March 23

Erich Fromm, the social psychologist who wrote on the ethics of the Hebrew Bible, was born in Frankfurt am Main.

Saul Lieberman, a leading scholar of rabbinic literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary, died while traveling to Jerusalem.

The British archaeologist Arthur Evans opened his dig at Knossos on Crete, work that would reveal the Bronze Age Minoan civilization and its Linear A and B scripts.

Said Nursi, the Anatolian scholar whose Risale-i Nur commentary shaped modern Turkish Islamic thought, died in Urfa.

German mathematician Emmy Noether, whose theorem linked symmetries to conservation laws and who shaped modern abstract algebra, was born in Erlangen.