On this day in history
November 23
HinduIslamicScience
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on November 23 this year.
- R. Yisrael Taub of Modzitzd. 1920 CE
First Modzitzer Rebbe, author of Divrei Yisrael
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- 1926 CEHindu · born
Sathya Sai Baba, the widely followed South Indian spiritual teacher of Puttaparthi, was born as Sathyanarayana Raju.
- 1933 CEIslamic · born
Ali Shariati, the Iranian sociologist whose lectures on religion and society drew large audiences, was born in Khorasan in 1933.
- 2001 CEHindu · died
Swami Krishnananda Saraswati, the Advaita Vedanta scholar and longtime general secretary of the Divine Life Society, died at Rishikesh.
- 1837 CEScience · born
Johannes Diderik van der Waals, the Dutch physicist whose equation of state describes real gases and liquids, was born in Leiden.
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