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July 31

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  1. 1556 CEChristian · died

    Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus and author of the Spiritual Exercises, died in Rome.

  2. 1854 CEMesopotamian · born

    Fritz Hommel, a German Assyriologist and historian of Babylonia and Assyria, was born in Ansbach in Bavaria.

  3. 1919 CEJewish · born

    Primo Levi, the Italian chemist and writer whose memoir of Auschwitz became a touchstone of witness literature, was born in Turin.

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