November 10

Leo I, Bishop of Rome whose Tome shaped the Council of Chalcedon's Christology, died in Rome after more than twenty years as pope.

Martin Luther, the theologian whose 1517 theses opened the Protestant Reformation, was born in Eisleben, Saxony.

John Punnett Peters, who led the first American expedition to excavate the Sumerian temple-city of Nippur, died on this day in 1921.