Bruno Meissner, whose two-volume survey of Babylonian and Assyrian civilization and the Reallexikon der Assyriologie shaped the field, was born in 1868.

Birth of Bruno Meissner

Subbaraya, later Swami Krishnananda, prolific Vedanta scholar and long-serving general secretary of the Divine Life Society, was born in Puttur, Karnataka.

Swami Krishnananda Saraswati is born

James Henry Breasted, the American Egyptologist and historian, became the first archaeologist elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences.

Breasted elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Isaline Blew Horner, the English Pali scholar and long-serving president of the Pali Text Society, died a few weeks after her eighty-fifth birthday.

I. B. Horner died

Swami Ranganathananda, the thirteenth president of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission and a widely heard expositor of Vedanta, died in Kolkata at age 96.