August 28

### Up to 1900

- 489 – Theodoric the Great, King of the Ostrogoths, defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into present–day Italy.
- 663 – Silla–Tang armies crush the Baekje restoration attempt and force Yamato Japan to withdraw from Korea in the Battle of Baekgang.
- 1189 – Third Crusade: The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre, present–day Lebanon, under Guy of Lusignan.
- 1521 – Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
- 1524 – The Kaqchikel Maya rebel against their former Spanish allies during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
- 1565 – Pedro Menendez de Aviles sights land near St. Augustine, Florida, which becomes the oldest–continuously occupied European–established city in the continental United States.
- 1609 – Henry Hudson reaches Delaware Bay.
- 1619 – Ferdinand II is elected Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1640 – Second Bishop's War: Charles I of England's army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
- 1709 – Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
- 1789 – William Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn.
- 1845 – The first edition of the _Scientific American_ magazine is published.
- 1850 – Richard Wagner's Lohengrin Romantic opera is first performed in Weimar, under direction of Franz Liszt.
- 1861 – American Civil War: The Union Army successfully extends its blockage strategy by capturing the Confederate forts on North Carolina's Center Banks.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run.
- 1867 – The United States annexes the Midway Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
- 1879 – Cetshwayo, the last king of the Zulus is captured by the British.
- 1898 – Caleb Bradham invents the carbonated soft drink that will become known as Pepsi Cola.

### 1901 – 2000

- 1909 – A military coup d'état against the government of Dimitrios Rallis in Greece begins.
- 1913 – The Peace Palace in The Hague is inaugurated.
- 1914 – World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet at the First Battle of Heligoland Bight.
- 1916 – World War I: Germany declares war on Romania. On the same day, Italy declares war on Germany.
- 1917 – Ten suffragettes (campaigners for women's right to vote) are arrested after a protest outside the White House in Washington, DC.
- 1924 – The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
- 1931 – France and the Soviet Union sign a treaty of non–aggression.
- 1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
- 1943 – World War II: A general strike in Denmark against the occupiers begins.
- 1944 – World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
- 1953 – Nippon TV broadcasts Japan's first television programme.
- 1955 – African American teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi.
- 1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr. makes his famous _I Have a Dream_ speech, calling for Civil Rights and equal opportunities.
- 1963 – The Evergreen Point Bridge, the longest floating bridge in the world, opens between Seattle and Medina in Washington state, United States.
- 1964 – The Philadelphia race riot begins.
- 1968 – Riots occur in Chicago, Illinois during the Democratic Party's National Convention.
- 1971 – A fire on the Greek ferry _Heleanna_ kills 26 people.
- 1972 – Mark Spitz wins the first two of his total of seven gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
- 1973 – Puebla, Veracruz and Oaxaca in Mexico are struck by an earthquake, killing 1,200 people.
- 1979 – An IRA bomb explodes at the Grote Markt, Brussels, Belgium.
- 1984 – In Amstetten, Austria, Josef Fritzl locks up his daughter Elisabeth in a cellar behind his house. She would remain imprisoned there for over 23 years until April 26, 2008.
- 1988 – Ramstein airshow disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolore demonstration team collide, with the wreckage falling into the crowd, killing 75 people and injuring 346.
- 1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait its newest province.
- 1990 – A Force 5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
- 1991 – Ukraine declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1996 – Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales officially divorce.

### From 2001

- 2003 – A power blackout in southeastern England affects 500,000 people.
- 2005 – Hurricane Katrina begins to make landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi.
- 2007 – Abdullah Gül becomes President of Turkey.
- 2008 – Barack Obama accepts the Democrats' nomination for President of the United States, becoming the first African American to do so.
- 2014 – Recep Tayyip Erdogan becomes President of Turkey.

### Up to 1900

- 933 – Richard I of Normandy (d. 996)
- 1025 – Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (d. 1068)
- 1582 – Taichang Emperor of the Ming Dynasty of China (d. 1620)
- 1592 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English diplomat (d. 1627)
- 1676 – Louise of Mecklenburg, Queen Consort of Denmark (d. 1721)
- 1714 – Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick (d. 1774)
- 1728 – John Stark, American general (d. 1822)
- 1739 – Agostino Accorintoni, Italian composer (d. 1818)
- 1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (d. 1832)
- 1774 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, first American–born saint (d. 1821)
- 1801 – Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1877)
- 1814 – Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873)
- 1827 – Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1874)
- 1828 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1910) (September 9 in Gregorian calendar)
- 1831 – Lucy Webb Hayes, First Lady of the United States (d. 1889)
- 1833 – Edward Burne-Jones, English painter (d. 1898)
- 1837 – Francis, Duke of Teck, German–British nobleman (d. 1900)
- 1840 – Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish pharmacist and businessman (d. 1900)
- 1853 – Vladimir Shukhov, Russian engineer (d. 1939)
- 1853 – Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1938)
- 1859 – Matilda Howell, American archer (d. 1938)
- 1859 – Vittorio Sella, Italian mountaineer and photographer (d. 1943)
- 1867 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (d. 1948)
- 1878 – George Whipple, American doctor (d. 1976)
- 1884 – Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1950)
- 1885 – Vance Palmer, Australian author, playwright and critic (d. 1959)
- 1887 – August Kippasto, Estonian–Australian wrestler (d. 1973)
- 1888 – Edward H. Griffith, American director (d. 1975)
- 1896 – Firaq Gorakhpuri, Indian author, poet and critic (d. 1982)
- 1898 – Charlie Grimm, American baseball player, manager and sportscaster (d. 1983)
- 1899 – Chang Myon, 4th Vice President of South Korea, 2nd, 7th Prime Minister (d. 1966)
- 1899 – Charles Boyer, French actor (d. 1978)
- 1899 – Andrei Platonov, Russian author (d. 1951)
- 1899 – James Wong Howe, Chinese–American cinematographer (d. 1976)

### 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
- 1962 – John Gebbia, American businessman
- 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

### 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)

## Observances

- Christian Feast Day of Assumption (Orthodox Church)