How old was Virginia Woolf when they died?

Who lived about as long

Everyone here is ranked by days lived. These are the people just either side of Virginia Woolf.

Paramahansa YoganandaYogi, Kriya Yoga guru and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship · 1893–1952
59 yrs
StendhalFrench writer · 1783–1842
59 yrs
Erik SatieFrench composer and pianist · 1866–1925
59 yrs
Pierre BayleFrench philosopher and writer · 1647–1706
59 yrs

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron MacaulayBritish historian and politician · 1800–1859
59 yrs
Fyodor DostoyevskyRussian novelist · 1821–1881
59 yrs
Alfred SisleyFrench, British painter · 1839–1899
59 yrs
Johann Gottfried HerderGerman philosopher, theologian, poet · 1744–1803
59 yrs

Fyodor DostoyevskyRussian novelist · 1821–1881
59 yrs
OvidRoman poet (43 BC – 17/18 AD) · c. 43 BC–AD 17
c. 59 yrs
HerodotusGreek historian and geographer · c. 484–425 BC
c. 59 yrs
Sima QianChinese historian · c. 145–86 BC
c. 59 yrs
Michel de MontaigneFrench author, philosopher, and statesman · 1533–1592
59 yrs
StendhalFrench writer · 1783–1842
59 yrs
Auguste ComteFrench philosopher, mathematician and sociologist · 1798–1857
59 yrs
Émile DurkheimFrench sociologist · 1858–1917
59 yrs

Robert BurnsScottish poet and lyricist · 1759–1796
37 yrs
Vladimir VysotskySoviet singer-songwriter and actor · 1938–1980
42 yrs
Robert BoyleAnglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor · 1627–1691
64 yrs
William Somerset MaughamEnglish playwright and author · 1874–1965
91 yrs
Corazon AquinoPresident of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992 · 1933–2009
76 yrs
Joseph-Louis LagrangeMathematician and astronomer · 1736–1813
77 yrs

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