Isaac Newton Mathematician 25 December 1642 20 March 1727 Newton died at the age of 84 in 1727, a long life even by today’s standards. He lived through turbulent and interesting times: a civil war culminating in the beheading of Charles I; a plague that killed off an estimated fifteen percent of the population of London during one summer; a fire that devastated a major part of the capital and wars with Holland (3), Spain (3) and France (5) as well as the Act of Union, the first Jac [...]