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#1641 · December 10, 2024, 2:11 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1936 dramatist (Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore, Ciascuno a suo modo, Questa sera si recita a soggetto), poet, Luigi Pirandello died alone at home in Via Bosio, Rome, aged 69. Casa Natale di Luigi Pirandello, Agrigento, Sicilia thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/10/day
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#1642 · December 11, 2024, 2:11 pm
Nikki Giovanni, the charismatic and iconoclastic poet, activist, children’s book author and professor who wrote, irresistibly and sensuously, about race, politics, gender, sex and love, has died at 81.
Nikki Giovanni, Poet Who Wrote of Black Joy, Dies at 81
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#1643 · December 11, 2024, 2:12 pm
11 December 1996. Satirist and co-founder of Private Eye, Willy Rushton, died (aged 59). He rose to fame on the BBC satirical comedy show That Was The Week That Was In 1962-1963.
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#1644 · December 12, 2024, 2:13 pm
#RIP #OTD 1889, poet (Pauline, Paracelsus, Sordello, The Ring and the Book), playwright, Robert Browning died at his son’s home Ca’ Rezzonico in Venice, aged 77. Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/12/day
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#1645 · December 12, 2024, 2:13 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1923 novelist (Le Diable au corps, Le bal du Comte d'Orgel), poet Raymond Radiguet died at age 20 in Paris of typhoid fever. Père Lachaise in Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/12/day
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#1646 · December 12, 2024, 2:15 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1999 U. S. Army Air Corp veteran, author of novels (Catch-22, Something Happened), short stories, plays, screenplays, Joseph Heller died of a heart attack at his home in East Hampton, on Long Island, aged 76. Cedar Lawn Cemetery, East Hampton thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/12/day
Joseph Heller epitaph... THERE WAS ONLY ONE CATCH
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#1647 · December 12, 2024, 2:15 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2020 novelist (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Smiley's People, The Little Drummer Girl, A Perfect Spy) John le Carré died after sustaining a fall at his home in Truro, England, aged 89. Cremation thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/12/day
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#1648 · December 12, 2024, 2:17 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2021 author (Interview with the Vampire, The Feast of All Saints, Exit to Eden), Anne Rice died from complications of a stroke in Rancho Mirage, California, aged 80. Rice family mausoleum, Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/11/day
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#1649 · December 13, 2024, 2:01 pm
13 December 1784. Samuel Johnson died (aged 75). He compiled A Dictionary of the English Language. He was a devout Anglican and a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography described him as “arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history”.
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#1650 · December 15, 2024, 1:59 pm
15 December 2011. Christopher Hitchens died (aged 62). He was the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of over 30 books, including, 5 collections of essays on culture, politics, and literature. He became an American citizen in 2007.
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#1651 · December 16, 2024, 1:55 pm
16 December 1965. W Somerset Maugham died (aged 91). He was a hugely popular British novelist during the 1930s. George Orwell said he was “the modern writer who influenced me the most, who I admire immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills”.
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#1652 · December 17, 2024, 6:04 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1273, Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic, Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Mevlana or Mawlānā (Our Master), Rumi died in Konya, Turkey, age 66. Yeşil Türbe (Green Tomb, قبه الخضراء; the Mevlâna Museum) thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/17/day
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#1653 · December 18, 2024, 2:23 pm
18 December 1792. Radical political writer Thomas Paine was tried in Britain for treason, in his absence, for publishing The Rights of Man in which he had supported the French Revolution and called for the abolition of the British Monarchy.
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#1654 · December 19, 2024, 1:52 pm
19 December 1843. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens was first published in book form in the UK. It tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miser, who is visited by ghost of his business partner, Jacob Marley, and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come.
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#1655 · December 19, 2024, 1:53 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1848, novelist (Wuthering Heights) Emily Brontë died from tuberculosis at the Brontë family home in Haworth Parsonage, Haworth, England at the age of 30. Church of St Michael and All Angels family capsule, Haworth thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/19/day
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#1656 · December 20, 2024, 1:49 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1968, writer (The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Of Mice and Men, The Pearl), John Steinbeck, died of heart disease in New York City, aged 66. Cremated remains Hamilton Family Estate in Garden of Memories Memorial Park in Salinas, California thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/20/day
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#1657 · December 20, 2024, 1:50 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1996, astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author (Cosmos, Contact), Carl Sagan died from complications of myelodysplasia; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, aged 62. Lakeview Cemetery in Ithaca, New York thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/20/day
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#1658 · December 21, 2024, 1:07 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1375 author (Decameron) and poet, correspondent of Petrarch, Renaissance humanist, the Certaldese, Giovanni Boccaccio died at the age of 62 in Certaldo, Tuscany, Italy. Chiesa dei Santi Jacopo e Filippo, Certaldo thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/21/day
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#1659 · December 21, 2024, 1:08 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1940, novelist (This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby) F. Scott Fitzgerald, died from a heart attack in Hollywood at the age of 44. Saint Mary’s Cemetery, in Rockville, Maryland thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/21/day
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#1660 · December 21, 2024, 1:08 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1964, writer, photographer, patron of the Harlem Renaissance, literary executor of Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten died in New York City at the age of 84. Cremated remains scattered over Shakespeare Garden, Central Park, Manhattan thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/21/day
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