History Births on August 28
Paul Martin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Canada
#Paul_Martin
Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican-American actor and producer
#Luis_Guzmán
Graham Berry, English-Australian politician, 11th Premier of Victoria (d. 1904)
#Graham_Berry
Joseph Luns, Dutch politician and diplomat, 5th Secretary General of NATO (d. 2002)
#Joseph_Luns
Roxie Roker, American actress (d. 1995)
#Roxie_Roker
Jacques Chagnon, Canadian educator and politician
#Jacques_Chagnon
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (d. 1832)
#Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe
Maurizio Costanzo, Italian journalist and academic
#Maurizio_Costanzo
Hélène Baillargeon, Canadian singer and actress (d. 1997)
#Hélène_Baillargeon
Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch linguist and scholar (d. 1653)
#Marcus_Zuerius_van_Boxhorn
Bismack Biyombo, Congolese basketball player
#Bismack_Biyombo
Felicio Brown Forbes, German footballer
#Felicio_Brown_Forbes
Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1993)
#Lindsay_Hassett
Surayud Chulanont, Thai general and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Thailand
#Surayud_Chulanont
Lee Janzen, American golfer
#Lee_Janzen
Todd Eldredge, American figure skater and coach
#Todd_Eldredge
Svetislav Peši?, Serbian basketball player and coach
#Svetislav_Peši?
Firaq Gorakhpuri, Indian author, poet, and critic (d. 1982)
#Firaq_Gorakhpuri
David Soul, American actor and singer
#David_Soul
Gilad Shalit, Israeli soldier and hostage
#Gilad_Shalit
Lilli Schwarzkopf, German heptathlete
#Lilli_Schwarzkopf
Melvin Charney, Canadian sculptor and architect (d. 2012)
#Melvin_Charney
Toomas Leius, Estonian tennis player and coach
#Toomas_Leius
Andreja Peji? Bosnian model
#Andreja_Peji?
J. August Richards, American actor
#J._August_Richards
Sonia Kruger, Australian television host and actress
#Sonia_Kruger
Janet Evans, American swimmer
#Janet_Evans
George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
#George_Whipple
Rita Dove, American poet and essayist
#Rita_Dove
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English courtier and politician (d. 1628)
#George_Villiers,_1st_Duke_of_Buckingham
Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1721)
#Louise_of_Mecklenburg-Güstrow
Heather Reisman, Canadian publisher and businesswoman
#Heather_Reisman
Roger Williams, English hepatologist and academic
#Roger_Williams_(hepatologist)
Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2016)
#Andy_Bathgate
Cristina Deutekom, Dutch soprano and actress (d. 2014)
#Cristina_Deutekom
Ron Guidry, American baseball player and coach
#Ron_Guidry
Joshua Kalu, American football player
#Joshua_Kalu
Vance Palmer, Australian author, playwright, and critic (d. 1959)
#Vance_Palmer
István Kertész, Hungarian conductor (d. 1973)
#István_Kertész_(conductor)
Simon Mannering, New Zealand rugby league player
#Simon_Mannering
John Stark, American general (d. 1822)
#John_Stark
Raphael Matos, Brazilian race car driver
#Raphael_Matos
Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Portuguese poet (d. 1558)
#Francisco_de_Sá_de_Miranda
Jack Vance, American author (d. 2013)
#Jack_Vance
Thiago Motta, Brazilian-Italian footballer
#Thiago_Motta
Kaj Leo Johannesen, Faroese footballer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
#Kaj_Leo_Johannesen
Jay Witasick, American baseball player and coach
#Jay_Witasick
Umberto Giordano, Italian composer and academic (d. 1948)
#Umberto_Giordano
Jo Kwon, South Korean singer and dancer
#Jo_Kwon
Luke McAlister, New Zealand rugby player
#Luke_McAlister
István Kühár, Slovenian priest and politician (d. 1922)
#István_Kühár
Elizabeth Ann Seton, American nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of Charity Federation in the Vincentian-Setonian Tradition (d. 1821)
#Elizabeth_Ann_Seton
Max Collins, American-Filipino actress and model
#Max_Collins_(actress)
Junior Malanda, Belgian footballer (d. 2015)
#Junior_Malanda
Vilayat Khan, Indian sitar player and composer (d. 2004)
#Vilayat_Khan
Ai Weiwei, Chinese sculptor and activist
#Ai_Weiwei
Melina Aslanidou, German-Greek singer-songwriter
#Melina_Aslanidou
Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and Founder of Leanin.org
#Sheryl_Sandberg
Catherine Mikhailovna, Russian grand duchess (d. 1894)
#Grand_Duchess_Catherine_Mikhailovna_of_Russia
Nancy Kulp, American actress and soldier (d. 1991)
#Nancy_Kulp
Shania Twain, Canadian singer-songwriter
#Shania_Twain
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1750)
#Elisabeth_Christine_of_Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Hugh Cornwell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
#Hugh_Cornwell
Francis von Hohenstein, duke of Teck (d. 1900)
#Francis,_Duke_of_Teck
Kjetil Jansrud, Norwegian skier
#Kjetil_Jansrud
Marianne Heemskerk, Dutch swimmer
#Marianne_Heemskerk
Charlie Grimm, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (d. 1983)
#Charlie_Grimm
Valtteri Bottas, Finnish race car driver
#Valtteri_Bottas
Elizabeth Wilmshurst, English academic and jurist
#Elizabeth_Wilmshurst
Manon Arcangioli, French tennis player
#Manon_Arcangioli
Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer
#Lasith_Malinga
Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American mathematician and economist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
#Tjalling_Koopmans
Deepak Tijori, Indian actor and director
#Deepak_Tijori
Taichang, emperor of China (d. 1620)
#Taichang_Emperor
James Wong Howe, Chinese American cinematographer (d. 1976)
#James_Wong_Howe
Jack Black, American actor and comedian
#Jack_Black
Antony Hämäläinen, Finnish singer-songwriter
#Antony_Hämäläinen
Ben Gazzara, American actor (d. 2012)
#Ben_Gazzara
Billy Boyd, Scottish actor and singer
#Billy_Boyd_(actor)
Ruth Riley, American basketball player
#Ruth_Riley
Jonathan Reynolds, English lawyer and politician
#Jonathan_Reynolds
Kan? Motonobu, Japanese painter (d. 1559)
#Kan?_Motonobu
Jess Margera, American drummer
#Jess_Margera
Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1978)
#Charles_Boyer
Godfrey Hounsfield, English biophysicist and engineer Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
#Godfrey_Hounsfield
Carsten Jancker, German footballer and manager
#Carsten_Jancker
Hamish McLachlan, Australian television personality
#Hamish_McLachlan
Jennifer Coolidge, American actress
#Jennifer_Coolidge
Warren M. Washington, American atmospheric scientist
#Warren_M._Washington
Daniel Stern, American actor and director
#Daniel_Stern_(actor)
Lidia Gueiler Tejada, the first female President of Bolivia (d. 2011)
#Lidia_Gueiler_Tejada
Kevin McNaughton, Scottish footballer
#Kevin_McNaughton
Terence Reese, English bridge player and author (d. 1996)
#Terence_Reese
Ivo Josipovi?, Croatian lawyer, jurist, and politician, 3rd President of Croatia
#Ivo_Josipovi?
John Betjeman, English poet and academic (d. 1984)
#John_Betjeman
Jeff Green, American basketball player
#Jeff_Green_(basketball)
Florence Welch, English singer-songwriter
#Florence_Welch
John Christian of Brieg, duke of Brzeg (d. 1639)
#John_Christian_of_Brieg
Kezia Dugdale, Scottish politician
#Kezia_Dugdale
Bobby Andonov, Australian singer
#Bobby_Andonov
Carly Pope, Canadian actress and producer
#Carly_Pope
Robert Greenwald, American director and producer
#Robert_Greenwald
Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1877)
#Antoine_Augustin_Cournot
Armie Hammer, American actor
#Armie_Hammer
Tito Capobianco, Argentinian director and producer (d. 2018)
#Tito_Capobianco
Andrei Platonov, Russian author and poet (d. 1951)
#Andrei_Platonov
Tommy Hanson, American baseball player (d. 2015)
#Tommy_Hanson
Greg Clark, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
#Greg_Clark
Donald O'Connor, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 2003)
#Donald_O'Connor
Tõnu Kaljuste, Estonian conductor and journalist
#Tõnu_Kaljuste
Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer
#Daniel_Gygax
Cassadee Pope, American singer-songwriter
#Cassadee_Pope
LeAnn Rimes, American singer-songwriter and actress
#LeAnn_Rimes
Katharine Abraham, American feminist economist
#Katharine_Abraham
Yakir Aharonov, Israeli academic and educator
#Yakir_Aharonov
William Cohen, American lawyer and politician, 20th United States Secretary of Defense
#William_Cohen
Ola L. Mize, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2014)
#Ola_L._Mize
Cyril Walters, Welsh-English cricketer (d. 1992)
#Cyril_Walters
Martin Erat, Czech ice hockey player
#Martin_Erat
Sterling Morrison, American singer and guitarist (d. 1995)
#Sterling_Morrison
Scott Hamilton, American figure skater
#Scott_Hamilton_(figure_skater)
Bojan Krki?, Spanish footballer
#Bojan_Krki?
Lou Piniella, American baseball player and manager
#Lou_Piniella
Priya Dutt, Indian social worker and politician
#Priya_Dutt
Michael Craig-Martin, Irish painter and illustrator
#Michael_Craig-Martin
Vittorio Sella, Italian mountaineer and photographer (d. 1943)
#Vittorio_Sella
Roger Pingeon, French cyclist (d. 2017)
#Roger_Pingeon
Vladimir Shukhov, Russian architect and engineer, designed the Adziogol Lighthouse (d. 1939)
#Vladimir_Shukhov
Peter Fraser, Scottish-New Zealand journalist and politician, 24th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1950)
#Peter_Fraser
Jamie Cureton, English footballer
#Jamie_Cureton
Steve Whiteman, American singer-songwriter
#Steve_Whiteman
Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish author (d. 1873)
#Sheridan_Le_Fanu
Anthony Ulrich, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1774)
#Duke_Anthony_Ulrich_of_Brunswick
Charles Sladen, English-Australian politician, 6th Premier of Victoria (d. 1884)
#Charles_Sladen
César Azpilicueta, Spanish footballer
#César_Azpilicueta
Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish-Japanese pharmacist and businessman, founded Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club (d. 1900)
#Alexander_Cameron_Sim
Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress and singer
#Liza_Wang
Pierre Turgeon, Canadian-American ice hockey player
#Pierre_Turgeon
Jake Owen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
#Jake_Owen
Edward Burne-Jones, English artist of the Pre-Raphaelite movement (d. 1898)
#Edward_Burne-Jones
Brian Thompson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
#Brian_Thompson
Danny Seraphine, American drummer and producer
#Danny_Seraphine
Shaila Dúrcal, Spanish singer-songwriter
#Shaila_Dúrcal
Benno Schotz, Estonian-Scottish sculptor and engineer (d. 1984)
#Benno_Schotz
Jason Priestley, Canadian actor, director, and producer
#Jason_Priestley
David Fincher, American director and producer
#David_Fincher
Windsor Davies, British actor.
#Windsor_Davies
Jack Kirby, American author and illustrator (d. 1994)
#Jack_Kirby