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#1681 · January 3, 2025, 1:15 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1980 naturalist, artist and author (Born Free), Joy Adamson was murdered in Shaba National Reserve in Kenya, aged 69. Cremated remains interred in Elsa the Lioness's grave in Meru National Park in Meru, Kenya thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/03/day
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#1682 · January 4, 2025, 12:09 pm
4 January 1941. Nobel Prize-winning French philosopher Henri Bergson died (aged 81). He was best known for arguing that the processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality.
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#1683 · January 4, 2025, 12:10 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1960, author (L'Étranger, La Peste, Le Mythe de Sisyphe, La Chute), philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate, Albert Camus died at the age of 46, in a car accident Villeblevin, France. Cemetery of Lourmarin, France thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/04/day
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#1684 · January 4, 2025, 12:10 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1965, Nobel Prize winning poet (The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land), playwright, T. S. Eliot, died from emphysema in London at the age of 76. Cremated remains St Michael’s Church in East Coker, Somerset, England thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/04/day
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#1685 · January 4, 2025, 12:11 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1986 novelist (Goodbye to Berlin (Cabaret), A Single Man) playwright, screenwriter, Christopher Isherwood died; prostate cancer at his Santa Monica home, aged 81. Body donated to medical science at UCLA, cremated remains later scattered at sea thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/04/day
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#1686 · January 5, 2025, 1:06 pm
5 January 1953. The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett was 1st performed in the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris, France. The 2 lead characters in the play, Vladimir and Estragon, engage in discussions while awaiting Godot.
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#1687 · January 6, 2025, 2:00 pm
6 January 1852. Louis Braille died (aged 43). He was the inventor of the famous reading system for the blind. He became blind following an accident, aged 3. His reading system remains virtually unchanged to this day and is known worldwide simply as Braille.
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#1688 · January 8, 2025, 1:05 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1642, astronomer, physicist, engineer, and polymath Galileo Galilei died in Arcetri, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Italy at the age of 77. Basilica of Santa Croce thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/08/on-
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#1689 · January 8, 2025, 1:06 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1896, poet ("Clair de Lune", La Bonne Chanson, Les Poètes maudits) associated with the Symbolist movement, Paul Verlaine died in Paris at the age of 51. Cimetière des Batignolles, Paris (portrait by Frédéric Bazille 1867) thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/08/on-
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#1690 · January 9, 2025, 1:47 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1923, writer (Bliss and Other Stories, The Aloe) Katherine Mansfield died from a pulmonary haemorrhage in Fontainebleau, Île-de-France, France, at the age of 34. Cimetiere d’Avon, Avon, near Fontainebleau thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/09/day
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#1691 · January 10, 2025, 1:48 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1951 writer (Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth, It Can't Happen Here), poet, playwright, Sinclair Lewis died in Rome; advanced alcoholism, aged 65. Cremated remains interred, Greenwood Cemetery in Sauk Centre, Minnesota thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/10/day
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#1692 · January 10, 2025, 1:48 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1957 poet (Sonetos de la muerte), first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature, Gabriela Mistral died of pancreatic cancer in Hempstead Hospital in New York City, aged 67. Cementerio de Monte Grande, Monte Grande, Chile thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/10/day
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#1693 · January 10, 2025, 1:49 pm
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#1694 · January 11, 2025, 11:56 am
#RIP #OTD in 1843, lawyer, author, and poet ("The Star-Spangled Banner"), Francis Scott Key, died at the home of his daughter Elizabeth Howard in Baltimore, Maryland at the age of 63. Mount Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, Maryland thefinalfootprint.com/?p=1174
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#1695 · January 11, 2025, 11:57 am
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#1696 · January 12, 2025, 12:35 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1976 writer (novels revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple) Agatha Christie died at her home at Winterbrook House in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, aged 85. St. Mary's church, Cholsey, Oxfordshire thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/12/day
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#1697 · January 13, 2025, 1:52 pm
13 January 1941. Irish-born James Joyce died (aged 58). He’s regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. His best known novel was Ulysses, which chronicles a day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin on 16 June 1904.
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#1698 · January 14, 2025, 12:20 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1898 author (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass), poet (Jabberwocky), mathematician, photographer, Lewis Carroll died; influenza; his sisters' home, The Chestnuts, Guildford, England aged 65. Mount Cemetery, Guildford thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/14/day
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#1699 · January 14, 2025, 12:21 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1977, author (Delta of Venus; Little Birds; Henry and June) Anaïs Nin died in Los Angeles after a three year battle with cancer, at the age of 73. Cremated remains scattered over Santa Monica Bay in Mermaid Cove thefinalfootprint.com/2025/01/14/day
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#1700 · January 16, 2025, 11:54 am
16 January 1605. The brilliant novel Don Quixote Part 1 by Miguel de Cervantes was 1st published in Madrid, Spain. It’s often called “the 1st modern novel”. The second part was published in 1615. The novel is the 2nd most translated book in the world after The Bible.
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