Westergaard

Article summary

Westergaard is a Danish surname, literally meaning west farm. Note that the double a is equivalent of å in common nouns and is retained from the pre-1948 orthography in proper nouns only. The form Vestergaard is a more common cognate. Notable people with the surname Westergaard include: *Bjørn Westergaard (born 1962), Danish Olympic sailor *Elof Westergaard (born 1962), Danish Lutheran bishop *Harald Ludvig Westergaard (1853–1936), Danish statistician and economist *Harold M. Westergaard (1888–1950), Danish professor of theoretical and applied mechanics *John Westergaard (1931–2003), American stock analyst *Kurt Westergaard (1935–2021), Danish cartoonist *Marit Westergaard (born 1956), Norwegian linguist and language acquisitionist *Mogens Westergaard (1912–1975), Danish geneticist and cytogeneticist *Niels Ludvig Westergaard (1815–1878), Danish orientalist *Peter Westergaard (1931–2019), American composer and music theorist

Key claims

1. date of birth: 1962 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. date of birth: 1956 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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3. The record states that the date of birth is "1956". What evidence would count against this claim?
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Bibliography

1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343336287