Wikipedia:People by year

Wikipedia:Categorization of people > by year

Each biography is placed in one of the subcategories of Births by year and Deaths by year according to the date of birth and date of death in the article.

The same applies for images of non-anonymous people.

Sample

The article "Julius Schwartz":

Julius "Julie" Schwartz (June 19, 1915 - February 8, 2004) was ...
includes:
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schwartz, Julius}}
[[Category:1915 births]]
[[Category:2004 deaths]]

placing the article in:

and sorting it by last name.