The name Benjamin Benjamin was the 145th most common given name among people in the file born in 1909 — 2,516 carried it. Across all birth years, 124,799 people in the file carry the name; the largest birth cohort of Benjamins was 1912.
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Living to 59 Benjamin lived to 59. Among the 1,870,755 people in the file born in 1909, half lived past 79 and one in four reached 87; the longest-lived made it to 102. 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 88,348 other deaths in the file were recorded in August 1968 without a recorded day, among them Margaret Banker , Roy Donaldson and Clarence Myers .