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#1981 · July 4, 2025, 6:54 am
RIP OTD in 1990 journalist, writer (novel Cold Sassy Tree) Olive Ann Burns died of heart failure in Atlanta, aged 65. Grey Hill Cemetery, Commerce, Georgia https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/
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#1982 · July 5, 2025, 6:14 am
OTD 1687. Isaac Newton published Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, stating his laws of motion and universal gravitation. The Principia is considered one of the most important works in the history of science.
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#1983 · July 6, 2025, 6:53 am
RIP OTD in 1893, writer (short stories "Boule de Suif", "Le Horla") Guy de Maupassant died from syphilis in the private asylum of Esprit Blanche at Passy, in Paris at the age of 42. Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/
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#1984 · July 6, 2025, 6:53 am
RIP OTD in 1962, writer (The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying; Light in August) screenwriter (To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep), William Faulkner died; heart attack; Wright’s Sanitorium, Byhalia, Mississippi aged 64. St. Peter’s Cemetery, Oxford MS https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/
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#1985 · July 7, 2025, 6:11 am
RIP OTD in 1930, Scottish physician and writer (Sherlock Holmes), Arthur Conan Doyle died at his home, Windlesham Manor, Crowborough, East Sussex, England from a heart attack at the age of 71. Minstead churchyard in New Forest, Hampshire, England https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/
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#1986 · July 7, 2025, 6:13 am
RIP OTD in 2008, sister of Suzy Parker, engineer, supermodel (Revlon's Fire and Ice campaign), business owner, cookbook author, Dorian Leigh died in a Falls Church, Virginia nursing home from Alzheimer's disease at the age of 91 https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/
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#1987 · July 8, 2025, 6:51 am
RIP OTD in 1822 English poet Percy Shelley (aged 29), drowned in Italy, while sailing his boat Ariel on the Gulf of Spezia. Shelley was not famous or acclaimed during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death.
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#1988 · July 9, 2025, 5:46 am
RIP OTD in July 1797. Dublin-born philosopher Edmund Burke died (aged 68). He’s best known for his influential book Reflections on the Revolution in France, which predicted it would end in tyranny and disaster. https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/
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#1989 · July 11, 2025, 5:51 am
11 July 1960. Classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee was 1st published in the USA. It later became a successful Hollywood film. Lee only published one other book, which was a draft of her first novel. In 2007, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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#1990 · July 12, 2025, 6:33 am
RIP OTD in 1926, writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist Gertrude Bell died in Baghdad of an apparent overdose of sleeping pills at the age of 57. British cemetery in Baghdad's Bab al-Sharji district https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/
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#1991 · July 14, 2025, 6:04 am
RIP OTD in 1817 philosopher, writer (Delphine, Corinne ou l'Italie, De l'Allemagne), political theorist, opponent of Napoleon, Germaine de Staël died at her home in Paris aged 51. Cimetière de Coppet, Switzerland (portrait by Marie-Éléonore Godefroid) https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/
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#1992 · July 15, 2025, 6:01 am
RIP OTD in 1885 Galician poet, Rosalía de Castro died from uterine cancer in Padrón, Spain, aged 48. Panteón de Galegos Ilustres, Convent of San Domingos de Bonaval in Santiago de Compostela, Spain https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/
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#1993 · July 15, 2025, 6:02 am
RIP OTD in 1904, playwright (The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard) and short story writer Anton Chekhov died from tuberculosis at the age of 44 in Badenweiler, German Empire. Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/
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#1994 · July 16, 2025, 6:41 am
RIP OTD in 1995 poet, novelist, memoirist (Journal of a Solitude, The House by the Sea, Recovering), May Sarton died of breast cancer in York, Maine, aged 83. Nelson Cemetery, Nelson, New Hampshire https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/
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#1995 · July 16, 2025, 6:42 am
RIP OTD in 1995 poet, novelist (The Temple), essayist, US Poet Laureate in 1965, Stephen Spender died of a heart attack in Westminster, London, aged 86. Graveyard of St Mary on Paddington Green Church, in London https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/
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#1996 · July 17, 2025, 6:18 am
OTD 1841. The 1st issue of the famous satirical magazine, Punch, was published. It was subtitled: The London Charivari, in homage to Charles Philipon’s French satirical magazine, Le Charivari. The peak of its popularity was in the 19th century.
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#1997 · July 17, 2025, 6:20 am
RIP OTD in 2006 novelist (Mike Hammer series) the "king of pulp fiction" Mickey Spillane died at his home in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, of pancreatic cancer aged 88. Cenotaph Murrells Inlet Marshwalk, Murrells Inlet https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/17/day-in-history-17-july-billie-holiday/
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#1998 · July 17, 2025, 1:23 pm
RIP OTD in 2020 minister, author, close friend and lieutenant of Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement, C. T. Vivian died from natural causes in Atlanta aged 95. Westview Cemetery, Atlanta https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/17/day-in-history-17-july-billie-holiday/
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#1999 · July 17, 2025, 1:32 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis
John Lewis, an icon of the American Civil Rights Movement, died on this day five years ago.
— Jacobin (@jacobinmag.bsky.social) 2025-07-17T11:59:58.956776745Z
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#2000 · July 18, 2025, 6:29 am
RIP OTD in 1817, novelist (Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma) Jane Austen died in Winchester, England at the age of 41. North aisle of the nave of Winchester Cathedral https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/18/day-in-history-18-july-jane-austen/
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