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Not much is known about William Shakespeare, but there are plenty of inferences and accepted occurances and dates. Among these unknown facts are his birthday, and birthplace. April 23, St. Georges Day, has been Shakespeares' accepted birthday and a house on Henley Street in Stratford, owned by William's father, John, is accepted as his birthplace. Shakespeares's parents are John and Mary Shakespeare. Plague was rampant in the countryside where Shakespeare grew up, so he was lucky to have survived into adulthood. He had 4 other siblings: Joan(eldest), Margaret, Gilbert, and Joan (named after her older sister in rememberance.) Shakespeare later, married a woman by the name of Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare was 18 and she was 26. Anne was also several months pregnant at the time that they were engaged to be married. Anne and Shakespeare had 3 children: Susanna, Hamnet, and Judith. After the death of his son, Hamnet, Shakespeare began writing massive amounts of poetry to express his hardships that he had gone through. Ironically, Shakespeare died on his 52nd birthday, April 23, 1616. The same day he was allegedly born.
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