August 28
August 28 is the 240th day of the year (241st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 125 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 388 - Magnus Maximus, Roman Emperor (b. 335)
- 430 – Augustine of Hippo, saint and theologian (b. 354)
- 476 - Orestes, Roman politician
- 632 - Fatimah, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad (b. 605)
- 876 - Louis the German, Frankish King (b. 804)
- 1027 - Richard II, Duke of Normandy (b. 963)
- 1481 – King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1432)
- 1645 – Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher (b. 1583)
- 1654 – Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583)
- 1757 - David Hartley, English philosopher (b. 1705)
- 1784 - Junipero Serra, Spanish-American missionary (b. 1713)
- 1805 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader and author (b. 1722)
- 1818 - Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, American founder of Chicago (b. 1750)
- 1888 - Julius Krohn, Finnish poet and journalist (b. 1835)
- 1900 - Henry Sidgwick, English economist and philosopher (b. 1838)
1901 – 2000
- 1903 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (b. 1822)
- 1933 - Helen Dunbar, American actress (b. 1863)
- 1934 - Edgeworth David, Welsh-Australian geologist and explorer (b. 1858)
- 1942 - Belisario Porras Barahona, President of Panama (b. 1856)
- 1943 – King Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)
- 1943 - George Underwood, American runner (b. 1884)
- 1955 – Emmett Till, American Civil Rights Movement icon (b. 1941) (murdered)
- 1959 – Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (b. 1890)
- 1965 - Giulio Racah, Italian-Israeli physicist and mathematician (b. 1909)
- 1972 - Prince William of Gloucester (b. 1941)
- 1976 - Anissa Jones, American actress (b. 1958)
- 1978 - Robert Shaw, English actor, screenwriter and producer (b. 1927)
- 1981 - Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (b. 1900)
- 1984 - Muhammad Naguib, 1st President of Egypt (b. 1901)
- 1985 – Ruth Gordon, American actress (b. 1896)
- 1987 – John Huston, American movie director (b. 1906)
- 1988 - Jean Marchand, Canadian union leader and politician (b. 1918)
- 1990 - Willy Vandersteen, Belgian comic writer (b. 1913)
- 1995 – Michael Ende, German writer (b. 1929)
From 2001
- 2005 - Hans Clarin, German actor (b. 1929)
- 2006 – Melvin Schwartz, American physicist (b. 1932)
- 2006 – William F. Quinn, 1st State Governor of Hawaii (b. 1919)
- 2006 - Ed Benedict, American animator (b. 1912)
- 2007 – Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984)
- 2007 - Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-American actress and singer (b. 1929)
- 2008 – Phil Hill, American racing driver (b. 1927)
- 2009 - Adam Goldstein, American drummer, DJ and producer (b. 1973)
- 2010 – Sinan Hasani, President of Yugoslavian (b. 1922)
- 2012 - Said Afandi al-Chirkawi, Russian spiritual leader (b. 1937)
- 2013 - Murray Gershenz, American actor (b. 1922)
- 2014 - Bill Kerr, South African-Australian actor and comedian (b. 1922)
- 2014 - Glenn Cornick, English guitarist (b. 1947)
- 2014 - Fernando Zunzunegui, Spanish footballer (b. 1943)
- 2014 - Jack Kraft, American basketball coach (b. 1921)
- 2014 - John Anthony Walker, American naval officer (b. 1937)
- 2014 - Roberto Cairo, Spanish actor (b. 1963)
- 2015 - Al Arbour, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1932)
- 2015 - Teresa Gorman, English politician (b. 1931)
- 2015 - Nelson Shanks, American painter (b. 1937)
- 2016 - Mr. Fuji, American professional wrestler (b. 1934)
- 2016 - Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
- 2016 - Mohammad Shafi Qureshi, Indian politician, Governor of West Bengal (b. 1929)
- 2016 - Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Israeli politician (b. 1936)
- 2017 - Senarath Attanayake, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1966)
- 2017 - Mireille Darc, French actress and model (b. 1938)
- 2017 - Tsutomu Hata, former Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1935)
- 2017 - David Torrence, Peruvian-American runner (b. 1985)
- 2018 - Silvano Campeggi, Italian film poster designer (b. 1923)
- 2018 - Josep Fontana, Spanish historian and academic (b. 1931)
- 2018 - Gary Friedrich, American comic book writer (b. 1943)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1903 – Bruno Bettelheim, American psychologist (d. 1990)
- 1904 - Anton Yugov, 35th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1991)
- 1906 – John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)
- 1910 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist (d. 1985)
- 1911 – Joseph Luns, Dutch Secretary-General of NATO (d. 2002)
- 1913 – Robertson Davies, Canadian writer (d. 1995)
- 1916 – Jack Vance, American writer (d. 2013)
- 1917 - Jack Kirby, American comic artist (d. 1994)
- 1919 – Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer (d. 2004)
- 1921 – Lidia Gueiler Tejada, President of Bolivia (d. 2011)
- 1921 - Nancy Kulp, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1921 - Mariano Rajoy Sobredo, Spanish judge (d. 2018)
- 1921 - Fernando Fernan Gomez, Peruvian-Spanish writer, actor and director (d. 2007)
- 1923 – Guenter Wendt, German-born NASA engineer (d. 2010)
- 1924 – Janet Frame, New Zealand writer (d. 2004)
- 1924 - Peggy Ryan, American actress and dancer (d. 2004)
- 1924 - Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Polish-American rabbi (d. 2014)
- 1928 - Vilayat Khan, Indian sitarist and composer (d. 2004)
- 1930 - Windsor Davies, English actor
- 1930 - Ben Gazzara, American actor, singer and director (d. 2012)
- 1931 - Cristina Deutekom, Dutch operatic soprano (d. 2014)
- 1931 - Ola L. Mize, American general (d. 2014)
- 1931 - John Shirley-Quirk, English bass-baritone (d. 2014)
- 1931 - Shunichiro Okano, Japanese footballer (d. 2017)
- 1932 - Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager (d. 2016)
- 1933 - Philip French, English film critic (d. 2015)
- 1936 - Don Denkinger, American baseball player and umpire
- 1938 – Paul Martin Jr., former Prime Minister of Canada
- 1939 - John Kingman, English mathematician
- 1940 - William Cohen, American lawyer and politician
- 1940 - Ken Jenkins, American actor
- 1942 - Sterling Morrison, American singer and guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (d. 1995)
- 1942 – José Eduardo dos Santos, former President of Angola
- 1943 – David Soul, American actor
- 1943 – Surayud Chulanont, former Prime Minister of Thailand
- 1943 - Shuja Khanzada, Pakistani politician (d. 2015)
- 1943 – Lou Piniella, American baseball manager
- 1947 – Emlyn Hughes, English footballer (d. 2004)
- 1949 – Hugh Cornwell, English musician (The Stranglers)
1951 – 1975
- 1951 - Dave Hlubek, American musician and songwriter (d. 2017)
- 1951 – Wayne Osmond, American singer
- 1952 – Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman
- 1952 – Rita Dove, American poet
- 1953 – Ditmar Jakobs, German footballer
- 1954 - George M. Church, American geneticist, chemist and engineer
- 1957 - Ai Weiwei, Chinese artist and political activist
- 1957 – Ivo Josipovic, former President of Croatia
- 1957 - Manuel Preciado Rebolledo, Spanish footballer and coach (d. 2012)
- 1957 – Daniel Stern, American actor
- 1958 – Scott Hamilton, American figure skater
- 1959 - Brian Thompson, American actor
- 1960 – Emma Samms, English actress
- 1961 - Jennifer Coolidge, American actress
- 1961 - Rona Fairhead, former Chair of the BBC Trust
- 1961 - Kim Appleby, British singer
- 1963 - Lucjan Avgustini, Albanian bishop (d. 2016)
- 1964 - Kaj Leo Johannesen, 12th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
- 1965 – Satoshi Tajiri, Japanese, creator of Pokémon
- 1965 – Shania Twain, Canadian-American singer
- 1965 - Amanda Tapping, English-Canadian actress, director and producer
- 1966 - Julen Lopetegui, Spanish football manager
- 1967 - Greg Clark, English politician
- 1968 – Billy Boyd, Scottish actor
- 1969 – Jack Black, American actor and musician
- 1969 – Jason Priestley, Canadian-American actor
- 1969 - Mary McCartney, English photographer and actress
- 1971 - Janet Evans, American swimmer
- 1971 - Alex Polizzi, English hotelier and television presenter
- 1972 - Omayra Sanchez, Colombian volcanic eruption victim (d. 1985)
- 1973 - J. August Richards, American actor
- 1974 – Carsten Jancker, German footballer
From 1976
- 1976 – Federico Magallanes, Uruguayan footballer
- 1978 - Jess Margera, American drummer
- 1980 - Carly Pope, Canadian actress
- 1980 - Rachel Khoo, English chef, writer and broadcaster
- 1981 - Kezia Dugdale, Scottish politician
- 1981 – Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer
- 1982 – LeAnn Rimes, American singer
- 1982 – Thiago Motta, Italian footballer
- 1983 - Luke McAlister, New Zealand rugby player
- 1983 – Christian Pander, German footballer
- 1983 - Lilli Schwarzkopf, German athlete
- 1984 - Sarah Roemer, American actress
- 1984 - Paula Fernandes, Brazilian singer
- 1985 - Masahiko Inoha, Japanese footballer
- 1986 – Florence Welch, English singer (Florence and the Machine)
- 1986 – Gilad Shalit, Israeli soldier
- 1986 - Tommy Hanson, American baseball player (d. 2015)
- 1987 - Katie Green, English model
- 1987 - Daigo Nishi, Japanese footballer
- 1987 - Caleb Moore, American snowmobile racer (d. 2013)
- 1989 - César Azpilicueta, Spanish footballer
- 1989 - Valtteri Bottas, Finnish Formula One racing driver
- 1989 - Jo Kwon, South Korean singer
- 1989 - Cassadee Pope, American singer and songwriter
- 1989 - Jamie Murphy, Scottish footballer
- 1990 – Bojan Krkic, Serbian-Spanish footballer
- 1991 - Kyle Massey, American actor and rapper
- 1991 - Andreja Pejic, Bosnian-Australian model
- 1992 - Sora Amamija, Japanese voice actress and singer
- 1994 - Felix Jaehn, German DJ and producer
- 1994 - Junior Malanda, Belgian footballer (d. 2015)
- 1999 - Prince Nikolai of Denmark
- 2003 - Quvenzhané Wallis, American actress
Deaths
Observances
- Christian Feast Day of Assumption (Orthodox Church)