langs: 14 марта [ru] / march 14 [en] / 14. märz [de] / 14 mars [fr] / 14 marzo [it] / 14 de marzo [es]
days: march 11 / march 12 / march 13 / march 14 / march 15 / march 16 / march 17
#1 Magma (band)
Magma is a French progressive rock band founded in Paris in 1969 by classically trained drummer Christian Vander , who claimed as his inspiration a "vision of humanity's spiritual and ecological future" that profoundly disturbed him. In the course of their first album, the band tells the story of a
Estonian ( eesti keel [ˈeːsti ˈkeːl] ( listen ) ) is a Finnic language , written in the Latin script . It is the official language of Estonia and one of the official languages of the European Union , spoken natively by about 1.1 million people; 922,000 people in Estonia and 160,000 outside Estonia
Ahmad Hokmabadi Tabrizi ( Persian : سید احمد حکمآبادی تبریزی , romanized : Ahmad-e Hokmabadi-ye Tabrizi ; 29 September 1890 – 11 March 1946), later known as Ahmad Kasravi ( Persian : احمد کسروی , romanized : Ahmad-e Kasravi ), was a pre-eminent Iranian linguist , nationalist , religious refor
Snježana Kordić ( pronounced [sɲěʒana kôːrditɕ] ( listen ) ; born 29 October 1964) [1] is a Croatian linguist . [3] In addition to her work in syntax , she has written on sociolinguistics . [2] Kordić is known among non-specialists for numerous articles against the puristic and prescriptive langua
Eugène-Emmanuel Mermet-Cachon (10 September 1828 – 14 March 1889), was a French priest and Roman Catholic missionary in Bakumatsu period Japan, who served as interpreter for and advisor to French diplomatic missions, playing crucial role in the development of a special relationship between the Frenc
#4 John Wallis
John Wallis ( / ˈ w ɒ l ɪ s / ; [2] Latin : Wallisius ; 3 December [ O.S. 23 November ] 1616 – 8 November [ O.S. 28 October ] 1703 ) was an English clergyman and mathematician who is given partial credit for the development of infinitesimal calculus . Between 1643 and 1689 he served as chi
#5 Petro Zheji
Petro Zheji (18 October 1929 - 14 March 2015 [1] ) was an Albanian linguist , translator, philosopher, and author from Gjirokastër who lived and worked intellectually in Tiranë , Albania . [2] [3] [4] As a polyglot , he was deeply knowledgeable in the Italian , French , English, Spanish , German , R
#6 Jack Agüeros
Jack Agüeros (September 2, 1934 – May 4, 2014) was an American community activist, poet, writer, and translator, and the former director of El Museo del Barrio . American poet of Puerto Rican ancestry Jack Agüeros Born ( 1934-09-02 ) September 2, 1934 New York City, U.S. Died May 4, 2014 (2014-05-04
Gerhardt Laves (July 15, 1906 – March 14, 1993) was a graduate student at the University of Chicago and Yale University who between August 1929 and August 1931 undertook extensive fieldwork on Australian Aboriginal languages . Laves was probably the first person trained in modern linguistic fieldwor
Arnold Chikobava ( Georgian : არნოლდ ჩიქობავა ) (March 14, 1898 – November 5, 1985) was a Soviet Georgian linguist and philologist best known for his contributions to Caucasian studies and for being one of the most active critics of Nicholas Marr 's controversial monogenetic "Japhetic" theory of lan
#9 Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky [lower-alpha 1] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist , philosopher, cognitive scientist , historical essayist, [lower-alpha 2] [lower-alpha 3] social critic , and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", [lower-alpha 4] Chomsky is also a
Lawrence M. Schoen (born July 27, 1959) is an American author, publisher, psychologist, hypnotist, and expert in the Klingon language . [1] [2] American writer and psychologist Lawrence M. Schoen Born ( 1959-07-27 ) July 27, 1959 (age 63) Chicago , Illinois , United States Occupation Psychologist
#11 Heinrich Vedder
Hermann Heinrich Vedder (born 3 July 1876 in Westerenger [ Wikidata ] , Westphalia , Germany ; died 26 April 1972 in Okahandja , South-West Africa ) was a German missionary , linguist , ethnologist and historian . Originally a silk weaver, he received missionary training by the Rhenish Missionary
François Bédarida , (14 March 1926 in Lyons – 16 September 2001 in Fontaine-le-Port ) was a French academic historian. His work centred on Victorian England and France in WWII . He made significant research contributions to the study of The Holocaust . He was a director of the Maison française in Ox
Debi Prasanna Pattanayak (born 14 March 1931) is an Indian professor, linguist , social scientist and author. [1] He was the founder-director of the Central Institute of Indian Languages , Mysore and former chairman of Institute of Odia Studies and Research , Bhubaneswar. Pattanayak was awarded Padm
#14 Cecil Bendall
Cecil Bendall (1 July 1856 – 14 March 1906) was an English scholar, a professor of Sanskrit at University College London and later at the University of Cambridge . English scholar This article includes a list of general references , but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations . ( August 2
Alishan Avedis Bairamian ( Western Armenian : Ալիշան Պայրամեան, Eastern Armenian : Ալիշան Բայրամյան; December 24, 1914 – March 14, 2004) [1] was an Armenian-American intellectual, linguist, historian, and author. Born in 1914 in Kilis , a part of historic Armenian Cilicia , in 1914, he was a survivo
Eduard Rudolf Thurneysen (March 14, 1857 – 9 August 1940) was a Swiss linguist and Celticist . Swiss linguist and Celticist (1857–1940)
#17 Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron
Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron (7 December 1731 – 17 January 1805) was the first [1] professional French Indologist . He conceived the institutional framework for the new profession. He inspired the founding of the École française d'Extrême-Orient a century after his death. The library of the
#18 Dovid Katz
Dovid Katz ( Yiddish : הירשע־דוד כ״ץ , also הירשע־דוד קאַץ , Hirshe-Dovid Kats , [ˌhirʃɛ-ˈdɔvid ˈkɑt͡s ] , born 9 May 1956) is an American-born , Vilnius -based scholar, author and educator, specializing in Yiddish language and literature, Lithuanian Jewish culture, and the Holocaust in Eastern