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Donald Keene
Japanese/american academic (1922-2019).
Born June 18th, 1922 in New York City.
Died February 24th, 2019 at 96 years old in Tokyo (heart failure). [ref]
Occupations
historian, linguist, translator, university teacher, writer
Wikipedia
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. Rabindranath Tagore