April 6

In literary history

• 1895After Wilde dropped his own libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry, police collected him from the Cadogan Hotel at 6:20 that evening. Two years in Reading Gaol produced De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol.

Writers born on April 6

• James D. Watson (1928)

The Daily Canon for April 6

Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1606).