1888–1965
T. S. Eliot
US-British poet
76years old at death
27,858days lived
63%of the people on this site died younger
T. S. Eliot was born on 26 September 1888 and died on 4 January 1965, aged 76 years and 100 days. That is 27,858 days in all.
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