Hi Alek,
But this will only give you notable people who died in a particular year, if you want a list of people who died in a particular year you are better off looking at genealogy sites, and for 1941 military war grave sites. Tens of millions of people died that year and I doubt that we have even 0.1% of them.
Hope that helps
WereSpielChequers
2011/12/23 Jérémie Roquet
<arkanosis@gmail.com>
Hi Alek,
2011/12/23 Alek Tarkowski <atarkowski@centrumcyfrowe.pl>:
> I'm looking for a good way to determine, who died in 1941 - and thought
> that Wikipedia will be a good place to find this out. I know there are
> lists of people who died in a given year, but they are not complete. Is
> there any way to automatically query Wikipedia for such information? I
> know that it's to some extent structured, as this information is
> provided in templates for biographical articles, but I don't know
> whether there is any mechanism for querying?
It's likely that most of those people are in a category¹ . Since no
category is ever complete, mixing the content of the category with the
equivalent of the biggest Wikipedia (German, French…²) could help.
Finding the equivalent categories is easy: start at ¹, then use the
interwiki links under “languages” in the left column. Also, don't
forget commons³.
Best regards,
¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1941_deaths
² https://www.wikipedia.org/
³ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:1941_deaths
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Jérémie