This template properly formats the list of births and deaths in templates for selected anniversaries ("On this day") on the Main Page.

Usage

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This template accepts twelve unnamed parameters, in (up to) four groups each of the following:

  • a link to a biographical article in bold
  • an abbreviation for the life event(s) that took place on this date; see the table below
  • the year(s) of the event
{{Born and died list| '''[[ARTICLENAME]]''' | ABBREVIATION | YEAR | '''[[ARTICLENAME]]''' | ABBREVIATION | YEAR | '''[[ARTICLENAME]]''' | ABBREVIATION | YEAR | '''[[ARTICLENAME]]''' | ABBREVIATION | YEAR }}
|Abbreviation|Year(s)| Resulting output
|b|1985| b. 1985
|baptised|1985| bapt. 1985
|baptized|1985| bapt. 1985
|b.or|1085; 1086| b. 1085 or 1086
|d|2020| d. 2020
|d.or|1085; 1086| d. 1085 or 1086
|dis|2020| dis. 2020
|bur|2020| bur. 2020
|int|2020| int. 2020
|bd|1985; 2020| b. 1985; d. 2020

Example (August 29)

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{{Born and died list | '''[[Abu Taghlib]]''' |d|979| '''[[Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.]]''' |b|1809| '''[[Ingrid Bergman]]''' |bd|1915; 1982| '''[[Michael Jackson]]''' |b|1958}}