 Re: is/was? why?
"in" sounds clumsy here - notice I omitted it in the example.
The point is that by fronting "1921" it's receiving contrastive emphasis, as in my example. The speaker is saying, No - not 1921 but 1925. If there is no contrastive emphasis of this sort, the normal word order would be : He was born in 1921.
Whether the person is alive or dead makes no difference. |