Skip to content
Wellsprings
On this day in history

August 9

IslamicJewishChristian
  1. 833 CEIslamic · died

    The Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun, patron of the Baghdad translation movement and its House of Wisdom, died while on campaign near Tarsus.

  2. 1940 CEJewish · died

    Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski of Vilna, one of the foremost halakhic authorities of his generation, died after decades leading its rabbinical court.

  3. 1942 CEChristian · died

    Edith Stein, a philosopher who became a Discalced Carmelite nun, was killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

  4. 2008 CEIslamic · died

    Mahmoud Darwish, among the most celebrated modern Arabic-language poets, died after heart surgery in Houston, Texas.

Explore The Great Spring →