[Peter ODonnell]

I believe it is also William Shakepeare’s birthday.

While it’s not a holiday, it is observed by native-born English people so it does not really go unobserved, just at work rather than at home (if a week-day).

[Forward the Light Brigade]

A good thing to honor England’s saint! Fly the Red Cross banner and wear the red rose! There will always be an England!

[driftless2]

"Shakespeare"

I think a Richard III day would be appropriate as well. Everyone could go around affecting a limp while uttering ala Sir Larry "a horse...a horse...etc. Kind of like talk-like-a-pirate day.

[Vanders9]

No one exactly knows if it is Shakespeare's birthday, as birth certificates did not exist then. All we have is a christening date, which seems to imply he was born on or around 23rd April. He definitely died on April 23rd.

It would be singularly appropriate for Shakespeare, our greatest playwright and poet, to be born on the patron saint's day, in a town that is pretty much the geograhic centre of the country.