"his personal page, I wouldn't really expect it to be promptly updated if he had died. -\ Do we have any Stanford people who can check his status?   12:01 19 Jun 2003 (UTC) 

 :Knock knock. ""Professor Knuth, are you alright in there"" ) No I think we can safely assume Stanford's daily events page would have listed it. The death of this great man would probably be considered more important than a few art exhibitions and Stanford Garden Tours.   12:17 19 Jun 2003 (UTC) 

 ::The page you're refering to doesn't go back till 2001. I just stumbled over a page that claims that he died on February 10 2001: http://www.wchs.srsd.sk.ca/Barteski/Computers%209/Brettttt%20Duponttttt.htm 

 ::Another page talks about him in past tense: http://www.larry.denenberg.com/Knuth-3-16/ 

 :::This last is a spoof (and says so, if you read it).    

 ::I can't find anything else on the internet that supports or disproves that he died. I hope this is not true! 

 Knuth is still alive as of August 2003  hooray! See the fine print in http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news.html    

 ==Of all things== 

 an edit history summary said: 
 :(mention hobbies, wife (who wrote a book on liturgy of all things - wonder if was marked up in TeX??)) 

 ""of all things""? You obviously haven't really looked at the list of Knuth's own publications... —  

 ==Grammar== 

 The paragraph that starts with ""He pioneered the concept of literate programming"" has poor grammar.  Maybe someone who knows more about lists and semicolons can rework it.  02:51, 2004 Feb 1 (UTC) 

 ==Pronunciation== 

 Can someone add a phonetic spelling of Knuth? Parts of Michigan believe the K is silent.  
 (have mercy on my first wiki post)thanks 

 :From Knuth's webpage( http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/faq.html ), it is pronounced Ka-NOOTH. Someone should add that to the article ... Not sure how phonetics work in Wikipedia.    

 ::Ka-NOOTH may be how he gives his name's pronunciation on his website but what's needed here, to make it comprehensible, is an IPA transcription.  IPA is how phonetics work in Wikipedia.   28Nov05 

 == hoax? == 

 Looks like this addition that he died is a hoax. No one is reporting it, nothing on slashdot, nothing on news.google.com.   

 :I bashed all the bogus redirs, they will never catch typos or have any other use.   

 I have received an email today from the head of the computer science department at Stanford, saying he had not heard of Knuth's death, and would have heard if it had happened.   

 :I have seen Donald Knuth today, and even took a photograph. For a dead person, he discusses mathematics surprisingly well.   

 ::Please  we settled this question last November.  Knuth lives.   

 :::If we cannot even joke on talk pages...   

 == Chinese name == 

 Chinese name of Knuth was added on Feb 16, 2005 by Yaohua2000. I could not find any relation to China, only comment on his webpage: . 

 The webpage suggests it is a joke. It should be removed from first paragraph.   

 : See this webpage , the first line says: Donald E. Knuth (高德纳), Professor Emeritus of...  03:09, 2005 Mar 16 (UTC) 

 :: Yes but is it anything else than a joke? Some people put an icon next to their names, Knuth has something original.   

 ::: It is not icon, it is yin4zhang1, Chinese usually make their name as a yin4zhang1, it is not a joke, yin4zhang1 usually is widely used in many official situation such as government's documents or drawings by famous artists, it is also widely used in the end of handwriting mails, so the writer doesn't have to write his/her name by hand. My English is not good you know, you can google Chinese seal for detailed information about yin4zhang1. zh.wikipedia.or