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Events on Tuesday 1 December 1987 1
1924 – 1987James Baldwin (1924-1987)Died 1 December 1987, aged 63Baldwin was an American novelist and essayist whose work, including Go Tell It on the Mountain and The Fire Next Time, explored race, sexuality and identity in twentieth-century America. He lived much of his later life in France. He died of stomach cancer in Saint-Paul-de-Vence.