On this day in history
March 29
JewishChristianMesopotamianEgyptian
YahrzeitsHebrew-calendar remembrances
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on March 29 this year.
- Ramban (Nachmanides)d. 1270 CE
Talmudist, Bible commentator, and kabbalist of Girona
Trace this life → - R. Yeshaya Horowitz (the Shelah HaKadosh)d. 1630 CE
Kabbalist; author of Shnei Luchot HaBrit (the Shelah)
- 1819 CEJewish · born
Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, an organizer of Reform Judaism in America and founder of Hebrew Union College, was born in Bohemia.
- 1788 CEChristian · died
Charles Wesley, a leader of the Methodist movement who wrote thousands of hymns, died in London and was buried in Marylebone.
- 1870 CEMesopotamian · died
Paul-Emile Botta, the consul at Mosul whose 1843 digs at Khorsabad first brought an Assyrian royal city to light, died.
- 1879 CEEgyptian · born
Alan Gardiner, the philologist whose grammar and sign list still guide readers of Middle Egyptian, was born in Eltham.