Lisp pionered GC, and all its flavours, followed by CLU, Smalltalk, Cedar, BASIC and all its flavours, Modula-2+, Modula-3, Oberon, Oberon-2, Component Pascal,

Lisp pionered GC, and all its flavours, followed by CLU, Smalltalk, Cedar, BASIC and all its flavours, Modula-2+, Modula-3, Oberon, Oberon-2, Component Pascal, xBase/Clipper, Standard ML, Caml Light, Objective Caml (now OCaml), Miranda, Haskell,... Long before Java was even an idea.