That's a misleading number, knowing that he was a lauded prof at MIT we can expect that he was significantly wealthier than the median Mass. resident and with that significantly higher life expectancy.

It is a little young, the impression is right. Statistics is hard. "Life expectancy" being an average includes all of the reasons to die when you're young, and young deaths have a large effect on the average.

The most frequent age at death is in your mid to late 80s. I'd like to post the statistic on the 25th and 75th percentile of age at death or maybe 40th, 60th, but I can't readily find the data with the amount of effort I'm willing to put in.

Here's a histogram though

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Histogram-of-estimated-n...

>Life expectancy for men in the US is about 74 to 76 years

that's life expectancy at birth. The life expectancy of a man who is 70 yo today, having already not died of all the causes that harvest young men, is 13+ years more (without accounting for other aspects of their demographic)

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html