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Marilyn Monroe's birth certificate from 1955, certifying her birth in 1926.. The documentation of births is a practice widely held throughout human civilization. The original purpose of vital statistics was for tax purposes and for the determination of available military manpower.
The Convention on the issue of multilingual extracts from civil status records (French: Convention relative à la délivrance d'extraits plurilingues d'actes de l'état civil) is an international treaty drafted by the International Commission on Civil Status defining a uniform format for birth, marriage and death certificates.