CHOPIN'S date of birth: 1850 or 1851?
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according to Gray: 1851; according to other sources : 1850
Q: When was Kate Chopin born? Some internet sites say 1851 and others 1850.
A: Her tombstone says 1851, but thirty years ago a French scholar revealed that the United States census and her baptismal certificate (no birth certificate exists) show that Chopin was born on February 8, 1850. The United States Library of Congress in September, 2009, accepted the corrected date, but some printed sources and web sites still give her birth date as 1851.
Source: Katechopin. org
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