Advanced sorting of a built-in list

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You most first check if date string work as date object.

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datetime.strptime('26/06/1950', '%d/%m/%Y')
datetime.datetime(1950, 6, 26, 0, 0)

Now can sort bye dates.

>>> lst = [['WILSON', 'MIKE', 'H', '26/06/1950'], ['EMERIC', 'JAMES', 'H', '27/06/1960'], ['MOPAL', 'ARTHUR', 'H', '27/06/1966']]
>>> sorted(lst, key=lambda item: datetime.strptime(item[3], '%d/%m/%Y'), reverse=True)
[['MOPAL', 'ARTHUR', 'H', '27/06/1966'],
 ['EMERIC', 'JAMES', 'H', '27/06/1960'],
 ['WILSON', 'MIKE', 'H', '26/06/1950']]

reverse it will be from oldest to youngest.
The first and last name should maybe not be split up,could be one string 'WILSON MIKE'.