Virgil died at Brundisium on his way home from Greece, leaving the unfinished Aeneid that became the central epic of the Roman literary tradition.

The poet Virgil dies at Brundisium

Anton Moortgat, a pioneer of the art history of the ancient Near East, was born in Antwerp.

Anton Moortgat is born

Fazlur Rahman Malik, a scholar of Islam who taught a contextual reading of the Qurʾān, was born on this day in 1919.

Jean-Vincent Scheil, the scholar who first deciphered and published the laws inscribed on the stele of Hammurabi, died in Paris.

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement — the most solemn day of the Jewish year, kept with fasting and prayer.