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41st year  -  N° 30                 Friday, 30 January 2026         Antwerpen		
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Tuesday 6th of May 1862
164 years, 8 months and 24 days ago




Writer, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister and transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau dies of tuberculosis at the age of 45 in Concord, Massachusetts, United States.


Thoreau's last words were "Now comes good sailing" followed by two lone words, "moose" and "Indian".