Today in history

• 1758

  Samuel Johnson – Between 1758 and 1760 Johnson writes a weekly series called the Idler [London, United Kingdom]

• 1804

  John Keats – Whilst riding home on a horse, Keats' father had a fall and died shortly afterwards. [Enfield, United Kingdom]

• 1829

  Edgar Allan Poe – Poe finally was discharged on April 15, 1829, after securing a replacement to finish his enlisted term for him [Charleston, South Carolina United States]

• 1885

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – On the 15th of April 1885 Goethe's son Walther Freiherr von Goethe passes away [Weimar, Thuringia, Germany]

• 1888

  Matthew Arnold – On the 15th of April 1888 at the aged of 65 in Liverpool, England [Liverpool, United Kingdom]

• 1918

  C. S. Lewis – Lewis was commissioned to the Somerset Light Infantry and served in the Somme. In April 1918 he was wounded and two of his friends killed by a British shell that had fallen short of its target. [Arras, France]

• 1938

  Cesar Vallejo – On the 15th of April 1938 Cesar Vallejo passes away [Paris, France]

• 1941

  Roald Dahl – On the 15th of April 1941 Dahl sees his first aerial combat flying alone over the city of Chalcis [Eleusina, Greece]

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