What date did Sherlock Holmes die?

Answer 1

To answer your question, the date generally accepted by scholars as the date that Holmes supposedly plunged into the Reichenbach Falls is: Monday, 4th May 1891.

His death of old age or some other cause later in his life is not recorded.

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Sherlock Holmes was not a real person but a character created by writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This fiction hero "died" in the story "The Adventure of the Final Problem" published in 1893 in The Strand Magazine and then in "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"

People were so concerned that Conan Doyle had to bring the great detective back. In 1901 Sherlock Holmes reappeared in "The Hound of the Baskervilles". The story supposedly happened before Holmes' "death" at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland.

Holmes returned officially from the dead in the 1903 story "The Empty House", which is the first story in the book "The Return of Sherlock Holmes"

Doyle wrote the Sherlock Holmes stories until 1927 though the chronology of Holmes' adventures ends with "His Last Bow", at the beginning of World War I in 1914.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in 1930.

Answer 2

He didn't die - in fact he never even lived! He was a fictional character invented by Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle, the author of the detective novels featuring Holmes.

He didn't die - in fact he never even lived! He was a fictional character invented by Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle, the author of the detective novels featuring Holmes.

THE AUTHOR of the Sherlock Holmes book series was Conan Doyle. He died in 1930.

According to Wikipedia:

'...he killed off Holmes in "The Final Problem", which appeared in print in 1893. After resisting public pressure for eight years, the author wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles, which appeared in 1901, implicitly setting it before Holmes' "death" (some theorise that it actually took place after "The Return" but with Watson planting clues to an earlier date).

The public, while pleased with the story, was not satisfied with a posthumous Holmes, and so Conan Doyle resuscitated Holmes two years later. Many have speculated on his motives for bringing Holmes back to life, notably writer-director Nicholas Meyer, who wrote an essay on the subject in the 1970s, but the actual reasons are not known, other than the obvious: Publishers offered to pay generously. For whatever reason, Conan Doyle continued to write Holmes stories for a quarter-century longer.

Some writers have come up with alternate explanations for the hiatus. In Meyer's novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, the Hiatus is depicted as a secret sabbatical following Holmes' treatment for cocaine addiction at the hands of Sigmund Freud, and presents Holmes making the light-hearted suggestion that Watson write a fictitious account claiming he'd been killed by Moriarty, saying of the public: "They'll never believe you in any case."

In his memoirs, Conan Doyle quotes a reader, who judged the later stories inferior to the earlier ones, to the effect that when Holmes went over the Reichenbach Falls, he may not have been killed, but he was never quite the same man after.

Answer 3

No one knows for sure. It was Christopher Morley who said Holmes quoted Shakespeare often, but the only story he quoted twice was 'Twelfth Night'; therefore, according to Morley, Holmes must have been born on twelfth night (January 6th). The beginning of 'The Valley of Fear' is the morning of January 7th. Because Holmes seems testy, it has been posited that Holmes was hungover from his birthday party the previous night. The Baker Street Irregulars annually celebrate Holmes' birthday on the first weekend of the year. As for the year, the author of 'His Last Bow,' which took place in August of 1914, describes Holmes as a man of sixty. Based upon these facts, Sherlock Holmes' birthday is often considered to be on the sixth of January, 1854.

Answer 4

Sherlock Homes is a fictional character and thus he was never born. However, as a character, he was born on January 6, 1854.

Answer 5

This applies to films only, not plays:

"Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (1905). Sherlock was played by Maurice Costello (1877-1950).

Answer 6

Sherlock Holmes never died in the books, he just retired to Bee Keeping.

And Sherlock Holmes was never a real person so he can't die in real life.

Answer 7

You can sort of say 1887 - that's when he first appeared in print. Sherlock Holmes is an entirely fictional character, who never really existed.