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#1381 · July 17, 2024, 2:05 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2020 minister, author, close friend and lieutenant of Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement, C. T. Vivian died from natural causes in Atlanta aged 95. Westview Cemetery, Atlanta thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/17/day
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#1382 · July 18, 2024, 2:13 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2006 novelist (Mike Hammer series) the "king of pulp fiction" Mickey Spillane died at his home in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, of pancreatic cancer aged 88. Cenotaph Murrells Inlet Marshwalk, Murrells Inlet thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/17/day
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#1383 · July 18, 2024, 2:15 pm
#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 thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/18/day
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#1384 · July 19, 2024, 2:12 pm
#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 thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/19/day
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#1385 · July 20, 2024, 1:57 pm
#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 thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/20/day
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#1386 · July 21, 2024, 2:10 pm
#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 thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/21/day
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#1387 · July 21, 2024, 2:11 pm
#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 thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/21/day
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#1388 · July 21, 2024, 2:12 pm
#RIP #OTD 2015 novelist (Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The March), editor, professor, E. L. Doctorow died of lung cancer in Manhattan, aged 84, in Manhattan. Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/21/day
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#1389 · July 22, 2024, 2:08 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1967, poet (Chicago Poems, Cornhuskers, Smoke and Steel), writer, winner of three Pulitzers, Carl Sandburg died in Flat Rock, North Carolina, aged 89. Cremated remains under “Remembrance Rock”, his birth house, Galesburg, Illinois thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/22/day
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#1390 · July 23, 2024, 2:17 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1859 actress, poet (Élégies et romances) and novelist, a founder of French Romantic poetry, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore died in Paris aged 73. Montmartre Cemetery, Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/23/day
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#1391 · July 23, 2024, 2:18 pm
#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 thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/23/day
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#1392 · July 25, 2024, 2:35 pm
#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 thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/25/day
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#1393 · July 25, 2024, 2:35 pm
#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 thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/25/day
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#1394 · July 25, 2024, 2:35 pm
#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 thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/25/day
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#1395 · July 27, 2024, 2:00 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1946, novelist (The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Three Lives, Tender Buttons), poet, playwright, art collector, Gertrude Stein died at the age of 72 from stomach cancer in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2023/07/27/day
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#1396 · July 28, 2024, 2:04 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1655, novelist (L'Autre Monde: ou les États et Empires de la Lune, Les États et Empires du Soleil), playwright, duelist, subject of Edmond Rostand's drama, Cyrano de Bergerac died in Sannois, France aged 36. unspecified church in Sannois thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/28/day
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#1397 · July 30, 2024, 2:17 pm
Edna O’Brien, groundbreaking Irish novelist, dies at 93
Edna O’Brien, groundbreaking Irish novelist, dies at 93
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#1398 · July 30, 2024, 2:20 pm
30 July 1935. The 1st Penguin paperback books were published in London by Allen Lane, with the aim of making quality books available to all at low prices. The books cost 6-pence and were colour-coded: orange for fiction, blue for biography, and green for crime.
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#1399 · July 31, 2024, 2:12 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1944 writer (Le Petit Prince; Wind, Sand and Stars; Night Flight), aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry disappeared on a reconnaissance flight over the Mediterranean off the coast of Marseille, aged 44. Memorial at Les Invalides in Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/31/day
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#1400 · July 31, 2024, 2:14 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2012, writer (Myra Breckinridge,The City and the Pillar), screenwriter (Ben-Hur), playwright Gore Vidal died at his home in Hollywood Hills, California of complications from pneumonia at the age of 86. Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C. thefinalfootprint.com/2024/07/31/day
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