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2009 Frank McCourt, author, teacher, wrote Pulitzer-Prize winning book, 'Angela's Ashes', a memoir of his impoverished life in Ireland, dies at age 78 in Manhattan, New York

2006 Eileen Caddy, new age author, spiritual teacher, founded Findhorn Foundation commune, an international New Age community, dubbed 'Vatican of the New Age', today home to 400 residents from more than 40 countries, dies at age 89 in Findhorn, Scotland

2004 Caitlin Clarke, actress/teacher, Dragonslayer, dies at 52

2004 Noble Willingham, actor/teacher, ", Walker, Texas Ranger, ", dies at 72

2004 Uta Hagen, actress/teacher, starred in original Broadway cast of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, dies at 84

2003 Gertrude Ederle, swimming celebrity/teacher, first woman, and fifth person, to swim the English Channel, dies at 97

2003 Larry Hovis, actor/teacher, Hogan's Heroes, dies at 67

2002 William Warfield, singer/teacher, Old Man River, dies at 82

2002 Jeff Corey, actor/teacher, blacklisted actor during the McCarthy era, dies at 88

2002 Damon Knight, science fiction writer/editor/teacher, To Serve Man, dies at 79

2000 Sir Malcolm Bradbury, writer/teacher, dies at 68

2000 Martin Mailman, composer, teacher, guest conductor-composer at over 90 colleges across the U.S. and Europe dies in Denton, Texas

1999 Two disaffected students brought guns to their high school in Columbine, Colorado and murdered twelve students, one teacher and then killed themselves

1999 Sarah Delany, author/teacher, Having Our Say, dies at 109

1998 Joan Lestor, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, politician, Labor Party, teacher, founding editor, Searchlight, anti-fascist magazine, dies

1998 Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7 years

1998 Shinichi Suzuki, music teacher (Suzuki Method), dies at 99

1998 Shinichi Suzuki, music teacher, dies at 99

1997 Tom Hudson, artist/teacher, dies at 75

1997 Frank Joseph Kofsky, teacher/writer, dies at 62

1997 Myra McCulloch, teacher academic/administrator, dies at 48

1997 Roy George Elroy Josephs, jazz dance teacher, dies at 57

1997 Sandor Vegh, violinist teacher and conductor, dies at 84

1997 Litz Pisk, movement teacher, dies at 87

1996 Elizabeth Hill, teacher of Salvonic languages, dies at 96

1996 Quentin Bell, artist author/teacher, dies at 86

1996 Edward Blishen, writer teacher/broadcaster, dies at 76

1996 Det Glynn, teacher/anti-apartheid activist, dies at 84

1996 Helen Rosenthal, Teacher/health administrator, dies at 47

1996 Belinda Quirey, dance historian/teacher, dies at 84

1996 Alexander Kelly, pianist/teacher, dies at 67

1996 James Wild, music teacher, dies at 68

1996 Albert Hughes Williams, teacher/historian, dies at 89

1996 Martyn Taylor, teacher/campaigner, dies at 57

1996 John Stachniewski, scholar/teacher, dies at 42

1996 Brother Eugene Gerard Salois, teacher, dies at 76

1996 Louise Brown, dancer/teacher, dies at 89

1996 Raymond O'Malley, teacher, dies at 87

1996 Pran Nath Chhuttani, physician/teacher, dies at 81

1996 Jean Sinclair, teacher/campaigner, dies at 88

1996 Peter Fletcher, music teacher, dies at 60

1996 Bruce Boyce, singer/teacher, dies at 85

1996 Jane Cowan, cello teacher, dies at 80

1996 Alan Ridout, composer, teacher, professor Royal College of Music, dies at 61

1996 Thomas Hamilton kills 16 kindergardeners, their teacher and himself

1996 John Anthony Bowden Cuddon, writer/teacher, dies at 67

1996 George Alan Dawson, jazz drummer/teacher, dies at 66

1996 Barry Troyna, teacher/educational sociologist, dies at 44

1996 Lillian Rambach, teacher violinist, dies at 84

1996 W R Lee, language teacher, dies at 84

1996 Victor "Toby" Neuberg, teacher/writer, dies at 71

1996 John Phillipps Kenyon, historian/teacher, dies at 68

1995 Nina Verchinina, dancer choreographer/teacher, dies at 85

1995 Mary Bruce, dance Teacher, dies at 95

1995 June Rosemary Fisher, teacher/trade unionist, dies at 66

1995 Charles Warrell, big Chief I-Spy writer/teacher, dies at 106

1995 Edna Deanne Fuelling, dancer choreographer/drama teacher, dies at 90

1995 Martha Hill, modern dancer/teacher, dies at 94

1995 John Prickett, teacher/ecumenist, dies at 88

1995 Philip Rawson, artist/teacher, dies at 71

1995 James Ralph Darling, teacher, dies at 96

1995 Lex Hixon, religious teacher/author, dies at 53

1995 Alan Dudley Bush, composer pianist/teacher, dies at 94

1995 Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher, dies at 67

1995 William Murray, teacher/educationalist, dies at 83

1995 Doreen Cannon, teacher of acting (London), dies at 64

1995 Per-Jakez Helias, Writer/teacher, dies at 81

1995 Jerzy Bonawentura Toeplitz, film maker/teacher, dies at 94

1995 Travis Kemp, dancer/teacher, dies at 91

1995 Ivor Keys, musician/teacher, dies at 76

1995 Alastair Webster Mackie, poet/teacher, dies at 69

1995 Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan Koun, teacher (Zen Buddhism), dies at 64

1995 Harvey Pennick, golfer/teacher, dies at 89

1995 John Arthur Neill Lambert, composer teacher organist, dies at 69

1995 Terence Weil, cellist/teacher, dies at 73

1995 Uta Graf, singer/teacher, dies at 80

1995 Rachid Mimouni, author, teacher at Ecole superieure du commerce, Algiers, wrote 'La Malediction', dies of hepatitis in Paris, France, at age 49

1995 Terence Beckles, pianist/teacher, dies at 82

1995 Betty Davis, British dance teacher of Dame Margot Fonteyn, dies

1995 Philip H Burton, Welsh producer/Richard Burton's teacher, dies at 80

1994 William Henry Swinburne, music teacher, dies at 87

1994 Audrey Langford, sInging teacher, dies at 82

1994 Arthur Berry, playwright, artist, teacher, poet, studied, then taught at Burslem School of Art, absorbed by Stoke-on-Trent College of Art, which in 1971 became North Staffordshire Polytechnic, where he taught painting until 1985, dies at 69

1993 Peter Roovers, Dutch sculptor/teacher (war monuments), dies at 90

1992 Vernon Howard, spiritual teacher, speaker, philosopher, author, wrote humor books, children's books, spoke and wrote about self-development, self-awareness, spiritual, psychological growth, dies

1991 Subhana, becomes 1st Australian woman to become a Zen teacher

1991 Pamela Smart (High School teacher) found guilty in New Hampshire of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband

1990 Brigitte D'Ortschy, Zen teacher Sanbo Kyodan line, dies in Japan at 69

1990 Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, Jes priest/apprentice Zen teacher, dies at 92

1990 Maurine Stuart, Zen teacher, head of Cambridge Buddhist Association, dies

1990 Suzuki Sochu, Zen teacher (Rinzai line)/abbot of Ryutakuji, dies

1989 Yamada Koun, Zen teacher Sanbo Kyodan line, dies at 82

1989 Augusto Alcalde, 1st South American Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission

1988 John Tarrant, 1st Australia born Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission

1987 Hans Gal, pianist, composer, teacher, trained at New Vienna Conservatory, director, Mainz Conservatory

1985 Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st school teacher to fly space shuttle

1984 President Reagan announces Teacher in Space project

1984 Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher/poet, dies in Rytutakuji monastery at 76

1983 Richard Baker, Zen teacher, steps down from abbotship of San Francisco Zen Center

1983 Claus Adam, composer, cellist, teacher, performed with Julliard String Quartet 1955 - 1974, composed music for a string trio and cello concerto, dies at 65

1982 Heater explodes at Star Elementary School-Okla, kills 6 kids and teacher

1981 Bill Hopkins, British composer, music critic, teacher, pianist, studied at Oxford University with Egon Wellesz and Edmund Rubbra, taught at Birmingham University and University of Newcastle upon Tyne

1981 69th Australian Mens Tennis: B Teacher beats Kim Warwick (75 76 63)

1980 Thien-an Thich, Zen teacher/Vietnamese Rinzai line, dies in LA at 54

1978 Miura Isshu, Zen teacher, Hakuin Rinzai line, dies at 75

1977 Maria Realino, teacher (Botany of Curaeao), dies at 87

1973 Hakuun Yasutani, Zen teacher/co-founder (Sanbo Kyodan), dies

1972 Hsan Hua, Zen teacher, conducted 1st ordination ceremony in America

1971 Shunryu Suzuki, Zen teacher, founder of San Francisco Zen Center, dies

1971 Richard Baker becomes teacher of San Francisco Zen Center

1971 Max Trapp, composer, teacher, Berlin's Stadtischen Konservatorium, member, National Socialist movement, dies at 83

1970 John T Scopes, U.S. teacher (Scopes "monkey trial" 1925), dies at 70

1964 Anne de Vries, Dutch teacher/author (Bartje), dies at 60

1964 Reginald Horace Blyth, Zen teacher/scholar, dies in Japan at 66

1961 Leon Jeunehomme, Belgian teacher (Pedagogie en Cours), dies at 77

1960 Ernest Holmes, author, teacher, spiritualist, founded Religious Science movement, considered 'Science of Mind', part of New Thought movement, wrote metaphysical books, including 'The Science of Mind', founded 'Science of Mind' magazine, dies

1958 Philip Kapleau, Zen teacher, 1st awakening under Yasutani Roshi

1958 Nyogen Senzaki, 1st Zen teacher to reside in USA, dies at 81

1957 Terri R Adams, educator, teacher in space

1954 Brian Teacher, San Diego Cal, tennis star

1953 David Leisner, born in America, teacher, classical guitarist, composer, taught at Manhattan School of Music, expert in focal dystonia

1953 John Stachniewski, scholar/teacher

1952 Dominic Muldowney, born in Southampton, England, composer, created television, film scores for Loose Connections, King Lear, radio work, theater music, created large-scale oboe concerto, versatile has created music for David Bowie, Royal Academy of Music teacher

1951 Barry Troyna, teacher/educational sociologist

1950 Augusto Gen'un Alcalde, Buenos Aires, 1st South American Zen teacher

1950 Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher, receives dharma transmission

1949 G. I. Gurdjieff, mystic, spiritual teacher, created 'The Work' idea, representing work on oneself, also called, the Fourth Way, dies at age 83, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

1949 John Tarrant, Tasmania, 1st Australian born Zen teacher

1949 Helen Rosenthal, British teacher/health administrator

1949 Myra McCulloch, teacher academic/administrator

1948 Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe, teacher/astronaut, STS-25

1947 Barry Guy, born in London, England, composer, musician, double bass player, Guildhall School of Music teacher, influenced by contemporary jazz, member Michael Nyman Band

1946 Silvio Blatter, born in Bremgarten, Switzerland, writer, teacher, works include, 'Das sanfte Gesetz' or 'The soft law'

1945 Rachid Mimouni, born in Boudouaou, Algeria, author, teacher at Ecole superieure du commerce, Algiers, wrote 'La Malediction'

1944 Han Yong-woon, Zen teacher, dies in Seoul County, Korea at 65

1943 Bill Hopkins, born in Prestbury, Cheshire, England, British composer, music critic, teacher, pianist, studied at Oxford University with Egon Wellesz and Edmund Rubbra, taught at Birmingham University and University of Newcastle upon Tyne

1941 Lex Hixon, religious teacher/author

1941 Jackson Hill, born in Birmingham, Alabama, composer, vocal music, teacher, Ph.D. Musicology, teacher, Duke University, Bucknell University

1939 Annea Lockwood, born in Christchurch, New Zealand, composer, records natural found sounds, Fluxus works with burning pianos, teacher, Vassar College

1939 Roy George Elroy Josephs, jazz dance teacher

1939 Bernard Glassman, New York, Zen teacher/head, Zen Center of New York

1939 Peter Struycken, statues/computer expert/teacher

1938 Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen teacher, Rinzai line, enters Zen priesthood

1938 Martyn Taylor, teacher/campaigner

1936 Michel Decoust, born in Paris, France, composer, conductor, studied with Pierre Boulez, teacher, founder, Pantin Conservatoire Municipal de Musique

1936 Ama Samy, Burma, Jesuit priest/Zen teacher/disciple of Yamada Koun

1936 Richard Baker, born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Zen teacher, Dharma Sangha

1936 Peter Fletcher, music teacher

1935 Frank Joseph Kofsky, teacher/writer

1934 Alan Ridout, born in West Wickham, England, composer, teacher, professor Royal College of Music, worked with Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra, prolific instrumental and choral music composer

1934 Jan Wijn, born in Amsterdam, Holland, Dutch pianist, piano teacher, played contemporary classical music to national and international audiences

1933 Philip Corner, born in America, composer, visual artist, taught by Fritz Jahoda, teacher, Modern Music at the New School for Social Research

1932 Martin Mailman, born in New York City, New York, composer, teacher, guest conductor-composer at over 90 colleges across the U.S. and Europe

1932 Henri Lazarof, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, composer, studied with Paul Ben-Haim, teacher, UCLA, known for Tableaux, written for piano and orchestra

1932 Hugo Kaun, music teacher, conductor, composer, wrote Romantic style operas, symphonies, organ, piano works, dies at 69 in Berlin, Germany

1931 Joan Lestor, born in England, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, politician, Labor Party, teacher, founding editor, Searchlight, anti-fascist magazine

1931 Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan Koun, teacher Rinzai/Soto lines of Zen Buddhism

1931 Charles Nelson Reilly, born in New York, American actor, director, comedian, drama teacher, game show panelist

1930 Doreen Cannon, teacher of acting, London

1930 Frank McCourt, born in Brooklyn, New York, author, teacher, wrote Pulitzer-Prize winning book, 'Angela's Ashes', a memoir of his impoverished life in Ireland

1930 Eino Tamberg, born in Estonia, composer, neoclassical Estonian music, teacher, Estonian Academy of Music, wrote ballet, 'Johanna tentate'

1930 Luis de Pablo, born in Bilbao, Spain, founder, Alea, Nueva Musica, teacher, composer, chamber music works include 'Ex voto for Violin and Viola' 1995

1929 June Rosemary Fisher, teacher/trade unionist

1929 George Alan Dawson, jazz drummer/teacher

1929 Alexander Kelly, pianist/teacher

1928 James Wild, music teacher

1928 Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher

1928 John Anthony Bowden Cuddon, writer/teacher

1928 Dainin Katagiri, Osaka Japan, Zen teacher, associate of Shunryu Suzuki

1927 Ole Olsen, composer, organist, teacher, wrote opera 'Stig Hvide', wrote Symphony in G major, dies at 77 in Oslo, Norway

1927 John Phillipps Kenyon, historian/teacher

1927 Seung Sahn, zen teacher, Korean line

1925 Alastair Webster Mackie, poet/teacher

1925 Arthur Berry, born in Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent, England, playwright, artist, teacher, poet, studied, then taught at Burslem School of Art, absorbed by Stoke-on-Trent College of Art, which in 1971 became North Staffordshire Polytechnic, where he taught painting until 1985

1924 Victor "Toby" Neuberg, teacher/writer

1924 Philip Rawson, artist/teacher

1924 Roy Harding, British teacher

1922 Tom Hudson, artist/teacher

1921 Terence Weil, cellist/teacher

1920 Edward Blishen, writer teacher/broadcaster

1920 Fanny Waterman, concert pianist and teacher

1919 Ivor Keys, musician/teacher

1918 Vernon Howard, born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, spiritual teacher, speaker, philosopher, author, wrote humor books, children's books, spoke and wrote about self-development, self-awareness, spiritual, psychological growth

1918 June Wayne, artist, lithographer and teacher

1917 Oswald Chambers, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning, dies from a ruptured appendix

1917 Claus Adam, born in America, composer, cellist, teacher, performed with Julliard String Quartet 1955 - 1974, composed music for a string trio and cello concerto

1917 Eileen Caddy, born in Alexandria, Egypt, new age author, spiritual teacher, founded Findhorn Foundation commune, an international New Age community, dubbed 'Vatican of the New Age', today home to 400 residents from more than 40 countries

1915 Noelle de Mosa, Netherlands/British dancer/teacher, Brigadoon

1915 Jan Malat, composer, teacher, dies at 72

1915 Carlos A Nicolaas, Bonaire, teacher/poet

1915 Jane Cowan, cello teacher

1915 Pran Nath Chhuttani, physician/teacher

1915 Uta Graf, singer/teacher

1914 Nel Rose, Dutch dance teacher

1914 Travis Kemp, dancer/teacher

1914 Mitsu Suzuki, teacher of tea ceremony at San Francisco Zen Center

1914 Per-Jakez Helias, writer/teacher

1912 Terence Beckles, pianist/teacher

1912 Det Glynn, teacher/anti-apartheid activist

1912 Audrey Langford, singing teacher

1912 Sandor Vegh, violinist teacher conductor

1912 William Murray, teacher/educationalist

1912 Belinda Quirey, dance historian/teacher

1912 Edmund George Love, U.S., teacher/historian/author, A Small Bequest, =

1911 Lillian Rambach, teacher violinist

1911 W R Lee, language teacher

1910 Bruce Boyce, singer/teacher

1910 Quentin Bell, artist author/teacher

1910 Nina Verchinina, dancer choreographer/teacher

1909 Litz Pisk, movement teacher

1909 Raymond O'Malley, teacher

1908 Marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44

1908 Jean Sinclair, teacher/campaigner

1907 John Prickett, teacher/ecumenist

1907 William Henry Swinburne, music teacher

1907 Nakagawa Soen, Formosa, Zen teacher, Rinzai line

1907 Albert Hughes Williams, teacher and historian

1906 Louise Brown, dancer/teacher

1905 Edna Deanne Fuelling, dancer choreographer/drama teacher

1905 Ruby Middleton Forsythe, teacher, 50 years in 1 room school in SC

1904 Philip Burton, teacher/writer/dramatist

1904 Philip H Burton, Welsh director/acting teacher, Richard Burton

1902 Auguste Schmidt, German teacher/feminist, dies at 68

1900 Alan Dudley Bush, composer pianist/teacher

1900 Jerzy Bonawentura Toeplitz, film maker/teacher

1900 Elizabeth Hill, teacher of Salvonic languages

1900 Mary Bruce, dance Teacher

1900 Bodi Rapp, Johanna PAC Goetmakers, Dutch mezzo-soprano/teacher

1900 John T Scopes, Tennessee teacher convicted for teaching evolution

1899 James Ralph Darling, teacher

1898 Father Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, Germany, Jesuit priest/Zen teacher

1898 Shinichi Suzuki, music teacher

1897 Wilhelmina J "Willy" Haak, Dutch actress/act teacher, Goethe/Brecht

1897 National Organization of Mothers forms (Parent Teacher Association)

1893 Shaku Soen is 1st Zen teacher to visit the West (Chicago)

1893 Florrie Rodrigo, Dutch dancer/choreography/teacher, Schepelingen

1892 Ruth Fuller Sasaki, U.S., Zen teacher, 1st Zen Institute of America

1892 Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass

1892 Imakita Kosen, Zen teacher/abbot of Engagkuji monastery, dies

1890 Hans Gal, born in Brunn am Gebirge, Austria, pianist, composer, teacher, trained at New Vienna Conservatory, director, Mainz Conservatory

1889 Maria Realino, Frederikus Janssen, teacher, Botany of Curacao

1889 Sarah Delany, author/teacher

1889 Charles Warrell, big Chief I-Spy writer/teacher

1888 Marie Rambert, Warsaw, English ballet producer/director/teacher

1887 Max Trapp, born in Berlin, Germany, composer, teacher, Berlin's Stadtischen Konservatorium, member, National Socialist movement

1887 Nadia Boulanger, Paris, composer/music teacher, Lasirene Ideology

1887 Ernest Holmes, born in Lincoln, Maine, author, teacher, spiritualist, founded Religious Science movement, considered 'Science of Mind', part of New Thought movement, wrote metaphysical books, including 'The Science of Mind', founded 'Science of Mind' magazine

1884 Magda Janssens, Flemish/Netherlands actress/acting teacher, Maria Stuart

1879 Han Yong-woon, Hongsung County Korea, Zen teacher

1878 Hattie Wyatt Caraway, politician/teacher/1st woman elected to senate

1874 Oswald Chambers born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning

1867 Simon Abramsz, Dutch teacher/writer, For the Young Ones

1866 Sophonisba Breckenridge, scholar, teacher and social activist

1866 G. I. Gurdjieff, born in Alexandropol, Armenia, mystic, spiritual teacher, created 'The Work' idea, representing work on oneself, also called, the Fourth Way

1863 Hugo Kaun, born in Berlin, Germany, music teacher, conductor, composer, wrote Romantic style operas, symphonies, organ, piano works

1862 Jane Delano, U.S., nurse, teacher and founder, Red Cross

1861 Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing teacher, dies at 59

1859 Frank Heino Damrosch, author/musician/teacher, found Inst of Music

1850 Ole Olsen, born in Hammerfest, Norway, composer, organist, teacher, wrote opera 'Stig Hvide', wrote Symphony in G major

1848 Thomas Douglas becomes 1st San Francisco public teacher

1843 Jan Malat, born in Stary Bydzov, Czechoslovakia, composer, teacher

1841 Imakita Kosen, 1st Zen teacher of D. T. Suzuki, found the awakening

1833 Auguste Schmidt, German teacher/feminist

1826 Johann Peter Hebel, writer, teacher, most widely read German poet, author, wrote in Alemanic dialect, dies in Schwetzingen, Germany, at age 66

1826 Hermann Kipper, music teacher/critic/composer

1820 Henri Vieuxtemps, Verviers Belgium, composer/teacher, Brussels Cons

1812 Hugo Kollataj, Polish teacher/minister, dies at 61

1807 Louis Agassiz, born in Switzerland, naturalist, geologist, and teacher

1807 John Opie, born at Trevellas, England, teacher, artist, portraitist, historical works include, the Assassination of James I, Murder of Rizzio, dies at 45 in Berners Street, London

1793 Lucretia Coffin Mott, U.S., teacher/minister/abolitionist/feminist

1769 Hakuin Ekaku, Zen teacher (reformer of Rinzai school), dies in Japan

1761 John Opie, born at Trevellas, England, teacher, artist, portraitist, historical works include, the Assassination of James I, Murder of Rizzio

1760 Johann Peter Hebel, born in Basel, Switzerland, writer, teacher, most widely read German poet, author, wrote in Alemanic dialect

1694 Dokusho, Zen teacher, Obaku line, dies

1669 Johann K Amman, Swiss/Dutch deaf-mute teacher, Surdus Loquens

1630 Tetsugen, Zen teacher (Jodo sect converted to Obaku Zen), dies

1422 Ketsugan, Zen teacher, performs exorcisms to free aizoji temple

1382 Daigaku, Zen teacher/46th head of Engakuji, dies in Kamakura Japan

1351 Muso Soseki, Zen teacher/Rinzai line/head of Nanzenji, dies in Japan

1306 Musho [Hokai], Zen teacher/found subtemple at Jochiji, dies

1303 Nanshu, Zen teacher (Rinzai line)/founder (Zounan temple), dies

1278 Daikaku, Zen teacher Rinzai line/head of Kenchoji, dies in Japan at 65

1200 Dogen Kigen, Japan, Zen teacher, 1st patriarch of the Japanese Soto

866 Lin-chi I-hsuan, J Rinzai Gigen, Zen teacher, dies

758 Ho-tse Shen-hui, Zen teacher/disciple of Hui-neng, dies at 74

739 P'u-chi Ho-shang Tao-chao, Northern Ch'an Line Zen teacher, dies

732 Ho-tse Shen-hui, Zen teacher disputes founder of Northern Ch'an line


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