Bill and Melinda Gates dead?

Why does Ancestry.com indicate that Bill Gates and his wife are dead? It has that they both died in 2013. The profile link below indicates that Melinda was hung by locals in India in 2013.

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/169799461/person/3...

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Permalink Reply by Chris of the family Masters on February 11, 2021 at 9:46pm

They require opening account which I don't consent to.

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Permalink Reply by Guardian of Scotland on February 11, 2021 at 10:31pm

Chris I forgot about that. I do have an Ancestry account.

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Permalink Reply by Patrick C Conway on February 12, 2021 at 11:31am

Don't know what's going on, but it is actually an entry in the Gates Family site.

William Henry "Bill" "Trey", co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, co-founder Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, philanthropist Gates IV

1955–2013

BIRTH OCTOBER 28, 1955 • Seattle, King County, Washington, USA

DEATH JULY 29, 2013 • hung by locals, India

Melinda Ann, co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, American philanthropist French

1964–2013

BIRTH AUGUST 15, 1964 • Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA

DEATH JULY 29, 2013 • hung by locals, India

Her birth info is public

Texas, Birth Index, 1903-1997

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Name

Melinda Ann French

Date of Birth

15 Aug 1964

Gender

Female

Birth County

Dallas

Father's Name

Raymond Joseph French Jr

Mother's Name

Elaine Agnes Amerland

Roll number

1964_0005

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Permalink Reply by Patrick C Conway on February 12, 2021 at 11:37am

Page owner is

liviaurit

Joined

03 Jan 2012

Last signed in

3-11 Months ago

Appears to maintain numerous family lines with more than 12,000 individual entries in 'Gates Family Tree'.

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Permalink Reply by Guardian of Scotland on February 12, 2021 at 1:57pm

I sent this member a message and got this response.

The information of their deaths was in an article on the web (article not verified) that has now gone missing from the web. The article claimed they were in India in 2013 giving children vaccinations and many died, or left paralyzed. The people who had their children vaccinated and had died or paralyzed seized the two and hanged them both at the same time. By picture comparison observations (not verified) are that they have been replaced. Re: Bill/cloned, the acne scars on the neck of his clone were not on original Bill. The new ‘Melinda’ Gates person is in no way cloned, and is not Melinda Gates who married Bill over 25 years ago. And so the rumor of their deaths go...not verified at this time.