The name Ben Ben was the 136th most common given name among people in the file born in 1892 — 1,469 carried it. Across all birth years, 68,698 people in the file carry the name; the largest birth cohort of Bens was 1910.
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Living to 70 Ben lived to 70. Among the 1,016,277 people in the file born in 1892, half lived past 82 and one in four reached 88; the longest-lived made it to 118. 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 44,044 other deaths in the file were recorded in August 1962 without a recorded day, among them James Riple , Adolph Bianchi and Harry Robb .