July 21

Pope Clement XIV promulgated the brief Dominus ac Redemptor, suppressing the Society of Jesus; the order was restored in 1814.

Nyanaponika Thera, a German-born Theravada monk, scholar and co-founder of the Buddhist Publication Society, was born Siegmund Feniger in Hanau, Germany.

Swami Turiyananda, a direct monastic disciple of Ramakrishna who helped establish Vedanta work in America, died at the Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama in Varanasi.

A. Leo Oppenheim, editor-in-charge of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary and author of 'Ancient Mesopotamia', died at the age of 70.