Richard Mitchell

Richard Mitchell was a professor, first of English and later of classics, at Glassboro State College in Glassboro, New Jersey. He gained fame in the late-1970s as the founder and publisher of The Underground Grammarian, a newsletter of opinion and criticism that ran until 1992, and wrote four books expounding his views on the relationships among language, education, and ethics. ^{Richard Mitchell, American author and educator (d. 2002)}

26 April 1929

Born on the same birth day (26 April): Chris Perry (English footballer) • Claudine Auger • Dean Austin • Douglas Sirk • Duane Eddy • Frank Hahn • Hack Wilson • Howard Davies (director) • I. M. Pei • Israr Ahmed • Joey Jordison • Joey Wendle • John James Audubon • Jules and Gédéon Naudet • Koo Stark • Ma Rainey • Michael Mathias Prechtl • Ms. Dynamite • Roxana Saberi • Samantha Cristoforetti • Svyatoslav Belza

Born in the same month (April 1929): Adrian Cadbury • Elspet Gray • George Steiner • Gerry Anderson • Humbert Allen Astredo • Inez Andrews • James Last • Jonathan Haze • Mahmoud Mollaghasemi • Paule Marshall • Peter Hordern • Peter Sculthorpe • Yvette Williams