
1927 – Dmitri Alfred Borgmann was born.
1965 – He is an author probably best known for coining the word "Logology" and writing the logological book, Language On Vacation: An Olio of Orthographical Oddities.
1968 – He also founded Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics.
– He was a member of MENSA and was of German-Ukrainian background. He has two sons, Mark and Keith.
1985 – Dmitri Borgmann died.