William Labov

William Labov

male, 82 years old
William Labov is an American linguist, widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics. He has been described as...
Max Weinreich

Max Weinreich

male, deceased (1969)
Max Weinreich (1893/94 Goldingen, Courland (Kuldiga, Latvia) - 1969 New York City, USA) was a linguist, specializing in Yiddish, and the father of...

John Hartley

male, deceased (1915)
John Hartley was an English poet who worked in the Yorkshire dialect. He wrote a great deal of prose and poetry – often of a sentimental nature –...
Bernhard Karlgren

Bernhard Karlgren

male, deceased (1978)
Bernhard Karlgren was a Swedish sinologist, philologist, and the founder of Swedish sinology as a scholarly discipline. His full name was Klas...

Robert Easton

male, 79 years old
Robert Easton (born Robert Easton Burke, 23 November 1930) is an American actor whose career in film and television spans more than 55 years. He...

John Collier

male
John Collier (18 December 1708 - 14 July 1796) was an English caricaturist and satirical poet known by the pseudonym of Tim Bobbin, or Timothy...
Mani Matter

Mani Matter

male, deceased (1972)
Mani Matter (August 4, 1936 - November 24, 1972, officially Hans-Peter Matter) was a popular Swiss singer-songwriter. He grew up in Bern, and...
Carlo Emilio Gadda

Carlo Emilio Gadda

male, deceased (1973)
Carlo Emilio Gadda (may 14 1893 - November 21 1973) was an Italian writer and poet. He belongs to the tradition of the language innovators, writers...
Heinz Kloss

Heinz Kloss

male, deceased (1987)
Heinz Kloss (1904 - 1987) was a German linguist and internationally recognised authority on linguistic minorities. He coined the terms...
C. J. Dennis

C. J. Dennis

male, deceased (1938)
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis, better known as C. J. Dennis, (7 September 1876 - 22 June 1938) was an Australian poet famous for his...