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Arthur Downs

Date of birth
March 19, 1905
Date of death
September 1979
Age at death
74 years
Last known residence
Portsmouth, New Hampshire (Rockingham County · ZIP 03801)
State that issued the number
New Hampshire
Social Security number
Not publishedwhy we withhold this →

The name Arthur

Arthur was the 25th most common given name among people in the file born in 1905 — 9,389 carried it. Across all birth years, 439,136 people in the file carry the name; the largest birth cohort of Arthurs was 1912.

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Living to 74

Arthur lived to 74. Among the 1,687,152 people in the file born in 1905, half lived past 79 and one in four reached 87; the longest-lived made it to 106. Only deaths reported to Social Security between 1936 and 2011 appear in the file, so members of this cohort who died young are not counted — these are the lifespans of its survivors.

Died the same month

137,532 other deaths in the file were recorded in September 1979 without a recorded day, among them Elmer Lewis, Tillie Hawn and Donald Renwick.

Other Downs records

12,790 people with this surname appear in the file. More Downs deaths in the file fall in the 2000s than in any other decade; California, Kentucky and Texas hold the largest shares of last residences.

NameBornDiedAgeLast residenceSSN issued
Hershal L DownsApril 11, 1927August 30, 201184Hope, ARArkansas
John P DownsSeptember 29, 1943August 28, 201167Kingman, AZFlorida
Victoria DownsJanuary 21, 1968August 27, 201143Midway, UTTexas
Erin L DownsApril 15, 1976August 27, 201135Cedar Rapids, IAIowa
George Lavere DownsJanuary 10, 1930August 26, 201181Lehi, UTUtah
David Douglas DownsAugust 20, 1936August 25, 201175Cincinnati, OHOhio
Leona DownsJuly 24, 1924August 22, 201187Webster, NYNew York
Juanita May DownsOctober 10, 1925August 22, 201185Felicity, OHOhio
Richard DownsJuly 1, 1955August 21, 201156—Kentucky
Norma L DownsSeptember 21, 1940August 21, 201170Sunset, LALouisiana

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