Famous Linguists' 🎂 Birthdays, August, United Kingdom

    
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1 Percy Bysshe Shelley

Aug 04, 1792
Horsham
English Romantic poet

2 Walter Scott

Aug 15, 1771
Edinburgh
Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet

3 Thomas De Quincey

Aug 15, 1785
Manchester
English author

4 James Prinsep

Aug 20, 1799
England
Numismatist and philologist of ancient Indian languages

5 Hugh MacDiarmid

Aug 11, 1892
Langholm
Scottish poet, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve

6 Edward Bouverie Pusey

Aug 22, 1800
Pusey
conservative churchman of the Church of England and Hebraist

7 John Eliot (missionary)

Aug 05, 1604
Hertfordshire
American Puritan missionary to Native Americans

8 Ian Hancock

Aug 29, 1942
London
British linguist

9 John Crawfurd

Aug 13, 1783
Islay
British historian

10 Charlotte Mary Yonge

Aug 11, 1823
Otterbourne
English writer

11 A. S. Hornby

Aug 10, 1898
Chester
British lexicographer

12 Mary Boyce

Aug 02, 1920
Darjeeling
British academic

13 John D. Smith

Aug 26, 1946
British Indologist

14 Andrew Melville

Aug 01, 1545
Montrose
Scottish scholar, theologian and religious reformer

15 William Balfour Baikie

Aug 21, 1824
Kirkwall
British explorer and scientist

16 Robert James (physician)

Aug 23, 1703
Staffordshire
British physician

17 John Payne (poet)

Aug 23, 1842
Bloomsbury
English poet and translator

18 Ernest Wood

Aug 18, 1883
Manchester
English yogi

19 Frank Thompson (SOE officer)

Aug 17, 1920
Darjeeling Vidhan Sabha constituency
British Army officer

20 Joseph Moxon

Aug 08, 1627
Wakefield
British hydrographer
[Total 34 People]
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