Many thousands of Rabbis have died in the month of Tevet over the past two millennia.
Rabbi Myers died in 1922.
Henry Cohen - rabbi - died in 1952.
David Lefkowitz - rabbi - died in 1955.
Shlomo Moussaieff - rabbi - died in 1922.
Elmer Berger - rabbi - died in 1996.
Aaron Hart - rabbi - died in 1756.
Alfred Gottschalk - rabbi - died in 2009.
Isaiah Berlin - rabbi - died on 1799-05-13.
Rabbi Meir Brandsdorfer died on May 13, 2009 at the age of 74.
Rabbi Meir Brandsdorfer died on May 13, 2009 at the age of 74.
I would say NO, he isn't the most famous Rabbi, but definitely one of the more known ones in the last two centuries (he died in 1810).
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson died on June 12, 1994 at the age of 92.