Talk:List of presidents of the United States by date of death

message: Anyone else consider the table width too wide.. perhaps we can find a way to break it down?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vasant56 (talk • contribs) 01:57, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Table Width

message: Anyone able to clarify the meaning of Thomas Jefferson coming before John Adams on this list even though they are technically tied?? Georgia guy 17:43, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Jefferson died about 2 horus before Adams. YourNickname 14:04, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Jefferson died around 12:30pm and Adams died around 6pm according to "The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents." Jjmillerhistorian 19:54, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: John Adams & Thomas Jefferson

message: Shouldn't this or some other page list also the presidents which are still alive? I was looking for such list but couldn't find one...
--Hkroger 17:40, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The list would be small, but it is noted in this article and List of United States Presidents by longevity Jjmillerhistorian 19:08, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Presidents still alive

message: I came to this page hoping to find a listing of the number of living former Presidents, by year. For example, it would appear that from the death of LBJ until the resignation of Nixon that there were no living former Presidents. I was curious how often this happens. Sure, I could "do the math" - but I had hoped it had already been done. JH443 (talk) 14:46, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Number of living former Presidents

message: I have a question-how do you do the time of death? I mean is it in the timezone they were in (Which is what I'm guessing) or something like EST. I'm guessing it was in the timezone they were in.
(Though it would be interesting if one died on December 31st/January 1st and they died at 11PM or 1AM there time!)
The Robot 2000 (talk) 18:42, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Time of death?

message: In my most recent edits to this article I fixed a couple citation errors, moved the presidential images/pictures, moved around a couple of the subsections (removing 2 altogether that seemed especially trivial), and simplified table format. In reformatting the table, I removed 3 columns: “Order of Birth”, was unnecessary here, as it may be found @ List of Presidents of the United States by date of birth, plus “Date of Burial” and “Place of Burial”, were both unnecessary here, as they may be found @ List of burial places of Presidents of the United States. Cheers. Drdpw (talk) 04:11, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  My most recent edits 

message: A couple of days ago, I removed the causes of death information from the table. I will restore the information to the article either in paragraph prose format or in bulleted list format. I will get to this over the weekend or early next week. Cheers. Drdpw (talk) 21:20, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure your proposal will improve the article, but I will withhold judgement until I see the work. In the meantime, please do not delete the information. Sometimes the sky is blue (talk) 23:14, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

text: BTW, you took out more than just the cause of death column. You also took out the order of death ranking. Sometimes the sky is blue (talk) 01:59, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: No, you’re mistaken about that. Drdpw (talk) 02:16, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Causes of death information 

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message: While the 2nd paragraph is entertaining, it is clearly factually wrong. --Dcheney (talk) 06:13, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: To be specific, Bush was 94 years and 171 days old at his death (my quick rough calculation, note that both birth and death years were leap years). Carter was born on 1 Oct 1924 - roughly 3 1/2 months after Bush. So he is mostly certainly not older at this time. --Dcheney (talk) 06:19, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Corrected. Drdpw (talk) 06:54, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  2nd paragraph - just wrong 

message: When the date of death column is selected for the sorting order, it sorts by month (as noted in Note b).  This doesn't seem like the most useful or intuitive option.
How can we keep the Month Day, Year format but sort by year (as is done in the death column in List of presidents of the United States by age#Table?
Fustigate314159 (talk) 17:30, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: the order column sorts by year עם ישראל חי (talk) 17:53, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

text: That column's sorting order is intentional, so as to show which presidents died on/around the same day in the same month. Drdpw (talk) 18:10, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

text: I've split that column into date & year to have the best of both worlds.  Nixinova   T   C   06:50, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I've reverted your changes; they did not make the table more useful. Also, did you notice that this conversation took place two years ago? The question was asked and answered. Drdpw (talk) 11:00, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Why? I went to this page looking for an ordered list of presidents' deaths, not by calendar date. How does this make the table less useful? And I'm aware this is 2y old.  Nixinova   T   C   21:09, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The table provided you with "an ordered list of presidents' deaths" before you changed it. The default sort order is by "order of death" and the far-left column sorts by order of death. Your stated reason for making the change was "to have the best of both worlds", which is not a compelling reason to change the table's layout. A dedicated column to sort months alphabetically is pointless, a dedicated column to sort years is redundant since two other columns also sort by year and with a specific purpose for doing so, and, splitting day & month from year leaves me asking, what's the point of doing so? Drdpw (talk) 00:35, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I like the modification you implemented in the date of death column. Drdpw (talk) 12:54, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sort Deaths Column by Year? 

message: Grover Cleveland has two entries in the table which appear to be identical. Is this an error or due to him serving two, separated terms? 18:05, 29 November 2020 (EST)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.127.233.226 (talk)  
: It was indeed because his two terms were not consecutive. I have changed the formatting so that Cleveland's 2 terms are in the same table row when sorted. Drdpw (talk) 00:22, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grover Cleveland Double Entry