* Theater: William Shakespeare

* 1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England ( date of actual birth is unknown ).

Such an anagram may be a synonym or antonym of its subject, a parody, a criticism, or praise ; e. g. George Bush = He bugs Gore ; Madonna Louise Ciccone = Occasional nude income or One cool dance musician ; William Shakespeare = I am a weakish speller, Roger Meddows Taylor = Great words or melody.

* Titus Andronicus, main character in the play of the same name by William Shakespeare, possibly named after one of the above-listed emperors

This day is celebrated as St. George's Day in England, and as the day of the birth and death of William Shakespeare.

The earliest known literary use of the word assassination is in Macbeth by William Shakespeare ( 1605 ).

Housman himself acknowledged the influence of the songs of William Shakespeare, the Scottish Border ballads and Heinrich Heine, but specifically denied any influence of Greek and Latin classics in his poetry.

The end credits featured the words " Additional Dialogue by William Shakespeare ".

Additionally, in the alternate history novel Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove, Boudicca is the subject of a play written by William Shakespeare to incite the people of Britain to revolt against Spanish conquerors.

This form of comedy has a long ancestry, dating back at least as far as Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare.

The cynical attitude toward recruited infantry in the face of ever more powerful field artillery is the source of the term cannon fodder, first used by François-René de Chateaubriand, in 1814 ; however, the concept of regarding soldiers as nothing more than " food for powder " was mentioned by William Shakespeare as early as 1598, in Henry IV, Part 1.

In Elizabethan England, William Shakespeare imagined elves as little people.

: — William Shakespeare

Elizabeth's reign is known as the Elizabethan era, famous above all for the flourishing of English drama, led by playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, and for the seafaring prowess of English adventurers such as Sir Francis Drake.

During the 1590s, some of the great names of English literature entered their maturity, including William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.

* 1978 – Censorship: the People's Republic of China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.

Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare.

In Stratford-upon-Avon, the owners of Shrieves House, the former Three Tunns Tavern and now a museum, claim William Shakespeare based the character Falstaff on William Rogers, one of the Sargeants of the mace and close friend of the Shakespeares.

" William Shakespeare, Richard James, and the House of Cobham.

The Baconian theory of Shakespearean authorship, first proposed in the mid-19th century, contends that Sir Francis Bacon wrote some or all the plays conventionally attributed to William Shakespeare, in opposition to the scholarly consensus that William Shakespeare of Stratford was the author.

Soon after that second hospitalization, Cantor's youngest son Rudolph died suddenly ( while Cantor was delivering a lecture on his views on Baconian theory and William Shakespeare ), and this tragedy drained Cantor of much of his passion for mathematics.

* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )

* 1864 – William Bate Hardy, British biochemist ( d. 1934 )

* 1909 – William M. Branham, American evangelist ( d. 1965 )

* 1705 – William Cookworthy, English chemist ( d. 1780 )

* 1856 – William Martin Conway, English art critic and mountaineer ( d. 1937 )

* 1874 – William B. Bankhead, American politician ( d. 1940 )

* 1802 – William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a " long belt " of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.

* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.

* 1939 – William Least Heat-Moon, American author

* 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.

* 1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist ( d. 1828 )

* 1891 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English general, 13th Governor-General of Australia ( d. 1970 )

* 1722 – Prince Augustus William of Prussia ( d. 1758 )

* 1911 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )

* 1666 – William Wotton, English scholar ( d. 1727 )

* 1790 – William Wentworth, Australian explorer and politician ( d. 1872 )

* 1877 – William Brennaugh, Canadian lacrosse player ( d. 1934 )

* 1911 – William Bernbach, American advertiser, co-founder of DDB Worldwide ( d. 1982 )

* 1872 – William Frederick Horry, English convicted murderer ( b. 1843 )

* Sir William Buell Richards ( Chief Justice ) – September 30, 1875

* William Alexander Henry – September 30, 1875

* Sir William Johnstone Ritchie – September 30, 1875

* 1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician ( d. 1838 )

* 1809 – William B. Travis, American lawyer and soldier ( d. 1836 )

* 1770 – Frederick William III of Prussia ( d. 1840 )