[justin66]

I cannot imagine why you find the statements above odd but compare and contrast:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_C._Dvorak&ol...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Dvorak

Enough scrolling through the edit history and you could determine when wikipedia finally got their shit together on his birthdate.

[antonvs]

The odd part is that the announcement used the same erroneous date that Wikipedia used to have. Perhaps someone forgot to refresh their cache for a couple of years.

[aidenn0]

More likely they wrote the obit several years ago. That's not uncommon.

[ajmurmann]

And didn't bother updating the age in a 2-sentence announcement?

[Randomno]

It was changed to '46 today