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#1961 · June 21, 2025, 6:34 am

RIP OTD in 2003 US Marine Corps veteran, author (Exodus, Trinity, Topaz) Leon Uris died of kidney failure at his Long Island home on Shelter Island in 2003, aged 78. Quantico National Cemetery, Quantico, Virginia https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/

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#1962 · June 23, 2025, 5:38 am

RIP OTD in 2013 author (I Am Legend, "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", "Steel", "Duel", Hell House, What Dreams May Come), screenwriter Richard Matheson died at his home in Los Angeles aged 87. Cremation https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/

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#1963 · June 23, 2025, 5:39 am

RIP OTD in 2018 14th poet laureate of the US, first poetry editor of The Paris Review, writer, editor, literary critic, husband of poet Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall died at his home in Wilmot, New Hampshire aged 89. Proctor Cemetery, Andover, New Hampshire https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/

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#1964 · June 24, 2025, 5:54 am

RIP OTD in 1909 novelist, short story writer (The Country of the Pointed Firs), poet, Sarah Orne Jewett died in her South Berwick, Maine home from a stroke aged 59. Portland Street Cemetery, South Berwick, Maine https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/

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#1965 · June 26, 2025, 6:22 am

RIP OTD in 1996 Investigative Journalist, Veronica Guerin (aged 37), was shot dead by members of a drug gang, while driving through the outskirts of Dublin, Ireland. A biographical film detailing her life, career and death was released in 2003, with Guerin played by Cate Blanchett.

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

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#1966 · June 26, 2025, 6:22 am

RIP OTD in 2012, journalist, writer, filmmaker (Silkwood, Heartburn, When Harry Met Sally..., Sleepless in Seattle, Michael, You’ve Got Mail, Julie & Julia) Nora Ephron died from acute myeloid leukemia in New York City at the age of 71. Cremation https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/

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#1967 · June 28, 2025, 6:40 am

RIP OTD in 1975, US Army Airborne veteran, screenwriter (The Doomsday Flight), novelist, producer, narrator (The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery) Rod Serling died; heart attack; Rochester, New York aged 50. Lake View Cemetery, Interlaken, New York https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/28/day-in-history-28-june-rod-serling/

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#1968 · June 29, 2025, 7:09 am

RIP OTD in 1861, poet (Sonnets from the Portuguese, Aurora Leigh) of the Victorian era, wife of poet and playwright Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning died in Rome in Robert’s arms at the age of 55. The English Cemetery of Florence https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/29/day-in-history-29-june-jayne-mansfield/

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#1969 · June 30, 2025, 6:22 am

OTD 1905 Albert Einstein had a paper published in the scientific journal, Annalen der Physik, which set out his landmark theory of Special Relativity, which explains the relationship between space and time and between energy and mass.

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

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#1970 · June 30, 2025, 6:23 am

RIP OTD in 1984 playwright (The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes, The Autumn Garden, Toys in the Attic), screenwriter, Lillian Hellman died; heart attack near her home, Martha's Vineyard aged 79. Abel Hill Cemetery, Chilmark, Massachusetts (Irving Penn) https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/06/

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#1971 · July 1, 2025, 6:34 am

RIP OTD in 1896 author (Uncle Tom's Cabin) and abolitionist, Harriet Beecher Stowe died in Hartford, Connecticut, aged 85. Phillips Academy Cemetery in Andover, Massachusetts https://thefinalfootprint.com/

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#1972 · July 2, 2025, 6:57 am

RIP OTD in 1566, French apothecary and reputed seer, author, translator, astrological consultant, Nostradamus died at the age of 62 in Salon-de-Provence, Provence, France. Collégiale Saint-Laurent in Salon-de-Provence https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/02/day-in-history-2-july-ernest-hemingway/

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#1973 · July 2, 2025, 6:57 am

RIP OTD in 1778, Genevan philosopher, writer (Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse, Les Confessions) composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau died; estate of the marquis René Louis de Girardin at Ermenonville, near Paris, from a hemorrhage, aged 66. Panthéon in Paris https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/02/day-in-history-2-july-ernest-hemingway/

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#1974 · July 2, 2025, 6:58 am

RIP OTD in 1961, author (The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea), journalist, Ernest Hemingway died; self inflicted gunshot at his home in Ketchum, Idaho, aged 61. Hemingway family plot, Ketchum Cemetery https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/02/day-in-history-2-july-ernest-hemingway/

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#1975 · July 2, 2025, 6:59 am

RIP OTD in 1977 novelist (Lolita; Pale Fire; Speak, Memory), poet, translator, and entomologist, Vladimir Nabokov died in Montreux, Switzerland, aged 78. His remains were cremated and buried at Clarens cemetery in Montreux https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/02/day-in-history-2-july-ernest-hemingway/

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#1976 · July 2, 2025, 7:00 am

RIP OTD in 1991, author (The Godfather, The Sicilian), screenwriter, Mario Puzo died of heart failure at his home on Manor Lane in West Bay Shore, Long Island, New York, at the age of 78. West Babylon Cemetery in West Babylon, New York https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/02/day-in-history-2-july-ernest-hemingway/

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#1977 · July 2, 2025, 7:01 am

RIP OTD in 2010 Liverpool-born novelist Beryl Bainbridge died (aged 77). She’s best known for her psychological novels. She popularised the myth of Hitler once living in Liverpool, in “Young Adolf”. In 2008, The Times named her as one of the “50 Greatest British Writers since 1945”.

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

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#1978 · July 2, 2025, 7:04 am

RIP OTD in 2016 writer (Night, Dawn, Day) professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel died at his home in Manhattan, aged 87. Sharon Gardens Cemetery in Valhalla, New York https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/07/02/day-in-history-2-july-ernest-hemingway/

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#1979 · July 3, 2025, 6:53 am

Born OTD 1937. Tom Stoppard was born in Zlín, Czechoslovakia. His 1st major play was Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. The rest of his work covers the themes of human rights, censorship and political freedom. He is one of the most internationally performed dramatists.

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

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#1980 · July 4, 2025, 6:53 am

RIP OTD in 1934 Polish-born Radioactivity pioneer Marie Sklodowska-Curie died (aged 66). She was the 1st woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields.

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

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