As History.com notes, on this
day in 1564 William Shakespeare was born.
According to tradition, the
great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare is born in
Stratford-on-Avon on April 23, 1564. It is impossible to be certain the exact
day on which he was born, but church records show that he was baptized on April
26, and three days was a customary amount of time to wait before baptizing a
newborn. Shakespeare’s date of death is conclusively known, however: it was
April 23, 1616. He was 52 years old and had retired to Stratford three years
before.
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