Lev Shcherba
Lev Shcherba( commonly Scherba)( Russian: Лев Влади́мирови ч Ще́рба, Belarusian: Леў Уладзіміравіч Шчэрба)( – December 26, 1944) was a Russian linguist and lexicographer specializing in phonetics and phonology.
Born in Igumen( Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire, now Chervyen, Belarus) to the family of an engineer.
Shcherba went to high school in Kiev, graduating in 1898, and briefly attended Kiev University before moving to the capital and entering St. Petersburg University.
There he studied under Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, graduating in 1903.
In 1906 he traveled abroad, first to Leipzig and then to northern Italy, where he studied Tuscan dialects.
During the autumn holidays of 1907 and 1908, on the advice of Baudouin de Courtenay, he studied the Sorbian languages, writing a description of the Mužakow dialect( spoken in the east, near Muskau).
At the end of 1907 he went to Paris, where he worked in the experimental phonetics laboratory of Jean- Pierre Rousselot studying the phonetics of a series of languages using experimental methods; on his return to Russia he began setting up an experimental phonetics laboratory, paying for equipment from his own stipend, and this became the institution that now bears his name.
As early as 1912, basing himself on the ideas of Baudouin de Courtenay, he elaborated the concept of the phoneme, defined by him as the grouping of sounds into" sound types".
In 1912 he defended his master's thesis and in 1915 received his doctorate from St. Petersburg University, where he was a professor from 1916 to 1941.
He became the founder of the so- called" Leningrad school" of phonology, which included M. I. Matusevich and L. R. Zinder among others and carried on a polemic with the" Moscow school."
However, he spent the last few years of his life in Moscow, where he died.
He became an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1943.
Beyond phonology, Shcherba made significant contributions to the wider fields of linguistics and lexicography.
In contrast to Ferdinand de Saussure, he recognized three rather than two objects of study: speech activity, language systems, and language material.
He placed emphasis on the question of the capacity of the speaker to produce sentences never previously heard, a question which would become important to the linguistics of the later twentieth century.
He also emphasized the importance of experiments in linguistics, particularly that of negative results, developing methods which became important for field study.
He was the teacher of the lexicographer Sergei Ozhegov, author of the most widely used Russian dictionary.
Shcherba is the author of the" glokaya kuzdra" sentence, which consists of words whose roots do not exist in Russian, but has correct construction in terms of Russian morphology and syntax — similar to Chomsky's" Colorless green ideas sleep furiously".
He invented this sentence to illustrate the distinction between grammar and vocabulary.
Bill Smith (footballer, born 1897)
William Thomas Smith( born 9 April 1897, date of death unknown) was an English professional footballer.
Ermengarde of Nevers
Ermengarde de Nevers( 1073 – 1100) was the daughter of Renaud II, Count of Nevers and Auxerre, and of Ida de Forez.
She married Miles( Milo) de Courtenay( died 1127), son of Jocelin de Courtenay and Isabel, daughter of Guy I of Montlhéry.
Their son was Renaud de Courtenay.
Etan Boritzer
Etan Boritzer( born 1950) is an American writer of children ’s literature who is best known for his book" What is God?" first published in 1989.
His best selling" What is?" illustrated children's book series on character education and difficult subjects for children is a popular teaching guide for parents, teachers and child- life professionals.
Boritzer gained national critical acclaim after" What is God?" was published in 1989 although the book has caused controversy from religious fundamentalists for its universalist views.
The other current books in the" What is?" series include
What is Love?,
What is Death?,
What is Beautiful?,
What is Funny?,
What is Right?,
What is Peace?,
What is Money?,
What is Dreaming?,
What is a Friend?,
What is True?,
What is a Family?,
What is a Feeling?"
The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
Boritzer was first published in 1963 at the age of 13 when he wrote an essay in his English class at Wade Junior High School in the Bronx, New York on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
His essay was included in a special anthology by New York City public school children compiled and published by the New York City Department of Education.
Boritzer now lives in Venice, California and maintains his publishing office there also.
He has helped numerous other authors to get published through" How to Get Your Book Published!" programs.
Boritzer is also a yoga teacher who teaches regular classes locally and guest- teaches nationally.
He is also recognized nationally as an erudite speaker on" The Teachings of the Buddha."
Renaud de Courtenay
Renaud de Courtenay, anglicised to Reginald I de Courtenay, of Sutton, Berkshire, was a French nobleman of the House of Courtenay who took up residence in England and founded the English Courtenay family, who became Earls of Devon in 1335.
The title is still held today, by his direct male descendant.
Jan Baudouin de Courtenay
Jan Niecisław Ignacy Baudouin de Courtenay (13 March 1845 – 3 November 1929)
(Russian:
Иван Александрович Бодуэн де Куртенэ ("Ivan Aleksandrovich Boduen de Kurtene")) was a Russian and Polish linguist and Slavist, best known for his theory of the phoneme and phonetic alternations.
For most of his life Baudouin de Courtenay worked at Imperial Russian universities: Kazan (1874–1883), Dorpat (as Tartu, Estonia was then known) (1883–1893), Kraków (1893–1899) in Austria-Hungary, and St. Petersburg (1900–1918), and in Russia he is recognized as a Russian scientist.
In 1919-1929 he was a professor at the re-established University of Warsaw in a once again independent Poland.
Thomas Scott (diver)
Thomas Scott( 1907- date of death unknown) was an English diver.
Cezaria Jędrzejewiczowa
Cezaria Jędrzejewiczowa or, Cezaria Anna Baudouin de Courtenay Ehrenkreutz-Jędrzejewiczowa (1885 – 1967) was a Polish scientist, art historian and anthropologist.
She was one of the pioneers of ethnology in Poland and one of the first scientists to adopt phenomenology in studies on the folk culture.
Theodred II (Bishop of Elmham)
Theodred II was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.
The date of Theodred's consecration unknown, but the date of his death was sometime between 995 and 997.
Hugh de Courtenay
Sir Hugh de Courtenay( 1251 – 1292) was the son and heir of John de Courtenay, feudal baron of Okehampton, Devon, by Isabel de Vere, daughter of Hugh de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford.
His son inherited the earldom of Devon.

Question: When did Cezaria Jędrzejewiczowa's father die?
Answer: 3 November 1929