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Today is the anniversary of Shakespeare's birth and death.
Today is also St George's day.
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Dear dxb: Do you mean Shakespeare died on his birthday?
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dr. bill asks, Do you mean Shakespeare died on his birthday?Yes -- to the extent the dates are known. http://shakespeare.about.com/library/faqs/blfaqsbirth.htmIt is spooky to me to realize that he died on this day at precisely my age this day. bartleby's quotation-of-the-day, today, is this spring-thought from his pen: Now ‘tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;
Suffer them now, and they’ll outgrow the garden,
And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.-- Queen Margaret, in Henry VI, Part 2, act 3, sc. 1, l. 31-3.
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Samuel Clemmens (Mark Twain) was born in the year of Halley's comet, and died in the year of the next Halley's comet. What other famous anniversary coincidences might there be?
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John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day--a significant anniversary--July 4, 1826.
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Adams' last words were, "Thomas Jefferson still lives" -- he could not know that Jefferson had died a few hours earlier.
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Dr Bill inquires: Do you mean Shakespeare died on his birthday?
Indeed... which makes his prolific output all the more wondersome since he lived less than 24 hours.
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died on his birthday
It should be noted that dxb's original post said nothing of the sort. What it said was that April 23rd was the anniversary of Shakespeare's birth and death.
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On which logic we must of course delete the entire birthday thread.  
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