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The Sky Above Theodore Roosevelt at the Moment of Death
Person · 1858–1919 · Approximate time
The record
- Date of death: 1919-01-06
- Time of death (local): 04:15 (Approximate time) — He died in his sleep unattended; the 1919 wire copy states 4:15 a.m. was "as nearly as can be determined", and some contemporary reprints said only "about 4 o'clock".
- Place: Oyster Bay (Sagamore Hill), New York, United States
- UTC: 1919-01-06T09:15Z
The sky at that moment
- Zenith (the point directly overhead): RA 171.22°, Dec 40.42°
Star closest to the zenith
Computed with the same standard astronomy as our free calculator: the recorded time and place give the local sidereal time, which fixes the zenith; the closest star by angular distance inside a ±15° declination band of the real catalog is selected. What is shown here is the purely astronomical result — the nearest star to the zenith.
- Catalog ID: HIP 55587
- Constellation: Ursa Major
- Magnitude: 9.38
- Distance (light-years): 726.4
- Angular distance from zenith (degrees): 0.3930°
Brightest stars in that sky
The brightest real stars (catalog IDs from the HYG star catalog — mostly Hipparcos/HIP numbers) that were above 10° altitude at that same moment.
- HIP 91262 — Lyra, Magnitude 0.03 (12.5°)
- HIP 24608 — Auriga, Magnitude 0.08 (27.5°)
- HIP 37279 — Canis Minor, Magnitude 0.4 (29.2°)
- HIP 27989 — Orion, Magnitude 0.45 (11.4°)
- HYG 118360 — Auriga, Magnitude 0.96 (27.5°)
Sources & verification
Last verified: 2026-09-17
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