Statistics for People Who Died or are Buried in New York

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Died	Age	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1980	40	One of the Beatles	John Lennon	99%
1965	39	Nation of Islam leader and black power activist	Malcolm X	84%
2008	28	Starred as the Joker in "The Dark Knight"	Heath Ledger	80%
1926	52	Escape artist who died of appendicitis possibly related to being punched in the stomach	Harry Houdini	79%
1962	78	First Lady of the U.S. for 12 years	Eleanor Roosevelt	76%
1948	53	Widely considered the greatest baseball player of all-time	Babe Ruth	75%
1987	58	His art studio was known as "The Factory"	Andy Warhol	71%
2016	69	Rocker whose alter-ego was named Ziggy Stardust	David Bowie	71%
1872	80	Inventor of the telegraph and the code it uses	Samuel Morse	69%
1971	69	Jazz trumpet player known as Satchmo	Louis Armstrong	65%
1804	47	Shot in a duel in New Jersey, he died the next day in Manhattan	Alexander Hamilton	64%
1947	64	Mayor for whom one of New York's airports is named	Fiorello LaGuardia	61%
1990	53	Creator of the Muppets	Jim Henson	59%
1993	49	The first black male tennis player to win at Wimbledon, he died of AIDS contracted during a blood transfusion	Arthur Ashe	47%
1891	72	Author of "Moby Dick"	Herman Melville	47%
2014	46	This three-named actor won an Oscar for "Capote" before tragically dying of a heroin overdose	Philip Seymour Hoffman	46%
1983	71	Playwright who wrote "A Streetcar Named Desire"	Tennessee Williams	45%
1885	63	People often ask who is buried in this President's tomb	Ulysses S. Grant	40%
2019	95	Scion of one of the richest families in America, she later started a line of designer blue jeans	Gloria Vanderbilt	27%
2002	61	Once known as the "Teflon Don" and also the "Dapper Don"	John Gotti	24%