Ghost Birthdays on IOS 7 Calendar

After trying to syncs contacts with contacts stored in icloud, I noticed there were duplicate contact entries. As such when I checked the calendar app, there were duplicate birthdays, all which linked to their appropriate contact. After turning off icloud on my iPad, I realized these duplicate entries only existed on the iPad (not on iCloud). I deleted them one by one, and then checked back on the calendar app to make sure they were gone as well. However, the birthday entries still remained in their prior spots. Even though iCloud is temporarily disabled and I had no remaining entries in my contacts, the birthday entries still exist. If I tap on the event, I am booted back to the home screen. I looked into this problem further and realized, under the calendars tab, there were 5 calendars labeled Birthdays. Each one is associated to one birthday, and when I go to delete them (edit), they are grayed out.
Without having to reset/delete my iPad, is there a way to fix these, "ghost birthdays"? I am using a third generation iPad running ios7.1.2

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