May 9

Howard Carter, the British archaeologist who located the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, was born in Kensington, London.

Walpola Rahula, the Sri Lankan monk and scholar who wrote the widely read introduction What the Buddha Taught, was born on this day in 1907.

Gaspard Monge was born in Beaune, France. A mathematician, he founded descriptive geometry, a method for representing three-dimensional objects on a flat plane that shaped modern engineering drawing.