Top 10 People Who Died at 55 Years of Age

The Top Ten
1 Emily Dickinson Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet . Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts . ...read more.
2 Woody Guthrie Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie was an American singer-songwriter and musician whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional, and children's songs, along with ballads and improvised works.
3 Bill Haley
4 Johnny Ramone John William Cummings, better known by his stage name Johnny Ramone, was an American guitarist and songwriter, best known for being the guitarist for the punk rock band the Ramones.
5 Del Shannon
6 Gustav Klimt
7 Will Rogers
8 Louisa May Alcott
9 Ernst Lubitsch
10 Erroll Garner
The Contenders
11 Claude Debussy Claude Debussy was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

With everything he accomplished by his age, he should be number 1 on this list.

12 Lee Remick
13 Rudolf Diesel
14 Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history.
15 Robert Urich
16 Henry VIII of England
17 Ken Block
18 Sonya Eddy
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