diff --git a/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday b/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday
index 9cc9e21d23e..664d5d68832 100644
--- a/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday
+++ b/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@
 10/17	Richard Mentor Johnson born, 1780, 9th V.P. of U.S.
 10/21	Alfred Nobel born in Stockholm, 1833
 10/27	Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933
-10/27	James Cook is born, 1466
+10/27	James Cook is born, 1728
 10/31	Chiang Kai-Shek born, 1887
 10/31	Dale Evans born, 1912 
 11/02	Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA, 1734