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#1661 · December 22, 2024, 12:54 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1870, post-romanticist poet (Rimas y leyendas) and writer, playwright, literary columnist, and artist, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer died from tuberculosis in Madrid at the age of 34. Capilla de la Universidad de Sevilla thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/22/day
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#1662 · December 22, 2024, 12:55 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1880, novelist (Romola, Middlemarch), poet, journalist, translator, one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, George Eliot died at the age of 61 in Chelsea, Middlesex, England. Highgate Cemetery (East), Highgate, London thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/22/day
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#1663 · December 22, 2024, 12:57 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1943 writer (The Tale of Peter Rabbit), illustrator, natural scientist, conservationist (Lake District National Park) Beatrix Potter died of pneumonia and heart disease at her home in Near Sawrey, Cumbria, England at the age of 77. Cremation thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/22/day
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#1664 · December 22, 2024, 12:58 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1989, avant-garde novelist, playwright (Waiting for Godot), theatre director, poet, member of the French Resistance, Samuel Beckett died in a nursing home in Paris at the age of 83. Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/22/day
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#1665 · December 23, 2024, 1:13 pm
23 December 1815. Emma by Jane Austen was published (though the original title page wrongly stated 1816). It’s set in the fictional village of Highbury and explores the concerns and difficulties of a group of middle class women living in a rural setting.
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#1666 · December 23, 2024, 1:14 pm
23 December 1955. Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow. She was Poet Laureate from 2009 to 2019 and the 1st openly gay person to hold the post. Her poems address oppression, gender, and violence in an accessible language that has made her poetry popular in schools.
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#1667 · December 23, 2024, 1:15 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2021 writer (Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Play It as It Lays, The White Album, The Year of Magical Thinking), journalist, Joan Didion died; Parkinson's disease; home in Manhattan aged 87. Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, Manhattan thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/23/day
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#1668 · December 24, 2024, 1:58 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1863, novelist (Vanity Fair) William Makepeace Thackeray died from a stroke in his bed in London at the age of 52. Kensal Green Cemetery, London thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/24/day
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#1669 · December 24, 2024, 1:59 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1914 naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, founder of the Sierra Club, John Muir died at California Hospital, Los Angeles of pneumonia, aged 76. Muir-Strentzel Hanna Cemetery, Martinez, California thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/24/day
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#1670 · December 24, 2024, 2:00 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2008, playwright (The Birthday Party, The Homecoming, Betrayal, The French Lieutenant's Woman), screenwriter, director and actor, Harold Pinter died at Hammersmith Hospital in London, from liver cancer, age 78. Kensal Green Cemetery, London thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/24/day
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#1671 · December 24, 2024, 2:01 pm
24 December 2016. Richard Adams died (aged 96). His best known book was the children’s novel, Watership Down, a sad story about a small group of rabbits. It was adapted into an animated feature film in 1978. The signature tune Bright Eyes became a UK No 1 hit for Art Garfunkel.
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#1672 · December 27, 2024, 2:30 pm
27 December 1904. The 1st performance in London of James Barrie’s most famous work, Peter Pan, took place. On 15 April 1925, Barrie donated his book copyright and royalties for Peter Pan to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London.
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#1673 · December 28, 2024, 4:22 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1986, novelist (The Executioner, Travis McGee series, Cape Fear) John D. MacDonald died; complications of coronary artery bypass surgery in St. Mary’s Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, aged 70. Holy Cross Cemetery and Mausoleum, Milwaukee thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/28/day
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#1674 · December 28, 2024, 4:23 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2004, writer (The Way We Live Now, The Volcano Lover, In America), filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, political activist Susan Sontag died; complications of myelodysplastic syndrome in New York City, aged 71. Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/28/day
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#1675 · December 29, 2024, 2:02 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1894, poet (Goblin Market, Remember, In the Bleak Midwinter) Christina Rossetti died in Torrington Square, Bloomsbury, London at the age of 64. Highgate Cemetery in London. Portrait by her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/29/day
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#1676 · December 29, 2024, 2:02 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1926, poet (Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus), novelist Rainer Maria Rilke died in the arms of his doctor in the Valmont Sanatorium in Switzerland at the age of 51 from leukemia. Raron cemetery, Switzerland thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/29/day
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#1677 · December 29, 2024, 2:04 pm
29 December 1916. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was published in the USA. The novel traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus who questions and rebels against Catholic and Irish conventions.
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#1678 · December 30, 2024, 1:18 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2022 broadcast journalist and television personality (Today, ABC Evening News, 20/20, The View) Barbara Walters died at her home in Manhattan, aged 93. Lakeside Memorial Park, Doral, Florida thefinalfootprint.com/2024/12/30/day
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#1679 · January 1, 2025, 1:44 pm
1 January 1660. Samuel Pepys began writing a diary, which recorded his daily life for nearly 10 years. It’s a key account of London in 1660s, providing an eyewitness account of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the 2nd Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London.
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#1680 · January 1, 2025, 1:45 pm
1 January 1788. The 1st edition of The Times was published in London. On 15 July 2010, The Times published its 70,000 issue, the only national title in the English-speaking world to have reached that number.
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