Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: Hindenburg remained in office until his death at the age of 86 from lung cancer at his home in Neudeck , East Prussia on 2 August 1934 ( exactly two months short of his 87th birthday ) .
Simplified: Hindenburg stayed president until he died from lung cancer at his home in Neudeck , East Prussia on 2 August 1934 .