dirtnapp / is william shakespeare alive or dead?
William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet
dead
no longer with us. rest easy.
- born
- 1564
- died
- 1616
- age at death
- 52
- known for
- playwright, poet, stage actor
1564 – 1616
where this comes from
wikidata records a date of death for William Shakespeare in 1616, 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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