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.htm
It 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.