Charles Kay Ogden

Charles Kay Ogden was an English linguist, philosopher, and writer. Described as a polymath but also an eccentric and outsider, he took part in many ventures related to literature, politics, the arts, and philosophy, having a broad effect particularly as an editor, translator, and activist on behalf of a reformed version of the English language. He is typically defined as a linguistic psychologist, and is now mostly remembered as the inventor and propagator of Basic English.

1 June 1889

Born on the same birth day (1 June): Andy Griffith • Bekim Fehmiu • Derek Lowe • Frauke Petry • John Randolph (actor) • Kagayaki Taishi • Olga Nazarova • Richard Schweiker • Robert Powell • Ronnie Wood • Tomáš Halík • Toyo Ito • Werner Günthör

Born in the same month (June 1889): Anna Akhmatova • Archibald Frazer-Nash • Beno Gutenberg • Hugo Wieslander • John S. Paraskevopoulos • Joseph Cohen (solicitor) • Ralph Craig • Verena Holmes • Willie Macfarlane