William was the 3rd most common given name among people in the file born in 1907 — 36,799 carried it. Across all birth years, 2,014,413 people in the file carry the name; the largest birth cohort of Williams was 1921.
Living to 66
William lived to 66. Among the 1,805,951 people in the file born in 1907, half lived past 79 and one in four reached 87; the longest-lived made it to 104. 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
143,753 other deaths in the file were recorded in December 1973 without a recorded day, among them Frank Smaha, Mercy Heen and Arthur Jones.
Other Ithell records
3 people with this surname appear in the file. More Ithell deaths in the file fall in the 1980s than in any other decade; Pennsylvania holds the largest share of last residences.