Biography of Shakespeare

The whole idea behind doing regular biographic sketches was to try and get a larger feel for each writer.  That doesn't seem as necessary with Shakespeare as it does with many others.  He's one of the best known individuals of his time period and even a casual fan is probably very familiar with his story.  So I'll hit the high spots and see if I can find anything that I didn't know before.
Shakespeare was born in 1564, probably on April 23rd.  He almost certainly attended  grammar school.  There was one near his house.  At school he would have been well educated in Latin grammar and classical Latin authors.  (Between Montaigne and Shakespeare, I'm wondering if I should be pushing classical stories on my kids!)  When he was 18 he married the much older Anne Hathaway.  Only six months later, the couple had a daughter.  A few years later they had twins and a few years after that he split for London.  No one is certain why he left.
By 1592 his plays were being performed in London.  Apparently, and I didn't know this, he probably acted in some of them.  He was successful enough that by 1598 his name was a selling point.  He became at least somewhat wealthy.  He died in 1616.  Tradition suggests that he died on his birthday but that's disputed.
There is a lot that we don't know about Shakespeare.  I lot that we probably never will.  For centuries, various scholars have pored over his works to try and find clues to his personal life.  But clues are all that they really have.  There is even controversy over whether the man 'William Shakespeare' wrote the works that are attributed to him.  (For the record, I haven't ever seen any convincing evidence that he didn't.)  There is speculation over his marriage, his sexuality, his education, and even over his death.  He left his 'second-best bed' to his wife, prompting some to think that he still needed to use his first-best. 
Shakespeare was a first rate poet and playwright, probably the finest that the English language has ever had.  No wonder we keep trying to get to know what happened to produce such a wonder.