September 1

The French Egyptologist Victor Loret, who in 1898 opened the tomb of Amenhotep II and its hidden cache of royal mummies in the Valley of the Kings, was born.

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who later carried the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Krishna devotion around the world, was born on this day in 1896 near Kolkata.

Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Mandatory Palestine and a founding voice of religious Zionism, died in Jerusalem on this day in 1935.

Dipa Ma (Nani Bala Barua), a Theravada meditation teacher whose students helped bring vipassanā practice to the West, died in Calcutta.