July 28

Nathan Mayer Rothschild, the London-based banker who built one of Europe's foremost financial houses, died in Frankfurt while attending a family wedding.

Sir Moses Montefiore, the British financier and philanthropist known for missions on behalf of Jewish communities abroad, died at Ramsgate at age 100.

Hermann Volrath Hilprecht, scientific director of the University of Pennsylvania's expedition to Nippur, was born in Prussia.

Sayadaw U Pandita, a Burmese Theravada master of vipassana meditation in the Mahasi tradition who taught many Western students, was born near Rangoon.

Walter Andrae, the German architect-archaeologist who directed the long excavation of the Assyrian capital Assur, died in Berlin.

Robert Hooke, the versatile experimenter who framed the elasticity law that bears his name and coined the biological term cell, was born on 28 July 1635 (New Style) on the Isle of Wight.

On 28 July 1851, at the Royal Observatory in Konigsberg, Julius Berkowski made the first correctly exposed photograph of a total solar eclipse, recording the Sun's corona.