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Events on Saturday 12 December 1914 1
1914 – 2000Patrick O'Brian (1914-2000)Died 2 January 2000, aged 85Patrick O'Brian wrote the Aubrey-Maturin novels, a twenty-book sequence set in the Royal Navy of the Napoleonic Wars and admired for its historical detail and prose. Long a cult favourite, the series found a wide readership in the 1990s. After his death it emerged that his "Irish" background was largely invented.