Edgar de Wahl died on 9 March 1948 in Tallinn, aged 80. An Estonian-Baltic German teacher and linguist, de Wahl is remembered as the creator of Occidental, later renamed Interlingue, a constructed international language published in 1922. He designed it so that words would look familiar to speakers of Romance and other European languages, avoiding the more artificial derivations of Esperanto and Ido. He had earlier taken part in the Esperanto and Ido movements, and he taught mathematics and languages in Tallinn. The language drew a small but enthusiastic following in the interwar years, and it is still used by a few speakers today.
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- from 17 February 1948 to 1 March 1948Alwaziri coup
- 25 February 19481948 Czechoslovak coup d'état
- 28 February 1948Birth of Steven Chu
- 7 March 1948Founding of Nea Salamis Famagusta FC
- 9 March 1948Death of Edgar de Wahl
- 20 March 1948Birth of John de Lancie
- 31 March 1948Birth of Al Gore
- from 3 April 1948 to 1 December 1951Marshall Plan
- 7 April 1948Founding of World Health Organization
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