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Today is Day 85 of 2025
1827
Composer Ludwig van
Beethoven dies at age 57 in Vienna, Austria.
1830
The Book of Mormon
is published in Palmyra, New York.
1859
English poet
and scholar A. E.
Housman born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England.
1874 
Poet Robert Frost born in
San Francisco, California.
1892
Poet Walt Whitman dies at
age 72 in Camden, New Jersey.
1904
Author &
mythologist Joseph
Campbell (The
Hero with a Thousand Faces) born in New York.
1911
Playwright
Tennessee
Williams née Thomas Lanier Williams (A
Streetcar Named Desire) born in Columbus, Mississippi.
1917
Rhythm-and-blues singer, songwriter, dancer Rufus Thomas born
Cayce, Mississippi.
1919
Character
actor Strother
Martin (Cool
Hand Luke) born in Kokomo, Indiana.
1920
Beat poet Gregory Corso born
in New York.
1926
Actor, author, sailor, spy Sterling Hayden
born in Upper Montclair, NJ.
1929
Illustrator
and caricaturist Edward Sorel born in
The Bronx, New York.
1942
American
author and poet Erica
Jong (Fear of
Flying) born in New York City.
1969
Author John Kennedy
Toole (A Confederacy
of Dunces) commits suicide outside of Biloxi, Mississippi.
1973
Playwright,
actor, and composer Noël Coward dies
at his home, Firefly Estate, in
Jamaica.
1997
Heaven's Gate religious group commit mass suicide in San
Diego.
Thirty-nine members take part.
2016
Poet and
novelist Jim
Harrison (Songs of
Unreason) dies in Patagonia, Arizona.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
“Each monkey to its own branch.” ~ Portuguese Proverb
