Grave: Wallace Stegner (1909-1993)

Death: 13th April 1993
Cause of death: Injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
Location: Lincoln-Noyes Cemetery, Greensboro, Orleans County, Vermont, United States.

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American novelist and short story writer who is often called The Dean of Western Writers. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972 for his novel, Angel of Repose, about a wheelchair-using historian, Lyman Ward, who has lost connection with his son and living family and decides to write about his frontier-era grandparents.

Grave: Miroslav Krleža (1893-1981)

 

Death:  29th December 1981

Location: Mirogoj Cemetery, Zagreb, Croatia

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Croatian poet, novelist and playwright; often proclaimed as the greatest Croatian writer of the 20th century.

Grave: Karel Čapek (1890-1938)

Death:  25th December 1938

Location:  Vyšehrad Cemetery, Prague, Czech Republic

Cause of death:  Pneumonia

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One of the most influential Czech writers of the 20th century. He introduced and made popular the frequently used international word robot, which first appeared in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) in 1921.

Grave: Virginia Andrews (1923-1986)

Death: 19th December 1986.

Location: Olive Branch Cemetery, Portsmouth, Portsmouth City, Virginia, United States.

Cause of death: Breast Cancer.

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American author of popular novels that successfully combine the genres of family saga and gothic horror. She is best remembered for Flowers in the Attic, which became an instant bestseller when published in 1979. After her death she left a large amount of unpublished material so the ghostwriter, Andrew Neiderman, was hired by her estate to continue writing and publishing more novels under the name of Virginia Andrews.

Grave: Alf Prøysen (1914-1970)

Death:  23rd November 1970.

Location: Æreslunden (The Honorary Cemetary), Oslo, Norway. 

Cause of Death: Cancer.
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Norwegian writer and musician who was one of the most important Norwegian cultural personalities in the second half of the twentieth century.  He made outstanding contributions in many artistic fields: children's radio, short stories, theatre, singer-songwriter. His sole novel Trost i taklampa was a great success both as a book and as a play, depicting the Norwegian 1950's increasing urbanization and its effect on rural life.

Outside of Norway he is best known for his stories about Mrs. Pepperpot, a delightful little lady who never knows when she is going to shrink to pepperpot size. In the Norwegian original, she is known as "Teskjekjerringa"; the teaspoon lady.  Alf Prøysen died of cancer, aged 56.  More from Wikipedia.

Grave: John Milton (1608-1674)

Death: 8th November 1674

Location: Saint Giles' Church, London, Cripplegate, England

Cause of death: Gout

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English poet who is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost, in which Milton presents Satan as an ambitious and proud being who defies his creator, omnipotent God, and who wages war on Heaven, only to be defeated and cast down.

Grave: Karel Hynek Mácha (1810-1836)

Death: 5th November 1836.
Location: Vyšehrad cemetery, Prague, Czech Republic
Cause of death: Pneumonia
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Czech romantic poet who is best remembered for his lyrical epic poem Máj / May, published in 1836 shortly before his death. Mácha's genius was discovered and glorified much later by the poets and novelists of the 1850s generation (for example Jan Neruda) and Máj is now regarded as the classic work of Czech Romanticism.