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Events on Friday 6 May 1949 1
1862 – 1949Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)Died 6 May 1949, aged 86Maurice Maeterlinck was a Belgian playwright and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. His symbolist play The Blue Bird remains his best-known work.