Famous linguists
language scholar specialized in linguistics
1,640 people
Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet
1810
– 1895
· Age 84
Deceased
Pierre Larousse
1817
– 1875
· Age 57
Deceased
Ljudevit Gaj
1809
– 1872
· Age 62
Deceased
Ahmed Shawqi
1868
– 1932
· Age 64
Deceased
Johannes Aavik
1880
– 1973
· Age 92
Deceased
Vladislav Ardzinba
1945
– 2010
· Age 64
Deceased
Ignacy Krasicki
1735
– 1801
· Age 66
Deceased
Jonas Basanavičius
1851
– 1927
· Age 75
Deceased
John Wesley Powell
1834
– 1902
· Age 68
Deceased
Rudolf Erich Raspe
1736
– 1794
· Age 58
Deceased
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Émile Benveniste
1902
– 1976
· Age 74
Deceased
Erich Auerbach
1892
– 1957
· Age 64
Deceased
Karl Richard Lepsius
1810
– 1884
· Age 73
Deceased
Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti
1774
– 1849
· Age 74
Deceased
Maksim Bahdanovič
1891
– 1917
· Age 25
Deceased
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Paul Grice
1913
– 1988
· Age 75
Deceased
M
Morris Swadesh
1909
– 1967
· Age 58
Deceased
S
Stephanus of Byzantium
0501
– 0600
Deceased
Alexandre de Rhodes
1591
– 1660
· Age 69
Deceased
Luis de León
1527
– 1591
· Age 64
Deceased
Yuri Knorozov
1922
– 1999
· Age 76
Deceased
Vítězslav Nezval
1900
– 1958
· Age 57
Deceased
Niccolò Tommaseo
1802
– 1874
· Age 71
Deceased
Dámaso Alonso
1899
– 1990
· Age 90
Deceased
Alfred Korzybski
1879
– 1950
· Age 70
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q14467526