How many years did Claude Shannon live?
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Claude Elwood Shannon lived for 85 years. He was born on April 30, 1916, in Gaylord, Michigan, and died on February 24, 2001, in Medford, Massachusetts. He was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as the "father of information theory" for his work on the mathematical theory of communication.
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