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Events on Sunday 22 May 1898 1
1850 – 1898Edward Bellamy (1850-1898)Died 22 May 1898, aged 48Edward Bellamy was an American author best known for the utopian novel Looking Backward, which imagined a socialist United States in the year 2000. The book sold millions of copies and inspired political movements advocating economic reform. He died of tuberculosis in Chicopee, Massachusetts, on 22 May 1898.