Alexander Kazhdan
American historian
Alexander Petrovich Kazhdan was a Soviet-American Byzantinist. Among his publications was the three-volume Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, a comprehensive encyclopedic work containing over than 5,000 entries. Wikipedia
Born: September 3, 1922, Moscow, Russia
Died: May 29, 1997 (age 74 years), Washington, D.C.
Children: David Kazhdan