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Sigrid Undset (1882-1949)

Authors - U Awards - Nobel Prize Cause of Death - Kidney Disease / Failure Genre - Literature Location - Norway Nationality - Norwegian Year of Death - 1940-1949

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Alison Uttley (1884-1976)

Authors - U Genre - Children's Location - England Nationality - English Year of Death - 1970-1979

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Ludwig Uhland (1787-1862)

Authors - U Genre - Poetry Location - Germany Nationality - German Year of Death - 1860-1869

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Mehmed Uzun (1953-2007)

Authors - U Cause of Death - Cancer Genre - Fiction Location - Turkey Nationality - Kurdish Year of Death - 2000-2009

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Bodo Uhse (1904-1963)

Authors - U Cause of Death - Stroke / Cerebral Hemorrhage Genre - Fiction Location - Germany Nationality - German Year of Death - 1960-1969

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Arthur and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies

Death: Arthur - 19th April 1907; Sylvia - 27 August 1910 Cause of death: Cancer Location: St. John at Hampstead, London, England. Plot: Churchyard extension (J2) Photo taken by : DeadGoodBooks Arthur and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies are best remembered for being the parents of the boys who served as the inspiration for Peter Pan and the other children of J.M. Barrie 's stories of Neverland . Arthur met Sylvia du Maurier at a dinner party in 1889 and they became engaged shortly after. Sylvia was the daughter of George du Maurier , sister of actor Gerald du Maurier, and the aunt of novelists Angela and Daphne du Maurier . The couple married in 1892, and they had five children, all boys: George (1893–1915), Jack (1894–1959), Peter (1897–1960), Michael (1900–1921), and Nicholas (1903–1980). In 1897, George and Jack became friends with the dramatist J. M. Barrie, whom they met during outings in Kensington Gardens. Arthur did not encourage the ongoing friendsh...

O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) (1862-1910)

Death: 5th June 1910 Location: Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA Cause of death: Cirrhosis of the liver Photo taken by: Jẹr Buy books by O.Henry American author of short stories which have surprise endings; the best known of which is The Gift of the Magi . The O. Henry Awards are given annually to outstanding short stories. He was born William Sydney Porter in North Carolina and after leaving school he worked as a bookkeeper in his uncle’s drugstore. In 1882 he moved to Texas where he held several different jobs including, ranch hand and pharmacist. In 1887 he eloped with Athol Estes, a seventeen year old from a wealthy family; the couple had two children. In 1894 he left his job at the First National Bank of Austin after he was accused of embezzlement. He moved to Houston and started writing for the Houston Post , but in 1895 he was arrested for embezzlement from the First National Bank . He was granted bail, but absconded to New O...

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

Death: 14th January 1898 Buried: Mount Cemetery, Guildford, Surrey, England Cause of death: Pneumonia Photo taken by: Clive and Chris Buy books by Lewis Carroll English author, poet and photographer, best remembered for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass . He was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in Warrington, Cheshire and was the third of eleven children. Throughout his life he suffered with a stammer, but this not stop him from singing or telling stories to audiences. He was educated at home until he reached the age of twelve when he was sent away to school in Richmond and then to Rugby. In January 1851 he went to Christ Church College, Oxford. He excelled academically, without having to apply himself, and he gained the Lectureship in mathematics at Christ Church and remained there until he died. He never gave up teaching even when he could afford to live on his income from his writing. In 1856 he took up photography became well ...

Wolfgang Borchert (1921-1947)

Death: 20th November 1947 Location: Friedhof Ohlsdorf , Hamburg, Germany Plot: AC 5,6 Cause of death: Hepatitis Photo taken by: Abubiju Buy books by Wolfgang Borchert German author and playwright whose work was influenced buy his experience during the Second World War. His most famous work is the drama Draußen vor der Tür / The Man Outside , which he wrote in the first days after World War II. Borchert served on the Eastern front where he experienced the full horror of the eastern conflict. In February 1942 he lost a finger whilst on sentry duty which he claimed happened during hand-to-hand conflict, but his superior officer accused him of self mutilation and had him arrested. He was found not guilty at his trial but he was rearrested for making statements endangering the country and sent back to the Eastern front. He suffered frostbite and several bouts of hepatitis and was granted medical leave. Following the war he continued writing but his health worsened and he ...

Ebenezer Scroggie (1792-1836)

Death: 1836 Location: Canongate Kirkyard , Edinburgh, Scotland Photo taken by: Kim Traynor In his diaries, Charles Dickens states that his celebrated fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge stems from a grave marker which he saw in 1841, while taking an evening walk in the Canongate Kirkyard. The headstone was for Ebenezer Scroggie. The marker identified Scroggie as a "meal man" (corn merchant), but Dickens misread this as "mean man" , due to the fading light and his mild dyslexia. The grave marker was lost during construction work at part of the Kirkyard in 1932.

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