dirtnapp / is hamnet shakespeare alive or dead?
Hamnet Shakespeare
son of William Shakespeare
dead
no longer with us. rest easy.
- born
- 1585
- died
- 1596
- age at death
- 11
- known for
- writer
1585 – 1596
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where this comes from
wikidata records a date of death for Hamnet Shakespeare in 1596, which is how we know. your browser re-checks this against wikidata on every visit, so it’s current even if the page itself was cached a while ago.
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