December 22

Sarada Devi, the wife and spiritual companion of Ramakrishna revered as the Holy Mother of the Ramakrishna movement, was born at Jayrambati in Bengal.

Dwight L. Moody, the American evangelist and founder of the Moody Bible Institute, died at his home in Northfield, Massachusetts.

Swami Satchidananda, founder of Integral Yoga and its Yogaville community in Virginia, was born near Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu.

Srinivasa Ramanujan, the largely self-taught Indian mathematician whose results in number theory and infinite series still guide research, was born in Erode, India.