August 28
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Art and culture
Births
- 1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (d. 1832)
- 1814 - Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873)
- 1917 - Jack Kirby, American comic book artist (d. 1994)
- 1924 - Janet Frame, New Zealand author (d. 2004)
- 1930 - Ben Gazzara, American actor
- 1931 - John Shirley-Quirk, English bass-baritone
- 1931 - Tito Capobianco, Argentinian stage impresario
- 1932 - Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1935 - Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (d. 1998)
- 1936 - Don Denkinger, American baseball umpire
- 1938 - Paul Martin, Canadaian politician
- 1938 - Maurizio Costanzo, Italian television journalist
- 1940 - Ken Jenkins, American actor
- 1940 - Roger Pingeon, French cylist
- 1940 - Nik Turner, English musician (Hawkwind)
- 1941 - Sybille de Selys Longchamps, Belgian aristocrat
- 1941 - Paul Plishka, American bass
- 1942 - Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (d. 1995)
- 1943 - David Soul, American actor
- 1943 - Lou Piniella, American baseball manager
- 1944 - Marianne Heemskerk, Dutch swimmer
- 1945 - Robert Greenwald, American film director/producer
- 1944 - Melvin Dummar, American claimant to the Howard Hughes estate
- 1947 - Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress
- 1947 - Shoto Tanemura, Japanese martial artist
- 1948 - Danny Seraphine, American musician (Chicago)
- 1949 - Hugh Cornwell, British musician (The Stranglers)
- 1951 - Keiichi Suzuki, Japanese composer
- 1951 - Wayne Osmond, American singer (The Osmonds)
- 1952 - Rita Dove, American poet
- 1952 - Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman
- 1952 - Guy Nadon, Quebec actor
- 1952 - Jacques Chagnon, Quebec politician
- 1957 - Daniel Stern, American actor
- 1957 - Rick Rossovich, American actor
- 1958 - Scott Hamilton, American figure skater
- 1960 - Emma Samms, English actress
- 1961 - Kim Appleby, British singer
- 1962 - David Fincher, American music video and film director
- 1963 - Jennifer Coolidge, American actress
- 1965 - Amanda Tapping, Canadian actress
- 1965 - Shania Twain, Canadian singer
- 1966 - Priya Dutt, Indian social worker and politician
- 1967 - Frederick Kesner, Philippine-born Australian poet
- 1968 - Billy Boyd, Scottish actor
- 1969 - Jason Priestley, Canadian-born actor
- 1969 - Jack Black, American actor
- 1969 - Mary McCartney, English photographer
- 1969 - Pierre Turgeon, French Canadian ice hockey player
- 1970 - Sherrié Austin, Australian actress/singer
- 1970 - Rick Recht, Jewish singer
- 1971 - Todd Eldredge, American figure skater
- 1971 - Janet Evans, American swimmer
- 1971 - Raul Marquez, Mexican-born American boxer
- 1971 - Shane Andrews, American baseball player
- 1972 - Jay Witasick, American baseball player
- 1973 - Matthew John Armstrong, American actor
- 1973 - DJ Assault, American musician
- 1974 - Johan Andersson, Swedish game programmer
- 1974 - Carsten Jancker, German footballer
- 1974 - Takahito Eguchi, Japanese composer
- 1975 - Gareth Farrelly, Irish footballer
- 1978 - Jess Margera, American drummer (CKY)
- 1978 - Shaniqua, American wrestling valet
- 1979 - Robert Hoyzer, German football referee
- 1979 - Shaila Durcal, Spanish singer
- 1979 - Kristen Hughes, Australian netballer
- 1979 - Markus Pröll, German footballer
- 1979 - Ruth Riley, American basketball player
- 1980 - T.J. Beam, American baseball player
- 1981 - Martin Erat, Czech hockey player
- 1981 - Vaggelis Moras, Greek footballer
- 1981 - Raphael Matos, Brazilian racing driver
- 1982 - Anderson Silva de França, Brazilian footballer
- 1982 - LeAnn Rimes, American singer
- 1982 - Thiago Motta, Brazilian footballer
- 1983 - Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1983 - Alfonso Herrera, Mexican actor and singer (RBD)
- 1985 - Cove Reber, American singer (Saosin)
- 1985 - Ralph Woolfolk IV, American actor
- 1986 - Gilad Shalit, Israeli corporal
- 1988 - Ray Jones, English footballer (d. 2007)
- 1990 - Bojan Krkić, Serbian-Spanish footballer
- 1991 - Kyle Massey, American actor
- 1999 - Prince Nikolai of Denmark
Deaths
- 388 - Magnus Maximus, Roman usurper
- 430 - Augustine of Hippo, North African saint and theologian (b. 354)
- 1341 - King Leo V of Armenia (b. 1309)
- 1481 - King Afonso V of Portugal (b. 1432)
- 1645 - Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (b. 1583)
- 1654 - Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583)
- 1678 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (b. 1602)
- 1757 - David Hartley, English philosopher (b. 1705)
- 1784 - Junípero Serra, Spanish missionary (b. 1713)
- 1785 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714)
- 1793 - Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (executed) (b. 1740)
- 1805 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (b. 1722)
- 1818 - Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, founder of Chicago
- 1820 - Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (b. 1754)
- 1839 - William Smith, English geologist (b. 1769)
- 1900 - Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (b. 1838)
- 1903 - Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (b. 1822)
- 1933 - Helen Dunbar, American actress (b. 1863)
- 1943 - King Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)
- 1947 - Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917)
- 1955 - Emmett Till, American civil rights movement icon (b. 1941)
- 1959 - Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (b. 1890)
- 1965 - Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909)
- 1975 - Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
- 1976 - Anissa Jones, American actress (b. 1958)
- 1978 - Robert Shaw, English actor and writer (b. 1927)
- 1981 - Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (b. 1900)
- 1985 - Ruth Gordon, American actress (b. 1896)
- 1987 - John Huston, American movie director (b. 1906)
- 1988 - Jean Marchand, French Canadian union leader and politician (b. 1918)
- 1990 - Willy Vandersteen, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1913)
- 1993 - William Stafford, American writer (b. 1914)
- 1995 - Earl Bascom, American rodeo pioneer (b. 1906)
- 2003 - Brian Douglas Wells, American criminal (failed) (b. 1956)
- 2005 - Jacques Dufilho, French actor (b. 1914)
- 2005 - Esther Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910)
- 2005 - George Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1911)
- 2006 - Benoît Sauvageau, French Canadian politician (b. 1963)
- 2006 - Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)
- 2007 - Arthur Jones, American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines (b. 1926)
- 2007 - Hilly Kristal, American Founder of CBGB (b. 1932)
- 2007 - Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (b. 1925)
- 2007 - Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984)
- 2007 - Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (b. 1935)
- 2007 - Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1929)
Notes
- Raymond Borde
- Joseph Sheridan le Fanu
- Festival of Free Expression
- Jack Black
- Alberto Cavallone
- Ivan Mazepa
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Claude Roy (poet)
- Edward Burne-Jones
- Stockholm syndrome
- Julius Krohn
- Augustine of Hippo
- Hilly Kristal
- John Huston
- Janet Frame
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