Famous linguists
language scholar specialized in linguistics
1,640 people
Franz Boas
1858
– 1942
· Age 84
Deceased
Vuk Karadžić
1787
– 1864
· Age 76
Deceased
Mikhail Bakhtin
1895
– 1975
· Age 79
Deceased
Roman Jakobson
1896
– 1982
· Age 85
Deceased
Vasily Zhukovsky
1783
– 1852
· Age 69
Deceased
H. L. Mencken
1880
– 1956
· Age 75
Deceased
Amos Oz
1939
– 2018
· Age 79
Deceased
Giuseppe Peano
1858
– 1932
· Age 73
Deceased
Machado de Assis
1839
– 1908
· Age 69
Deceased
Ivar Andreas Aasen
1813
– 1896
· Age 83
Deceased
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
1724
– 1803
· Age 78
Deceased
Willard Van Orman Quine
1908
– 2000
· Age 92
Deceased
Abay Kunanbaiuly
1845
– 1904
· Age 58
Deceased
Jean-François Lyotard
1924
– 1998
· Age 73
Deceased
Joseph of Anchieta
1534
– 1597
· Age 63
Deceased
Thomas De Quincey
1785
– 1859
· Age 74
Deceased
Athanasius Kircher
1602
– 1680
· Age 78
Deceased
Thomas Bernhard
1931
– 1989
· Age 58
Deceased
Conrad Gessner
1516
– 1565
· Age 49
Deceased
Gregory Potyomkin
1739
– 1791
· Age 52
Deceased
August Wilhelm Schlegel
1767
– 1845
· Age 77
Deceased
Mikael Agricola
1508
– 1557
· Age 49
Deceased
Max Brod
1884
– 1968
· Age 84
Deceased
Denis Fonvizin
1745
– 1792
· Age 47
Deceased
Assia Djebar
1936
– 2015
· Age 78
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q14467526