Originally published in Terrific Register (Sherwood, Jones, and Co.; 1825).
Antipater Sidonius the poet, throughout the whole space of his life, for one day only, that is, the day on which he was born, was seized with a fever; and when he had lived to a great age, by the certain return of his wonted disease, he died on his birth-day.
M. Osilius Hilarus, the actor of comedies, after he had highly pleased the people upon his birth-day, kept a feast in his own house, and when supper was set forth upon the table, he called for a mess of hot broth to sup off; and casting his eye upon the visor he had worn that day in the play, he fitted it again to his face, and taking off the garland which he wore upon his head, he set it thereupon; in this posture, disguised as he sat, he was stark dead, and cold too, before any person in the company perceived it.
It is worthy to be remembered, that Tuesday was observed to be a day fatal to king Henry the Eighth, and to all his posterity; he himself died on Tuesday the 28th of January; king Edward the Sixth, on Tuesday the 9th of July; queen Mary, on Tuesday the 17th of November; and queen Elizabeth, on Tuesday the 24th of March.
Franciscus Baudinus, an abbot, a citizen of Florence, and well known at the court of Rome, died upon the anniversary of his birth-day, which was on the 19th of December; he was buried in the church of St. Silvester in Rome; and it was the observation of him that made his funeral elegy, that the number nine did four times happen remarkably in his affairs, be was born on the 19th, and he died on the same, being aged twenty-nine, in the year 1579.