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Death

His main biographies give Tao Yuanming's death as "in the fourth year of the Yuanjia reign period of Emperor Wen ". Thus, Tao Qian is generally but not universally held to have died in 427, which mathematically works out to the age of 63. If, however, he was in fact born in 352, he would instead have been 76 years old when he died.