1925–1965
Malcolm X
American Black rights activist
39years old at death
14,523days lived
7%of the people on this site died younger
Malcolm X was born on 19 May 1925 and died on 21 February 1965, aged 39 years and 278 days. That is 14,523 days in all.
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- Frédéric ChopinPolish composer and pianist · 1810–184939 yrs
- CleopatraQueen of Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BCE · 69–30 BC39 yrs
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- Bernhard RiemannGerman mathematician · 1826–186639 yrs
- NefertitiEgyptian queen and Great Royal Wife (chief consort) of Akhenaten, an Egyptian Pharaoh · c. 1370–1330 BCc. 40 yrs
- Harold GodwinsonAnglo-Saxon King of England in 1066 · c. 1026–1066c. 40 yrs
- William II of EnglandKing of England from 1087 to 1100 · c. 1060–1100c. 40 yrs
Others who died at 39
- Martin Luther King Jr.American Baptist minister and civil rights leader · 1929–196839 yrs
- Che GuevaraArgentine Marxist revolutionary · 1928–196739 yrs
- Frédéric ChopinPolish composer and pianist · 1810–184939 yrs
- Blaise PascalFrench mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher · 1623–166239 yrs
- CleopatraQueen of Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BCE · 69–30 BC39 yrs
- Swami VivekanandaIndian Hindu monk and philosopher · 1863–190239 yrs
- Lucretius1st-century BC Roman poet and philosopher · c. 94–55 BCc. 39 yrs
- Bernhard RiemannGerman mathematician · 1826–186639 yrs
Everyone famous who died at 39
Also born on 19 May
- Ho Chi MinhVietnamese communist leader, founder of North Vietnam · 1890–196979 yrs
- Pol PotFormer General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea · 1925–199872 yrs
- Johann Gottlieb FichteGerman philosopher · 1762–181451 yrs
- Innocent XIPope of the Catholic Church from 1676 to 1689 · 1611–168978 yrs
- Nora EphronAmerican film director and writer · 1941–201271 yrs
- Max Perutz ↗Austrian-born British molecular biologist · 1914–200287 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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