On this day in history
August 16
MesopotamianChristianHinduScience
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on August 16 this year.
- R. Abraham Isaac Kookd. 1935 CE
First Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Mandate Palestine; religious-Zionist thinker
- 1861 CEMesopotamian · born
Peter Jensen, the German Assyriologist who produced an early scholarly edition of the Epic of Gilgamesh, was born on this day.
- 1875 CEChristian · died
Charles Finney, an American revival preacher and president of Oberlin College, died at Oberlin, Ohio.
- 1886 CEHindu · died
The Bengali mystic Ramakrishna Paramahansa died at the Cossipore garden house near Calcutta on 16 August 1886.
- 1705 CEScience · died
Jacob Bernoulli, the Swiss mathematician who advanced the new calculus and proved an early law of large numbers in probability, died in Basel.
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