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.

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

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

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.