Kahlil Gibran died on 10 April 1931 in New York City, aged 48. A Lebanese-American poet, painter and essayist, Gibran wrote in both Arabic and English. His best-known work, The Prophet, a series of poetic essays on love, work, freedom and death spoken by a wise man leaving an island, was published in 1923 and has been translated into dozens of languages. Born in a village in what is now Lebanon, he emigrated with his family to Boston as a boy and later studied art in Paris. He was a leading figure of the Arab literary renaissance in North America and also painted symbolic, mystical portraits.
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- 4 February 1931Birth of Isabel Martínez de Perón
- 8 February 1931Birth of James Dean
- 18 February 1931Birth of Toni Morrison
- 2 March 1931Birth of Mikhail Gorbachev
- 10 April 1931Death of Kahlil Gibran
- from 14 April 1931 to 1 April 1939Second Spanish Republic
- 15 April 1931Birth of Tomas Tranströmer
- 1 May 1931Construction of Empire State Building
- 27 May 1931Construction of Chrysler Building
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