Robert Louis' Death
Born (Birthday) Nov 13, 1850
Death Date December 3, 1894
Age of Death 44 years
Cause of Death Hemorrhagic Stroke
Profession Novelist
The novelist Robert Louis died at the age of 44. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Scottish author of the classic adventure novel Treasure Island, and the psychological thriller The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. His other popular and widely translated works include A Child’s Garden of Verses and Kidnapped.
He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland to Thomas Stevenson and Margaret Isabella Balfour. He later married Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne and adopted her two children.
Quotes
"Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
"Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
"A friend is a gift you give yourself.
"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.