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Events in June 1809 1
1737 – 1809Thomas Paine (1737-1809)Died 8 June 1809, aged 72English-American writer and revolutionary whose pamphlets 'Common Sense' and 'The Rights of Man' helped shape the American and French Revolutions. He died in New York in relative obscurity after his later work 'The Age of Reason' alienated many former admirers.