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#1321 · June 7, 2024, 2:11 pm
7 June 1970. Edward Morgan (“E. M.”) Forster died (aged 91). His novels examine class differences and hypocrisy, including: A Room with a View, Howards End & A Passage to India. All were made into films. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 16 times, but never won.
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#1322 · June 8, 2024, 1:48 pm
#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 thefinalfootprint.com/2024/06/08/day
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#1323 · June 8, 2024, 1:49 pm
#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 thefinalfootprint.com/2024/06/08/day
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#1324 · June 8, 2024, 1:50 pm
8 June 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.
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#1325 · June 9, 2024, 2:05 pm
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#1326 · June 10, 2024, 1:59 pm
#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 thefinalfootprint.com/2024/06/10/day
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#1327 · June 10, 2024, 2:00 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 thefinalfootprint.com/2024/06/10/day
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#1328 · June 12, 2024, 1:55 pm
#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 thefinalfootprint.com/2024/06/12/day
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#1329 · June 13, 2024, 1:40 pm
#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 thefinalfootprint.com/2024/06/13/day
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#1330 · June 14, 2024, 2:04 pm
#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 thefinalfootprint.com/2024/06/14/day
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#1331 · June 14, 2024, 2:05 pm
14 June 1920. German-born Max Weber died (aged 56). He’s regarded as one of the most important theorists on the development of modern Western society and is often cited as one of the 4 founders of sociology, alongside Du Bois, Durkheim and Marx.
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#1332 · June 14, 2024, 2:06 pm
#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 thefinalfootprint.com/2024/06/14/day
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#1333 · June 14, 2024, 2:07 pm
#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 thefinalfootprint.com/2024/06/14/day
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#1334 · June 16, 2024, 1:27 pm
16 June 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.
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#1335 · June 19, 2024, 1:55 pm
#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 thefinalfootprint.com/?p=2648
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#1336 · June 19, 2024, 1:56 pm
19 June 1947. Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay, India. His fiction is set in India, combining magical realism with historical fiction. His best known novel is, The Satanic Verses, which led to a global Muslim protests in 1988. In 2022, he survived an assassination attempt.
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#1337 · June 19, 2024, 1:57 pm
19 June 1993. Leading novelist William Golding died (aged 81). He’s best known for Lord of the Flies. He also won a Nobel Prize in Literature and was awarded the Booker Prize for fiction in 1980 for his novel, Rites of Passage.
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#1338 · June 21, 2024, 2:08 pm
#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) thefinalfootprint.com/2024/06/21/day
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#1339 · June 21, 2024, 2:10 pm
#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 thefinalfootprint.com/2024/06/21/day
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#1340 · June 21, 2024, 2:11 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2003 US Marine Corps veteran, author (Exodus, Trinity, Topaz) Leon Uris died of kidney failure at his Long Island home on Shelter Island in 2003, aged 78. Quantico National Cemetery, Quantico, Virginia thefinalfootprint.com/2024/06/21/day
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