Google.co.uk is running this image’s day. It’s St George’s Day — and traditionally celebrated as Shakespeare’s birthday, too. The Writer’s Almanac reminds us why it’s celebrated as Shakespeare’s birthday:

Today we celebrate the birthday of William Shakespeare, born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England (1564 -1616). We don’t know his birthday for sure, but he was baptized on April 26th, and since infants were usually baptized about three days after their birth, his birthday is celebrated today.

Oxford Classics sticks to the facts and tweets

On this day in 1616 both #Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes died, and is also the generally accepted day of Shakespeare’s birth in 1564.

— Oxford Classics (@OWC_Oxford) April 23, 2012

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Author Neil Gaiman has more fun, tweeting about Shakespeare’s birthday and St George’s Day.

Happy #worldbooknight. Happy Shakespeare & Cervantes birthdays. Happy St George’s Day. Fight dragons & windmills, read books & quote wisely.
— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) April 23, 2012

Arianna Huffington also has a top tweet on Shakespeare’s birthday, taking time off from politics.

Happy Birthday, William Shakespeare! Whoever you were, there’s never been anyone like you.

— Arianna Huffington (@ariannahuff) April 23, 2012

The Writer’s Almanac is running this Shakespeare sonnet today. It certainly strikes a chord.

Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me prov’d,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d.