Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 23 April 1616

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Sixteen men forming two firing squads carried out the sentence pronounced on Cavell and on four Belgian men including Cavell's friend Philippe Baucq.
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BirthFactDeath (-) Saturday 23rd of April 1616 408 years ago He Drank Himself a Fever
Poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies of fever at the age of 52 in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, United Kingdom. Shakespeare had a merry birthday meeting with Drayton and Ben Jonson and drank too hard. Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted.