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August 16

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  1. 1861 CEMesopotamian · born

    Peter Jensen, the German Assyriologist who produced an early scholarly edition of the Epic of Gilgamesh, was born on this day.

  2. 1875 CEChristian · died

    Charles Finney, an American revival preacher and president of Oberlin College, died at Oberlin, Ohio.

  3. 1886 CEHindu · died

    The Bengali mystic Ramakrishna Paramahansa died at the Cossipore garden house near Calcutta on 16 August 1886.

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