Sir Run Run Shaw's Birthdate Reconsidered

    I posted a note the other day concerning what I understood to be the birthday on October 4 of Sir Run Run Shaw.  But I have since learned my information was incorrect.  I came across a lengthy Chinese news article posted online two years ago on the occasion of the celebration of his centennial, which reviewed his life and career.  It also discussed the exact date of birth, apparently the subject of much controversy among the Hong Kong media.  One person who is a close business associate of the Shaw family put it this way when asked, "I don't know the specific date, it was sometime in October, or sometime in November.  I just know it isn't today."
     The usually most reliable Chinese sources tend to give one of three dates for his birthday (If they give one at all:  some just say 1907 and let it go at that):  October 4, October 14, and November 19th. The article explains it this way:  Shao Yifu (Run Run Shaw) was born on October 14, 1907 under the old Lunar calendar, but in a TV documentary about the Shaw Brothers several years ago, in which various identification documents were photographed and shown on screen, someone reviewing the program had misread October 14 as October 4, wrote it that way, and readers just spread on the internet what turned out to be misinformation.  But:  October 14, 1907 on the Lunar calendar was November 19, 1907 on the Gregorian calendar, and I guess that is now the accepted date.  I wrote the wrong date in my earlier post, which I have now deleted.
     Best wishes to Sir Run Run anyway, whenever he chooses to mark the occasion.