Full name Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde is born in Dublin, Ireland to parents Sir William Wilde, a doctor and published author, and Jane Francesca Elgee, or Speranza, his mother who wrote under this unusual name as a revolutionary poet. Wilde had an older brother who went by the name of Willie as well as a younger sister who was known as Isola Francesca who tragically died at the age of 10. 

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16 Oct 1854

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