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#1941 · June 7, 2025, 6:55 am

RIP OTD in 1980 novelist (Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn, The Rosy Crucifixion) Henry Miller died; circulatory complications; home in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, aged 88. Cremated remains scattered in Big Sur (Carl Van Vechten) https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/07/day-in-history-7-june-jean-harlow/

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#1942 · June 8, 2025, 6:36 am

RIP OTD in 1876 novelist (Valentine, Mauprat, Consuelo, La Mare au Diable, La Petite Fadette), memoirist, journalist, Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, George Sand died at Nohant, near Châteauroux, France, aged 71. Chapel at Nohant-Vic https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/08/day-in-history-8-june-andrew-jackson/

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#1943 · June 8, 2025, 6:37 am

RIP OTD in 1889, poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins died of typhoid fever in Dublin at the age of 44. Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/08/day-in-history-8-june-andrew-jackson/

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#1944 · June 8, 2025, 6:40 am

OTD in 1949 George Orwell’s futuristic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in the UK. It depicts a totalitarian tyranny ruled by “Big Brother”, and supported by a secret police using mass surveillance. More broadly, Orwell shows how facts are manipulated by governments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

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#1945 · June 9, 2025, 6:30 am

RIP OTD in 1870, novelist (A Tale of Two Cities) Charles Dickens died at his country home, Gads Hill Place, in Higham, Kent, England after a stroke at the age of 58. Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/09/day-in-history-9-june-charles-dickens/

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#1946 · June 9, 2025, 11:35 pm

Frederick Forsyth, the best-selling author of thrillers in the 1970s, including “The Day of the Jackal” and “The Dogs of War,” died on Monday. He was 86.

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-06-09T20:55:04.637727Z

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#1947 · June 10, 2025, 6:22 am

RIP OTD in 1923 French naval officer, writer of novels (Le Mariage de Loti, the opera Lakmé; Madame Chrysanthème, the opera Madama Butterfly) Pierre Loti died in Hendaye, France, aged 73. Interred on the island of Oléron, France with a state funeral https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/10/day-in-history-10-june-ray-charles/

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#1948 · June 10, 2025, 5:17 pm

RIP OTD in 1988, Western novelist (Hondo, Crossfire Trail, Conagher, The Quick and the Dead, The Shadow Riders, The Sacketts) Louis L’Amour died; lung cancer at his home in Los Angeles aged 80. Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery Glendale, California https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/10/day-in-history-10-june-ray-charles/

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#1949 · June 11, 2025, 6:47 am

RIP OTD in 2014, actress (A Raisin in the Sun, Do the Right Thing), poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, civil rights activist Ruby Dee died; home in New Rochelle, New York, aged 91. Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale NY (photo Carl Van Vechten) https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/

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#1950 · June 12, 2025, 7:07 am

RIP OTD in 1878, poet ("Thanatopsis"), journalist, William Cullen Bryant died; complications from a fall suffered after participating in a Central Park ceremony for Italian patriot Giuseppe Mazzini, aged 83. Roslyn Cemetery, Roslyn, Long Island, New York https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/12/day-in-history-12-june-gregory-peck/

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#1951 · June 13, 2025, 7:04 am

RIP OTD in 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (The Road; All the Pretty Horses; No Country for Old Men) Cormac McCarthy died at his home in Santa Fe at the age of 89

https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/13/day-in-history-13-june-dory-funk/

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#1952 · June 14, 2025, 7:16 am

RIP OTD in 1837, Italian poet (Canti), essayist, philosopher, and philologist, Giacomo Leopardi died in Naples at the age of 38 during the cholera epidemic. Parco Virgiliano, Naples https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/14/day-in-history-14-june-henry-mancini/

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#1953 · June 14, 2025, 7:17 am

RIP OTD in 1968 author, poet (Acque e terre, Oboe sommerso, Ed è subito sera), 1959 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Salvatore Quasimodo died from a cerebral hemorrhage in a hospital in Naples at the age of 66. Cimitero Monumentale in Milan https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/14/day-in-history-14-june-henry-mancini/

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#1954 · June 14, 2025, 7:18 am

RIP OTD in 1986, short-story writer (Ficciones, El Aleph), essayist, poet and translator, Jorge Luis Borges died of liver cancer in Geneva at the age of 86. Cimetière de Rois, Plainpalais, Geneva https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/14/day-in-history-14-june-henry-mancini/

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#1955 · June 16, 2025, 6:12 am

OTD in 1904 the classic and complex novel, Ulysses by the Irish writer, James Joyce, chronicles the appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of one day: 16 June 1904. Joyce fans always celebrate this day as Bloomsday.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_%28novel%29

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#1956 · June 16, 2025, 6:14 am

OTD in 1952 Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl (translated into English), was published in the USA. It documents the teenager’s life in hiding in Amsterdam from 1942 to 1944, and became a huge worldwide best seller.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl

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#1957 · June 16, 2025, 4:17 pm

"No man is an island" by John Donne

No man is an island,

Entire of itself,

Every man is a piece of the continent,

A part of the main.

If a clod be washed away by the sea,

Europe is the less.

As well as if a promontory were.

As well as if a manor of thy friend’s

Or of thine own were:

Any man’s death diminishes me,

Because I am involved in mankind

And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;

It tolls for thee.

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#1958 · June 19, 2025, 6:50 am

RIP OTD in 1937, author, dramatist (Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up), J. M. Barrie died of pneumonia in London at the age of 77. Barrie and Ogilivie family plot in Kirriemuir Cemetery, Kirriemuir, Scotland https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/19/day-in-history-19-june-j-m-barrie/

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#1959 · June 21, 2025, 6:32 am

RIP OTD in 1527, historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance, Niccolò Machiavelli died in Florence, aged 58. Church of Santa Croce in Florence (portrait by Santi di Tito) https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/

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#1960 · June 21, 2025, 6:33 am

RIP OTD in 1914 Austrian-Bohemian pacifist, novelist (Die Waffen nieder! (Lay Down Your Arms!)), the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Bertha von Suttner died of cancer in Vienna aged 71. Hauptfriedhof, Gotha, Germany https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/

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