On this day in history
October 6
Mesopotamian
YahrzeitsHebrew-calendar remembrances
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on October 6 this year.
- Chatam Sofer (R. Moshe Sofer)d. 1839 CE
Rabbi of Pressburg and leading halachic responsa authority
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- 1996 CEMesopotamian · died
Wolfram von Soden, whose grammar and dictionary of Akkadian became standard tools for reading Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform, died in Münster on this day in 1996.