Talk:Harry Landis

Birth date
Only The Guardian obituary has his date of birth as 1926. Other sources say 1931. So how do we know we should use 1926 here? TrottieTrue (talk) 19:26, 7 October 2022 (UTC)


 * I emailed the Guardian's obituaries desk, and got a quick reply: "Thanks very much. We checked the birth year with Harry's daughter. There is a birth record from 1926 under the name of Loudinsky Hyman J mistranscribing the name Londinsky – best wishes, Robert White, obits editor" So I guess that's quite conclusive, though I wonder why Harry lied about his real date of birth. Possibly to avoid military service in WW2, but he was still old enough for national service. TrottieTrue (talk) 16:15, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Not sure why it’s been changed back now… TrottieTrue (talk) 13:13, 17 March 2023 (UTC)