Roman Jakobson
Якобсо́н, Рома́н О́сипович
October 11, 1896 – July 18, 1982 (aged 85)
Birth place: Moscow, Russian Empire
Russian linguist & literary theorist. Birth date by the Julian calendar is Sept.29. Fled to Czechoslovakia during the Bolshevik revolution, then settled in the U.S.A. during WWII.