Ferdinand de Saussure was born on November 26, 1857 and died on February 22, 1913. Ferdinand de Saussure would have been 55 years old at the time of death or 154 years old today.
He gets shot.. It was the second attempt to kill him, after a gang failed to "blow him up" He was shot by an assassin who also shot his wife two times in the head and once in the chest..
He "fell...
I think it's The Whale by Roger McGuinn and it may well have been on the album Cardiff Rose but I'm not sure. I know I have a copy of it somewhere here