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#RIP #OTD in 1643, composer, string player and choirmaster Claudio Monteverdi died in Venice at the age of 76. Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice https://t.co/KdxsV60H85
#RIP #OTD in 1882, essayist, lecturer, philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson died from pneumonia in Concord, Massachusetts at the age of 78. Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord https://t.co/MzAZ2ruqLP
#RIP #OTD in 1731, trader, writer (Robinson Crusoe (1719)), journalist, pamphleteer and spy Daniel Defoe died in London at the age of 70. Bunhill Fields Burial and Gardens, Borough of Islington, London https://t.co/uOj99T2TCz
#RIP #OTD in 1821, English Romantic poet, John Keats, died in a villa on the Spanish Steps in Rome, today the Keats-Shelley Memorial House museum, at the age of 25 from tuberculosis. Cimitero protestante in Rome near Porta San Paolo https://t.co/s1iQM9pajz
#RIP #OTD in 1087, the first Norman King of England, William the Conqueror, William the Bastard, William I of England, William II of Normandy and Duke of Normandy, died at the Convent of St. Gervais in Rouen, Normandy; age 59. Abbaye-aux-Hommes, Caen https://t.co/2m4S91fhcr