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James Curtis Hepburn, American physician, linguist, and missionary (died 1911)

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James Curtis Hepburn

American physician, educator and phonologist (1815–1911)

James Curtis Hepburn was an American physician, educator, translator and lay Christian missionary. He is known for the Hepburn romanization system for transliteration of the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet, which he popularized in his Japanese–English dictionary.
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March 13

Day of the year

March 13 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 293 days remain until the end of the year.
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