I've always liked him.
1972 Maurice Chevalier, age 83 - French actor and singer (Gigi, Fanny, Can-Can)
Boy he had a long career! I saw an old movie of his when he was a very young man. It must have been just after Talkies and way before censorship ratings because it was a very risqué subject.
1992 Grace Hopper, age 86 - US computer pioneer, who invented the first program compiler, which translated programming code into machine language and paved the way for increasingly sophisticated computer languages. She was a mathematics professor who joined the Naval Reserves during World War II and first retired in 1966. The Navy called Hopper back almost immediately, and she finally retired at age seventy-nine, when she was the oldest officer on active US Naval duty
WOW! That's all I've got to say about that.
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