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Add to the Advanced Search > Names tab > Search filters: a new filter - 'Is Alive?' flag

Task: show alive persons only!

Thus, need to an exclude all persons with an existing (filled) 'Died' field from search results.

Currently, we can order list by the 'Death date' only, but this is not a solution!

All alive persons will be always at the end of list results.

So, if we have e.g. 10, 20, 30, etc. pages then alive persons will be on the page 'N' and not on the Top of list.

This makes searching difficult.

Solution: I thought it would be cool an idea to add a new 'Is Alive?' flag for resolve that, like as a quick filter.

For resolve this could be exists and another ways:

- smth similar as for 'Gender identity' with an options: Alive, Died, Both

- update the 'Death date' order options for show Alive persons at the Top and/or add new sort option

- update 'Death date' filter for pass values e.g. '1899-01-01' date and/or 'NULL' which will be equals to no (empty) 'Died' field 

Make sense?

P.S. previously, were a few bypasses for manually resolve this via URL: smth like: !has=death-date and or has!=death-date

But now, there are all obsolete and doesn't works..

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@Alexey Thanks for the suggestion.  This is already supported, but it does require a small manual edit to the search URL to use in the way you suggest. 

You can limit advanced name search results to people with death dates using the “Page topics” filter on https://www.imdb.com/search/name/ as in:

Example search -> https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?has=death-date

To only show people without death dates, you can manually edit the URL to insert the “!’ (not) operator as in -> https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?has=!death-date

Hope this helps. 

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@Col_Needham​ Great. thanks! It's will be much closer to my target.

But please example review below (with 1900):

https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?birth_date=1900-01-01,1900-01-31

there are: 174 persons

https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?birth_date=1900-01-01,1900-01-31&has=death-date

there are: 158 persons

https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?birth_date=1900-01-01,1900-01-31&has=!death-date

there are: 16 persons

Totals: 158 + 16 = 174 = CORRECT!

But review last 16 persons for has=!death-date

E.g. (all dates from IMDB profiles)

Wan Laiming - Died: October 1997

Tone Seliskar - Died: 1969

George Street - Died: 1966

Is it mistakes not related with has=!death-date?

(reason: invalid date for determine death date and/or another hidden flag)

Thank you!

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Hello @Alexey​,

Thank you for your question! We'll review this with the appropriate team and we'll circle back once we have an update.

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@Jolene​ Is there any news? Thank you