In 1926 the daughter of the man who popularized the adage "A language is a dialect with an army and navy" was born.
Max Weinreich (22 April 1894 in Kuldga, Russian Empire, now Latvia  29 January 1969 in New York City, United States) was a Russian Jewish linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics and Yiddish, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich, who edited the "Modern Yiddish-English English-Yiddish Dictionary". 
Uriel Weinreich (Yiddish:   "Uriel Vaynraykh", ] ; 23 May 1926  30 March 1967) was a Polish-American linguist. 
 The adage was popularized by the sociolinguist and Yiddish scholar Max Weinreich, who heard it from a member of the audience at one of his lectures. 
