June 14

Louis Finkelstein, Talmud scholar and long-serving chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The English artist, diplomat and antiquities collector Henry Salt, British Consul-General in Egypt from 1815, was born in Lichfield, England.

John Daido Loori, American Zen roshi, photographer and founder of Zen Mountain Monastery, was born in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, who quantified the electrostatic force between charges in the law that bears his name, was born in Angouleme, France.