Sancho Panza is a character in a novel written by Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
 It is generally accepted Cervantes died on 22 April 1616 (NS; the Gregorian calendar had superseded the Julian in 1582 in Spain and some other countries); the symptoms described, including intense thirst, correspond to diabetes, then untreatable
Panza is depicted in Pablo Picasso's 1955 drawing Don Quixote

