- Cyrus the GreatFounder of the Achaemenid Empire · c. 600–530 BCc. 70 yrs
- Denis DiderotFrench Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist · 1713–178470 yrs
- Satyajit RayIndian filmmaker and writer · 1921–199270 yrs
Everyone famous who died at 70
Also born on 16 February
- Octave MirbeauFrench writer, art critic and journalist · 1848–191769 yrs
- Thomas MoreEnglish statesman, lawyer and philosopher · 1478–153557 yrs
- Ernst HaeckelGerman zoologist · 1834–191985 yrs
- Francis GaltonBritish eugenist, polymath, and behavioural geneticist · 1822–191188 yrs
- Radoje DomanovićSerbian writer · 1873–190835 yrs
- Hua Guofeng2nd Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, 2nd Premier of the People's Republic of China · 1921–200887 yrs
Famous people born on 16 February
Where this comes from
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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