On this day, 75 years ago, on January 21, 1950 (December 4, 1949 in the lunar calendar), British writer George Orwell passed away. Stills of the cartoon "Animal Farm" On January 21, 1950, British writer George Orwell (1903-1950) died after a long battle with tuberculosis. Orwell was born in Bangladesh, originally named Eric Arthur Blair, educated at Eton College and worked as a police officer in Myanmar for several years. After spending a wandering life in France and England, he began to write seriously, and recorded this experience in "The Fall and Fall of Paris and London" published in 1933. Orwell's unorthodox socialist beliefs dominated the form of many of his later works, including "The Road to Wigan Quay"(1937) and "Salute to Catalonia"(1938), which he wrote after being wounded in the Spanish Civil War, and his last novel,"1984", which expressed his dystopian view that the future was bleak and would be governed by totalitarianism. Perhaps his most popular work was the allegorical novel "Animal Farm"(1945), which was later made into an animated film.