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#1841 · April 11, 2025, 1:18 pm
RIP OTD in 1987 chemist, partisan, writer (If This Is a Man, The Periodic Table), Jewish Holocaust survivor, Primo Levi died from injuries sustained in a fall from his third-story apartment landing in Turin, aged 67. Cimitero Monumentale di Torino, Turin thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/11/day
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#1842 · April 11, 2025, 1:19 pm
RIP OTD in 2007 writer (Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions), Kurt Vonnegut died in Manhattan as a result of brain injuries incurred from a fall at his brownstone home, aged 84. Cremation thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/11/day
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#1843 · April 11, 2025, 1:20 pm
RIP OTD in 1970 writer of short stories, novelist (Appointment in Samarra, Butterfield 8, Pal Joey) John O'Hara died from cardiovascular disease in Princeton, New Jersey, aged 65. Princeton Cemetery thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/11/day
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#1844 · April 13, 2025, 1:40 pm
RIP OTD 1941 astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification, Annie Jump Cannon died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 77. Lakeside Cemetery, Dover, Delaware thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/13/day
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#1845 · April 13, 2025, 1:40 pm
RIP OTD in 1993, novelist ("The Big Rock Candy Mountain", "Angle of Repose"), environmentalist, “The Dean of Western Writers”, Wallace Stegner died in Santa Fe, New Mexico; car accident, aged 84. Lincoln-Noyes Cemetery, Greensboro, Vermont thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/13/day
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#1846 · April 13, 2025, 1:41 pm
RIP OTD in 2006 novelist (The Comforters, The Prime of Miss Jean Brody, The Driver's Seat, Memento Mori), short story writer, poet, essayist, Muriel Spark died in Florence, Tuscany, Italy at the age of 88. Cemetery of Sant’Andrea Apostolo, Oliveto, Italy thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/13/day
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#1847 · April 13, 2025, 1:42 pm
RIP OTD in 2015 novelist (The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Dog Years, Crabwalk), poet, playwright, artist, recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, Günter Grass died; lung infection; hospital in Lübeck, Germany aged 87. Friedhof Behlendorf, Germany thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/13/day
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#1848 · April 14, 2025, 6:48 am
RIP OTD in 1986, existentialist philosopher, feminist, social theorist, author (The Second Sex, She Came to Stay, The Mandarins, Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée), Simone de Beauvoir died; pneumonia in Paris, aged 78. Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/14/day-in-history-14-april-simone-de-beauvoir/
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#1849 · April 14, 2025, 2:36 pm
Peruvian writer and Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa died yesterday at the age of 89, his family announced, ending the era of Latin America's literary golden generation
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#1850 · April 15, 2025, 6:46 am
RIP OTD in 1927, journalist and author (Le Fantôme de l’Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera)) Gaston Leroux died in Nice, France at the age of 58. Cimetiére du Château, Nice https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/15/day-in-history-15-april-abraham-lincoln/
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#1851 · April 15, 2025, 6:47 am
RIP OTD in 1980, philosopher, playwright (No Exit), novelist (La Nausée) , screenwriter (The Crucible), political activist, biographer, literary critic, Jean-Paul Sartre died from pulmonary edema in Paris, aged 74. Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/15/day-in-history-15-april-abraham-lincoln/
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#1852 · April 15, 2025, 2:03 pm
RIP OTD in 1986 novelist (Journal du voleur, Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs), playwright (Le Balcon, Les Bonnes, Les Paravents), poet, essayist, political activist, Jean Genet died at Jack's Hotel in Paris aged 75. Larache Christian Cemetery in Larache, Morocco thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/15/day
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#1853 · April 16, 2025, 7:13 am
RIP OTD in 1968, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (So Big, Show Boat, Cimarron, Giant), short story writer, playwright, member of the Algonquin Round Table, Edna Ferber died from stomach cancer at her home New York City at the age of 82. Cremation https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/16/day-in-history-16-april-edna-ferber/
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#1854 · April 16, 2025, 7:13 am
RIP OTD in 1994 novelist (Invisible Man), literary critic and scholar Ralph Ellison died from pancreatic cancer in New York City at the age of 81. Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/16/day-in-history-16-april-edna-ferber/
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#1855 · April 17, 2025, 1:55 pm
RIP OTD in 1790 polymath; writer, scientist, inventor statesman, printer, publisher, political philosopher, a drafter/signer of the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin died in Philadelphia, aged 84. Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/17/day
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#1856 · April 17, 2025, 1:56 pm
RIP OTD in 2014 novelist (One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera), short-story writer, screenwriter, journalist, Gabo, Gabriel García Marquez died; pneumonia; Mexico City, aged 87. Cremated remains; La Merced monastery in Cartagena thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/17/day
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#1857 · April 18, 2025, 1:34 pm
RIP OTD in 1955, theoretical physicist, the father of modern physics, Albert Einstein died in Princeton Hospital in Princeton, New Jersey, aged 76. Cremated remains possibly scattered around the grounds of The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/18/day
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#1858 · April 18, 2025, 1:37 pm
RIP OTD in 2019, paranormal investigator and author whose stories of ghost hauntings inspired the Amityville Horror film series and the films in The Conjuring Universe, Lorraine Warren died in Monroe, Connecticut aged 92. Stepney Cemetery in Monroe thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/18/day
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#1859 · April 19, 2025, 1:38 pm
RIP OTD in 1824, Romantic poet (Don Juan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Hebrew Melodies), Lord Byron died from a fever in Missolonghi, Aetolia-Acarnania, Ottoman Empire (Greece), aged 36. Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, England thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/19/day
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#1860 · April 19, 2025, 1:45 pm
RIP OTD in 1989 author (novels; Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, Jamaica Inn, short story; The Birds), playwright Daphne du Maurier died, aged 81, at her home in Cornwall. Cremation. Cremated remains scattered off the cliffs at Fowey, Kilmarth, Cornwall thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/19/day
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