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#1761 · February 20, 2025, 10:30 am
RIP OTD in 1895, social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman Frederick Douglass died from a heart attack at his home in Washington D. C., at the age of 77. Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/20/day-in-history-20-february-admiral-nimitz/
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#1762 · February 20, 2025, 10:38 am
RIP OTD in 2005, journalist and author (Hell's Angels, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) Hunter S. Thompson died from a gunshot at his home, Owl Farm near Woody Creek, Colorado, at the age of 67. Cremated remains fired from a cannon at Owl Farm https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/20/day-in-history-20-february-admiral-nimitz/
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#1763 · February 21, 2025, 10:05 am
#OTD (Feb 21) in the year 1848: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto. #OTDIH #history 🗃️ #c19th
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#1764 · February 22, 2025, 7:19 am
RIP OTD in 2012 journalist, foreign affairs correspondent for the British newspaper The Sunday Times, Marie Colvin died while covering the siege of Homs in Syria, aged 56. Cremated remains scattered in Oyster Bay, New York and Thames river in England https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/22/day-in-history-22-february-amerigo-vespucci/
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#1765 · February 22, 2025, 7:20 am
RIP OTD in 2021 poet (A Coney Island of the Mind), translator, painter, social activist, co-founder of City Lights Booksellers, Lawrence Ferlinghetti died; interstitial lung disease; his San Francisco home, aged 101. Bolinas Cemetery, California https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/22/day-in-history-22-february-amerigo-vespucci/
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#1766 · February 23, 2025, 12:44 pm
RIP OTD in 1821, poet ("Ode to a Nightingale", "Sleep and Poetry", "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"), John Keats, died in a villa on the Spanish Steps in Rome, today the Keats-Shelley Memorial House museum aged 25; tuberculosis. Campo Cestio, Rome thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/23/day
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#1767 · February 23, 2025, 12:52 pm
RIP OTD in 1851, poet, dramatist (Plays on the Passions, Fugitive Verses), Joanna Baillie died in Hamstead, London aged 88. Bothwell Parish Church Graveyard, Bothwell, Scotland thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/23/day
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#1768 · February 25, 2025, 12:18 pm
RIP OTD in 1852, poet, singer, songwriter (Irish Melodies, "The Minstrel Boy", "The Last Rose of Summer"), entertainer, Ireland's national bard, Thomas Moore died; Sloperton Cottage, Bromham, Wiltshire, England, aged 72. St. Nicholas churchyard, Bromham https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/25/day-in-history-25-february-tennessee-williams/
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#1769 · February 25, 2025, 12:19 pm
RIP OTD in 1964 author (Peyton Place) Grace Metalious died from cirrhosis of the liver in Boston aged 39. Smith Meeting House Cemetery, Gilmanton, New Hampshire https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/25/day-in-history-25-february-tennessee-williams/
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#1770 · February 25, 2025, 12:19 pm
RIP OTD in 1983, playwright (A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Rose Tattoo, The Glass Menagerie, The Night of the Iguana), Tennessee Williams died; overdose of Seconal; Hotel Elysée, New York City, aged 71. Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/02/25/day-in-history-25-february-tennessee-williams/
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#1771 · March 1, 2025, 1:08 pm
RIP OTD in 1938 Italian poet, playwright, orator, journalist, aristocrat, army officer during World War I, Il Vate, Il Profeta, Gabriele D'Annunzio died of a stroke, at his home in Gardone Riviera, aged 74. Il Vittoriale degli Italiani, Gardone Riviera thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/01/day
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#1772 · March 1, 2025, 1:21 pm
RIP OTD in 1932, Italian visionary poet (Canti Orfici ("Orphic Songs")), poète maudit, Dino Campana died from sepsis at a psychiatric hospital in Castel Pulci, Scandicci, Italy aged 46. Abbazia dei Santi Salvatore e Lorenzo a Settimo, Scandicci thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/01/day
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#1773 · March 2, 2025, 12:42 pm
RIP OTD in 1930, novelist (Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, Lady Chatterley's Lover), poet, playwright, painter D. H. Lawrence died at the Villa Robermond, Vence, France; tuberculosis, aged 44. Kiowa Ranch Cemetery, San Cristobal, New Mexico thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/02/day
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#1774 · March 2, 2025, 12:43 pm
RIP OTD in 1982 science fiction writer (The Man in the High Castle, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Minority Report) Philip K. Dick died; stroke in Santa Ana, California, aged 53. Cremated remains Riverside Cemetery in Fort Morgan, Colorado thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/02/day
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#1775 · March 3, 2025, 6:49 am
RIP OTD in 1983 Belgian cartoonist, Georges Remi (Hergé), died (aged 75). He was the creator of the comic book series, The Adventures of Tintin. It was one of the most popular comic book series of the 20th century, published in over 70 languages with sales over 200 million.
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#1776 · March 3, 2025, 6:49 am
RIP OTD in 1996, novelist (L' Amant), playwright, screenwriter (Hiroshima mon amour), essayist, and experimental filmmaker Marguerite Duras died in Paris at the age of 81. Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/03/day-in-history-3-march-malcolm-kilduff-jr/
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#1777 · March 4, 2025, 1:49 pm
RIP OTD in 1852 novelist (Dead Souls), short story writer ("The Overcoat", "Viy", "The Nose", "Diary of a Madman", "The Portrait", "The Carriage"), playwright (Marriage) Nikolai Gogol died in Moscow, aged 42. Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/04/day
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#1778 · March 4, 2025, 1:50 pm
RIP OTD in 1963 poet, writer, and physician William Carlos Williams died at his home in Rutherford, New Jersey, aged 79. Hillside Cemetery in Lyndhurst, New Jersey thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/04/day
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#1779 · March 4, 2025, 1:50 pm
RIP OTD in 1986 Canadian poet and novelist (By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept) Elizabeth Smart died in London of a heart attack, aged 72. St George's churchyard, Saint Cross South Elmham, Suffolk thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/04/day
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#1780 · March 4, 2025, 1:51 pm
RIP OTD in 2009 playwright (The Young Man from Atlanta, The Trip to Bountiful), screenwriter (To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies) Horton Foote died in Hartford, Connecticut at the age of 92. Wharton City Cemetery, Wharton, Texas thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/04/day
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