Evidence-backed historical profile · Archive 8
James Baldwin
James Arthur Baldwin
Historical record
Overview
August 2, 1924
November 30, 1987
8
Archive 8
MNV Complete Number Method
Complete Number 8
Birth dateAugust 2, 1924
date validation1924 + 8 + 2
digit extraction1 + 9 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 2 = 6
initial digit sum1 + 9 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 2 = 26
master number preservation26
reduction2 + 6 = 8
final value8 = 8
Archive classificationArchive 8
The calculation establishes only this result and Archive classification under the documented method.
Institutional citations
Evidence Explorer
Evidence supports only the factual claim or scope to which it is bound. It does not verify a person as a whole.
Institutional source 1
This Day in History: James Baldwin
Library of Congress
Records Baldwin's exact 2 August 1924 birth date, authorial roles, social criticism, and archival recordings context.
Institutional source 2
An Introduction to James Baldwin
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Provides institutional context for Baldwin's identity, exact life dates, writing, civil-rights engagement, and public-intellectual role.
Evidence details
Formal and public-name identity only; name variants remain separate and no whole-Person verification is created.
Exact Gregorian civil date supplied by institutional Sources; no conversion performed.
Exact death date is separately governed and excluded from calculation; cause and circumstances are not asserted.
American novelist, essayist, playwright, and social critic
corroboratedRole language is bounded to institutional Evidence and creates no ranking, greatness, or personality claim.
Library of Congress collections and Smithsonian historical interpretation provide distinct archival and public-history contexts
evidence-locatedAffiliation implies no endorsement, continuous tenure, sole credit, or present-day authority.
Institutional accounts place Baldwin's writing and public work in Black American, civil-rights, sexuality, identity, and transatlantic contexts without reproducing literary or spoken expression.
evidence-locatedLiterary, civil-rights, colonial, political, biographical, and rights contexts remain evidence-bound and subject to independent review.
Scope and limits
What this record establishes
Historical evidence
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Calculation
The Complete Number establishes Archive classification under the documented MNV method.
Numerology
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Corpus
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Profile-specific limits
- Race, sexuality, residence, and civil-rights context must remain directly evidence-bound and non-reductive.
- No prose, speech, interview, or manuscript passage may be reproduced.
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