James Curtis Hepburn
James Curtis Hepburn was born on March 13, 1815. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About James Curtis Hepburn
James Curtis Hepburn (; March 13, 1815 – September 21, 1911) 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.