James Elphinston

James Elphinston was a well noted 18th-century Scottish educator, orthographer, phonologist and linguistics expert.

6 December 1721

Born on the same birth date (6 December 1721): Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

Born on the same birth day (6 December): Adrian García Arias • Dave Brubeck • Eliot Porter • Felix Schiller • Gary Goodman • Helen Cornelius • Jean Lapointe • John Brunt • Jonathan King • Joyce Kilmer • Judd Apatow • Lindsay Price • Mike Smith (Dave Clark Five) • Miroslav Vitouš • Naozumi Takahashi • Nora Kirkpatrick • Peter Dimmock • Rudolf Schlichter • Skippy Baxter • Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig • William II of the Netherlands • William S. Hart • Willy van der Kuijlen

Born in the same month (December 1721): François Hemsterhuis • Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes • Madame de Pompadour • Peter Pelham (composer)