How old was Charlton Heston?

A front-page obituary and a headline in some editions on Sunday about the actor Charlton Heston misstated his age and the year of his birth. He was 84, not 83, and was born in 1923, not 1924. Link

The Huffington Post has a nice screen grab of the confusion, along with some interesting updates/analysis.

This entry was written by Craig Silverman, posted on April 8, 2008 at 8:00 am, filed under Newspapers and tagged , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.
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2 Comments

  1. Charlene
    Posted April 8, 2008 at 6:28 pm | Permalink

    Don’t you love when movie stars shave years off their age?

    I predict the same error will be made when Nancy Reagan died. For most of her life she gave her year of birth as 1923, but census records show that she was actually born in 1921. Many books (including her own memoirs!) still contain the wrong year of birth.

  2. Charlene
    Posted April 8, 2008 at 7:13 pm | Permalink

    When she *dies*.

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