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popular name: Albert Camus

date_of_death: January 4, 1960

age: 46

cause_of_death: Automobile accident

claim_to_fame: Writers and Poets

best_know_for: Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. Some of his best known works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall, and The Rebel.The dominant philosophical contribution of Camus’s work is absurdism. While he is often associated with existentialism, he rejected the label, expressing surprise that he would be viewed as a philosophical ally of Sartre. Elements of absurdism and existentialism are present in Camus’s most celebrated writing especially in The Myth of Sisyphus (1942). The protagonists of The Stranger and The Plague must also confront the absurdity of social and cultural orthodoxies, with dire results. Camus died on January 4, 1960 at the age of 46, in a car accident near Sens, in Le Grand Fossard in the small town of Villeblevin. He had spent the New Year's holiday of 1960 at his house in Lourmarin, Vaucluse with his family, and his publisher Michel Gallimard, along with Gallimard's wife, Janine, and daughter. Camus's wife and children went back to Paris by train but Camus decided to return in Gallimard's luxurious Facel Vega FV2. The car crashed into a plane tree on a long straight stretch of the Route nationale 5. Camus, who was in the passenger seat, died instantly. Gallimard died a few days later, although his wife and daughter were unharmed.

popular name: Nellie Bly

date_of_death: January 27, 1922

age: 57

cause_of_death: Pneumonia

claim_to_fame: Writers and Poets

best_know_for: Nellie Bly, born Elizabeth Cochran on May 5, 1864, in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania, was a pioneering American journalist, industrialist, and humanitarian best known for her groundbreaking investigative reporting. She gained national recognition in 1887 when she feigned insanity to expose the harsh conditions at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island, resulting in her famous exposé Ten Days in a Mad-House, which revolutionized mental health care. Bly also gained fame for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, inspired by Jules Verne’s novel Around the World in 80 Days. As one of the first female investigative journalists, she challenged the traditional roles of women in journalism with her bold, immersive reporting style. Later in life, she became a businesswoman and continued advocating for social reform until her death on January 27, 1922. She was laid to rest at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York.

popular name: Fannie Farmer

date_of_death: January 15, 1915

age: 57

cause_of_death: Complications from a paralytic stroke

claim_to_fame: Writers and Poets

best_know_for: American cooking expert, author, and educator Fannie Farmer was an authority in the art of cooking, author of six books about food preparation (including her impressive, highly significant Boston Cooking School Cookbook (1896), of which twenty-one editions were printed before her death) and was the director of the Boston Cooking School. Despite suffering a debilitating stroke at the young age of 16, after 2 years of rehabilitation Miss Farmer became a self-taught culinary expert who continued her passion right up to the end with her final lecture given from a wheelchair 10 days before her passing.