Famous Linguists' 🎂 Birthdays, December, United Kingdom

    
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1 Thomas Carlyle

Dec 04, 1795
Ecclefechan
Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

2 Patrick O'Brian

Dec 12, 1914
Chalfont St Peter
English novelist

3 Mary Somerville

Dec 26, 1780
Jedburgh
Science writer and polymath

4 Constance Garnett

Dec 19, 1861
Brighton
translator

5 James Legge

Dec 20, 1815
Huntly
missionary in China

6 Sylvia Townsend Warner

Dec 06, 1893
London Borough of Harrow
writer, poet, activist

7 Stephen Levinson

Dec 06, 1947
London
British social scientist

8 Lancelot Hogben

Dec 09, 1895
Portsmouth
British zoologist, statistician, science writer

9 George Campbell (minister)

Dec 25, 1719
Aberdeen
figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, born 1719

10 Elizabeth Carter

Dec 16, 1717
Deal
English poet, classicist, writer, translator, polymath (1717-1806)

11 Howard Giles

Dec 12, 1946
Cardiff
British-American linguist and social psychologist

12 Sara Coleridge

Dec 23, 1802
Keswick
British writer

13 Lionel Giles

Dec 29, 1875
British scholar and translator

14 Henry Francis Cary

Dec 06, 1772
Gibraltar
Gibraltarian translator

15 Roger L'Estrange

Dec 17, 1616
Hunstanton
English pamphleteer and author, and staunch defender of royalist claims

16 Eliza Marian Butler

Dec 29, 1885
Lancashire
English scholar of German; linguist and intellectual historian

17 Charles W. J. Withers

Dec 06, 1954
Scottish linguist and geographer

18 Joseph Edkins

Dec 19, 1823
Nailsworth
British linguist

19 Thomas Kendall

Dec 13, 1778
Lincolnshire
New Zealand missionary

20 David Abercrombie (linguist)

Dec 19, 1909
British linguist
[Total 39 People]
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