November 18

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, the scholar and teacher whose students shaped much of modern postural yoga, was born in present-day Karnataka.

Shibli Nomani, historian, poet and reformer regarded as a father of Urdu historical writing, died in 1914, the year he founded the Shibli Academy.

Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, educator and founding president of the lay Buddhist movement Soka Gakkai, died on this day in 1944.

Louis Daguerre, the French artist and inventor who devised the daguerreotype, the first widely practical photographic process, was born near Paris.