At what age did Ada Lovelace die?

Ada Lovelace died at the age of 36. She died on 27 November 1852, after an illness now generally identified as cervical cancer.

Born Augusta Ada Byron in 1815, she was the daughter of the poet Lord Byron and mathematician Anne Isabella Milbanke. Her mother encouraged her mathematical and scientific education, unusual for a woman of her social position at the time. Lovelace later married William King, who became Earl of Lovelace, and she is commonly remembered by the name Ada Lovelace.

Her most influential work appeared in 1843, when she published extensive notes on Babbage’s Analytical Engine. Although the machine was never completed, her writing described how it might execute a sequence of instructions and suggested that programmable machines could handle more than numbers. The age at her death is sometimes confused with the year of her birth or with the dates of later tributes, including the Ada programming language’s 1980 standardization.