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#1341 · June 23, 2024, 1:59 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2013 author (I Am Legend, "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", "Steel", "Duel", Hell House, What Dreams May Come), screenwriter Richard Matheson died at his home in Los Angeles aged 87. Cremation thefinalfootprint.com/2024/06/23/day
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#1342 · June 23, 2024, 2:01 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2018 14th poet laureate of the US, first poetry editor of The Paris Review, writer, editor, literary critic, husband of poet Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall died at his home in Wilmot, New Hampshire aged 89. Proctor Cemetery, Andover, New Hampshire thefinalfootprint.com/2024/06/23/day
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#1343 · June 24, 2024, 2:03 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1909 novelist, short story writer (The Country of the Pointed Firs), poet, Sarah Orne Jewett died in her South Berwick, Maine home from a stroke aged 59. Portland Street Cemetery, South Berwick, Maine thefinalfootprint.com/2024/06/24/day
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#1344 · June 24, 2024, 2:07 pm
24 June 1965. John Lennon’s 2nd book, A Spaniard in the Works, was published in the UK. It consists of nonsensical stories and drawings similar to the style of his previous best-selling book, In His Own Write, published in 1964.
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#1345 · June 26, 2024, 1:58 pm
26 June 1996. Investigative Journalist, Veronica Guerin (aged 37), was shot dead by members of a drug gang, while driving through the outskirts of Dublin, Ireland. A biographical film detailing her life, career and death was released in 2003, with Guerin played by Cate Blanchett.
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#1346 · June 26, 2024, 1:59 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2012, journalist, writer, filmmaker (Silkwood, Heartburn, When Harry Met Sally..., Sleepless in Seattle, Michael, You’ve Got Mail, Julie & Julia) Nora Ephron died from acute myeloid leukemia in New York City at the age of 71. Cremation thefinalfootprint.com/2024/06/26/day
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#1347 · June 27, 2024, 2:02 pm
27 June 1965. Simon Sebag Montefiore was born in London. He’s the author of best selling and award-winning books, particularly on Russian and Soviet history. His books Jerusalem: The Biography, and The World: A Family History were global bestsellers.
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#1348 · June 27, 2024, 2:03 pm
27 June 1970. James Holland was born in Salisbury. He’s written a number of best selling history books on different aspects on WW2, most notably, the Battle of Britain, D-Day, the Dambusters, The Savage Storm, and 2 volumes on The War in the West: 1939-1945.
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#1349 · June 28, 2024, 2:07 pm
28 June 1935. The 1st Rupert Bear cartoon series appeared in the Daily Express newspaper. Rupert Bear began his cartoon life on 8 November 1920 in a cartoon strip called “Little Lost Bear”, but he was not given his own series by The Daily Express as Rupert until 1935.
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#1350 · June 29, 2024, 2:29 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1861, poet (Sonnets from the Portuguese, Aurora Leigh) of the Victorian era, wife of poet and playwright Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning died in Rome in Robert’s arms at the age of 55. The English Cemetery of Florence thefinalfootprint.com/2024/06/29/day
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#1351 · June 30, 2024, 1:58 pm
30 June 1905. Albert Einstein had a paper published in the scientific journal, Annalen der Physik, which set out his landmark theory of Special Relativity, which explains the relationship between space and time and between energy and mass.
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#1352 · June 30, 2024, 1:58 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1984 playwright (The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes, The Autumn Garden, Toys in the Attic), screenwriter, Lillian Hellman died; heart attack near her home, Martha's Vineyard aged 79. Abel Hill Cemetery, Chilmark, Massachusetts (Irving Penn) thefinalfootprint.com/2024/06/30/day
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#1353 · July 1, 2024, 1:43 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1896 author (Uncle Tom's Cabin) and abolitionist, Harriet Beecher Stowe died in Hartford, Connecticut, aged 85. Phillips Academy Cemetery in Andover, Massachusetts thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/01/day
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#1354 · July 2, 2024, 2:14 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1566, French apothecary and reputed seer, author, translator, astrological consultant, Nostradamus died at the age of 62 in Salon-de-Provence, Provence, France. Collégiale Saint-Laurent in Salon-de-Provence thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/02/day
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#1355 · July 2, 2024, 2:15 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1778, Genevan philosopher, writer (Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse, Les Confessions) composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau died; estate of the marquis René Louis de Girardin at Ermenonville, near Paris, from a hemorrhage, aged 66. Panthéon in Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/02/day
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#1356 · July 2, 2024, 2:15 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1961, author (The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea), journalist, Ernest Hemingway died; self inflicted gunshot at his home in Ketchum, Idaho, aged 61. Hemingway family plot, Ketchum Cemetery thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/02/day
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#1357 · July 2, 2024, 2:16 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1977 novelist (Lolita; Pale Fire; Speak, Memory), poet, translator, and entomologist, Vladimir Nabokov died in Montreux, Switzerland, aged 78. His remains were cremated and buried at Clarens cemetery in Montreux thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/02/day
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#1358 · July 2, 2024, 2:17 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1991, author (The Godfather, The Sicilian), screenwriter, Mario Puzo died of heart failure at his home on Manor Lane in West Bay Shore, Long Island, New York, at the age of 78. West Babylon Cemetery in West Babylon, New York thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/02/day
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#1359 · July 2, 2024, 2:19 pm
2 July 2010. Liverpool-born novelist Beryl Bainbridge died (aged 77). She’s best known for her psychological novels. She popularised the myth of Hitler once living in Liverpool, in “Young Adolf”. In 2008, The Times named her as one of the “50 Greatest British Writers since 1945”.
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#1360 · July 2, 2024, 2:20 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2016 writer (Night, Dawn, Day) professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel died at his home in Manhattan, aged 87. Sharon Gardens Cemetery in Valhalla, New York thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/02/day
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