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Rainer Maria Rilke
Austro-German poet and writer Rainer Maria Rilke, 1902.
Rainer Maria Rilke died on December 29, 1926, at a sanatorium in Valmont, Switzerland, located above Territet on Lake Geneva.12
While he had been in poor health since 1923, the cause of his declineāa rare form of incurable leukemiaāwas only diagnosed shortly before his death.2