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12 hours ago · Rabindranath Tagore FRAS ( / rəˈbɪndrənɑːt tæˈɡɔːr / ⓘ; pronounced [roˈbindɾonatʰ ˈʈʰakuɾ]; [1] 7 May 1861 [2] – 7 August 1941 [3]) was a Bengali poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter during the age of Bengal Renaissance. [4] [5] [6] He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well ...
12 hours ago · December 6 – Roy Orbison, singer, 52 (heart attack) [72] December 16 – Sylvester, R&B singer, disco performer, 41 (complications from AIDS) December 21 – Paul Jeffreys, bassist ( Cockney Rebel ), 36 (killed in the crash of Pan Am Flight 103) December 25 – Evgeny Golubev, Russian composer, 78.
12 hours ago · Flagler's non-Standard Oil interests went in a different direction, however, when in 1878, on the advice of his physician, he traveled to Jacksonville, Florida, for the winter with his first wife, Mary, who was quite ill. Two years after she died in 1881, he married Mary's former caregiver, Ida Alice Shourds.
