---
id: "person_life_years"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["persons", "datetime", "pii"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 65
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/person_life_years"
---

# Years of life of a person (`person_life_years`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Years of birth and death of a person written as two four-digit years joined by a hyphen or an en dash, such as 1837–1919. A question mark stands for an unknown year of death. Catalogues of museum objects and of lost cultural property give the years of life of authors in this form.

- Parent datatype: `year_range`
- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Person related (persons), Date and time (datetime), Personally identifiable information (pii)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\d{4}\s?[-–]\s?(?:\d{4}|\?)$
```

## Examples

- `1720-1778`
- `1837–1919`
- `1877-?` — Year of death unknown
- `Вторая половина XIX в.` (invalid example) — Historical dating, the datatype ru_historical_dating

## Translations

- ru: Годы жизни

## Quality

Score 65/100. Missing: source link, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/person_life_years.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/persons/person_life_years.yaml>