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#1301 · May 23, 2024, 1:57 pm
23 May 1886. The famous German historian Leopold von Ranke died in Berlin (aged 90). He was the pioneer of archival source-based history, using footnotes. He undoubtedly helped to shape academic history in universities and pioneered student-led seminar teaching.
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#1302 · May 23, 2024, 1:58 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1906 playwright (Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, When We Dead Awaken, Rosmersholm, The Master Builder), Henrik Ibsen died at home in Kristiania (now Oslo), aged 78. Vår Frelsers gravlund, Oslo thefinalfootprint.com/?p=2385
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#1303 · May 26, 2024, 2:13 pm
26 May 1703. Samuel Pepys died (aged 70). He was an administrator of the Navy and an MP, who is best known for the diary he kept for a decade on London life, while still a relatively young man. The diary is still seen as a key source for historians of London in the 1660s.
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#1304 · May 28, 2024, 2:20 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1849 novelist (Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall), poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family, Ann Brontë died most likely of pulmonary tuberculosis in Scarborough, England, aged 29. St. Mary's Churchyard, Scarborough thefinalfootprint.com/2024/05/28/day
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#1305 · May 28, 2024, 2:21 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2014, poet ("On the Pulse of Morning"), singer, memoirist (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings), civil rights activist Maya Angelou died in Winston-Salem, North Carolina at the age of 86. Cremated remains scattered thefinalfootprint.com/2024/05/28/day
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#1306 · May 30, 2024, 1:57 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1593, playwright (Tamburlaine), poet, translator of the Elizabethan era, Kit, Christopher Marlowe, died in Deptford, Kent, England at the age of 29. Unmarked grave in the churchyard of St Nicholas, Deptford. Memorial plaque thefinalfootprint.com/2024/05/30/on-
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#1307 · May 30, 2024, 1:59 pm
30 mai, naissance de Marie Malézieux dite Marie Robert-Halt (1849-1908), auteure de "Suzette", épouse en 1881, le romancier Charles Vieux, dit "Robert Halt" (1827-1896). Elle repose aux Batignolles auprès de son mari. leaf.bucknell.edu/biographie
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#1308 · May 30, 2024, 2:00 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1744, poet (The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad), translator (Homer's Iliad), essayist (An Essay on Criticism) Alexander Pope died in his villa in Twickenham with friends, aged 56. Church of St Mary the Virgin in Twickenham, Middlesex, England thefinalfootprint.com/2024/05/30/on-
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#1309 · May 30, 2024, 2:00 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1778, French Enlightenment writer (Candide), poet (La Pucelle d'Orléans), historian, philosopher noted for his wit, his criticism of Christianity and of slavery, Voltaire died in Paris, aged 83. Panthéon in Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2024/05/30/on-
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#1310 · May 30, 2024, 2:01 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1960 poet (My Sister, Life), novelist (Doctor Zhivago), literary translator Boris Pasternak died of lung cancer in his dacha in Peredelkino near Mosscow, aged 70. Peredelkino Cemetery thefinalfootprint.com/2024/05/30/on-
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#1311 · May 31, 2024, 2:34 pm
31 May 2016. Liverpool-born comedy writer Carla Lane died (aged 87). She wrote a number of successful TV comedy sitcoms, including: The Liver Birds, Butterflies, Bread, The Mistress and Solo. She was described as “the TV writer who dared to make women funny”.
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#1312 · June 1, 2024, 2:15 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1968 author (The Story of My Life), disability rights advocate, political activist, lecturer, Helen Keller died in her sleep at home, Arcan Ridge, Easton, Connecticut, aged 87. Cremated remains Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C. thefinalfootprint.com/2024/06/01/day
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#1313 · June 2, 2024, 2:22 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1962, author, poet (The Land), garden designer, lover of Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West died; Sissinghurst Castle, Kent EN, aged 70. Cremated remains Sackville family vault, Withyham Parish Church, East Sussex EN (Portrait William Strang) thefinalfootprint.com/2024/06/02/on-
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#1314 · June 3, 2024, 1:51 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1924, writer of novels (The Metamorphosis, The Trial, The Castle), short stories, Franz Kafka died from complications of laryngeal tuberculosis at a sanatorium in Kierling near Vienna, aged 40. New Jewish Cemetery in Prague-Žižkov thefinalfootprint.com/2024/06/03/on-
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#1315 · June 4, 2024, 1:23 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1798, adventurer, author (Histoire de ma vie), lover, Giacomo Casanova died in Duchcov, Kingdom of Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire, now the Czech Republic, aged 73. Castle of Dux, Bohemia (Duchcov Castle, Czech Republic) thefinalfootprint.com/2024/06/04/day
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#1316 · June 5, 2024, 1:49 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1900, novelist (The Red Badge of Courage), short story writer, poet and journalist Stephen Crane died from tuberculosis at a health spa in Badenweiler, Germany at the age of 28. Evergreen Cemetery, Hillside, New Jersey thefinalfootprint.com/2024/06/05/day
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#1317 · June 5, 2024, 1:49 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1910, short story writer (The Gift of the Magi, The Caballero's Way) O. Henry died of cirrhosis of the liver, complications of diabetes, and an enlarged heart in New York City at the age of 47. Riverside Cemetery in Asheville, North Carolina thefinalfootprint.com/2024/06/05/day
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#1318 · June 5, 2024, 1:50 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2012, author (Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Something Wicked This Way Comes), screenwriter, Ray Bradbury died in Los Angeles, aged 91. Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles thefinalfootprint.com/2024/06/05/day
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#1319 · June 6, 2024, 1:48 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1982, poet ("She is Away"), translator, essayist, “The Father of the Beats”, Kenneth Rexroth died in Santa Barbara, California at the age of 76. Santa Barbara Cemetery thefinalfootprint.com/2024/06/06/day
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#1320 · June 7, 2024, 2:05 pm
7 June 1809. English-born political activist Thomas Paine died (aged 72). He was seen as a key influence on the American and French Revolutions. His 2 best known books were Rights of Man and Common Sense.
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