John Venn’s Death – Cause and Date

The philosopher John Venn died at the age of 88. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Best known as the originator of the ubiquitous Venn diagram, this late nineteenth-century philosopher and logician contributed to the fields of statistics and probability. His publications include Symbolic Logic and The Logic of Chance.

Born in Yorkshire, England, he was the son of the prominent Anglican cleric Henry Venn and Reverend Venn’s wife, Martha Sykes. His marriage to Susanna Carnegie Edmonstone resulted in a son, John Archibald Venn, who had a successful career as an economist.