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# The light has gone out of my life: a diary entry by Theodore Roosevelt
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/svet-ushel-iz-moei-zhizni-zapis-v-dnenike-teodora-ruzvelta/
- Published: 2020-04-27T11:24:32.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:42:47.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, New York, People

On 14 February 1884 the future American president Theodore Roosevelt lost his mother, who died of typhoid fever at the age of 48, and his wife, aged 22, who died of acute kidney failure after giving birth to a daughter.