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August 28 is the 240th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (241st in leap years), with 125 days remaining.
2000-2099
2001 - Dutch prime minister Wim Kok announces that he will not be available for another term as PvdA party leader or prime minister after the 2002 elections.
Births
1700-1899
1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer, scientist (d. 1832)
1774 - Elizabeth Ann Seton, first American-born Catholic saint (d. 1821)
1786 - Pavloec, author
1814 - Sheridan le Fanu, writer (d. 1873)
1828 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1910)
1894 - Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (d. 1981)
1897 - Charles Boyer, French actor (d. 1978)
1900-1999
1903 - Bruno Bettelheim, psychologist (d. 1990)
1904 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (d. 1980)
1906 - John Betjeman, poet (d. 1984)
1908 - Roger Tory Peterson, ornithologist, illustrator
1911 - Joseph Luns, Dutch politician (d. 2002)
1913 - Robertson Davies, novelist, playwright (d. 1995)
1913 - Richard Tucker, American tenor (d. 1975)
1917 - Jack Kirby, comic book artist (d. 1994)
1924 - Janet Frame, author
1925 - Donald O'Connor, singer, dancer, actor
1929 - Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian conductor (d. 1973)
1930 - Ben Gazzara, actor
1931 - John Shirley-Quirk, English bass-baritone
1938 - Maurizio Costanzo, Italian television anchorman
1943 - Lou Piniella, baseball manager
1947 - Liza Wang, actress (to be included)
1951 - Benji Durden, Olympic marathon
1953 - Gates McFadden, actress
1957 - Daniel Stern, actor
1958 - Scott Hamilton, Olympic Games gold medal winning figure skater
1960 - Emma Samms, actress
1961 - Kim Appleby, singer (Mel & Kim)
1965 - Shania Twain, singer
1968 - Billy Boyd, Scottish actor, played Pippin in the Lord of the Rings
1969 - Jason Priestley, actor
1971 - Janet Evans, Olympic swimmer
1980 - Eric Schomburg, author
1981 - Martin Erat, NHL hockey player
1982 - LeAnn Rimes, singer
Deaths
400-1899
430 - Augustine of Hippo
1481 - Afonso V, king of Portugal
1818 - Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, founder of Chicago
1839 - William Smith, geologist
1900-1999
1900 - Henry Sidgwick, philosopher
1919 - Louis Botha, Boer leader
1943 - King Boris III of Bulgaria
1959 - Bohuslav Martinu, composer
1965 - Giulio Racah, physicist (b. 1909)
1985 - Ruth Gordon, actress
1987 - John Huston, movie director
1990 - Willy Vandersteen, cartoonist
1993 - William Stafford, poet and essayist
1995 - Michael Ende, writer
Holidays and observances
Hong Kong: Liberation Day (1945)
Many Christian churches: feast day of Saint Augustine of Hippo.
Software Freedom Day
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August 27 - August 29 - July 28 - September 28 -- listing of all days
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