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<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r728533443">.mw-parser-output .commons-creator-table{background-color:#f0f0ff;box-sizing:border-box;font-size:95%;text-align:start}.mw-parser-output .commons-creator-table>tbody>tr{vertical-align:top}.mw-parser-output .commons-creator-table>tbody>tr>th{background-color:#e0e0ee;font-weight:bold;text-align:start}@media(max-width:719px){.mw-parser-output .commons-creator-table,.mw-parser-output .commons-creator-table>tbody{display:block;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .commons-creator-table>tbody{border-right:1px solid #aaa;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .commons-creator-table>tbody>tr{border-top:1px solid #aaa;display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap}.mw-parser-output .commons-creator-table>tbody>tr>th{border-left:1px solid #aaa;padding:2px;flex:1 1 100%}.mw-parser-output .commons-creator-table>tbody>tr>td{border-left:1px solid #aaa;padding:2px;flex:1 1}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .commons-creator-table{border:1px solid #aaa;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0;padding:5px}.mw-parser-output .commons-creator-table>tbody>tr>th,.mw-parser-output .commons-creator-table>tbody>tr>td{border:1px solid #aaa;padding:2px}.mw-parser-output .commons-creator-table>tbody>tr>.halfwidth{max-width:10em}.mw-parser-output .commons-creator-table>tbody>tr>.fullwidth{max-width:20em}}</style><table class="commons-creator-table mw-collapsible mw-collapsed mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" lang="en"><tbody><tr><th colspan="4"><span class="fn" id="creator"><bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Bill_Cosby" class="extiw" title="w:en:Bill Cosby"><span title="American actor and comedian (born 1937)">Bill Cosby</span></a>
</bdi></span> (1937–) <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Creator:Bill_Cosby" title="Creator:Bill Cosby"><img alt="Blue pencil.svg" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Blue_pencil.svg/15px-Blue_pencil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Blue_pencil.svg/23px-Blue_pencil.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Blue_pencil.svg/30px-Blue_pencil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"></a> <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213512" title="wikidata:Q213512"><img alt="wikidata:Q213512" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/20px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="11" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/30px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/40px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590"></a> <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/en:Author:William_Henry_Cosby" title="s:en:Author:William Henry Cosby"><img alt="s:en:Author:William Henry Cosby" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/15px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="16" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/23px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/30px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430"></a> <a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/en:Bill_Cosby" title="q:en:Bill Cosby"><img alt="q:en:Bill Cosby" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/15px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="18" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/23px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/30px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="355"></a> <div class="mw-collapsible-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle-collapsed"><span class="mw-collapsible-arrowtoggle"> </span></div></th>
</tr><tr><td rowspan="8" style="width:120px" id="fileinfotpl_creator_image"><span class="wpImageAnnotatorControl wpImageAnnotatorOff"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_World_Affairs_Council_and_Girard_College_present_Bill_Cosby_(6343666943)_(cropped_to_Cosby).jpg" class="image"><img alt="Bill Cosby" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/The_World_Affairs_Council_and_Girard_College_present_Bill_Cosby_%286343666943%29_%28cropped_to_Cosby%29.jpg/120px-The_World_Affairs_Council_and_Girard_College_present_Bill_Cosby_%286343666943%29_%28cropped_to_Cosby%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="169" class="photo" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/The_World_Affairs_Council_and_Girard_College_present_Bill_Cosby_%286343666943%29_%28cropped_to_Cosby%29.jpg/180px-The_World_Affairs_Council_and_Girard_College_present_Bill_Cosby_%286343666943%29_%28cropped_to_Cosby%29.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/The_World_Affairs_Council_and_Girard_College_present_Bill_Cosby_%286343666943%29_%28cropped_to_Cosby%29.jpg/240px-The_World_Affairs_Council_and_Girard_College_present_Bill_Cosby_%286343666943%29_%28cropped_to_Cosby%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1358" data-file-height="1914"></a></span></td>
</tr><tr><th scope="row">Alternative names</th>
<td colspan="2" class="fullwidth" id="fileinfotpl_creator_alt-name_value"><div class="nickname">
William Henry Cosby, Jr.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Description</th>
<td colspan="2" class="fullwidth" id="fileinfotpl_creator_desc_value">American performance artist, writer, author and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activism" class="extiw" title="en:Activism">activist</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Date of birth</th>
<td class="halfwidth" id="fileinfotpl_creator_birthdate_value">
12 July 1937 <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213512#P569" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a></td><td class="halfwidth" id="fileinfotpl_creator_deathdate_value">
</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Location of birth</th>
<td class="halfwidth" id="fileinfotpl_creator_birthloc_value">
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia" class="extiw" title="w:Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania" class="extiw" title="w:Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a></td><td class="halfwidth" id="fileinfotpl_creator_deathloc_value">
</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Work period</th>
<td colspan="2" class="fullwidth" id="fileinfotpl_creator_work-period_value">1962-present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Work location</th>
<td colspan="2" class="fullwidth" id="fileinfotpl_creator_work-location"><div class="locality">
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:United_States" class="extiw" title="w:en:United States"><span title="country in North America">United States of America</span></a> <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213512#P937" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Authority_file" class="extiw" title="w:en:Authority file"><span title="collection of authority records, where each record picks preferred heading, alternative heading and other information, used for bibliographic information">Authority file</span></a></th>
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<ul><li><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213512" title="wikidata:Q213512"><img alt="wikidata:Q213512" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/20px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="11" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/30px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/40px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590"></a>: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213512" class="extiw" title="d:Q213512">Q213512</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Virtual_International_Authority_File" class="extiw" title="w:en:Virtual International Authority File">VIAF</a>: <span class="uid"><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://viaf.org/viaf/110901829/">110901829</a></span></span></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:International_Standard_Name_Identifier" class="extiw" title="w:en:International Standard Name Identifier">ISNI</a>: <span class="uid"><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://isni.oclc.org/xslt/DB=1.2/CMD?ACT=SRCH&amp;IKT=8006&amp;TRM=ISN%3A0000000107880184">0000 0001 0788 0184</a></span></span></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:LCCN_(identifier)" class="extiw" title="w:en:LCCN (identifier)">LCCN</a>: <span class="uid"><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n82052577">n82052577</a></span></span></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:NARA_(identifier)" class="extiw" title="w:en:NARA (identifier)">NAID</a>: <span class="uid"><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/10570342">10570342</a></span></span></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:National_Library_of_Australia" class="extiw" title="w:en:National Library of Australia">NLA</a>: <span class="uid"><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/search/display?dbid=auth&amp;id=35432033">35432033</a></span></span></li>
<li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="//www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82052577">WorldCat</a></span></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>
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