August 28

DateTemplate:SHORTDESC:Date**August 28** is the 240th day of the year (241st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 125 days remain until the end of the year.

## Events

* 475 – The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna.
* 489 – Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
* 632 – Fatimah, daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, dies, with her cause of death being a controversial topic among the Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims.
* 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 under Guy of Lusignan.
* 1521 – The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
* 1524 – The Kaqchikel Maya rebel against their former Spanish allies during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
* 1542 – Turkish–Portuguese War: Battle of Wofla: The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and later executed.
* 1565 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sights land near St. Augustine, Florida and founds the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.
* 1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
* 1619 – Election of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1640 – Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
* 1648 – The Siege of Colchester ends when Royalists Forces surrender to the Parliamentary Forces after eleven weeks, during the Second English Civil War.
* 1709 – Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
* 1789 – William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.
* 1810 – Battle of Grand Port: The French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet.
* 1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new *Tom Thumb* steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in U.S. railroads.
* 1845 – The first issue of *Scientific American* magazine is published.
* 1849 – After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent as the Republic of San Marco, surrenders to Austria.
* 1859 – The Carrington event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth. Electrical telegraph service is widely disrupted.
* 1861 – American Civil War: Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in the Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries which lasts for two days.
* 1862 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas. The battle ends on August 30.
* 1867 – The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
* 1879 – Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
* 1898 – Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola".
* 1901 – Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
* 1909 – A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
* 1913 – Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
* 1914 – World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
* 1916 – World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
* 1916 – World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
* 1917 – Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.
* 1921 – The Red Army dissolved the Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine.
* 1924 – The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
* 1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
* 1943 – Denmark in World War II: German authorities demand that Danish authorities crack down on acts of resistance. The next day, martial law is imposed on Denmark.
* 1944 – World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
* 1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
* 1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
* 1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his *I Have a Dream* speech.
* 1964 – The Philadelphia race riot begins.
* 1968 – Police and protesters clash during 1968 Democratic National Convention protest activity.
* 1988 – Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.
* 1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
* 1990 – An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
* 1993 – NASA's *Galileo* probe performs a flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida. Astronomers later discover a moon, the first known asteroid moon, in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl.
* 1998 – Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
* 1998 – Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.
* 2003 – In "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI", Brian Wells dies after becoming involved in a complex plot involving a bank robbery, a scavenger hunt, and a homemade explosive device.

## Births

* 932 – Richard I, duke of Normandy (d. 996)
* 1023 – Go-Reizei, emperor of Japan (d. 1068)
* 1366 – Jean Le Maingre, marshal of France (d. 1421)
* 1476 – Kanō Motonobu, Japanese painter (d. 1559)
* 1481 – Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Portuguese poet (d. 1558)
* 1582 – Taichang, emperor of China (d. 1620)
* 1591 – John Christian of Brieg, duke of Brzeg (d. 1639)
* 1592 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English courtier and politician (d. 1628)
* 1612 – Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch linguist and scholar (d. 1653)
* 1667 – Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1721)
* 1691 – Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1750)
* 1714 – Anthony Ulrich, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1774)
* 1728 – John Stark, American general (d. 1822)
* 1739 – Agostino Accorimboni, Italian composer (d. 1818)
* 1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (d. 1832)
* 1774 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, American nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of Charity Federation in the Vincentian-Setonian Tradition (d. 1821)
* 1801 – Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1877)
* 1814 – Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish author (d. 1873)
* 1816 – Charles Sladen, English-Australian politician, 6th Premier of Victoria (d. 1884)
* 1822 – Graham Berry, English-Australian politician, 11th Premier of Victoria (d. 1904)
* 1827 – Catherine Mikhailovna, Russian grand duchess (d. 1894)
* 1833 – Edward Burne-Jones, English artist of the Pre-Raphaelite movement (d. 1898)
* 1837 – Francis von Hohenstein, duke of Teck (d. 1900)
* 1840 – Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish-Japanese pharmacist and businessman, founded Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club (d. 1900)
* 1853 – Vladimir Shukhov, Russian architect and engineer, designed the Adziogol Lighthouse (d. 1939)
* 1859 – Matilda Howell, American archer (d. 1938)
* 1859 – Vittorio Sella, Italian mountaineer and photographer (d. 1943)
* 1867 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer and academic (d. 1948)
* 1878 – George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
* 1884 – Peter Fraser, Scottish-New Zealand journalist and politician, 24th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1950)
* 1885 – Vance Palmer, Australian author, playwright, and critic (d. 1959)
* 1887 – August Kippasto, Estonian-Australian wrestler and poet (d. 1973)
* 1887 – István Kühár, Slovenian priest and politician (d. 1922)
* 1888 – Evadne Price, Australian actress, astrologer, and author (d. 1985)
* 1891 – Benno Schotz, Estonian-Scottish sculptor and engineer (d. 1984)
* 1894 – Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor and director (d. 1981)
* 1896 – Firaq Gorakhpuri, Indian author, poet, and critic (d. 1982)
* 1898 – Charlie Grimm, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (d. 1983)
* 1899 – Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1978)
* 1899 – Andrei Platonov, Russian author and poet (d. 1951)
* 1899 – James Wong Howe, Chinese American cinematographer (d. 1976)
* 1903 – Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American psychologist and author (d. 1990)
* 1904 – Secondo Campini, Italian-American engineer (d. 1980)
* 1904 – Leho Laurine, Estonian chess player (d. 1998)
* 1905 – Cyril Walters, Welsh-English cricketer (d. 1992)
* 1906 – John Betjeman, English poet and academic (d. 1984)
* 1908 – Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and author (d. 1996)
* 1910 – Morris Graves, American painter and academic (d. 2001)
* 1910 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American mathematician and economist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
* 1911 – Joseph Luns, Dutch politician and diplomat, 5th Secretary General of NATO (d. 2002)
* 1913 – Robertson Davies, Canadian journalist, author, and playwright (d. 1995)
* 1913 – Jack Dreyfus, American businessman, founded the Dreyfus Corporation (d. 2009)
* 1913 – Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1993)
* 1913 – Robert Irving, English conductor and director (d. 1991)
* 1913 – Terence Reese, English bridge player and author (d. 1996)
* 1913 – Richard Tucker, American tenor and actor (d. 1975)
* 1915 – Max Robertson, Bengal-born English sportscaster and author (d. 2009)
* 1915 – Tasha Tudor, American author and illustrator (d. 2008)
* 1916 – Hélène Baillargeon, Canadian singer and actress (d. 1997)
* 1916 – C. Wright Mills American sociologist and author (d. 1962)
* 1916 – Jack Vance, American author (d. 2013)
* 1917 – Jack Kirby, American author and illustrator (d. 1994)
* 1918 – L. B. Cole, American illustrator and publisher (d. 1995)
* 1919 – Godfrey Hounsfield, English biophysicist and engineer Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
* 1921 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and engineer (d. 1979)
* 1921 – Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, and playwright (d. 2007)
* 1921 – Nancy Kulp, American actress and soldier (d. 1991)
* 1921 – Lidia Gueiler Tejada, the first female President of Bolivia (d. 2011)
* 1924 – Janet Frame, New Zealand author and poet (d. 2004)
* 1924 – Tony MacGibbon, New Zealand cricketer and engineer (d. 2010)
* 1924 – Peggy Ryan, American actress and dancer (d. 2004)
* 1924 – Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Ukrainian-American rabbi and author (d. 2014)
* 1925 – Billy Grammer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011)
* 1925 – Donald O'Connor, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 2003)
* 1925 – Philip Purser, English author and critic
* 1928 – F. William Free, American businessman (d. 2003)
* 1928 – Vilayat Khan, Indian sitar player and composer (d. 2004)
* 1929 – István Kertész, Hungarian conductor (d. 1973)
* 1929 – Roxie Roker, American actress (d. 1995)
* 1930 – Ben Gazzara, American actor (d. 2012)
* 1930 – Windsor Davies, British actor (d. 2019)
* 1931 – Tito Capobianco, Argentinian director and producer (d. 2018)
* 1931 – Cristina Deutekom, Dutch soprano and actress (d. 2014)
* 1931 – Ola L. Mize, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2014)
* 1931 – John Shirley-Quirk, English actor, singer, and educator (d. 2014)
* 1931 – Roger Williams, English hepatologist and academic (d. 2020)
* 1932 – Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2016)
* 1932 – Yakir Aharonov, Israeli academic and educator
* 1933 – Philip French, English journalist, critic, and producer (d. 2015)
* 1933 – Patrick Kalilombe, Malawian bishop and theologian (d. 2012)
* 1935 – Melvin Charney, Canadian sculptor and architect (d. 2012)
* 1935 – Gilles Rocheleau, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1998)
* 1936 – Don Denkinger, American baseball player and umpire
* 1936 – Warren M. Washington, American atmospheric scientist
* 1938 – Maurizio Costanzo, Italian journalist and academic
* 1938 – Paul Martin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Canada
* 1938 – Bengt Fahlström, Swedish journalist (d. 2017)
* 1939 – John Kingman, English mathematician and academic
* 1940 – William Cohen, American lawyer and politician, 20th United States Secretary of Defense
* 1940 – Roger Pingeon, French cyclist (d. 2017)
* 1941 – Michael Craig-Martin, Irish painter and illustrator
* 1941 – Toomas Leius, Estonian tennis player and coach
* 1941 – John Stanley Marshall, English drummer
* 1941 – Paul Plishka, American opera singer
* 1942 – Wendy Davies, Welsh historian and academic
* 1942 – Sterling Morrison, American singer and guitarist (d. 1995)
* 1942 – Jorge Urosa, Venezuelan cardinal
* 1943 – Surayud Chulanont, Thai general and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Thailand
* 1943 – Robert Greenwald, American director and producer
* 1943 – Shuja Khanzada, Pakistani colonel and politician (d. 2015)
* 1943 – Lou Piniella, American baseball player and manager
* 1943 – David Soul, American actor and singer
* 1943 – Jihad Al-Atrash, Lebanese actor and voice actor
* 1944 – Marianne Heemskerk, Dutch swimmer
* 1945 – Bob Segarini, American-Canadian singer-songwriter
* 1947 – Emlyn Hughes, English footballer (d. 2004)
* 1947 – Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress and singer
* 1948 – Vonda N. McIntyre, American author (d. 2019)
* 1948 – Murray Parker, New Zealand cricketer and educator
* 1948 – Heather Reisman, Canadian publisher and businesswoman
* 1948 – Danny Seraphine, American drummer and producer
* 1948 – Elizabeth Wilmshurst, English academic and jurist
* 1949 – Hugh Cornwell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1949 – Svetislav Pešić, Serbian basketball player and coach
* 1950 – Ron Guidry, American baseball player and coach
* 1950 – Tony Husband, English cartoonist
* 1951 – Colin McAdam, Scottish footballer (d. 2013)
* 1951 – Wayne Osmond, American singer-songwriter and actor
* 1951 – Keiichi Suzuki, Japanese singer-songwriter
* 1952 – Jacques Chagnon, Canadian educator and politician
* 1952 – Rita Dove, American poet and essayist
* 1952 – Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman
* 1953 – Ditmar Jakobs, German footballer
* 1953 – Tõnu Kaljuste, Estonian conductor and journalist
* 1954 – Katharine Abraham, American feminist economist
* 1954 – George M. Church, American geneticist, chemist, and engineer
* 1954 – John Dorahy, Australian rugby player and coach
* 1954 – Ravi Kanbur, Indian-English economist and academic
* 1956 – Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican-American actor and producer
* 1956 – Steve Whiteman, American singer-songwriter
* 1957 – Greg Clark, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
* 1957 – Ivo Josipović, Croatian lawyer, jurist, and politician, 3rd President of Croatia
* 1957 – Daniel Stern, American actor and director
* 1957 – Ai Weiwei, Chinese sculptor and activist
* 1958 – Scott Hamilton, American figure skater
* 1959 – Brian Thompson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
* 1961 – Kim Appleby, English singer-songwriter and actress
* 1961 – Cliff Benson, American football player
* 1961 – Jennifer Coolidge, American actress
* 1961 – Deepak Tijori, Indian actor and director
* 1961 – Ian Pont, English cricketer and coach
* 1962 – Paul Allen, English footballer
* 1962 – Craig Anton, American actor and screenwriter
* 1962 – David Fincher, American director and producer
* 1963 – Regina Jacobs, American runner
* 1963 – Maria Gheorghiu, Romanian folk singer-songwriter
* 1964 – Lee Janzen, American golfer
* 1964 – Kaj Leo Johannesen, Faroese footballer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
* 1965 – Dan Crowley, Australian rugby player
* 1965 – Sonia Kruger, Australian television host and actress
* 1965 – Satoshi Tajiri, Japanese video game developer; created *Pokémon*
* 1965 – Shania Twain, Canadian singer-songwriter
* 1966 – Priya Dutt, Indian social worker and politician
* 1967 – Jamie Osborne, English jockey and trainer
* 1968 – Billy Boyd, Scottish actor and singer
* 1969 – Jack Black, American actor and comedian
* 1969 – Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and Founder of Leanin.org
* 1969 – Mary McCartney, English photographer and activist
* 1969 – Jason Priestley, Canadian actor, director, and producer
* 1969 – Pierre Turgeon, Canadian-American ice hockey player
* 1970 – Melina Aslanidou, German-Greek singer-songwriter
* 1970 – Rick Recht, American singer-songwriter
* 1971 – Shane Andrews, American baseball player
* 1971 – Todd Eldredge, American figure skater and coach
* 1971 – Janet Evans, American swimmer
* 1971 – Raúl Márquez, Mexican-American boxer and sportscaster
* 1972 – Ravindu Shah, Kenyan cricketer
* 1972 – Jay Witasick, American baseball player and coach
* 1973 – J. August Richards, American actor
* 1974 – Johan Andersson, Swedish game designer and programmer
* 1974 – Takahito Eguchi, Japanese pianist and composer
* 1974 – Carsten Jancker, German footballer and manager
* 1975 – Jamie Cureton, English footballer
* 1975 – Gareth Farrelly, Irish footballer and manager
* 1975 – Hamish McLachlan, Australian television personality
* 1975 – Royce Willis, New Zealand rugby player
* 1976 – Federico Magallanes, Uruguayan footballer
* 1978 – Jess Margera, American drummer
* 1979 – Shaila Dúrcal, Spanish singer-songwriter
* 1979 – Robert Hoyzer, German footballer and referee
* 1979 – Kristen Hughes, Australian netball player
* 1979 – Markus Pröll, German footballer
* 1979 – Ruth Riley, American basketball player
* 1980 – Antony Hämäläinen, Finnish singer-songwriter
* 1980 – Debra Lafave, sex offender and former American teacher
* 1980 – Jaakko Ojaniemi, Finnish decathlete
* 1980 – Carly Pope, Canadian actress and producer
* 1980 – Jonathan Reynolds, English lawyer and politician
* 1981 – Matt Alrich, American lacrosse player
* 1981 – Kezia Dugdale, Scottish politician
* 1981 – Martin Erat, Czech ice hockey player
* 1981 – Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer
* 1981 – Raphael Matos, Brazilian race car driver
* 1981 – Jake Owen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1981 – Ahmed Talbi, Moroccan footballer
* 1981 – Agata Wróbel, Polish weightlifter
* 1982 – Anderson Silva de França, Brazilian footballer
* 1982 – Kevin McNaughton, Scottish footballer
* 1982 – Thiago Motta, Brazilian-Italian footballer
* 1982 – LeAnn Rimes, American singer-songwriter and actress
* 1983 – Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer
* 1983 – Luke McAlister, New Zealand rugby player
* 1983 – Lilli Schwarzkopf, German heptathlete
* 1985 – Kjetil Jansrud, Norwegian skier
* 1986 – Jeff Green, American basketball player
* 1986 – Armie Hammer, American actor
* 1986 – Tommy Hanson, American baseball player (d. 2015)
* 1986 – Simon Mannering, New Zealand rugby league player
* 1986 – Gilad Shalit, Israeli soldier and hostage
* 1986 – Florence Welch, English singer-songwriter
* 1987 – Caleb Moore, American snowmobile racer (d. 2013)
* 1989 – César Azpilicueta, Spanish footballer
* 1989 – Valtteri Bottas, Finnish race car driver
* 1989 – Jo Kwon, South Korean singer and dancer
* 1989 – Cassadee Pope, American singer-songwriter
* 1990 – Bojan Krkić, Spanish footballer
* 1991 – Felicio Brown Forbes, German footballer
* 1991 – Andreja Pejić, Bosnian model
* 1992 – Gabriela Drăgoi, Romanian gymnast
* 1992 – Bismack Biyombo, Congolese basketball player
* 1992 – Max Collins, American-Filipino actress and model
* 1993 – Jakub Sokolík, Czech footballer
* 1994 – Bobby Andonov, Australian singer
* 1994 – Manon Arcangioli, French tennis player
* 1994 – Junior Malanda, Belgian footballer (d. 2015)
* 1995 – Joshua Kalu, American football player
* 2003 – Quvenzhané Wallis, American actress

## Deaths

* 388 – Magnus Maximus, Roman emperor (b. 335)
* 430 – Augustine of Hippo, Algerian bishop, theologian, and saint (b. 354)
* 476 – Orestes, Roman general and politician
* 632 – Fatimah, daughter of Muhammad (b. 605)
* 683 – Kʼinich Janaab Pakal I, ajaw of the city-state of Palenque (b. 615)
* 770 – Kōken, emperor of Japan (b. 718)
* 876 – Louis the German, Frankish king (b. 804)
* 919 – He Gui, Chinese general (b. 858)
* 1055 – Xing Zong, Chinese emperor (b. 1016)
* 1149 – Mu'in ad-Din Unur, Turkish ruler and regent
* 1231 – Eleanor of Portugal, Queen of Denmark
* 1341 – Levon IV, king of Armenia (b. 1309)
* 1406 – John de Sutton V, Baron Sutton of Dudley (b. 1380)
* 1481 – Afonso V, king of Portugal (b. 1432)
* 1540 – Federico II Gonzaga, duke of Mantua (b. 1500)
* 1609 – Francis Vere, English governor and general
* 1645 – Hugo Grotius, Dutch playwright, philosopher, and jurist (b. 1583)
* 1646 – Johannes Banfi Hunyades, English-Hungarian alchemist, chemist and metallurgist. (b. 1576)
* 1648 – George Lisle, English general (b. 1610)
* 1648 – Charles Lucas, English general (b. 1613)
* 1654 – Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583)
* 1665 – Elisabetta Sirani, Italian painter (b. 1638)
* 1678 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1602)
* 1735 – Edwin Stead, English landowner and cricketer (b. 1701)
* 1757 – David Hartley, English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1705)
* 1784 – Junípero Serra, Spanish priest and missionary (b. 1713)
* 1793 – Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (b. 1740)
* 1805 – Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader and author (b. 1722)
* 1818 – Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, American fur trader, founded Chicago (b. 1750)
* 1820 – Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor and urban planner (b. 1754)
* 1839 – William Smith, English geologist and engineer (b. 1769)
* 1888 – Julius Krohn, Finnish poet and journalist (b. 1835)
* 1891 – Robert Caldwell, English missionary and linguist (b. 1814)
* 1900 – Henry Sidgwick, English economist and philosopher (b. 1838)
* 1903 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American journalist and architect, co-designed Central Park (b. 1822)
* 1919 – Adolf Schmal, Austrian fencer and cyclist (b. 1872)
* 1934 – Edgeworth David, Welsh-Australian geologist and explorer (b. 1858)
* 1937 – George Prendergast, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Victoria (b. 1854)
* 1943 – Georg Hellat, Estonian architect (b. 1870)
* 1943 – Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)
* 1955 – Emmett Till, American murder victim (b. 1941)
* 1959 – Bohuslav Martinů, Czech-American composer and educator (b. 1890)
* 1965 – Giulio Racah, Italian-Israeli physicist and mathematician (b. 1909)
* 1968 – Dimitris Pikionis, Greek architect and academic (b. 1887)
* 1971 – Reuvein Margolies, Israeli author and scholar (b. 1889)
* 1972 – Prince William of Gloucester (b. 1941)
* 1975 – Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
* 1976 – Anissa Jones, American actress (b. 1958)
* 1978 – Bruce Catton, American historian and journalist (b. 1899)
* 1978 – Robert Shaw, English actor (b. 1927)
* 1981 – Béla Guttmann, Hungarian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1900)
* 1982 – Geoff Chubb, South African cricketer (b. 1911)
* 1984 – Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian general and politician, 1st President of Egypt (b. 1901)
* 1985 – Ruth Gordon, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1896)
* 1986 – Russell Lee, American photographer and journalist (b. 1903)
* 1987 – John Huston, Irish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
* 1988 – Jean Marchand, Canadian union leader and politician, 43rd Secretary of State for Canada (b. 1918)
* 1988 – Max Shulman, American author and screenwriter (b. 1919)
* 1989 – John Steptoe, American author and illustrator (b. 1950)
* 1990 – Willy Vandersteen, Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1913)
* 1991 – Alekos Sakellarios, Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1913)
* 1993 – William Stafford, American poet and academic (b. 1914)
* 1995 – Earl W. Bascom, American rodeo performer and painter (b. 1906)
* 1995 – Michael Ende, German scientist and author (b. 1929)
* 2005 – Jacques Dufilho, French actor (b. 1914)
* 2005 – Esther Szekeres, Hungarian-Australian mathematician and academic (b. 1910)
* 2005 – George Szekeres, Hungarian-Australian mathematician and academic (b. 1911)
* 2006 – Heino Lipp, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (b. 1922)
* 2006 – Benoît Sauvageau, Canadian educator and politician (b. 1963)
* 2006 – Melvin Schwartz, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
* 2007 – Arthur Jones, American businessman, founded Nautilus, Inc. and MedX Corporation (b. 1926)
* 2007 – Hilly Kristal, American businessman, founded CBGB (b. 1932)
* 2007 – Paul MacCready, American engineer and businessman, founded AeroVironment (b. 1925)
* 2007 – Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist and author (b. 1935)
* 2007 – Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-American actress (b. 1929)
* 2008 – Phil Hill, American race car driver (b. 1927)
* 2009 – Adam Goldstein, American drummer, DJ, and producer (b. 1973)
* 2009 – Richard Egan, US Ambassador, Owner of Dell EMC, Engineer (b. 1963)
* 2010 – William P. Foster, American bandleader and educator (b. 1919)
* 2011 – Bernie Gallacher, English footballer (b. 1967)
* 2012 – Rhodes Boyson, English educator and politician (b. 1925)
* 2012 – Shulamith Firestone, Canadian-American activist and author (b. 1945)
* 2012 – Dick McBride, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1928)
* 2012 – Saul Merin, Polish-Israeli ophthalmologist and academic (b. 1933)
* 2012 – Ramón Sota, Spanish golfer (b. 1938)
* 2013 – John Bellany, Scottish painter and academic (b. 1942)
* 2013 – Lorella Cedroni, Italian political scientist and philosopher (b. 1961)
* 2013 – Edmund B. Fitzgerald, American businessman (b. 1926)
* 2013 – Frank Pulli, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1935)
* 2013 – Barry Stobart, English footballer (b. 1938)
* 2013 – Rafael Díaz Ycaza, Ecuadorian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1925)
* 2014 – Glenn Cornick, English bass guitarist (b. 1947)
* 2014 – Hal Finney, American cryptographer and programmer (b. 1956)
* 2014 – John Anthony Walker, American soldier and spy (b. 1937)
* 2015 – Al Arbour, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1932)
* 2015 – Mark Krasniqi, Kosovan ethnographer, poet, and translator (b. 1920)
* 2015 – Nelson Shanks, American painter and educator (b. 1937)
* 2016 – Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer and songwriter (b. 1950)
* 2016 – Mr. Fuji, American professional wrestler and manager (b. 1934)
* 2017 – Mireille Darc, French actress and model (b. 1938)
* 2020 – Chadwick Boseman, American actor (b. 1976)

## Holidays and observances

* Christian feast day:
	+ Alexander of Constantinople
	+ Augustine of Hippo
	+ Edmund Arrowsmith
	+ Hermes
	+ Moses the Black
	+ August 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
* National Grandparents Day (Mexico)

## References

1. ↑ "The whole world is watching". *The Guardian*. London. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
2. ↑ Drew Griffin and David Fitzpatrick (August 8, 2011) New details revealed in 'pizza collar bomb' heist, CNN.com, accessed 13 May 2018
3. ↑ FDLE - Sexual Offender and Predator System
4. ↑ "Andrej Pejic model profile". *New York Magazine*. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
5. ↑ Gharib, Malaka; Nuyen, Suzanne (28 August 2020). "'Black Panther' Star Chadwick Boseman Dies Of Cancer At Age 43". *NPR*. Retrieved 29 August 2020.

## External links

* "On This Day". BBC.
* *The New York Times*: On This Day
* "Historical Events on August 28". OnThisDay.com.
* "Today in Canadian History". Canada Channel.