July 15

In literary history

• 1904Anton Chekhov died at a German spa, drank a last glass of champagne, observed that it had been a long while since he'd had any, and lay down. His body arrived in Moscow in a railcar marked FOR OYSTERS, which was Chekhov to the end.

Writers born on July 15

• Iris Murdoch (1919)

The Daily Canon for July 15

The Sea The Sea by Iris Murdoch (1978).