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Events on Sunday 22 February 1942 1
1881 – 1942Stefan Zweig (1881-1942)Died 22 February 1942, aged 60Stefan Zweig was an Austrian novelist, biographer and one of the most widely translated writers of his day. After fleeing Nazism he settled in Brazil, where he and his wife Lotte took their own lives in Petrópolis. His memoir The World of Yesterday was published after his death.