June 28

Yigael Yadin, the archaeologist of Masada and Hazor who helped acquire the Dead Sea Scrolls and served as Israel's second IDF chief of staff, died at 67.

John Wesley, the Anglican cleric whose movement became Methodism, was born at Epworth in Lincolnshire, England.

The Egyptian writer, poet and critic Abbas Mahmud al-Aqqad, author of numerous works on Islamic history and thought, was born in Aswan.

The Canadian-American Assyriologist and biblical scholar George Aaron Barton, a director of the ASOR Baghdad school, died on this day in 1942.