Here's your award-winning Friday edition of 'Today in Rock History' featuring: Steve Carell is 57. Tim Farriss from INXS is 62. Today in 1948, Babe Ruth died from throat cancer at the age of 53. 57 years ago today, in 1962, Pete Best was fired as drummer for The Beatles. Today in 1977, Elvis Presley died at the age of 42, in his Graceland Mansion.