Birthday of ᏫᎵ ᏚᎥᎢᏅ, romanized: Wili Duvinv;

Durbin Feeling was a Cherokee Nation linguist who wrote the primary Cherokee–English dictionary in 1975. He is considered the greatest modern contributor to the preservation of the endangered Cherokee language. Durban was a Cherokee first language speaker, not learning English until he attended school. He began reading the syllabary when he was 12 and used it to write letters in Cherokee home to his mother after being drafted into the Vietnam War. He published the Cherokee-English dictionary in 1975 and went on to teach Cherokee at University of Oklahoma, the University of Tulsa, and the University of California. He authored or contributed to many books and research articles about Cherokee. For his contributions to the preservation of the Cherokee language and Cherokee culture, Feeling was named a Cherokee National Treasure by the Cherokee Nation. Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin, Jr. has described Feeling as "a modern-day Sequoyah" and said that "[e]verything we are doing for language revitalization is because of Durbin.” In 2019, the Cherokee Nation chose Feeling as the first signatory of the Cherokee Language Speakers Roll.