#RIP #OTD in 1762 aristocrat, writer (Turkish Embassy Letters), poet, smallpox vaccine advocate Lady Mary Wortley Montagu died at her house on Great George Street, London, aged 73. Entombment Grosvenor Chapel. Memorial Lichfield Cathedral
#RIP #OTD in 1940 Marxist revolutionary, political theorist and politician Leon Trotsky was assassinated in Coyoacán, Mexico City at the age of 60. Cremated remains, Museo Casa de León Trotsky, Coyoacán
On this day in 1947, Italian-born and French naturalized citizen automobile designer and manufacturer, founder of the Bugatti automobile company, Ettore Bugatti died in Paris at the age of 65. Born Ettore Isidoro Arco Bugatti on 15 September 1881 in Milan, Italy. Bugatti cars are well-known for their high-performance and the beauty of their designs.
In 1907 Bugatti married Barbara Maria Giuseppina Mascherpa. She died in 1944, and Bugatti remarried in 1946, to Geneviève Marguerite Delcuze.
The Final Footprint – Bugatti is entombed with his wife in the family plot in Cimetière Dorlisheim near Molsheim in the Bas-Rhin département of the Alsace region of France.
#RIP #OTD in 1993 mezzo-soprano, one of the defining opera singers of her generation, Tatiana Troyanos died from breast cancer at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, aged 54. Pinelawn Memorial Park and Arboretum, East Farmingdale, New York
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