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Events on Monday 23 October 1939 1
1872 – 1939Zane Grey (1872-1939)Died 23 October 1939, aged 67Grey was an American novelist whose Western romances did much to create the popular image of the American West. Riders of the Purple Sage was his best-known book. More than a hundred films were made from his stories.