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#1801 · March 14, 2025, 1:53 pm
RIP OTD in 2018 theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author Stephen Hawking died at his home in Cambridge, England from ALS, age 76. Cremated remains in the nave of Westminster Abbey, alongside the grave of Sir Isaac Newton thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/14/day
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#1802 · March 15, 2025, 7:05 am
RIP OTD in 2016, Historian, Asa Briggs, died (aged 94). He was a leading specialist on the Victorian era, writing several seminal books on the subject, and also an expert on cultural history in the 20th century writing a definitive 5 volume history of British broadcasting.
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#1803 · March 15, 2025, 1:24 pm
RIP OTD in 2019, Pulitzer prize winning poet, 17th United States Poet Laureate, W. S. Merwin died in his sleep at home in Haiku, Hawaii aged 91. Cremated remains scattered in his home garden thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/15/day
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#1804 · March 16, 2025, 1:55 pm
RIP OTD in 1936 actress, journalist for Le Figaro, French suffragette, newspaper owner Marguerite Durand died in Paris, aged 72. Batignolles Cemetery, Paris. The Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand created from her collection of papers (portrait Jules Cayron) thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/16/day
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#1805 · March 19, 2025, 12:27 pm
RIP OTD in 2008 science fiction writer (2001: A Space Odyssey; Rendezvous with Rama), science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, TV series host, Arthur C. Clarke died; Colombo, Sri Lanka; respiratory failure aged 90. Central cemetery Colombo thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/19/day
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#1806 · March 20, 2025, 5:46 am
RIP OTD in 1727, physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, theologian, Sir Isaac Newton died in his sleep in Kensington, Middlesex, England at the age of 84. Westminster Abbey https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/20/day-in-history-20-march-sir-isaac-newton/
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#1807 · March 20, 2025, 5:47 am
RIP OTD in 1964, Irish poet, short story writer, novelist (Borstal Boy), playwright (The Hostage) Brendan Behan died at Meath Hospital in Dublin after collapsing at the Harbour Lights bar, aged 41. Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/20/day-in-history-20-march-sir-isaac-newton/
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#1808 · March 20, 2025, 5:48 am
RIP OTD in 1994 writer, humorist, newspaper columnist (Atlanta Journal-Constitution), Lewis Grizzard died; complications of heart-valve surgery in Atlanta, aged 47. Some cremated remains scattered; 50-yard line of Sanford Stadium, University of Georgia https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/20/day-in-history-20-march-sir-isaac-newton/
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#1809 · March 22, 2025, 1:46 pm
RIP OTD in 1832, writer (Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther), polymath, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, died in Weimar, Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach at the age of 82. Ducal Vault in Weimar’s Historical Cemetery thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/22/day
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#1810 · March 23, 2025, 1:13 pm
RIP OTD in 1842, writer (Le Rouge et le Noir, La Chartreuse de Parme) Stendhal died in Paris at the age of 59. Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/23/day
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#1811 · March 24, 2025, 6:51 am
RIP OTD in 1882, poet ("Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, Evangeline) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow died from peritonitis at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 75. Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/24/day-in-history-24-march-elizabeth-i/
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#1812 · March 24, 2025, 6:51 am
RIP OTD in 1905, novelist (Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days), poet, playwright Jules Verne died at his home in Amiens, France; diabetes, aged 77. La Madeleine Cemetery in Amiens https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/24/day-in-history-24-march-elizabeth-i/
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#1813 · March 24, 2025, 6:52 am
RIP OTD 1909 playwright (The Playboy of the Western World, Deirdre of the Sorrows), poet, Irish Literary Revival key figure, John Millington Synge died; Hodgkin lymphoma; Elpis Nursing Home, Dublin, aged 37. Mount Jerome Cemetery, Harold's Cross, Dublin https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/24/day-in-history-24-march-elizabeth-i/
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#1814 · March 25, 2025, 12:52 pm
RIP OTD in 1931 journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement, Ida B. Wells died of kidney failure in Chicago at the age of 68. Oak Woods Cemetery on Chicago's South Side thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/25/day
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#1815 · March 25, 2025, 12:53 pm
RIP OTD in 2021 novelist (Horseman, Pass By; The Last Picture Show; Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove), essayist, screenwriter, Larry McMurtry died at his home in Tucson aged 84. Cremation thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/25/day
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#1816 · March 26, 2025, 6:38 am
RIP OTD in 1892, poet (Leaves of Grass), essayist, journalist, teacher, government clerk, volunteer nurse during the Civil War, The Father of Free Verse, Walt Whitman died in Camden, New Jersey, aged 72. Private mausoleum at Harleigh Cemetery in Camden https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/26/day-in-history-26-march-beethoven/
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#1817 · March 26, 2025, 6:39 am
RIP OTD in 1959 novelist (The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye), screenwriter Raymond Chandler died at Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla CA of pneumonia and kidney failure, aged 70. Mount Hope Cemetery, in San Diego https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/26/day-in-history-26-march-beethoven/
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#1818 · March 26, 2025, 6:40 am
RIP OTD in 1969, novelist (A Confederacy of Dunces) John Kennedy Toole died by carbon monoxide poisoning in his car in Biloxi, Mississippi at the age of 31. Greenwood Cemetery in New Orleans https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/26/day-in-history-26-march-beethoven/
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#1819 · March 26, 2025, 6:41 am
RIP OTD in 1973 playwright (Private Lives, Design for Living, Present Laughter, Blithe Spirit), composer, actor, singer/songwriter ("Mad Dogs and Englishmen") Noël Coward died; his home, Firefly Estate, in Jamaica; heart failure, aged 73. Firefly Estate https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/26/day-in-history-26-march-beethoven/
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#1820 · March 26, 2025, 6:42 am
RIP OTD in 2016, poet, novelist (Legends of the Fall), and essayist Jim Harrison died from a heart attack in Patagonia, Arizona at the age of 78. Final footprint unknown at this time https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/03/26/day-in-history-26-march-beethoven/
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