September 30
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on September 30 this year.
- The Vilna Gaon (Eliyahu of Vilna)d. 1797 CE
Foremost Lithuanian Talmudist and kabbalist, leader of the Mitnagdim
Trace this life → - R. Yaakov Yitzchak of Peshischa (the Yid HaKadosh)d. 1813 CE
Founder of the Peshischa school of Chasidut
- 1801 CEJewish · born
Zecharias Frankel, the Prague-born rabbi and scholar who founded positive-historical Judaism at the Breslau seminary, was born on this day in 1801.
- 1865 CEJewish · died
Samuel David Luzzatto, the Italian scholar, poet and Bible commentator known as Shadal, died in Padua on this day in 1865.
- 1928 CEJewish · born
Elie Wiesel, the writer and Nobel Peace laureate whose memoir Night bore witness to the Holocaust, was born in Sighet on this day in 1928.
- 420 CEChristian · died
Jerome, translator of the Latin Vulgate Bible, died at Bethlehem after decades of scholarship in the Holy Land.
- 1770 CEChristian · died
George Whitefield, the itinerant preacher of the Great Awakening, died at Newburyport, Massachusetts, during his final American tour.
- 1828 CEHindu · born
Lahiri Mahasaya, whose teaching of Kriya Yoga later reached the West through Yogananda's 'Autobiography of a Yogi,' was born on this day in 1828 in Bengal.
- 1869 CEEgyptian · born
The German Egyptologist and philologist Kurt Sethe, editor of foundational collections of ancient Egyptian texts, was born in Berlin.
- 1941 CEEgyptian · born
The British Egyptologist and historian John Romer, known for documenting the royal tombs of Thebes and for wide-reaching histories of ancient Egypt, was born in Surrey.