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Events on Thursday 19 May 1864 1
1804 – 1864Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)Died 19 May 1864, aged 59American novelist and short-story writer best known for The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables. He died in Plymouth, New Hampshire, while on a trip with former president Franklin Pierce.