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Events on Sunday 20 December 1936 1
1936Elsa diesHeart and kidney failure at Mercer StreetElsa became ill shortly after the move to Princeton and died in December 1936. Einstein worked through the days after her death, which those around him read as grief rather than coldness. His sister Maja and stepdaughter Margot kept the house with him afterwards.