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#1361 · July 3, 2024, 2:04 pm
Screenwriter Robert Towne, known for 'Chinatown' and 'The Last Detail,' dies at 89. yahoo.com/entertainment/ via
Screenwriter Robert Towne, known for 'Chinatown' and 'The Last Detail,' dies at 89
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#1362 · July 3, 2024, 2:06 pm
3 July 1937. Tom Stoppard was born in Zlín, Czechoslovakia. His 1st major play was Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. The rest of his work covers the themes of human rights, censorship and political freedom. He is one of the most internationally performed dramatists.
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#1363 · July 4, 2024, 2:11 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1990 journalist, writer (novel Cold Sassy Tree) Olive Ann Burns died of heart failure in Atlanta, aged 65. Grey Hill Cemetery, Commerce, Georgia thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/04/day
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#1364 · July 5, 2024, 1:16 pm
5 July 1687. Isaac Newton published Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, stating his laws of motion and universal gravitation. The Principia is considered one of the most important works in the history of science.
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#1365 · July 6, 2024, 1:49 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1893, writer (short stories "Boule de Suif", "Le Horla") Guy de Maupassant died from syphilis in the private asylum of Esprit Blanche at Passy, in Paris at the age of 42. Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/06/day
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#1366 · July 6, 2024, 1:50 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1962, writer (The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying; Light in August) screenwriter (To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep), William Faulkner died; heart attack; Wright’s Sanitorium, Byhalia, Mississippi aged 64. St. Peter’s Cemetery, Oxford MS thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/06/day
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#1367 · July 6, 2024, 1:54 pm
6 July 1952. Hilary Mantel was born in Glossop. She twice won the Booker Prize, for her 2009 novel, Wolf Hall, and the 2012 novel, Bring Up the Bodies, the 2nd instalment of her Thomas Cromwell trilogy. The 3rd instalment The Mirror and the Light was released in March 2020.
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#1368 · July 7, 2024, 2:52 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1930, Scottish physician and writer (Sherlock Holmes), Arthur Conan Doyle died at his home, Windlesham Manor, Crowborough, East Sussex, England from a heart attack at the age of 71. Minstead churchyard in New Forest, Hampshire, England thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/07/day
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#1369 · July 8, 2024, 1:41 pm
#RIP #OTD poet ("Ozymandias", "Ode to the West Wind", The Spirit of Solitude, Prometheus Unbound, The Triumph of Life) Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned; Golfo di Genova, aged 29. Cremated remains in Bournemouth (Portrait by Alfred Clint) thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/08/day
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#1370 · July 8, 2024, 1:42 pm
8 July 1889. The 1st issue of The Wall Street Journal was published, consisting of 4 pages, and costing 2 cents. The specialist financial journal has been printed continuously since its inception on 6 days per week.
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#1371 · July 9, 2024, 1:58 pm
9 July 1797. Dublin-born philosopher Edmund Burke died (aged 68). He’s best known for his influential book Reflections on the Revolution in France, which predicted it would end in tyranny and disaster.
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#1372 · July 11, 2024, 2:14 pm
11 July 1960. Classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee was 1st published in the USA. It later became a successful Hollywood film. Lee only published one other book, which was a draft of her first novel. In 2007, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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#1373 · July 12, 2024, 1:59 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1926, writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist Gertrude Bell died in Baghdad of an apparent overdose of sleeping pills at the age of 57. British cemetery in Baghdad's Bab al-Sharji district thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/12/day
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#1374 · July 14, 2024, 1:55 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1817 philosopher, writer (Delphine, Corinne ou l'Italie, De l'Allemagne), political theorist, opponent of Napoleon, Germaine de Staël died at her home in Paris aged 51. Cimetière de Coppet, Switzerland (portait by Marie-Éléonore Godefroid) thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/14/day
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#1375 · July 15, 2024, 2:03 pm
#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 thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/15/day
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#1376 · July 15, 2024, 2:04 pm
#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 thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/15/day
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#1377 · July 15, 2024, 2:05 pm
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”.
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#1378 · July 16, 2024, 1:59 pm
#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 thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/16/day
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#1379 · July 16, 2024, 1:59 pm
#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 thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/16/day
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#1380 · July 17, 2024, 2:03 pm
17 July 1841. The 1st issue of the famous satirical magazine, Punch, was published. It was subtitled: The London Charivari, in homage to Charles Philipon’s French satirical magazine, Le Charivari. The peak of its popularity was in the 19th century.
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