18891974
18891974 is a sequence of eight digits that can be read as the concatenation of the years 1889 and 1974. In many contexts, a dash is used to indicate a life span, so 1889–1974 would signify birth in 1889 and death in 1974 for an individual whose life spanned those years. Without the dash, the joined form 18891974 has no universally fixed meaning and is typically interpreted only with additional context.
As a biographical notation, the year pair 1889–1974 is common for indicating the lifespan of people who
Beyond lifespans, the string 18891974 can appear in archival identifiers, catalog numbers, or dataset codes where
In encyclopedic writing, it is standard to render lifespans with an en dash, as in 1889–1974. If