#RIP #OTD in 2016, prima ballerina assoluta (Paris Opera ballet), actress (La Mort du Cygne), Yvette Chauviré died at her home in Paris aged 99. Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris

#RIP #OTD in 1988, Delta blues singer, slide guitarist, songwriter ("Preachin' the Blues", "Walking Blues"), Son House died from cancer of the larynx in Detroit aged 86. Mt. Hazel Cemetery, Detroit. epitaph... "Go away, Blues; go away and leave poor me alone."

#RIP #OTD in 1950, lyrical poet ("Ballad of the Harp-Weaver", "First Fig", "Renascence"), playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay died at her home , Steepletop near Austerlitz, New York, after falling down her stairs, at the age of 58. Steepletop Cemetery. Millay had fallen down stairs and was found approximately eight hours after her death.  Her physician reported that she had suffered a heart attack following a coronary occlusion.

#RIP #OTD in 1943, French sculptor (The Waltz, The Mature Age), artist, muse (Rodin), Camille Claudel died at the age of 78, after having lived 30 years in the asylum at Montfavet, France. Cemetery of Monfavet. After 1905, Claudel appeared to be mentally ill. She destroyed many of her statues, disappeared for long periods of time, exhibited signs of paranoia and was diagnosed as having schizophrenia. She accused Rodin of stealing her ideas and of leading a conspiracy to kill her. Claudel's father approved of her career choice, and he tried to help and support her financially. But when he died on 2 March 1913, Claudel was not informed of his death. Eight days later, on 10 March 1913, at the request of her younger brother Paul, she was admitted to the psychiatric hospital of Ville-Évrard in Neuilly-sur-Marne. The form read that she had been "voluntarily" committed, although her admission was signed only by a doctor and her brother. There are records to show that, while she did have mental outbursts, she was clear-headed while working on her art. Doctors tried to convince Paul and their mother that Claudel did not need to be in the institution, but they still kept her there. The film, Camille Claudel (1988), directed by Bruno Nuytten, starring Isabelle Adjani as Claudel and Gérard Depardieu as Rodin, was nominated for two Academy Awards in 1989.

#RIP #OTD in 1745, satirist (Gulliver's Travels), essayist, poet, cleric and Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Jonathan Swift died in Dublin, Ireland at the age of 77. St. Patrick’s Cathedral. epitaph (translated by W. B. yeats) Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast. Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveller; he Served human liberty.

#RIP #OTD in 2012, actress (Emmanuelle), model, Sylvia Kristel died at age 60 from esophageal and lung cancer in Amsterdam. Utrecht Sint-Barbara Roman Catholic Cemetery, Utrecht, Netherlands

#RIP #OTD in 2000, actress (Sweet Charity, Chicago), dancer, wife-collaborator-muse of Bob Fosse, 4x Tony winner, Gwen Verdon died from a heart attack at her daughter Nicole Fosse's home in Woodstock, Vermont, aged 75. Cremation

#RIP #OTD in 2000, singer ("Cry Me a River"), actress (The Fat Man, Saddle the Wind, Man of the West, The Wonderful Country, Emergency!), wife of Bobby Troup, Julie London died; Encino-Tarzana Med Center, Los Angeles; cardiac arrest aged 74. Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills Cemetery

#RIP #OTD in 1975, actor (Virgil Sollozzo in The Godfather; Pulp; Mr Majestyk; Getaway), Al Lettieri died from a heart attack in New York City aged 47. Saint John Cemetery, Middle Village, New York

#RIP #OTD in 1893, composer (Funeral March of a Marionette, operas Faust, Roméo et Juliette), Charles Gounod died in Saint-Cloud, France, at the age of 75. Cimetiere d’Auteuil in Paris

#RIP #OTD in 2024, singer, dancer, actress (We're Not Married!, There's No Business Like Show Business, The Birds and the Bees, South Pacific), Mitzi Gaynor died in Los Angeles aged 93. Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California thefinalfootprint.com/2026/1…

#RIP #OTD in 2007, U. S. Army veteran, actor (Ocean's 11, Sergeants 3, Texas Across the River), comedian, entertainer, member of the Rat Pack, Joey Bishop died at his home in Newport Beach, California, from heart failure at the age of 89. Cremation thefinalfootprint.com/2026/1…

#RIP #OTD in 2003, actress (Bell, Book and Candle; The Swimmer; 3 Women; The Twilight Zone (Nightmare as a Child)), Janice Rule died from a cerebral hemorrhage in Manhattan aged 72. She was cremated thefinalfootprint.com/2026/1…

#RIP #OTD in 1991, singer ("Sixteen Tons"), songwriter ("The Shotgun Boogie"), television host, Tennessee Ernie Ford died in H. C. A. Reston Hospital Center in Reston, Virginia, from liver failure, aged 72. Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, California thefinalfootprint.com/2026/1…

#RIP #OTD in 1962, avant-garde artist, painter, costume designer, writer, illustrator, set designer, member of the Der Blaue Reiter art movement, Natalia Goncharova died in Paris aged 82. Cimetière d'Ivry, Ivry-sur-Seine, France (self portrait) thefinalfootprint.com/2026/1…

#RIP #OTD 1910, author (Mother's Day Proclamation), poet, lyricist ("Battle Hymn of the Republic"), abolitionist, women's suffragist, Julia Ward Howe died from pneumonia at her Portsmouth, Rhode Island home, Oak Glen aged 91. Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts thefinalfootprint.com/2026/1…

#RIP #OTD in 1849, piano composer (Fantaisie in F minor, Barcarolle in F♯ major, Études, Op. 10 & 25, 24 Preludes), virtuoso pianist, Frédéric Chopin died probably from pericarditis at his apartment, Place Vendome 12, Paris aged 39. Père Lachaise, Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2026/1…