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Harper Lee and Umberto Eco in the same day. It's like when Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day.
by officemonkey 11y ago
Harper Lee and Umberto Eco in the same day. It's like when Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day.
- pklausler 11y agoA search engine tells me that Cervantes died on April 22nd and Shakespeare died on the 23rd (1616).
- trollingineer 11y agoYou must do really well in life. Search engining and correcting people all the time and all.
- officemonkey 11y agoIt's even worse than that... According to Wikipedia: "Spain had adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1582, but England was still using the Julian calendar. Shakespeare's death on 23 April 1616 (Julian) was equivalent to 3 May 1616 (Gregorian). This was 10 days after Cervantes was buried and 11 days after he died."
- pklausler 11y agoIt's still an astonishing near-coincidence and I'm glad that you mentioned it.
- mcguire 11y agoTo paraphrase Borges, they should have died on the same day.
- riffraff 11y agoforgive my ignorance, but what is the Borges' sentence being rephrased?
- huxley 11y agoOne of Shakespeare's lost works, a collaboration with John Fletcher, was the History of Cardenio which is believed to have been based on a section of Don Quixote. Don Quixote was quite popular in English so it's kind of exciting to think of Shakespeare reading Don Quixote.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoYou gotta admit, that's better than the other way 'round.
- lloyd-christmas 11y agoThomas Jefferson and John Adams both died the same day.
- officemonkey 11y agoThe 4th of July, 50 years after 1776.
- ArkyBeagle 11y ago"Is it the Fourth?" - Jefferson's last words.
- jschuur 11y agoAdams' were 'Thomas Jefferson still survives', even though Jefferson had died hours before.
- glup 11y agoI smell a replacement for the birthday problem in introductory probability courses.
- thomasjames 11y agoA problem to prepare talented probability students for the realities of the kinds of probabilities actuaries actually calculate for a living...
- qwertyboy 11y agoAbsolutely. A century has around 36500 days. If you compose a list of 100 people who died on that century, your chances of hitting the same day more than once are estimated at almost 13%. As a matter of fact, even 28 people will get you over the 1%.