On this day in history
June 19
MesopotamianBuddhistScience
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on June 19 this year.
- 1908 CEMesopotamian · born
The German Assyriologist Wolfram von Soden, compiler of the Akkadisches Handwoerterbuch, was born on this day in 1908.
- 1917 CEBuddhist · born
Robert Aitken, a founding teacher of the Diamond Sangha and pioneer of American Zen, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1623 CEScience · born
Blaise Pascal, the mathematician and physicist who helped found probability theory and formulated a principle of fluid pressure, was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France.