Period of Elders ends, Joshua's group, ancient fast day
Death of R. Elijah b. Moses Israel of Alexandria, 1786, Kol Eliyahu
Death of R. Isaac Guetta, 1857, Sedeh Yizhak
Death of Jacob Reischer, rabbi at Metz, 1733
Death of Isaac Zerachjah Azulai, Jerusalem, father of the famous bibliographer, 1769
Birth of Wilhelm Freund, philologist and champion of Jewish emancipation, Kempen, 1806
Birth of Ferdinand Cohn, famous botanist, Breslau, 1828
Death of Moses Budinger, author of religious textbook, Kassel, 1841
Birth of F. H. Cowen, composer, Jamaica, 1852
Death of Sam Lesi, engraver, Florence, 1853
Death of Joseph Schwarz, geographer of Palestine, Jerusalem, 1865
Death of Joseph Baron of Gunzburg, Russian financier, Paris, 1878
Death of Theodor Harbruecker, writer on Arabic-Jewish philosophy, 1880
Death of Philip Brunner, pedagogic writer, Vienna, 1904