Day of fast and prayer if rain had not fallen
Death of Isaac (Balthazar) Orobio de Castro, poet, 1687
Death of R. Moses Mordecai Epstein, 1933, Levush Mordecai
Death of R. Bernard Ravel, Yeshiva College, 1940
Death of R. Aaron Kotler, founder of Bet Midrash Govoha, 1962
Birth of Carl Sagan, cosmologist, 1934
Birth of David Einhorn, Reform rabbi, Dispeck, 1809
Death of Charles Valentin Alkan, musician, Paris, 1818
Birth of Bar Kestin, Hebrew author, Borki, 1822
Death of Alexander McCaul, missionary to the Jews, London, 1863
Death of Ephraim Alexander, philanthropist, London, 1882
Death of Abraham Alexander Wolff, chief rabbi, Copenhagen, 1891