March 26

The Oxford English Dictionary is considered by many to be the most comprehensive and scholarly dictionary of the English language. As of 2005, it contained in excess of 300,000 main entries. William Chester Minor, an American surgeon, was one of the more prolific contributors to the OED in the late 19th century. The vast majority of his contributions were made while he was a resident of London’s Horsemonger Gaol, a mental institution to which Minor was committed from 1872 until his death on March 26, 1920.