On this day in literature
April 22
In literary history
- 1616Miguel de Cervantes died in Madrid, almost penniless. He was buried April 23, a date that would be permanently confused with Shakespeare's death through a calendar quirk, giving two writers who never met an accidental symmetry.
Writers born on April 22
- Henry Fielding (1707),
- Immanuel Kant (1724),
- Vladimir Nabokov (1899),
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929)