1969 Birthday Bryant H. McGill, born in Mobile, Alabama, editor, author, celebrity publicist, creator, celebrity verification group, books include the 'McGill English Dictionary of Rhyme' 1956 Death Charles R Gallas, lexicographer (French Dictionary), dies at 88 1926 Birthday Max Sordam, Suriname warden/writer, Dictionary Sranantongo 1916 Birthday Natalia Ginzburg, Italian author, Family dictionary 1906 Birthday Benedict Vilakazi, South Africa, poet/educator, Zulu-English Dictionary 1897 Death Ebenezer C Brewer, British writer (Dictionary of Phrase and Fable), dies 1893 Birthday Willi Apel, German/U.S. musicologist, Harvard dictionary of music 1892 Birthday Coenraad B van Haeringen, linguist/etymologist, Dutch Dictionary 1884 Event 1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published 1881 Birthday Daniel Jones, England phoneticist, English pronouncing dictionary 1875 Birthday Isadore Gilbert Mudge, U.S., librarian and author, Thackeray Dictionary 1868 Birthday Charles R. Gallas, Dutch lexicographer, French dictionary 1857 Death Abraham J van der Aa, lexicographer (Biograph dictionary), dies at 64 1843 Death Noah Webster, lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary), dies at 84 1842 Birthday Ambrose Bierce, U.S., satirist, Devil's Dictionary 1837 Birthday James Augustus Henry Murray, Scotland, created Oxford Dictionary 1836 Birthday Erminnie Adelle Platt, U.S., ethnologist, Iriquois-English Dictionary 1835 Death Henry Doeff, translator (Dutch-Japanese dictionary), dies at 57 1830 Birthday Eelco Refer, linguist, Dictionary for the Dutch translator 1828 Event Noah Webster publishes 1st American dictionary 1828 Event 1st edition of Noah Webster's dictionary published 1828 Birthday Johan H van Dale, schoolmaster, New Dutch Language Dictionary 1800 Birthday Gergely Czuczor, Hungarian/Czechoslovakian poet/translator, Great Hung dictionary 1792 Birthday Abraham J van de Aa, lexicographer, Biographic Dictionary 1777 Birthday Henry Doeff, colonialist, wrote Dutch-Japanese dictionary 1758 Birthday Noah Webster, lexicographer, Webster's Dictionary 1755 Event 1e edition of Dr. Johnsons "Dictionary" 1639 Event Academie Franeaise begins Dictionary of French Language 1617 Birthday Adriaan W. "Joris" van Geel, Flemish missionary, Bantu Dictionary 1105 Event Rabbi Nathan ben Yehiel of Rome completes Talmudic dictionary
