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July 7

EgyptianScience
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance

The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on July 7 this year.

  • R. Shlomo of Karlind. 1792 CE

    Second rebbe of Karlin; disciple of the Maggid of Mezritch

  1. 1938 CEEgyptian · born

    Jan Assmann, the German Egyptologist known for his studies of ancient Egyptian religion and of cultural memory, was born in Langelsheim.

  2. 1843 CEScience · born

    Camillo Golgi, whose silver-staining method revealed the fine structure of nerve cells and who described the cell compartment now called the Golgi apparatus, was born on 7 July 1843.

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