langs: 28 октября [ru] / october 28 [en] / 28. oktober [de] / 28 octobre [fr] / 28 ottobre [it] / 28 de octubre [es]
days: october 25 / october 26 / october 27 / october 28 / october 29 / october 30 / october 31
Haitian Creole ( / ˈ h eɪ ʃ ən ˈ k r iː oʊ l / ; Haitian Creole: kreyòl ayisyen , [kɣejɔl ajisjɛ̃] ; [6] [7] French: créole haïtien , [kʁe.ɔl ai.sjɛ̃] ), commonly referred to as simply Creole , or Kreyòl in the Creole language, is a French-based creole language spoken by 10–12 million people world
Indonesian ( Bahasa Indonesia [baˈhasa indoˈnesja] ) is the official and national language of Indonesia . [4] It is a standardized variety of Malay , [5] an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca in the multilingual Indonesian archipelago for centuries. Indonesia is the fourth m
Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam [1] ( Russian : Осип Эмильевич Мандельштам , IPA: [ˈosʲɪp ɨˈmʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mənʲdʲɪlʲˈʂtam] ; 14 January [ O.S. 2 January ] 1891 – 27 December 1938) was a Russian and Soviet poet. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school. For other articles using the sam
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev ( English: / t ʊər ˈ ɡ ɛ n j ɛ f , - ˈ ɡ eɪ n -/ ; [1] Russian : Ива́н Серге́евич Турге́нев [note 1] , IPA: [ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf] ; 9 November 1818 – 3 September 1883 ( Old Style dates : 28 October 1818 – 22 August 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story
Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachov ( Russian : Дми́трий Серге́евич Лихачёв , also Dmitri Likhachev or Likhachyov ; 28 November [ O.S. 15 November ] 1906 – 30 September 1999) was a Russian medievalist, linguist, and Gulag survivor. During his lifetime, Likhachov was considered the world's foremost scho
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
#5 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
#6 Juri Lotman
Juri Lotman ( Russian : Ю́рий Миха́йлович Ло́тман ; 28 February 1922 – 28 October 1993) was a prominent Russian-Estonian literary scholar, semiotician , and historian of Russian culture , who worked at the University of Tartu . He was elected a member of the British Academy (1977), Norwegian Academy
Otto Wilhelm Masing ( 8 November [ O.S. 28 October ] 1763 in Lohusuu , Kreis Dorpat , Livland Governorate – 15 March [ O.S. 3 March ] 1832 in Äksi , Livland Governorate) was an early Baltic German Estophile and a major advocate of peasant rights, especially regarding education. Baltic German
Georgiy Ruslanovych Gongadze [lower-alpha 1] (21 May 1969 – 17 September 2000) [1] was a Georgian - Ukrainian journalist and film director who was kidnapped and murdered in 2000 near Kyiv. He founded the internet newspaper Ukrainska Pravda along with Olena Prytula in 2000. Georgian-born Ukrainian jo
Pieter Jacobus (Piet) Meertens ( Middelburg , 6 September 1899 – Amstelveen , 28 October 1985) was a Dutch scholar of literature, dialects, and ethnology. He founded the institutes which later merged into the Meertens Instituut (a research institute operated by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts
#10 Udayan Thakker
Udayan Thakkar ( Gujarati : ઉદયન ઠક્કર) is a Gujarati language poet, writer and translator from Mumbai , India . [1] The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies . ( November 2018 ) Udayan Thakker Native name ઉદયન કરસનદાસ ઠક્કર Born Udayan Karsandas Thakker
#11 Zenobia Camprubí
Zenobia Camprubí Aymar (31 August 1887 – 25 October 1956) was a Spanish -born writer and poet ; she was also a noted translator of the works of Rabindranath Tagore . This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards . ( August 2019 ) Spanish writer of Catalan and Pue
#12 Jack Lindsay
Jack Lindsay (20 October 1900 – 8 March 1990) was an Australian-born writer, who from 1926 lived in the United Kingdom, initially in Essex . He was born in Melbourne , but spent his formative years in Brisbane . He was the eldest son of Norman Lindsay and brother of author Philip Lindsay . Australia
#13 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
#14 Clare Cavanagh
Clare Cavanagh (born May 23, 1956) is an American literary critic , a Slavist , and a translator. She is the Frances Hooper Professor in the Arts and Humanities and Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University . An acclaimed translator of contemporary Polish
Xosé Fernando Filgueira Valverde , or sometimes José Filgueira Valverde (28 October 1906, in Pontevedra – 13 September 1996, in Pontevedra), [1] was a Spanish writer, intellectual , researcher, scholar and critic in Galician language and Spanish. He was known as "O vello profesor" ( "The old profess
#16 Anton thor Helle
Anton thor Helle ( 7 November [ O.S. 28 October ] 1683 [1] in Tallinn – 24 April [ O.S. 13 April ] 1748 [2] in Jüri ; also Anton Thorhelle , Anton torHelle , Anton thorHelle or Anthonij Torhelle [2] ) was the translator of the first Bible in Estonian in 1739, [3] and the first Estonian gramm
#17 Jean Przyluski
Jean Przyluski (17 August 1885 – 28 October 1944) was a French linguist and scholar of religion and Buddhism of Polish descent. His interests ranged widely through the structure of the Vietnamese language , the development of Buddhist myths and legends, as well as Indo-European folk traditions such
#18 Max Müller
Friedrich Max Müller ( German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈmaks ˈmʏlɐ] ; [1] [2] 6 December 1823 – 28 October 1900) was a German -born philologist and Orientalist , who lived and studied in Britain for most of his life. He was one of the founders of the western academic disciplines of Indian studies and religious
#19 Xiang Xingyao
Xiang Xingyao ( Chinese : 项星耀 ; 1924 – 28 October 1997) was a Chinese translator and associate professor at Fujian Normal University . [1] He was one of the main translators of the works of the Russian writer Alexander Herzen into Chinese. Some of his English translations were published by People's
#20 Korney Chukovsky
Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky ( Russian : Корне́й Ива́нович Чуко́вский , IPA: [kɐrˈnʲej ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ tɕʊˈkofskʲɪj] ( listen ) ; 31 March NS 1882 – 28 October 1969) was one of the most popular children's poets in the Russian language . [1] His catchy rhythms, inventive rhymes and absurd characters have