Shakespeare and Cervantes Die
April 23, 1616
In the same month, though not quite the same day, the two greatest writers of their age died: Miguel de Cervantes in Madrid on April twenty-second, William Shakespeare in Stratford on the twenty-third, his fifty-second birthday. Europe's literature lost its twin pillars within hours of each other, though the works they left behind would outlive every empire that claimed them.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.