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Events on Friday 21 January 1870 1
1812 – 1870Alexander Herzen (1812-1870)Died 21 January 1870, aged 57Alexander Herzen, the Russian writer and thinker often called the father of Russian socialism, died in Paris on 21 January 1870. His memoir My Past and Thoughts and his exile journal Kolokol shaped generations of Russian radical thought. He spent much of his life in Western European exile after the failed revolutions of 1848.