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This category (and, within its own specific purpose, the analogous
Category:Year of birth unknown
) is intended for placement in biographical entries about deceased individuals, primarily from antiquity (although, in some cases, reaching into the 19th century) whose year of death is lost to history and likely to never be known. "Year of death unknown" will also be applicable to some individuals from the less-remote past whose varying degrees of notability were sufficient to justify a biographical entry, but whose deaths occurred in times and under circumstances which precluded the recording and/or preservation of historical records. A controversial exception may be argued in cases of long-missing individuals such as
Joseph Force Crater
,
Amelia Earhart
,
Helen Brach
or
Jimmy Hoffa
, although the year of their disappearance is generally accepted as the year of death.
In the case of contemporary or recent figures whose year of death is presumed to have been recorded and could be researched, please use
Category:Year of death missing
.
This category and categories
Date of death unknown
and
Date of death missing
(each of the "Date" categories indicates the presence of the year of death, but the absence of the month and day) are intended to be mutually exclusive.
NOTE:
Article-page categories which delineate the specific decade or century of the pertinent individual's death, such as
Category:1070s deaths
or
Category:11th-century deaths
, specify additional data and
are not intended as substitutes
for "Year of death unknown", which is an all-encompassing category.
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