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#1741 · February 10, 2025, 7:11 am
RIP OTD in 1957 writer (Little House on the Prairie) Laura Ingalls Wilder died at her Rocky Ridge Farm home in Mansfield, Missouri, in her sleep, aged 90. Mansfield Cemetery in Mansfield https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/10/day-in-history-10-february-arthur-miller/
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#1742 · February 10, 2025, 7:12 am
RIP OTD in 1966 impresario, theatrical showman, columnist, lyricist, husband of Fanny Brice, Billy Rose died of lobar pneumonia at his vacation home in Montego Bay, Jamaica aged 66. Westchester Hills Cemetery Hastings-on-Hudson, New York https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/10/day-in-history-10-february-arthur-miller/
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#1743 · February 10, 2025, 7:13 am
RIP OTD in 1992, writer (The Autobiography of Malcolm X; Roots: The Saga of an American Family) Alex Haley died in Seattle, Washington, of a heart attack at the age of 70. Interment beside his childhood home in Henning, Tennessee https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/10/day-in-history-10-february-arthur-miller/
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#1744 · February 10, 2025, 7:14 am
RIP OTD in 2005, playwright, essayist, screenwriter (All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, The Misfits), Arthur Miller, died at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, aged 89. Roxbury Center Cemetery https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/10/day-in-history-10-february-arthur-miller/
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#1745 · February 11, 2025, 6:56 am
RIP OTD in 1650, philosopher, mathematician, scientist and writer, “The Father of Modern Philosophy”, René Descartes, died in Stockholm, Sweden at the age of 53. Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2024/02/11/day
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#1746 · February 11, 2025, 6:56 am
RIP OTD in 1963 poet (The Colossus and Other Poems, Ariel), writer (The Bell Jar), Pulitzer Prize recipient, Sylvia Plath died; carbon monoxide poisoning in her kitchen in London, age 30. Heptonstall’s parish churchyard of St Thomas the Apostle thefinalfootprint.com/2024/02/11/day
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#1747 · February 12, 2025, 7:16 am
RIP OTD in 1980 poet (The Book of the Dead, “To be a Jew in the Twentieth Century"), essayist, biographer, and political activist, Muriel Rukeyser died from a stroke in New York City aged 66. Salem Fields Cemetery, Brooklyn https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/12/day-in-history-12-february-tom-landry/
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#1748 · February 14, 2025, 11:58 am
Did you know the earliest known Valentine letter we have dates to February 1477, when Margery Brews wrote to the man she hoped to marry, John Paston. To learn more about the marriage negotiations and Margery's pleading for the union to go ahead, click 👇🏾nathenamin.substack.com/p/margery-br...
— Nathen Amin ✒️📚 (@nathenamin.bsky.social) 2025-02-14T08:47:26.805Z
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#1749 · February 14, 2025, 12:02 pm
"I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy."🎭 #OTD in #Theatre #History 14 February 1895, #OscarWilde's THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST opened at the St James's Theatre, London.
— Nathan Francis (@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social) 2025-02-14T00:48:44.439Z
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#1750 · February 14, 2025, 12:06 pm
RIP OTD in 1975 novelist Pelham Grenville (“PG”) Wodehouse, died aged 93.
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#1751 · February 14, 2025, 12:11 pm
RIP OTD in 1989 ornithologist, author (Birds of the West Indies), the man whose name became 007’s, James Bond died from cancer in the Chestnut Hill Hospital in Philadelphia aged 89. Church of the Messiah in Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/14/day
Ian Fleming, who was a keen bird watcher living in Jamaica, was familiar with Bond's book, and chose the name of its author for the hero of Casino Royale in 1953, apparently because he wanted a name that sounded "as ordinary as possible".
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#1752 · February 14, 2025, 12:15 pm
Died #otd Dick Francis (1920-2010), English jockey and crime writer, 15 years ago today #DickFrancis life story...
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#1753 · February 15, 2025, 11:53 am
RIP OTD in 1998 novelist, travel writer, journalist, one of the great war correspondents, third wife of Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn died from cyanide poisoning in London, aged 89. Cremated remains scattered in the Thames https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/15/day-in-history-15-february-nat-king-cole/
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#1754 · February 16, 2025, 12:50 pm
RIP OTD in 1917, novelist (Le Jardin des supplices, Le Journal d'une femme de chambre, Les Vingt et un Jours d'un neurasthénique), art critic, travel writer, journalist, playwright, Octave Mirbeau died in Paris, aged 69. Passy Cemetery, Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/16/day
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#1755 · February 16, 2025, 12:50 pm
Ranked among the greatest British writers since 1945, she wrote novels, short stories and drama that stood defiantly apart from the work of her contemporaries...Angela CarterMay 7, 1940 – February 16, 1992
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#1756 · February 17, 2025, 6:40 am
RIP OTD in 1673, playwright (Tartuffe, Le Misanthrope, Les Femmes savantes, L'école des femmes), actor Molière (portrait by Pierre Mignard) died at his home in Paris from tuberculosis, aged 51. Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/17/day-in-history-17-february-thelonious-monk/
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#1757 · February 18, 2025, 12:32 pm
#OnThisDay 1678: First publication of John Bunyan’s ‘The Pilgrim's Progress’, one of the most significant works of religious English literature. Bunyan was a Puritan preacher who spent 12 years in jail for holding unlawful meetings outside the auspices of the Church of England.
— English Radical History (@englishradical.bsky.social) 2025-02-18T08:00:13+00:00
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#1758 · February 18, 2025, 1:55 pm
RIP OTD in 2014, writer of novels, plays, essays, short stories (From the Fifteenth District, The Pegnitz Junction, Home Truths), Mavis Gallant died in Paris aged 91. Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/18/day
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#1759 · February 19, 2025, 12:05 pm
RIP OTD in 2016 medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist (The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum), cultural critic, Umberto Eco died at his Milanese home of pancreatic cancer, aged 84. Cremated remains Cimitero Monumentale in Milano https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/19/day-in-history-19-february-bon-scott/
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#1760 · February 19, 2025, 12:06 pm
RIP OTD in 2016, novelist (To Kill a Mockingbird) Harper Lee died in her sleep in Monroeville, Alabama at the age of 89. Hillcrest Cemetery in Monroeville https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/19/day-in-history-19-february-bon-scott/
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