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