Examples: Brito de Martí, Esperanza is sorted before Brito, Leonora or Campos Menéndez, Enrique is sorted before Campos, Julieta.
See also this discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Categorization_of_people#Brito_de_Mart.C3.AD_before_Brito
So a space seems to be sorted before a comma which leads to a wrong sorting in these (rare) cases, in the above mentioned cases in the category: 2007 deaths.
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Hi @Proofreader, thanks for taking the time to report this!
Please see https://mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug and provide a link that allows reproducing, as different languages have different sorting settings.
Is this about categories? Is this about table entry sorting? Something else?
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It shows in categories, the examples show up in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2007_deaths].
I checked if this problem also occurs in de wikipedia; this phenomenon is somewhat rare, you only come across it in large person categories where you have people with the same surname and one of them has a second surname, which is the case for Spanish names for example. I found an example in the respective German category [https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kategorie:Gestorben_2007&pagefrom=Finisterre%2C+Alejandro%0AAlejandro+Finisterre#mw-pages] where Rafael Ángel González Ramírez (surnames are González Ramírez) is sorted before Edgardo González. In the respective articles the DEFAULTSORT (=SORTIERUNG in German) entries are: "Gonzalez Ramirez, Rafael Angel" and "Gonzalez, Edgardo" respectively.
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The first link should read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2007_deaths - didn't work correctly because of the brackets.
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And the problem is the sorting order in these categories. As I see it, a surname consisting of only one name should be sorted before an entry consisting of that same surname plus a second surname. I am not sure but I think this is how other encyclopedias do their sorting.