Rosh Chodesh Iyyar
15th day of the Omer
Rottingen Germany massacres, 1298
Death of R. Joseph b. Meir Ha-Levi Migas, 1141
Death of R. Jacob Berab, Semiha movement, 1546
Death of R. Hayyim Vital, Ez Hayyim, 1620
Death of R. Abraham b. Saul Brode of Frankfurt, 1717, Hiddushe Geonim
Death of R. Jacob Emden (Ya'vez), Altona, 1776, Bet Yaakov
Birth of Oliver Cromwell, friend of the Jews, 1599
Death of Abrahm Spitz, who purchased the freedom of the imprisoned Jews of Buda, 1741
Death of Dr. Jonas Jeitteles, physician, Prague, 1806
Death of Anton S. Adam Solomon, sculptor, Paris, 1881
Death of Joseph Levi, editor of Mose, Corfu, 1887