Michael Ventris, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Michael Ventris

British architect and linguist

Date of Birth: 12-Jul-1922

Place of Birth: Wheathampstead, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 06-Sep-1956

Profession: architect, classical scholar, linguist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Michael George Francis Ventris, (; 12 July 1922 – 6 September 1956) was an English architect, classicist and philologist who deciphered Linear B, the ancient Mycenaean Greek script.
A student of languages, Ventris had pursued the decipherment as a personal vocation since his adolescence.
After creating a new field of study, Ventris died in a car crash a few weeks before the publication, with John Chadwick, of Documents in Mycenaean Greek.