On this day in history
September 8
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- 1887 CEHindu · born
Swami Sivananda Saraswati, physician-turned-monk and founder of the Divine Life Society, was born on this day in 1887 in Tamil Nadu.
- 1969 CEBuddhist · died
Alexandra David-Néel, the French explorer and writer whose accounts of Tibetan Buddhism reached wide Western audiences, died at Digne-les-Bains, France.
- 1981 CEHindu · died
Nisargadatta Maharaj, the Mumbai teacher of non-dual Advaita whose talks became the book 'I Am That,' died on this day in 1981.
- 1993 CEIslamic · died
Zakī Najīb Maḥmūd, an Egyptian philosopher who brought modern analytic thought into Arabic letters, died on this day in 1993.