It is lamby. He was born in 1835 a couple of days after Halley's Comet passed close to Earth and he predicted he would die when the Comet next visited. He duly died the day after the Comet passed closest to Earth in 1910.
Assuming it is word play then 'sixty' becomes '6 tea' cups If 1 cup falls but stays on the table the answer is 6 if it falls off the table the answer is 5