Editing Sonny Liston (section)

===Date of birth===
There is no official record of Liston's birth as his family's home state of Arkansas did not make [[birth certificate]]s mandatory until 1965.<ref name=Tallent>{{cite web|last=Tallent |first=Aaron |title=The Mysterious Birth of Sonny Liston |work=The Sweet Science |url=http://www.thesweetscience.com/news/articles/1639-the-mysterious-birth-of-sonny-liston |access-date=July 11, 2012 |date=February 2, 2005}}</ref> His family, but not Charles (or Sonny) Liston, can be found in the 1930 census, and in the 1940 census he was listed as 10 years old.<ref name=Tallent/><ref name=listonDOB/> It has been suggested Liston himself may not have known what year he was born, as he was not precise on the matter. Liston believed his date of birth to be May 8, 1932, and used this for official purposes<ref name=listonDOB>{{cite web | url = https://www.espn.com/classic/biography/s/Liston_Sonny.html| title = Liston was trouble in and out of ring| last = Puma| first = Mike| year = 2007| website = [[ESPN]]| publisher = ESPN | access-date = January 14, 2019}}</ref> but by the time he won the world title an aged appearance added credence to rumors that he was actually several years older.<ref name=listonDOB/><ref name=Tosches>{{Cite book|author-link=Nick Tosches|last=Tosches|first=Nick|title=The Devil And Sonny Liston|year=2000|location=Boston|publisher=Little, Brown|isbn=0316897752|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/devilsonnyliston00tosc}}</ref><ref name=Tallent/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KQVN-R3S|title="United States Census, 1940", Charlie I Liston in household of Tobbie Liston, Smith Township, Cross, Arkansas, United States"|publisher=National Archives and Records Administration|date=April 23, 1940|access-date=August 13, 2012|quote=Charlie I Liston in household of Tobbie Liston, Smith Township, Cross, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 19-12B, sheet 13B, family 205, line 42}}</ref><ref name=Toledo>{{cite web|title=A Birthday for Sonny Liston|url=http://www.thesweetscience.com/news/articles-frontpage/15175-a-birthday-for-sonny-liston|website=Thesweetscience.com|access-date=March 18, 2014|date=August 31, 2012}}</ref> One writer concluded that Liston's most plausible date of birth was July 22, 1930, citing census records and statements from his mother during her lifetime.<ref name=Toledo/>
But, years later his youngest sister stated positively  that she was a year or more younger than Sonny, and that she was born in 1926. She had documentary proof of that date. This would have made him at least 5 years older than his accepted date, fitting with his aged appearance, after winning the title. The picture above, bears out this contention.