#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://t.co/3cDppZLGuP pic.twitter.com/EZzqmDBkFX

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#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://t.co/3cDppZLGuP pic.twitter.com/ECVvSTz34L

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) July 15, 2023

15 July 1919. Acclaimed novelist, Iris Murdoch, was born in Dublin, Ireland. She’s best known for her novels about sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. In 2008, The Times ranked her 12th on its list of “The 50 Greatest British Writers since 1945”. pic.twitter.com/KhdKk6nUwU

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) July 15, 2023

#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://t.co/tyZ9gjTGIT pic.twitter.com/9ySMHKDq17

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#RIP #OTD 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://t.co/tyZ9gjTGIT pic.twitter.com/LEW3QXnP31

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) July 16, 2023

18 July 1811. William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta, India. He’s best known for his novels, Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of British society, and The Luck of Barry Lyndon. In Victorian times, he was ranked 2nd to Charles Dickens, but he’s now less widely read. pic.twitter.com/S8Hg8ljcu3

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) July 18, 2023

#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://t.co/nhCopXPbw8 pic.twitter.com/71paGfBNhT

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#RIP #OTD in 1374, scholar, poet (Il Canzoniere, expressing his love for Laura), humanist, “The Father of Humanism”, “The Father of the Renaissance”, Petrarch died at his home in Arquà Petrarca, Veneto, Italy, age 69. Town square of Arquà Petrarca https://t.co/l5FwpeZgyg pic.twitter.com/LM8sDUFt87

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) July 19, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 1945 poet ("Le Cimetière marin", "La Jeune Parque", "L'Ébauche d'un serpent"), essayist, philosopher Paul Valéry died in Paris, aged 73. Cimetière Marin, Sète, France https://t.co/9NPwuZAqss pic.twitter.com/2z4eBGzJVG

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) July 20, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 1796, poet, lyricist, ("Auld Lang Syne", "Scots Wha Hae", "A Red, Red Rose", "Ae Fond Kiss"), Scotland’s favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard, Robert Burns died; Dumfries, Scotland, aged 37. St. Michael’s Churchyard, Dumfries https://t.co/EOH2VYte3O pic.twitter.com/RMfztXLWrc

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) July 21, 2023

21 July 1899. Acclaimed American novelist, Ernest Hemingway, was born in Oak Park, Illinois, USA. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published several novels including For Whom The Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea. pic.twitter.com/E622RQg6uf

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) July 21, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 1938, writer (The Virginian), “Father of Western Fiction”, Owen Wister died at his home in Saunderstown, Rhode Island at the age of 78. Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia https://t.co/EOH2VYte3O pic.twitter.com/MQ5rABIUq3

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) July 21, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 1967, poet (Chicago Poems, Cornhuskers, Smoke and Steel), writer, winner of three Pulitzer Prizes, Carl Sandburg died in Flat Rock, North Carolina, aged 89. Cremated remains under “Remembrance Rock”, his birth house, Galesburg, Illinois https://t.co/ShpIXhrFV0 pic.twitter.com/mimpqLPJFw

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) July 22, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 2001, author of short stories and novels (The Ponder Heart, The Optimist's Daughter, A Curtain of Green), photographer, Pulitzer Prize recipient, Eudora Welty died at her home in Jackson, Mississippi aged 92. Greenwood Cemetery in Jackson https://t.co/5GVSzgXESM pic.twitter.com/RjDTfsXfXd

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) July 23, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 1834 poet (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan), philosopher, a founder of the Romantic Movement, one of the Lake Poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge died at 3, The Grove, Highgate, London, aged 61. Saint Michael Churchyard, Highgate https://t.co/q4Fx75FUJY pic.twitter.com/zBOHZ86Qy0

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) July 25, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 1794 poet, subject of Umberto Giordano's opera Andrea Chénier, André Chénier was guillotined for conspiracy at what is now the Place de la Nation, Paris, three days before the end of the Reign of Terror, aged 31. Cimetière de Picpus, Paris https://t.co/q4Fx75FUJY pic.twitter.com/u565TWQv0H

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) July 25, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 1966 writer, poet (Lunch Poems), art critic, Museum of Modern Art curator, Frank O'Hara died; injuries after being hit by a jeep on Fire Island beach, at Bayview Hospital, Mastic Beach, Long Island, aged 40. Green River Cemetery, Springs NY https://t.co/q4Fx75FUJY pic.twitter.com/47kGl8Cfer

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) July 25, 2023

26 July 1856. George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin. He wrote more than 60 plays, including major works such as Man and Superman, Pygmalion (later turned into musical My Fair Lady), and Saint Joan. He was also the first writer to win a Nobel Prize (1925) and an Oscar (1938). pic.twitter.com/0IcSYUjKkH

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) July 26, 2023

26 July 1894. Aldous Huxley was born in Godalming, Surrey. He’s best known for the dystopian novel, Brave New World. Huxley died 7 hours after the assassination of American President John F. Kennedy on 22 November 1963, and so his death received very little media coverage. pic.twitter.com/yzCBLfEGLX

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) July 26, 2023