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#1621 · December 1, 2024, 1:17 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1987, novelist (Go Tell it on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, If Beale Street Could Talk), social critic, James Baldwin died from stomach cancer at his home in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, aged 63. Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/01/day
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#1622 · December 1, 2024, 1:18 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1989, choreographer and activist, founder of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Alvin Ailey died from HIV/AIDS complications in Manhattan, at the age of 58. Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/01/day
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#1623 · December 1, 2024, 1:18 pm
#RIP #OTD 1998 novelist (The Wife of Martin Guerre, The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron), poet ("Country Burial"), and librettist, Janet Lewis died at her home in Los Altos, California at the age of 99 thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/01/day
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#1624 · December 2, 2024, 1:54 pm
2 December 1985. British poet Philip Larkin died (aged 63). He was offered, but declined, the role of Poet Laureate in 1984. One of his most famous poetic lines was that sexual intercourse began in 1963, “Between the end of the (Lady) Chatterley ban and The Beatles’ first LP.”
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#1625 · December 3, 2024, 1:25 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1894, novelist (Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde), poet, travel writer Robert Louis Stevenson died, probably of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 44 in Vailima, Samoa. Mount Vaea, Samoa thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/03/day
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#1626 · December 3, 2024, 1:26 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2000 poet, author, teacher, the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize for her book Annie Allen, Gwendolyn Brooks died from cancer at her Chicago home, aged 83. Lincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, Illinois thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/03/day
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#1627 · December 4, 2024, 1:01 pm
#RIP #OTD 1131 polymath, mathematician, astronomer, historian, philosopher, and poet, Omar Khayyam died in his hometown of Nishapur, Persia (now Iran) aged 83. Mausoleum of Omar Khayyam, Nishapur thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/04/day
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#1628 · December 4, 2024, 1:01 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1649, poet, the Scottish Petrarch, William Drummond of Hawthornden died at Hawthornden Castle, Midlothian, Scotland, aged 63. Parish church of Lasswade thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/04/day
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#1629 · December 4, 2024, 1:02 pm
4 December 1679. English philosopher Thomas Hobbes died (aged 91). He was a key figure in the development of political philosophy. His most influential book was, Leviathan, which sets out his doctrine of the foundation of states and legitimate governments.
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#1630 · December 4, 2024, 1:02 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1732 poet, dramatist (The Beggar's Opera) John Gay died in London, aged 47. Westminster Abbey
. Epitaph by Alexander Pope, and Gay's own couplet: Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it. thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/04/day
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#1631 · December 4, 2024, 1:04 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1975 historian, philosopher (The Origins of Totalitarianism), influential political theorist, Hannah Arendt died from a heart attack in her apartment in New York City aged 69. Cremated remains; Bard College, in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/04/day
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#1632 · December 5, 2024, 12:58 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1784, poet, considered the first African-American author of a published book of poetry, Phillis Wheatley died at the approximate age of 31 in Boston. Copp's Hill Burying Ground, Boston thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/05/day
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#1633 · December 5, 2024, 12:59 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1870, writer (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, Les Trois Mousquetaires) Alexandre Dumas, died at the age of 68 in Puys (near Dieppe), Seine-Maritime, France. Panthéon in Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/05/day
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#1634 · December 7, 2024, 1:23 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1975 playwright (Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth) and novelist (The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Eighth Day) Thornton Wilder died at his home in Hamden, Connecticut of heart failure, aged 78. Mount Carmel Cemetery, Hamden thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/07/day
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#1635 · December 7, 2024, 1:24 pm
7 December 1985. Acclaimed writer and poet Robert Graves died (aged 90). He produced more than 140 works in his lifetime, including collections of poems, translations of Greek myths, the famous novel, I Claudius, and his famous memoir of his early life, Good-Bye to All That.
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#1636 · December 7, 2024, 1:25 pm
7 December 2023. Leading poet Benjamin Zephaniah died (aged 65). He said his mission was to fight the dead image of poetry in academia. He was listed at No 48 in The Times list of the 50 Greatest Postwar Writers.
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#1637 · December 8, 2024, 12:51 pm
8 December 1951. Best selling writer of travelogue books, Bill Bryson, was born in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. He is a self-confessed Anglophile and has lived in Britain for most of his adult life.
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#1638 · December 9, 2024, 1:51 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1964 poet (Façade), writer (I Live Under a Black Sun), critic, Edith Sitwell died at St Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth, London, aged 77. Parish church of Saints Mary and Peter in Weedon Lois, Northamptonshire. Portrait by Roger Fry thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/09/day
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#1639 · December 9, 2024, 1:51 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1977 short story writer, novelist (Near to the Wild Heart, The Passion According to G.H., The Hour of the Star), Clarice Lispector died of ovarian cancer in Rio de Janeiro aged 56. Jewish Cemetery of Caju, Rio de Janeiro thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/09/day
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#1640 · December 9, 2024, 1:52 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2002, husband of Anne Rice, painter and poet (Some Lamb), Stan Rice died of brain cancer at the age of 60 in New Orleans. Rice Family private mausoleum in Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/09/day
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