Famous Linguists' 🎂 Birthdays, January, United Kingdom

    
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1 J. R. R. Tolkien

Jan 03, 1892
Bloemfontein
British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works

2 David Mitchell (author)

Jan 12, 1969
Ainsdale

English novelist

3 Ivan Van Sertima

Jan 26, 1935
Guyana
British Africanist in New Jersey

4 Robert Morrison (missionary)

Jan 05, 1782
Bullers Green
Anglo-Scottish evangelist and the first Christian Protestant missionary in China

5 Robert Scott (philologist)

Jan 26, 1811
South West England
British academic

6 Geoffrey Leech

Jan 16, 1936
Gloucester
British linguist

7 Edward Ullendorff

Jan 25, 1920
Zürich
British linguist and historian

8 Nahum Sokolow

Jan 10, 1859
Wyszogród
Hebrew journalist, editor, essayist, and political leader

9 Louis George Alexander

Jan 15, 1932
Teacher and education writer

10 Joscelyn Godwin

Jan 16, 1945
Kelmscott
British composer, musicologist and translator

11 Louis Lucien Bonaparte

Jan 04, 1813
Grimley
French philologist and politician

12 James Evans (linguist)

Jan 18, 1801
Kingston upon Hull
Canadian linguist

13 Alexander Piatigorsky

Jan 30, 1929
Moscow
Russian philosopher

14 Hensleigh Wedgwood

Jan 21, 1803
Tarrant Gunville
British Etymologist

15 Robert M. W. Dixon

Jan 25, 1939
Gloucester
Australian linguist and author

16 Alexander Gray (poet)

Jan 06, 1882
Angus
British writer and academic

17 Gladys Yang

Jan 19, 1919
Beijing
British translator

18 Michael Scammell

Jan 16, 1935
Lyndhurst
British writer

19 Cecil Parrott

Jan 29, 1909
British diplomat, translator, writer and scholar

20 Kay Williamson

Jan 26, 1935
Hereford
British linguist
[Total 30 People]
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