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#1441 · August 18, 2024, 2:02 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1981 actress, novelist (Gentleman Prefer Blondes), playwright (Gigi), screenwriter Anita Loos died in Manhattan's Doctors Hospital, aged 93. Etna Cemetery, Etna, California thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/18/day
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#1442 · August 19, 2024, 1:48 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1936 poet, playwright and theatre director Federico García Lorca was executed by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War near Alfacar, Granada, Spain at the age of 38. Grave unknown. Memorial at Barranco de Viznar thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/19/day
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#1443 · August 20, 2024, 2:04 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1887, innovative Symbolist poet (L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune), model for Renoir's 1881 painting Le Déjeuner des canotiers, Jules Laforgue died in Paris of tuberulosis, aged 27. Cimètiere de Bagneux, France thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/20/day
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#1444 · August 20, 2024, 2:04 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2013 novelist (Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Swag, Hombre, Mr. Majestyk, Rum Punch), screenwriter, the Dickens of Detroit, Elmore Leonard died from stroke complications at his home in Bloomfield, Michigan, age 87. Greenwood Cemetery, Birmingham MI thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/20/day
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#1445 · August 21, 2024, 1:50 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1762 aristocrat, writer (Turkish Embassy Letters), poet, smallpox vaccine advocate, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu died at her house on Great George Street, London, aged 73. Entombment Grosvenor Chapel. Memorial Lichfield Cathedral thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/21/day
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#1446 · August 22, 2024, 1:22 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1904 author of short stories ("Désirée's Baby", "The Story of an Hour", "The Storm", "At the Cadian Ball") and novels (The Awakening) Kate Chopin died from a brain hemorrhage in St. Louis, Missouri, aged 54. Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/22/day
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#1447 · August 22, 2024, 1:23 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2009 University of Texas at Austin graduate, journalist, novelist (The Time it Never Rained, The Good Old Boys, The Man Who Rode Midnight), Elmer Kelton died; natural causes; San Angelo, Texas aged 83. Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens, San Angelo thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/22/day
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#1448 · August 23, 2024, 2:01 pm
23 August 1947. Playwright William (“Willy”) Russell was born in Whiston, Merseyside. His best known works are Educating Rita, Shirley Valentine, and the musicals Blood Brothers and John, Paul, George, Ringo and Bert. Shirley Valentine & Educating Rita became feature films.
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#1449 · August 24, 2024, 1:50 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1943, French philosopher (L'Iliade ou le poème de la force, L'Enracinement, La Pesanteur et la Grâce), mystic, social activist, Simone Weil died in a sanatorium in Ashford, Kent, England, from cardiac failure aged 34. Bybrook Cemetery, Ashford thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/24/day
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#1450 · August 25, 2024, 1:50 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1776, Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, David Hume died in Edinburgh at the age of 65. Hume Family private mausoleum stands on the south-western slope of Calton Hill, in the Old Calton Cemetery in Edinburgh thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/25/day
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#1451 · August 25, 2024, 1:51 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1900 writer (Thus Spoke Zarathustra), philosopher, poet, composer, classical philologist, Friedrich Nietzsche died; stroke; Weimar, German Empire aged 55. Röcken bei Lützen, Germany. Sculpture Das Röckener Bacchanal; Klaus Messerschmidt thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/25/day
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#1452 · August 25, 2024, 1:51 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1984, author (Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood) Truman Capote died in the Los Angeles home of Johnny Carson's ex-wife Joanne, from liver cancer aged 59. Cremated remains: Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles & Crooked Pond, Long Island NY thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/25/day
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#1453 · August 26, 2024, 2:11 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2018, playwright, screenwriter (Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, The Goodbye Girl, California Suite, The Out-of-Towners) Neil Simon died at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Manhattan aged 91. Pound Ridge Cemetery, Pound Ridge, New York thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/26/day
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#1454 · August 27, 2024, 2:00 pm
27 August 1660. John Milton’s books were burned in London, due to his critical writings on Charles II. It followed a royal proclamation, issued on 13 August, which called for the suppression and burning of books by Milton.
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#1455 · August 27, 2024, 2:02 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1950, poet, novelist (La Bella Estate, Tra Donne Sole), literary critic and translator Cesare Pavese, died from an overdose of barbiturates in Turin, Italy at the age of 41. Cimitero di Santo Stefano Belbo, Piemonte, Italy thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/27/day
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#1456 · August 27, 2024, 2:03 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1963 author, sociologist, socialist, historian, Pan-Africanist civil rights activist, one of the founders of the NAACP, W. E. B. Dubois died in Accra, Ghana at the age of 95. Du Bois Memorial Centre, Accra thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/27/day
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#1457 · August 28, 2024, 1:48 pm
#RIP #OTD 1859 critic, essayist, friend of Keats and Shelley, poet ("Jenny kiss'd Me", "Abou Ben Adhem", "A Night-Rain in Summer"), Leigh Hunt died in Putney, London, aged 74. Kensal Green Cemetery thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/28/day
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#1458 · August 29, 2024, 7:01 pm
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#1460 · August 30, 2024, 2:05 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2013, poet (Death of a Naturalist), playwright Seamus Heaney died at the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin, aged 74. Cemetery of St Mary's Church, Bellaghy, Northern Ireland thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/30/day
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