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Day

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Hermann Hesse

Date of Birth

02 Jul, 1877

Date of Death

09 Aug, 1962

Age at time of Death

85 years

Cause of Death

Heart attack

Nationality

German, Swiss

Gender

Male

“A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me. I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live.”
“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.”

As a young man, Hesse ran away from his education at a seminary and went through a period of crisis and rebellion before working in bookstores and eventually becoming a full-time writer.
Despite being born in Germany, Hesse became a Swiss citizen in 1923 and spent much of his later life in Switzerland, where he also pursued painting as a hobby alongside his writing career.
Hesse's experiences with psychoanalysis and interest in Eastern philosophy greatly influenced his writing, particularly in works like "Siddhartha" and "Steppenwolf" which explore themes of self-discovery and spirituality.
Hesse won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946 for his inspired writings, despite being criticized by some German contemporaries who thought his work was childish or too focused on adolescent experiences.

Ernest Hemingway

Date of Birth

21 Jul, 1899

Date of Death

02 Jul, 1961

Age at time of Death

61 years

Cause of Death

Suicide

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

He earned the Italian Silver Medal of Valor and a Bronze Star for his service as an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I.
Hemingway's distinctive writing style, characterized by brevity and simplicity, has had a lasting influence on modern literature
He was an expert fisherman and he set a world record in 1938 by catching seven marlins in one day.
He was in back-to-back plane crashes when travelling with wife Mary Welsh in 1954. Their plane crashed in Belgian Congo. The following day, they boarded another plane to reach medical attention in Entebbe, which crashed before takeoff, leaving Hemingway with burns, a concussion, and cerebral fluid in his head.