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#1461 · August 31, 2024, 1:46 pm
31 August 1688. John Bunyan died (aged 59). He’s best known as the author of the classic Christian allegory, The Pilgrim’s Progress, which is one of the most important religious novels of all time.
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#1462 · August 31, 2024, 1:47 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1867, poet (Les Fleurs du mal), essayist, art critic, translator, Charles Baudelaire died in Paris at the age of 46. Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/31/day
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#1463 · August 31, 2024, 1:49 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1941 poet (Poem of the End, In the Inmost Hour of the Soul, Other Shepherds) Marina Tsvetaeva died by hanging herself in Yelabuga, Russia aged 41. Petropavlovskoe Cemetery, Yelabuga thefinalfootprint.com/2024/08/31/day
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#1464 · September 2, 2024, 1:47 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1944 writer, first wife of Marc Chagall, subject of his paintings (Bella au col blanc, Bouquet près de la fenêtre) Bella Rosenfeld died; bacterial infection; Tupper Lake, New York aged 48. Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson NY thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/02/day
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#1465 · September 2, 2024, 1:47 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1973 writer (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion), poet, philologist, and university professor, J.R.R. Tolkien died in Bournemouth, England at the age of 81. Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford, England thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/02/day
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#1466 · September 3, 2024, 1:58 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1962, poet ("Forward to an Exhibit: II", "i like my body", "since feeling is first "), painter, E. E. Cummings died; stroke; North Conway, New Hampshire, Memorial Hospital, aged 67. Cremated remains; Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/03/day
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#1467 · September 3, 2024, 1:59 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2017 poet ("The Skaters", "Into the Dusk-Charged Air", "Litany", "Bridge Poem", "At North Farm", "A Snowball in Hell") John Ashbery died at his home in Hudson, New York aged 90 thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/03/day
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#1468 · September 4, 2024, 1:45 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1914, poet, essayist, and editor Charles Péguy died in battle, shot in the forehead, in Villeroy, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France during World War I. Communal grave in the Grande Tombe de Villeroy thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/04/on-
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#1469 · September 5, 2024, 1:58 pm
5 September 1957, Jack Kerouac’s cult novel, On the Road, was first published in the USA. It follows Kerouac and his friends on a journey across the USA, against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use. It’s a defining work of the postwar Beat Generation.
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#1470 · September 5, 2024, 1:59 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1857, philosopher, founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism, Auguste Comte died in Paris at the age of 59 from stomach cancer. Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/05/day
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#1471 · September 6, 2024, 1:47 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1907, poet and essayist, recipient of the first Nobel Prize in Literature, Sully Prudhomme died at Châtenay-Malabry, France at the age of 68. Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/06/day
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#1472 · September 6, 2024, 1:47 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1966 birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse, Margaret Sanger died of congestive heart failure in Tucson, Arizona, aged 86. Fishkill Rural Cemetery, Fishkill, New York thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/06/day
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#1473 · September 7, 2024, 1:46 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1892, influential Quaker poet, ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States, John Greenleaf Whittier died at the age of 84 at a friend’s home in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. Union Cemetery in Amesbury, Massachusetts thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/07/day
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#1474 · September 7, 2024, 1:47 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1962, author (Out of Africa under the pen name Isak Dinesen) Karen Blixen, died at Rungstedlund, her family’s estate in Denmark, at the age of 77. Rungstedlund thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/07/day
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#1475 · September 7, 2024, 1:48 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1981 painter, poet, writer (My Left Foot, Down All the Days) Christy Brown died at his home in Parbrook, Somerset, England, after choking while eating aged 49. Glasnevin Cemetery, Glasnevin, County Dublin, Ireland thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/06/day
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#1476 · September 9, 2024, 1:49 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1898 French symbolist poet whose work inspired artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism, Stéphane Mallarmé died in Vulaines-sur-Seine, France aged 56. Cimetiere de Samoreau, France thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/09/day
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#1477 · September 10, 2024, 1:29 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1797 writer (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman), philosopher, advocate of women's rights, mother of Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft died of septicaemia after giving birth to Mary aged 38. St Pancras Old Church, Somers Town, Central London thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/10/day
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#1478 · September 10, 2024, 1:30 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1827 writer, revolutionary and poet (Dei Sepolcri) Ugo Foscolo died at Turnham Green, England, aged 49. Church of Santa Croce, Florence thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/10/day
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#1479 · September 10, 2024, 1:33 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1976 screenwriter (Roman Holiday, Exodus, Spartacus, The Brave One) Dalton Trumbo died in Los Angeles of a heart attack at the age of 70. Body donated to scientific research thefinalfootprint.com/2024/09/10/day
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#1480 · September 11, 2024, 1:51 pm
11 September 1988. Children’s author, Roger Hargreaves, died (aged 53). He’s best known for the Mr. Men and Little Miss series of books aimed at very young readers. The books have sold over 85 million copies worldwide and been translated into 20 languages.
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