Death be not proud - VI

Also dead on February 3, 2008 (gleaned from the Wikipedia Deaths in 2008 compilation):

• Samuel Boyle, 59, American bureau chief (New York City) of Associated Press, of lung cancer.
  
• Sheldon Brown, 63, American bicycle mechanic and technical authority, heart attack.
• Charles Fernley Fawcett, 92, American adventurer, actor and freedom fighter.
• Ernesto Illy, 82, Italian food chemist and chairman of the illy coffee company.
• Jorge Liderman, 50, Argentine-American composer, apparent suicide by train impact.
• Jackie Orszaczky, 59, Hungarian-born Australian musician, cancer.
• Charley van de Weerd, 86, Dutch football player.
  

Four younger than 66, the age of my father; though one apparently threw his life away. Three much older.

And so it goes.

Update: Again, out of curiousity, I looked up in wikipedia the list of famous people born on the same day as my dad. (Although we celebrated June 30th for the longest time as his birthday, I believe my parents agree that his actual birth day was July 1st.) And wikipedia has two entries on that day, both Nobel laureates!

• Alfred G. Gilman, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Myron Scholes, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate