On this day in history
April 6
JewishBuddhistEgyptian
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on April 6 this year.
- R. Aharon of Karlin (Aharon the Great)d. 1772 CE
Early Hasidic master who spread Hasidism in Lithuania
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- 1875 CEJewish · died
Moses Hess, whose book Rome and Jerusalem anticipated later currents of Jewish national thought, died in Paris.
- 1833 CEBuddhist · born
Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern, the Dutch orientalist who produced an early English translation of the Lotus Sutra for the Sacred Books of the East, was born.
- 1928 CEEgyptian · died
Arthur Cruttenden Mace, the conservator who helped record and stabilize the treasures of Tutankhamun's tomb, died.