User blog comment:Ryoung122/Bracketing of birth/death years/dates/@comment-25898958-20160505191456

I prefer the "(born [day][month][year]) format, as it is the format used by Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica, it doesn't look like something is missing, and you can see the full date, not just the year. Ollie231213 (talk) 19:14, May 5, 2016 (UTC)