2012 Beck and Shelley In keeping with our disjunctive don't-forget-the-anniversary posts.. (see, for example, here ) - Beck's (42nd) birthday and the (190th) anniversary of Shelley 's tragic, drowning-in-a-shipwreck, death-day today, (Sunday, July the 8th). The late Allen Ginsberg and Beck In Conversation - A Beat/Slacker Transgenerational Meeting of Minds first