How to Delete Duplicate Birthdays in iCloud?

While the birthdays are shown properly on my iPhone, there are duplicate records in iCloud. I guess this might be due to revisions to the contact information, or synchronization of two (or even more) sets of contact information with iCloud by mistake. For the latter, I have already removed the duplicate set of contact information from both my iPhone and iCloud. However, there are still duplicate birthday records in iCloud as shown in the attached picture. When I attempted to delete the duplicate birthdays, a message saying that this is a read-only information and can't be edited would display.
I should be grateful for other users' advice on how to resolve the problem. Advice on how to distinguish which of the duplicate records is associated with the existing contact and hence should be retained, and which is/are associated with old records and can be deleted would also be highly appreciated. Thank you very much.

Hey fchengwy,
Thanks for the question. I understand you are having issues with your Birthday calendar in iCloud, specifically duplicate events. The following article addresses Birthday calendar troubleshooting, and steps to resolve any duplicate entries:
iCloud: Advanced Calendar and iCal troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4337
To clean up issues related to manually adding birthdays to a calendar in Calendar (or iCal):
1. If you already have the Birthdays Calendar enabled, deselect it in the Calendars list in Calendar (or iCal).
2. Search Calendar (or iCal) by entering "birthday" (without the quotes) in the Search dialog in the top-right corner of the Calendar (or iCal) window.
3. Sort the Search results by title, so they are easier to analyze.
4. Locate any birthdays that are returned in the Search results that are not contained in a Holidays Calendar (such as John F. Kennedy's Birthday, Lincoln's Birthday, and so on).
5. For each non-Holidays birthday returned, decide if you want to keep it. If so, open Contacts (or Address Book) and verify that you have a Contact for the individual. Enter the birthday information for that person in Contacts (or Address Book). For more information about updating Contacts (or Address Book) fields, see this article.
6. After verifying that the birthday is entered in Contacts (or Address Book), remove any birthday events not stored in the Birthdays or Holidays calendars by selecting them and choosing Delete from the Edit menu.
Note: You can select consecutive items by holding down the Shift key while selecting them. You can select non-consecutive items by holding down the Command key while selecting them.
After cleaning up any manually added birthdays, you can enable or re-enable the Birthdays Calendar. To enable the Birthdays Calendar for the first time, open Calendar (or iCal) > Preferences and select the checkbox next to Show Birthday's Calendar. If you temporarily hid the Birthdays Calendar as per the instructions above, you can re-enable it by selecting the checkbox for it in the Calendar List.
Thanks,
Matt M.

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