Zig Ziglar Biography

Zig Ziglar is a popular American motivational speaker and self help author. He came from humble beginnings to be an expert sales person, best selling author, and highly sought after public speaker. Ziglar has successfully blended his own religious beliefs with positive thinking to create a philosophy that is his own.

Zig Ziglar was born as Hilary Hinton Ziglar on the 6th of November, 1926. He was born in Alabama, but was mostly raised in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Ziglar was child number ten of twelve and went through much hardship growing up. His father died in 1932, just weeks before his youngest sister also died. This left his mother to care and provide for her eleven siblings by herself.

William Shakespeare Biography

Details about William Shakespeare’s life are sketchy, mostly mere surmise based upon court or other clerical records. His parents, John and Mary (Arden), were married about 1557; she was of the landed gentry, he a yeoman—a glover and commodities merchant. By 1568, John had risen through the ranks of town government and held the position of high bailiff, similar to mayor. William, the eldest son, was born in 1564, probably on April 23, several days before his baptism on April 26, 1564. That Shakespeare also died on April 23, 52 years later, may have resulted in the adoption of this birthdate.