1944 Birthday R P Mardling, headmaster, Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield 1937 Death Georg A Erman, Germany egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt), dies at 82 1936 Death Hermann Hirt, German linguist (Indo-European Grammar), dies at 70 1936 Birthday Roy Beggs, born in Ballyclare, Northern Ireland, John Robert Beggs, Ulster Unionist Party, Member of Parliament for East Antrim 1983 - 2005, known for his Euroscepticism, strong support of Northern Ireland's grammar schools 1928 Birthday Noam Chomsky, linguist, founded transformational grammar 1894 Death Herman van der Tuuk, Dutch linguist (Toba Batak grammar), dies at 70 1865 Birthday Hermann Hirt, Magdeburg Prussia, linguist, Indo-European Grammar 1854 Birthday Georg A Erman, German Egyptologist, Grammar of Ancient Egypt 1824 Birthday Herman N van der Tuuk, Dutch philologist, Tobasch' Grammar 1780 Birthday Jernej Kopitar, Slovenian censor, Slovenian Grammar 1584 Birthday Thomas Erpenius, van Erpe, Dutch orientalist/arabist, grammar
