Christian Thiele, 27/04/2014 11:16:
the german wikipedia has persondata for over 525.000 persons, the raw data could be found as csv at http://tools.wmflabs.org/persondata/data/pd_dump.txt
Sure, that's a useful source as well. Not as complete for each of the items, though.
The german dates have to be parsed, and I think the uncertainty for many persons is the main problem ("born 5th of July 1716 or 15th of July 1718", "between 1918 and 1921").
Hm. No such problem exists with it.wiki's {{bio}}, which is very restrictive in what you can enter in it.
Nemo