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Events on Thursday 28 January 1960 1
1891 – 1960Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)Died 28 January 1960, aged 69American author and anthropologist celebrated for Their Eyes Were Watching God and her documentation of African American folklore. She died in poverty in Florida and was later recognized as a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance.