On this day in history
November 19
JewishHinduScience
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on November 19 this year.
- R. Dovber Schneuri (the Mitteler Rebbe of Chabad)d. 1827 CE
Second Chabad Rebbe; passed on his Hebrew birthday
- 1887 CEJewish · died
Emma Lazarus, the American poet whose sonnet 'The New Colossus' is inscribed at the Statue of Liberty, died in New York at the age of 38.
- 1915 CEJewish · died
Solomon Schechter, the scholar who studied the Cairo Genizah and shaped Conservative Judaism as president of the Jewish Theological Seminary, died in New York.
- 1838 CEHindu · born
Keshab Chandra Sen, the Brahmo Samaj reformer who reshaped nineteenth-century Bengali religious thought, was born in Calcutta.
- 1711 CEScience · born
Mikhail Lomonosov, the Russian polymath who advanced chemistry and physics and founded Moscow University, was born near Kholmogory.