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30 Nov, 1900

Oscar Wilde dies at 46

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Oscar Wilde dies of meningitis due to infection of his ear at the age of forty six. He is abandoned by most of his friends and family, and is in a cheap french hotel. His last words are reportedly:

This wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. Either it goes or I do.