Claim: Choekyi Gyaltsen, the first Panchen Lama, was born in 1938 and died in 1989.
Evidence: Officially, he became the first Panchen Lama in the lineage, while he had also been the sixteenth abbot of Tashilhunpo Monastery. 
Lobsang Trinley Lhündrub Chökyi Gyaltsen
ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་མཚན 10th Panchen Lama