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We do not know that Shakespeare "almost died" of anything when he was born. We do know that there was a plague epidemic in Stratford that year (from the burial records which listed the cause of death in one case) and a lot of people died from it between July and December, but it did not affect Shakespeare's family. There is no record that Shakespeare or his parents caught the disease, and it seems unlikely.

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