Talk:Katharine Whitehorn

A news item involving Katharine Whitehorn was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 10 January 2021.

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Please consider adding this link to an in-depth video of Katharine Whitehorn telling her life story. The video is freely available on the Web of Stories website (http://webofstories.com):

Katharine Whitehorn tells her life story at Web of Stories

Many thanks, Fitzrovia calling (talk) 12:50, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Birth date

The Guardian has 2 March 1928, not 17 March 1928.^[1] Would change directly, but wasn't sure if this had been gone over before. AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 16:19, 10 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Watts, Janet (2021-01-10). "Katharine Whitehorn obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-01-10.

@AleatoryPonderings: The 172 March date was in the article at the start, with the (not 100% reliable) reference to the Irish Independent interview, which doesn't actually state it directly. Bloom6132 added a reference to The Telegraph, which I can't access; perhaps they could recheck? There's also a new Times obituary[1], but that's also paywalled. Given that Whitehorn worked for The Observer, one would have thought that their obituary would be likely to be correct. Espresso Addict (talk) 01:50, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The last line of her obit in The Telegraph states "Katharine Whitehorn, born March 17 1928, died January 8 2021". —Bloom6132 (talk) 02:04, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

And though The Times is behind a paywall, the Google search says it contains "CBE, journalist and agony aunt, was born on March 2, 1928". Guess it's safe to say that March 2 is the correct date of birth. —Bloom6132 (talk) 02:07, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I miswrote; it was the 17th that was in initially. I'm going to change it to 2 March, going with the Observer/Times. Espresso Addict (talk) 02:25, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Watts, Janet (2021-01-10). "Katharine Whitehorn obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-01-10.

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