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August 15

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  1. 1064 CEIslamic · died

    Ibn Hazm, the Andalusi polymath, jurist and author of the treatise on love 'The Ring of the Dove', died near Seville.

  2. 1534 CEChristian · founded

    Ignatius of Loyola and six companions took vows of poverty and chastity at Montmartre in Paris, the gathering later remembered as the seed of the Society of Jesus.

  3. 1872 CEHindu · born

    Sri Aurobindo, philosopher and exponent of Integral Yoga, was born in Calcutta on 15 August 1872.

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