Quote from Anne On on May 26, 2025, 6:51 am

OTD 1897, Dracula, the Gothic novel by the Irish author, Bram Stoker, was published. The novel tells the story of Count Dracula’s attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse. This is opposed by Abraham Van Helsing.

 

 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula

Quote from Anne On on May 28, 2025, 5:55 am

RIP OTD in 1849 novelist (Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall), poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family, Ann Brontë died most likely of pulmonary tuberculosis in Scarborough, England, aged 29. St. Mary's Churchyard, Scarborough https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/05/

 

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on May 28, 2025, 5:57 am

RIP OTD in 2014, poet ("On the Pulse of Morning"), singer, memoirist (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings), civil rights activist Maya Angelou died in Winston-Salem, North Carolina at the age of 86. Cremated remains scattered https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/05/

 

Quote from Anne On on May 30, 2025, 6:43 am

RIP OTD in 1593, playwright (Tamburlaine), poet, translator of the Elizabethan era, Kit, Christopher Marlowe, died in Deptford, Kent, England at the age of 29. Unmarked grave in the churchyard of St Nicholas, Deptford. Memorial plaque https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/05/30/on-this-day-30-may-2/

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on May 30, 2025, 6:44 am

RIP OTD in 1744, poet (The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad), translator (Homer's Iliad), essayist (An Essay on Criticism) Alexander Pope died in his villa in Twickenham with friends, aged 56. Church of St Mary the Virgin in Twickenham, Middlesex, England https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/05/30/on-this-day-30-may-2/

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on May 30, 2025, 6:44 am

RIP OTD in 1778, French Enlightenment writer (Candide), poet (La Pucelle d'Orléans), historian, philosopher noted for his wit, his criticism of Christianity and of slavery, Voltaire died in Paris, aged 83. Panthéon in Paris https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/05/30/on-this-day-30-may-2/

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on May 30, 2025, 6:46 am

RIP OTD in 1960 poet (My Sister, Life), novelist (Doctor Zhivago), literary translator Boris Pasternak died of lung cancer in his dacha in Peredelkino near Mosscow, aged 70. Peredelkino Cemetery https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/05/30/on-this-day-30-may-2/

 

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on May 31, 2025, 6:55 am

RIP OTD 1996, Psychedelic guru Timothy Leary died (aged 75). He thought the drug LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide), had potential for therapeutic use in psychiatry. He used LSD himself and felt it helped mind expansion. He popularised the catchphrase “turn on, tune in, drop out”.

 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary

Quote from Anne On on June 1, 2025, 6:22 am

RIP OTD in 1968 author (The Story of My Life), disability rights advocate, political activist, lecturer, Helen Keller died in her sleep at home, Arcan Ridge, Easton, Connecticut, aged 87. Cremated remains Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C. https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/01/day-in-history-1-june-leslie-howard/

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on June 2, 2025, 6:43 am

RIP OTD in 1962, author, poet (The Land), garden designer, lover of Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West died; Sissinghurst Castle, Kent EN, aged 70. Cremated remains Sackville family vault, Withyham Parish Church, East Sussex EN (Portrait William Strang) https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/02/on-this-day-1-june-2/

 

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on June 3, 2025, 7:20 pm

RIP OTD in 1924, writer of novels (The Metamorphosis, The Trial, The Castle), short stories, Franz Kafka died from complications of laryngeal tuberculosis at a sanatorium in Kierling near Vienna, aged 40. New Jewish Cemetery in Prague-Žižkov https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/03/on-this-day-3-june/…

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on June 4, 2025, 7:05 am

RIP OTD in 1798, adventurer, author (Histoire de ma vie), lover, Giacomo Casanova died in Duchcov, Kingdom of Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire, now the Czech Republic, aged 73. Castle of Dux, Bohemia (Duchcov Castle, Czech Republic) https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/04/day-in-history-4-june-ronnie-lane/

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on June 5, 2025, 7:16 am

RIP OTD in 1900, novelist (The Red Badge of Courage), short story writer, poet and journalist Stephen Crane died from tuberculosis at a health spa in Badenweiler, Germany at the age of 28. Evergreen Cemetery, Hillside, New Jersey https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/05/day-in-history-5-june-ronald-reagan/

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on June 5, 2025, 7:16 am

RIP OTD in 1910, short story writer (The Gift of the Magi, The Caballero's Way) O. Henry died of cirrhosis of the liver, complications of diabetes, and an enlarged heart in New York City at the age of 47. Riverside Cemetery in Asheville, North Carolina https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/05/day-in-history-5-june-ronald-reagan/

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on June 5, 2025, 7:18 am

RIP OTD in 2012, author (Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Something Wicked This Way Comes), screenwriter, Ray Bradbury died in Los Angeles, aged 91. Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/05/day-in-history-5-june-ronald-reagan/

 

 

 

 

Quote from Anne On on June 6, 2025, 6:47 am

RIP OTD in 1982, poet ("She is Away"), translator, essayist, “The Father of the Beats”, Kenneth Rexroth died in Santa Barbara, California at the age of 76. Santa Barbara Cemetery https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/06/day-in-history-6-june-robert-f-kennedy/

 

 

 

Quote from Dead Alice on June 7, 2025, 6:48 am

RIP OTD in 1954 Alan Turing died (aged 41). He was a key influence on theoretical computer science and computation with the Turing machine, considered a model of a general-purpose computer. He was not fully recognised during his lifetime.

 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

Quote from Dead Alice on June 7, 2025, 6:48 am

RIP OTD in 1967 poet, writer, critic, satirist, member of the Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker died of a heart attack in Manhattan, aged 73. Cremated remains interred in her family's plot in Woodlawn Cemetery, in the Bronx https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/07/day-in-history-7-june-jean-harlow/

 

 

 

Quote from Dead Alice on June 7, 2025, 6:49 am

RIP OTD in 1970 author (A Room with a View, Howards End, A Passage to India) E. M. Forster died; stroke; Coventry, England, aged 91. Cremated remains, mingled with those of Bob Buckingham, scattered Canley Garden Cemetery and Crematorium (Dora Carrington) https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/07/day-in-history-7-june-jean-harlow/