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Events on Thursday 9 January 1890 2
1890 – 1938Karel Čapek (1890-1938)Died 25 December 1938, aged 48Čapek was a Czech writer whose play R.U.R. introduced the word "robot". He was a prominent critic of fascism and died a few months after the Munich Agreement.
1890 – 1935Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935)Died 21 December 1935, aged 45Tucholsky was a German-Jewish satirist and journalist and one of the sharpest critics of the Weimar Republic's right wing. He died in exile in Sweden.