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August 27

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  1. 1865 CEEgyptian · born

    James Henry Breasted, the American Egyptologist who compiled Ancient Records of Egypt and founded the Oriental Institute at Chicago, was born in 1865.

  2. 1931 CEHindu · born

    Sri Chinmoy, the meditation teacher who taught in the United States from 1964, was born in East Bengal on 27 August 1931.

  3. 1982 CEHindu · died

    The saint and teacher Anandamayi Ma died in Dehradun on 27 August 1982.

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