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{} – works with "fuzzy" or ambiguous dates {{Birth date and age}} – used on most biographical entries {{Birth date and age2}} – calculates age at a specified date {{Birth based on age as of date}} – used when a reference mentions the age of a person as of the date of the reference's publication {{Birth year and age}} {} {{Death date and ...
displays their death year and age as: July 2023 (aged 49–50) If you wish to set out the full dates of birth and/or death of a person and thus to calculate their age accurately, please use the templates {{Birth date and age}} and {{Death date and age}}.
{{death date and age|1993|2|24|1921|4|12|mf=yes}} displays "February 24, 1993 (aged 71)" Alternate template when specific birth date is unknown When only the year of a person's death is known, or if it is desired not to state a person's full dates of birth and death (e.g. for privacy), use the template {{ death year and age }} instead.
Note: The template may not calculate the age at death correctly if full dates (month, day, year) are not provided. For example, a person who was born in 1941 and died in 1993 could have been either 51 or 52 on the day of their death, depending on whether they had reached their birthday in their death year:
Ussher chose 5 BC as Christ's birth year [7] because Josephus indicated that the death of Herod the Great occurred in 4 BC. [8] Thus, for the Gospel of Matthew to be correct, Jesus could not have been born after that date. The season in which Creation occurred was the subject of considerable theological debate in Ussher's time. Many scholars ...
The templates { { Birth year and age }} and { { Death year and age }} return a person's year of birth or death and their approximate age. The templates are useful when only the year, or year and month, of a person's birth and/or death are known, or if it is desired not to state a person's full dates of birth and death for privacy reasons.
This template calculates a person's current age based on a known age as of specified date. This is useful when a reference states a person's age at the time of the reference's publication. The age, year, and day must be supplied as natural numbers; month can be specified as a natural number as well as by name or abbreviation (e.g., "August" or ...
Template documentation. This template calculates a person's approximate birth year based on their age at death. This is useful when a reliable source states only their age at death. This can also be used when a person is dead and a reliable source states only their age at the time of publication, but their actual death date is not known.