Famous Linguists' 🎂 Birthdays, October, United States

    
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1 Noah Webster

Oct 16, 1758
West Hartford
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author

2 Roman Jakobson

Oct 11, 1896
Moscow
American linguist, philosopher and educationist

3 John McWhorter

Oct 06, 1965
Philadelphia
American linguist and political commentator

4 Zellig Harris

Oct 23, 1909
Balta
American linguist

5 Edwin O. Reischauer

Oct 15, 1910
Tokyo
American diplomat

6 Paul Pimsleur

Oct 17, 1927
New York City
American linguist

7 Jonathan Culler

Oct 01, 1944
Cleveland
American academic of English literature

8 Barbara Johnson

Oct 04, 1947
Boston
American literary critic

9 Robert Fitzgerald

Oct 12, 1910
Geneva
American poet, critic and translator

10 Robert Bringhurst

Oct 16, 1946
Los Angeles
Canadian writer and typographer

11 Richard Howard

Oct 13, 1929
Cleveland
American poet and literary critic

12 Christopher I. Beckwith

Oct 23, 1945
American linguist

13 Susan J. Napier

Oct 11, 1955
Cambridge
Professor of the Japanese Program at Tufts University

14 Charles Goodwin (semiotician)

Jan 01, 0001
American linguist

15 Samuel Putnam

Oct 10, 1892
Illinois
American translator and scholar of Romance languages

16 Allen Henry Vigneron

Oct 21, 1948
Mount Clemens
Roman Catholic bishop

17 Annie Finch

Oct 31, 1956
New Rochelle
American poet

18 Eugene Jolas

Oct 26, 1894
Union Hill
American translator

19 Lyle Campbell

Oct 22, 1942
Oregon
American Mesoamericanist

20 Meredith Gardner

Oct 20, 1912
Okolona
American cryptographer
[Total 63 People]
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