- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Atat%C3%BCrk - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Atat%C3%BCrk%27s_personal_life#Bi...

The birth date of the man on nearly all language edition of wikpedia is wrong.

Atatürk's DOB (Date Of Birth) is recorded as Rumî calenders 1296 (per various official documents from Ottoman era). The birth day and month isn't recorded in any such official documents. Rumi 1296 is the equivalent of the Gregorian time frame starting from 13 March 1880 to 12 March 1881. Several historians have made conflicting claims of his DOB (discussed to length in the linked article) but none of these claims have any common acceptance behind them. Atatürk's identity card states his DOB as 1881 with no mention of a day or month.

With his (Atatürk's) approval "19 May", the start of the Turkish independence war, was attributed as the DOB of Atatürk. Official bio of Atatürk states the DOB as '19 May 1881' and this is commonly accepted as the adopted DOB of Atatürk.

This is particularly problematic because 19 May 1881 coincides with Rumî 1297 contradicting official documents from the Ottoman era.

I have mentioned this problem to pl.wikipedia and fr.wikipedia so far. I corrected it on tr.wikipedia and en.wikipedia. So I am telling y'all now. Hope you fix it.

- White Cat