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October 19

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  1. 1897 CEIslamic · born

    Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, the natural-products chemist known for isolating compounds from neem and rauvolfia, was born in Barabanki, India.

  2. 1920 CEHindu · born

    Pandurang Shastri Athavale, the philosopher who founded the Bhagavad Gita–based Swadhyaya movement, was born in Roha, Maharashtra, on this day in 1920.

  3. 1994 CEBuddhist · died

    The German-born Theravada monk and scholar Nyanaponika Thera, co-founder of the Buddhist Publication Society in Sri Lanka, died on 19 October 1994.

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