Roald Dahl, a British novelist and Spy, died in 1990 at the age of 74.

Roald Dahl was a British writer who died on November 23, 1990, in Oxford, England. He was a popular author of inventive, irreverent children's books. C.S. Forester, a novelist, encouraged him to write about his most thrilling RAF experiences, which were published in the Saturday Evening Post.
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