diff --git a/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday b/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday
index 4317dd34dbd5..d4cb79f83bd6 100644
--- a/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday
+++ b/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 01/01	J.D. Salinger born, 1919
 01/01	Paul Revere born in Boston, 1735
 01/01	Heinz Zemanek born in Vienna, Austria, 1920
-01/02	Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now part of USSR), 1920
+01/02	Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russia, 1920
 01/04	George Washington Carver born in Missouri, 1864
 01/04	Jakob Grimm born, 1785
 01/04	Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars