Excerpts from Bellany's recent book,
"Wiki-People Who Died At Age 32"

Since 2006, Bellany has scoured Wikipedia for people who died at his exact age. When he was 32, he found 117 figures - some obscure and others notable, who had died at that tender age. In addition to writing up a short biography for each 'character', Bellany created original black and white portraits using illustrations he uncovered on image searches.

"Being the same age as each person I researched (when they died), I naturally felt a strong personal connection to their stories. I compared our accomplishments, social situations, and the eras in which we lived. It was a new way of looking at both history and myself. Now that I have moved on to age 33, I find myself contemplating the strange fact that I have lived longer than Bruce Lee, King Richard III and Alexander the Great. It definitely motivates me to work harder and make a difference."

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・Bruce Lee

・Buzz Sawyer

・Davey Allison

・Dick Turpin

・Eadred of England

・Elizabeth Siddal

・Galeazzo Maria Sforza

・Glen Kidston

・Hernan Gaviria

・Jedediah 'Strong' Smith

・Joseph I

・Keith Godchaux

・Lya De Putti

・Mike Lockwood

・Ota Benga

・Ottavio Bottecchia

・Proof

・Regnier De Graaf

・Steve Chiasson

・Thomas Ashe

・Vladimir of Novgorod

・William Cartwright

・Wyndham Hallswelle

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Wiki-People Who Died At Age 32

Eadred of England (923-955)
Son of Edward the Elder and Eadgifu, and brother to King Edmund I, Eadred ruled England from 946 until his death in 955. Living in an era that seems to have predated vowel diversification, Eadred counted Ethelrod, Ealhswith, Ethelfleda, Elfthryth, Ethelwulf and Egbert of Wessex among his notable relatives. Even his arch-nemesis, Eric ‘Bloodaxe’ of Norway, had a name beginning with ‘E’.

Shortly after his brother Edmund was stabbed to death on St. Augustine’s Day, 946, Eadred was consecrated as King of England and given the difficult task of governing the fragile and fragmented Kingdom of E. After winning the ‘oaths’ of the Welsh and Scots (presumably through battle), Eadred turned his attention to the north of England, where Eric ‘Bloodaxe’, a former Norwegian king, was stirring up trouble. Leading his forces in a raid of Northumbria, Eadred and his men caused enough death and destruction to convince the locals that they should switch their allegiances from Eric to Eadred.

Suffering from a digestive malady that eventually killed him, Eadred was known to suck the juices out of all the food he ate, then spit out whatever was left. Perhaps for this reason, he died a childless bachelor at the age of 32. He was succeeded by his young nephew, Eadwig.