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#1861 · April 19, 2025, 1:49 pm
RIP OTD in 1998 poet (Piedra de Sol, essay El laberinto de la soledad), diplomat, Octavio Paz died of cancer in Mexico City, aged 84. Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Centro, Cuauhtémoc Borough, Distrito Federal, Mexico thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/19/day
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#1862 · April 20, 2025, 12:47 pm
RIP OTD in 1912, novelist (Dracula) and short story writer (Dracula’s Guest), Bram Stoker died probably from tertiary syphilis at No. 26 St. George’s Square in Pimlico, London aged 64. Cremated remains inurned at Golders Green Crematorium, London thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/20/day
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#1863 · April 21, 2025, 6:10 am
RIP OTD in 1699 dramatist (Phèdre, Andromaque, Athalie), one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, (Molière & Corneille), Jean Racine died from liver cancer in Paris, aged 59. Saint-Étienne-du-Mont church in Paris https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/21/day-in-history-21-april-mark-twain/
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#1864 · April 21, 2025, 6:15 am
RIP OTD in 1910, author (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court), humorist, Mark Twain died of a heart attack in Redding, Connecticut, aged 74. Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira, New York https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/21/day-in-history-21-april-mark-twain/
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#1865 · April 22, 2025, 1:40 pm
RIP OTD in 1616, soldier, novelist (Don Quixote), poet and playwright, El Príncipe de los Ingenios (“The Prince of Wits”), Miguel de Cervantes died in Madrid at the age of 68. Convento de los Trinitarios, Madrid thefinalfootprint.com/?p=2059
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#1866 · April 22, 2025, 1:44 pm
RIP OTD in 1995 poet and translator, muse of poet Donald Hall, New Hampshire's poet laureate, Jane Kenyon died from leukemia in Wilmot, New Hampshire, aged 47. Proctor Cemetery, Andover, New Hampshire thefinalfootprint.com/?p=2059
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#1867 · April 23, 2025, 7:03 am
RIP OTD in 1616, poet, playwright (Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth), William Shakespeare died in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, aged 52. Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon (the Chandos portrait) https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/23/day-in-history-23-april-shakespeare/
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#1868 · April 23, 2025, 7:04 am
RIP OTD in 1850, Romantic poet (The Prelude), William Wordsworth died from pleurisy at home in Rydal, England, aged 80. St. Oswald’s church in the village of Grasmere, in the Lake District, Cumbria, England https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/23/day-in-history-23-april-shakespeare/
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#1869 · April 23, 2025, 7:05 am
RIP OTD in 1915 poet known for his war sonnets (“The Soldier"), Rupert Brooke died of septicaemia following a mosquito bite whilst aboard a French hospital ship moored off the island of Skyros in the Aegean Sea, aged 27. An olive grove in Skyros https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/23/day-in-history-23-april-shakespeare/
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#1870 · April 23, 2025, 7:06 am
RIP OTD in 1996 author (the Mary Poppins series), P. L. Travers died in London at the age of 96. St Mary the Virgin's Church, Twickenham, London https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/23/day-in-history-23-april-shakespeare/
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#1871 · April 24, 2025, 1:57 pm
RIP OTD in 1731, trader, writer (Robinson Crusoe), journalist, pamphleteer, spy, Daniel Defoe died in London at the age of 70. Bunhill Fields Burial and Gardens, Borough of Islington, London thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/24/day
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#1872 · April 24, 2025, 1:58 pm
RIP OTD in 1947, author (O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, My Ántonia) Willa Cather died of a cerebral hemorrhage in her home on Park Avenue in Manhattan, aged 73. Old Burying Ground, behind the Jaffrey Center Meeting House in Jaffrey, New Hampshire thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/24/day
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#1873 · April 25, 2025, 1:51 pm
RIP OTD in 1472, author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer, polymath, Renaissance man, Leon Battista Alberti died in Rome at the age of 68. Basilica di Santa Croce thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/25/day
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#1874 · April 25, 2025, 1:52 pm
RIP OTD in 1566, La Belle Cordière, (The Beautiful Ropemaker), French poet of the Renaissance (Débat), Louise Labé died in Parcieux-en-Dombes, France at the age of about 44. Interred on her country property close to Parcieux-en-Dombes, outside Lyon thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/25/day
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#1875 · April 25, 2025, 1:52 pm
RIP OTD in 1595, poet (Gerusalemme liberata) Torquato Tasso died at the convent of Sant’Onofrio in Rome at the age of 51. Sant’Onofrio thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/25/day
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#1876 · April 25, 2025, 1:54 pm
RIP OTD in 1878 novelist (Black Beauty) Anna Sewell died of hepatitis or tuberculosis in Old Catton, Norfolk, England, aged 58. Quaker burial-ground in Lamas near Buxton, Norfolk thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/25/day
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#1877 · April 27, 2025, 7:16 am
RIP OTD in 1882, transcendentalist movement leader, essayist, lecturer, philosopher, poet Ralph Waldo Emerson died from pneumonia in Concord, Massachusetts at the age of 78. Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/27/day-in-history-27-april-maud-gonne/
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#1878 · April 27, 2025, 7:17 am
RIP OTD in 1932, poet (The Bridge) Hart Crane either fell or jumped overboard from the steamship Orizaba, in the Gulf of Mexico, at the age of 32. His body was never recovered. Memorialized on his father’s tombstone in Park Cemetery, Garrettsville, Ohio https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/27/day-in-history-27-april-maud-gonne/
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#1879 · April 27, 2025, 7:18 am
RIP OTD in 1953, English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist, actress, and muse of William Butler Yeats, Maud Gonne died in Clonskeagh, Ireland at the age of 86. Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/27/day-in-history-27-april-maud-gonne/
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#1880 · April 28, 2025, 6:03 am
RIP OTD in 1997 writer of novels (The Street, The Narrows), short stories, children's books, Ann Petry died in Old Saybrook, Connecticut at the age of 88. Cypress Cemetery, Old Saybrook https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/
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