1909–1972
Kwame Nkrumah
Ghanaian politician
62years old at death
22,864days lived
34%of the people on this site died younger
Kwame Nkrumah was born on 21 September 1909 and died on 27 April 1972, aged 62 years and 219 days. That is 22,864 days in all.
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