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This template displays a person's birth date and age at a specified date.
This allows you to show how old a person was at the time they participated in an event or made an achievement.

Usage

Syntax: {{birth date and age2 |specified year|specified month|specified day |year of birth|month of birth|day of birth}}

Format: {{birth date and age2 |yyyy|mm|dd |yyyy|mm|dd |df=y}}

Example

{{birth date and age2 |1988|6|10 |1961|7|4 |df=y}} produces: (1961-07-04)4 July 1961 (aged 26)

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<templatedata> { "params": { "1": { "description": "Adds the specified year.", "example": "1970", "type": "number", "suggested": true, "label": "Specified year" }, "2": { "description": "Adds the specified month.", "example": "5", "type": "number", "suggested": true, "label": "Specified month" }, "3": { "description": "Adds the specified day.", "example": "23", "type": "number", "suggested": true, "label": "Specified day" }, "4": { "example": "1952", "type": "number", "suggested": true, "label": "Birth year" }, "5": { "example": "4", "suggested": true, "label": "Birth month", "type": "number" }, "6": { "example": "18", "type": "number", "suggested": true, "label": "Birth day" }, "df": { "label": "date first format", "description": "sets format to dmy", "type": "line", "suggestedvalues": [ "yes", "y" ] } }, "description": "This template displays a person's birth date and age at a specified date.", "format": "inline", "paramOrder": [ "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "df" ] } </templatedata>

Birth templates	Description / use
{{Birth date}}	To display a birth date and related hidden metadata.
{{Birth date text}}
{{Birth date and age}}	{{Birth date}} with suffix '(age N)'.
{{Birth date and age2}}	{{Birth date and age}} plus age as of a specified date.
{{Birth-date and age}}	As {{Birth date and age}}, but accepts dates in text form ('15 June 1950', 'June 15, 1950', 'June 1950', etc.).
{{Birth date and age in years and days}}	{{Birth date and age}}, but with the age displayed in years and days rather than just years.
{{Birth year and age}}	Year of birth and approximate age.
{{Birth based on age as of date}}	To display approximate birth year and current age given a particular date (e.g. when a dated reference mentions the age of a person), only works for living people.
{{Birth based on age as of dates}}	To display approximate birth year and current age given several particular dates (e.g. when a dated reference mentions the age of a person), only works for living people.
{{Birth based on age at death}}	To display approximate birth year based on age at death, or on age at a specific date if death date isn't known.

Death templates	Description / use
{{Death date}}	To display a death date and related hidden metadata.
{{Death date text}}
{{Death date and age}}	{{Death date}} with suffix '(aged N)'; also called with {{event date and age}}.
{{Death-date and age}}	As {{Death date and age}}, but accepts dates in text form ('15 June 1950', 'June 15, 1950', 'June 1950', etc.).
{{Death date and given age}}	To display a death date and specified age.
{{Death year and age}}	To display a year of, and approximate age at death.

age only

Conventional age templates	Description / use
{{Age in years, months, weeks and days}}	Number of complete years, months, weeks and days between two dates.
{{Age in years, months and days}}	Number of complete years, months and days between two dates.
{{Age in years and months}}	Number of complete years and remaining months between two dates.
{{Age in years and days}}	Number of complete years and remaining days between two dates.
{{Age in years and days nts}}	{{Age in years and days}} with output formatted for use in number sortable tables.
{{Age in decimal years}}	Number of years between two dates, rounded to the specified number of decimal places.
{{Age in years}}	Number of years between two dates.
{{Age in years nts}}	{{Age in years}} with output formatted for use in number sortable tables.
{{Age in months}}	Number of months between two dates.
{{Age in weeks and days}}	Number of weeks and days between two dates.
{{Age in weeks}}	Number of weeks between two dates.
{{Age in days}}	Age in days between two dates.
{{Age in days nts}}	{{Age in days}} with output formatted for use in number sortable tables.

Reverse-determined age template	Description / use
{{Age}}	Age based on number of complete years between two dates.
{{Age nts}}	{{Age}} with output formatted for use in number sortable tables.
{{Age as of date}}	Current age (in years) from a known age at a specified date.
{{Age for infant}}	Current age for infant: months and days up to one year, years and months up to three years, and years beyond age 3.

start / end dates

Date-focused templates	Description / use
{{Start date}} / {{End date}}
{{Start date text}} / {{End date text}}
{{Start date and age}}
{{End date and age}}

miscellaneous

Template	Description / use
{{OldStyleDate}}	Dates in Julian calendar.
{{OldStyleDateDY}}	As {{OldStyleDate}} but used when Julian / Gregorian dates fall in different years.
{{OldStyleDateNY}}	As {{OldStyleDate}} but without the year.
{{Unidentified for}}
{{Missing for}}

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