He was eighty-nine years old. At his funeral, many family members and friends honored him by wearing red clothes.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Rosalyn Schanzer shows readers the young man who was only twenty-two years old when he left Plymouth,England in eighteen thirty-one.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

She was sixty-six years old. Earlier that month, she had announced that she would not return to coaching that season.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

She was eighty-four years old. She was buried near the remains of her husband in the state of South Carolina.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

He was fifty-three years old. J.Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi were two of the greatest scientists of the century.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

She was seventy-three years old. She leaves behind a written record of her life and legacy through the words of her poems.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

He was forty-nine years old. Leprosy -- also called Hansen's disease is a bacterial disease that causes skin wounds and nerve damage.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

He was ninety-four years old. Someone once asked him if he thought he would still be playing at one hundred years old.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

John Bachar was fifty-two years old when he fell from Dike Wall near his home in Mammoth Lakes,California.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

She was eighty-nine years old. In her later years, she was forced to live a simple life because of lack of money.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

She was ninety-two years old. Her body lay in honor in the United States Capitol building in Washington.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

NASA said its astronaut candidates had to be between twenty-five and forty years old and in excellent health.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

Freud was eighty-three years old when he died of cancer in London on September twenty-third, nineteen thirty-nine.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

I have no work at all, although I am strong and healthy and only forty-five years old.

VOA: special.2010.05.13