Lonoke County, Arkansas. Cooperative Extension Service. We are part of the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Serviceâs statewide network and the University of Arkansas Systemâs Division of Agriculture.
Archimedes was born c. 287 BC in the seaport city of Syracuse, Sicily, at that time a self-governing colony in Magna Graecia, located along the coast of Southern Italy. The date of birth is based on a statement by the Byzantine Greek historian John Tzetzes that Archimedes lived for 75 years.
Died: Jan 27, 1993. He was 46 years old and died from a heart attack while in France to attend his father's funeral in 1993. http://www.answers.com/topic/andr-the-giant. He died in 1993 aged 46 of congestive heart failure linked to his pituitary gigantism.