On 8 July 1822, less than a month before his 30th birthday, Shelley drowned in a sudden storm while sailing back from Livorno to Lerici in his schooner, Don Juan.
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on August 4, 1792 and died on July 8, 1822. Percy Bysshe Shelley would have been 29 years old at the time of death or 219 years old today.
He was a romantic poet who has written some of the greatest and longest poems in the history of his category. His wife was Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstien. They were my...