Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde popularly known as Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright who is well known for his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
On this day in 1900, Oscar Wilde died of meningitis in Paris at the age of 46 in a Paris hotel room after saying of the room’s wallpaper: “One of us had to go.”
He was first buried in Cimitiere de Bagneaux, outside Paris. In 1909 his tomb was later moved to Paris’ famed Père Lachaise Cemetery.
In 2017, Wilde was granted a post-humous pardon. He was among an estimated 50,000 men who were pardoned for homosexual acts as they were no longer considered offences.
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