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September 24

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YahrzeitsHebrew-calendar remembrances

The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on September 24 this year.

  • R. Akiva Eigerd. 1837 CE

    Talmudist and chief rabbi of Posen

  • R. Shmuel Schneersohn (Rebbe Maharash of Lubavitch)d. 1882 CE

    Fourth Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch

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  1. 1916 CEHindu · born

    Swami Chidananda Saraswati, who succeeded Sivananda as head of the Divine Life Society in Rishikesh, was born on this day in 1916.

  2. 1979 CEBuddhist · died

    Edward Conze, the German-British scholar who rendered much of the Prajñāpāramitā (Perfection of Wisdom) literature into English, died in England.

  3. 1996 CEEgyptian · died

    Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, the British Egyptologist whose book 'The Pyramids of Egypt' guided generations of readers, died.

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