Antoine Furetière

Antoine Furetière was a French scholar, writer, and lexicographer, known best for his satirical novel Scarron's City Romance. He was expelled from the Académie Française for seeking to publish his own French language dictionary.

28 December 1619

Born on the same birth day (28 December): Ayele Abshero • Brenda Schultz-McCarthy • David Peterson • Denzel Washington • Dorsey Burnette • Girma Wolde-Giorgis • Hildegard Knef • Igor Žiković • Linus Torvalds • Lou Jacobi • Marc Blume • Michelle Urry • Nichelle Nichols • Pat Rafter • Pierre Falardeau • Rainer Maria Latzke

Born in the same month (December 1619): Prince Rupert of the Rhine