28 August
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
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
1900-1999
Holidays and observances
August 27 - August 29 -
July 28 - September 28 --
listing of all days
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