title: Extracting person date data from Wikipedia
body: <p>I am trying to extract birth and death data from Wikipedia. I have used DBpedia and Wikidata but in this particular instance the dates do not match Wikipedia.</p>
  
  <p>This query <code>https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&amp;format=json&amp;titles=Thomas_MacDermot&amp;sites=enwiki</code> returns a P569 with a date of 1870-01-01. DBpedia shows the same date.</p>
  
  <p>The Wikipedia page <code>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_MacDermot</code> shows a date of 26 June 1870.</p>
  
  <p>Why this discrepancy? And can this date information be retrieved programmatically (i.e. not screen scraping) from Wikipedia itself?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you!</p>