Available API
Historical People
Every biography represented across all 366 Wikimedia On This Day birth/death feeds, keyed by page identity and retaining linked source-native descriptions, images, coordinates, URLs and life-date evidence.
- Status
- 0/0 sources healthy
- Contract
- 1.0.0
- Data version
- wikimedia-biographies-2026.09.01
- Current records
- 97,539
- Normal pull
- quarterly additions
- Full reconciliation
- yearly
Coverage
What this API contains
Sourced historical identities, aliases, life dates, relationships, works, and events.
Endpoints
Built for direct use
/apis/people · 1 credit/apis/people/{id} · 1 credit/apis/people/search · 1 credit/apis/people/{id}/events · 1 credit/apis/people/{id}/works · 1 creditStandard list, search, detail, relationship, and conversion calls cost one credit. Bulk exports cost 100 credits.
Bounded preview
See the shape of the data
These are up to five fixed records from the current release. The preview has no paging, search, or export controls. A developer account and API key are required to query the full dataset.
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