Quote from Anne On on August 2, 2025, 6:11 am

RIP OTD in 1999, University of Texas at Austin graduate, writer (North Toward Home, My Dog Skip), editor (Harper's Magazine) Willie Morris died from a heart attack in Jackson, Mississippi at the age of 64. Glenwood Cemetery in Yazoo City, Mississippi https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/08/

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on August 3, 2025, 6:39 am

RIP OTD in 1924 novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness) Joseph Conrad died of a heart attack in Bishopsbourne, England at the age of 66. Canterbury City Cemetery in Canterbury, Kent, England https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/08/03/day-in-history-3-august-joseph-conrad/

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on August 3, 2025, 6:39 am

RIP OTD in 1954, French writer (Gigi, Les Vrilles de la vigne),  mime, actress, journalist, Colette died in Paris at the age of 81. Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/08/03/day-in-history-3-august-joseph-conrad/

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on August 3, 2025, 6:40 am

RIP OTD in 1964, writer (Wise Blood, The Violent Bear it Away, A Good Man is hard to Find) Flannery O’Connor died at the age of 39, of complications from lupus, at Baldwin County Hospital in Milledgeville, Georgia. Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/08/03/day-in-history-3-august-joseph-conrad/

 

 

Quote from Anne On on August 3, 2025, 6:41 am

RIP OTD in 2008 Russian novelist and dissident, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, died (aged 89). He was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and Communism and helped to raise global awareness of the brutal Soviet Gulag forced-labor camp system.

 

 

 

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

Quote from Anne On on August 4, 2025, 6:42 am

RIP OTD in 1875, author ("The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Red Shoes", "The Princess and the Pea", "The Snow Queen") poet Hans Christian Andersen died; liver cancer in Rolighed (calmness) house, near Copenhagen, aged 70. Assistens Cemetery, Copenhagen https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/08/

 

 

Quote from Anne On on August 5, 2025, 6:43 am

RIP OTD in 1895. German philosopher Friedrich Engels died (aged 74). He co-authored, The Communist Manifesto, with Karl Marx, and funded his research and writing. He was also a businessman, whose father owned large textile factories in Salford and Barmen, Prussia.

 

 

 

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

Quote from Anne On on August 5, 2025, 6:44 am

RIP OTD in 2019, novelist (The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved), essayist, editor, professor, Toni Morrison died at Montefiore Medical Center in The Bronx from pneumonia, aged 88. South View Cemetery, Atlanta https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/08/

 

 

Quote from Anne On on August 6, 2025, 5:57 am

RIP OTD in 2018 poet (The Ninety-Third Name of God, I Watched You Disappear, From Nothing, Second Bloom, Saint Agnostica) Anya Krugovoy Silver died from breast cancer in Macon, Georgia at the age of 49 https://thefinalfootprint.com/

 

Quote from Anne On on August 7, 2025, 6:37 am

RIP OTD in 1941, poet, novelist, musician, painter and playwright, Nobel Prize recipient, The Shakespeare of India, Rabindranath Tagore died in the Jorasanko house in which he was raised in Calcutta, age 80. Cremated remains scattered in the Ganges River https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/08/07/day-in-history-7-august-rabindranath-tagore/

 

Quote from Anne On on August 7, 2025, 6:38 am

RIP OTD in 1974, poet ("Valium 10"), author (Balún-Canán, Oficio de tinieblas, Rito de iniciación), Rosario Castellanos died from an accidental electrocution in Tel Aviv, aged 49. Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres, Panteón Civil de Dolores, Mexico City https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/08/07/day-in-history-7-august-rabindranath-tagore/

 

 

Quote from Anne On on August 8, 2025, 6:27 am

RIP OTD in 1936, Native American author (Cogewea, the Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range; Coyote Stories), Mourning Dove died; state hospital in Medical Lake, Washington aged about 48. Omak Memorial Cemetery in Omak, Washington https://thefinalfootprint.com/

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on August 8, 2025, 6:28 am

RIP OTD in 1965, writer ("The Lottery", The Haunting of Hill House), Shirley Jackson died of heart failure in her sleep at her home in North Bennington, Vermont at the age of 48. Cremation https://thefinalfootprint.com/

 

Quote from Anne On on August 9, 2025, 6:57 am

RIP OTD in 1962, poet, novelist (Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, The Glass Bead Game), painter, Nobel Prize laureate, Hermann Hesse died at the age of 85 in Montagnola, Switzerland. Cemetery at San Abbondio in Montagnola https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/08/09/day-in-history-9-august-sharon-tate/

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on August 10, 2025, 6:48 am

RIP OTD in 1868, actress (Mazeppa), painter, poet (Infelicia), the Menken, Adah Isaacs Menken died in Paris from of peritonitis and tuberculosis, aged 33. Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/08/10/day-in-history-10-august-isaac-hayes/

 

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on August 11, 2025, 6:39 am

RIP OTD in 1937 novelist (The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome), short story writer, Pulitzer, Edith Wharton died; stroke; domaine Le Pavillon Colombe, her home in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, aged 75. Cimetière des Gonards, in Versailles https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/08/

 

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on August 11, 2025, 6:40 am

RIP OTD in 2018 Trinidadian novelist and travel writer V. S. Naipaul died (aged 85). He’s best known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his complex novels of the wider world, and his chronicles of his life and travels. His prose was widely admired.

 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._S._Naipaul