On this day in history
May 13
JewishHinduChristianScience
YahrzeitsHebrew-calendar remembrances
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on May 13 this year.
- Saadia Gaon (Rav Saadia)d. 942 CE
Gaon of Sura; author of Emunot v'Deot and an early Siddur
Trace this life → - R. Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Ramchal)d. 1746 CE
Author of Mesillat Yesharim; kabbalist and mussar teacher
Trace this life →
- 1916 CEJewish · died
Sholem Aleichem, the Yiddish author whose Tevye stories later inspired 'Fiddler on the Roof,' died in New York City.
- 1956 CEHindu · born
Ravi Shankar, spiritual teacher and founder of the Art of Living Foundation, was born in Papanasam, Tamil Nadu.
- 1981 CEChristian
Pope John Paul II was shot and gravely wounded in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, surviving after emergency surgery.
- 1857 CEScience · born
Ronald Ross was born in Almora, India; his 1897 finding of the malaria parasite inside a mosquito revealed how the disease spreads, work recognized with the 1902 Nobel Prize in Medicine.