He was the richest man on the ship he also died on the ship.
John Jacob Astor was born on July 17, 1763.
John Jacob Astor died on March 29, 1848 at the age of 84.
John Jacob Astor was born in Walldorf, Germany.
at the time, he was an American billionaire and a businessman. He built the Astoria hotel which conjoined with the Waldorf hotel to become the famous Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City (5 star)