March 27

Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan, the Indian Muslim educator and reformer who founded the college that became Aligarh Muslim University, died in Aligarh.

Miriam Lichtheim, whose translations opened three volumes of ancient Egyptian literature to modern readers, died in Jerusalem.

William W. Hallo, longtime curator of Yale's Babylonian Collection and editor of The Context of Scripture, died.

German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen, who discovered X-rays and received the first Nobel Prize in Physics, was born in Lennep, in the Rhineland.