On this day: 28 August
Events, births and deaths on 28 August. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Ahmed al-Rahawi
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Juan Gabriel
- Deaths · Mr. Fuji
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1917 · Births · Jack Kirby
- 1916 · Births · C. Wright Mills
- 1919 · Births · Godfrey Hounsfield
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 933 · Births · Richard I of Normandy
- 1025 · Births · Go-Reizei
- 1055 · Deaths · Emperor Xingzong of Liao
Events · 20
- 489(Julian date)Battle of Isonzo — 489 battle
- 1189(Julian date)Siege of Acre — 1189–1191 Egyptian siege of Acre
- 1542(Julian date)Battle of Wofla — 1542 battle
- 1640Battle of Newburn — 1640 battle in Newburn, Northumberland, England
- 1845Scientific American — American popular science magazine
- 1859solar storm of 1859 — geomagnetic solar storm
- 1861Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries — 1861 battle of the American Civil War
- 1862Second Battle of Bull Run — 1862 major battle of the American Civil War
- 1890August Storm of 1890 — storm in Finland
- 1909Goudi coup — coup d'état
- 1914Battle of Heligoland Bight — 1914 first naval battle of World War I
- 1924August Uprising — 1924 failed insurrection against Soviet rule in the Georgian SSR
- 1937Toyota — Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer
- 1946Workers' Party of North Korea — communist party in North Korea from 1946 to 1949
- 1957Strom Thurmond filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 — longest U.S. Senate filibuster
- 1963I Have a Dream — 1963 speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington D.C. to 250.000 people of the civil rights movement, regarded as one of the most important speeches in US history
- 1963March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom — 1963 demonstration of the civil rights movement
- 1988Ramstein air show disaster — aviation accident
- 19931993 Tajik Air Yakovlev Yak-40 incident — 1993 aviation accident
- 19931993 Singaporean presidential election — 1st presidential election in Singapore, polling day for which was 28 August 1993
Births · 60
- 933Richard I of Normandy — 10th-century duke of Normandy
- 1582(Julian date)Taichang Emperor — 15th Emperor of the Ming dynasty
- 1592George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham — politician from England (1592-1628)
- 1691Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel — Holy Roman Empress consort (1691-1750)
- 1749Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
- 1774Elizabeth Ann Seton — first native-born American saint of the Roman Catholic Church (1774-1821)
- 1801Antoine Augustin Cournot — French economist and mathematician (*1801 – †1877)
- 1814Sheridan Le Fanu — Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels (1814–1873)
- 1833Edward Burne-Jones — British Pre-Raphaelite painter (1833-1898)
- 1853Vladimir Shukhov — Russian engineer-polymath, scientist and architect (1853-1939)
- 1867Umberto Giordano — Italian opera composer (1867–1948)
- 1878George Whipple — American physician and biomedical researcher (1878–1976)
- 1894Karl Böhm — Austrian conductor (1894-1981)
- 1899Andrei Platonov — Russian author (1899–1951)
- 1899Charles Boyer — French actor (1899–1978)
- 1903Bruno Bettelheim — Austrian-American child psychologist and writer (1903–1990)
- 1906John Betjeman — English poet, writer and broadcaster (1906–1984)
- 1910Tjalling Koopmans — Dutch American economist (1910–1985)
- 1911Joseph Luns — Dutch politician and diplomat (1911–2002)
- 1913Robertson Davies — Canadian novelist (1913-1995)
- 1916C. Wright Mills — American sociologist (1916–1962)
- 1916Jack Vance — American mystery and speculative fiction writer (1916–2013)
- 1917Jack Kirby — American comic book artist (1917–1994)
- 1919Godfrey Hounsfield — English electrical engineer (1919–2004)
- 1921Lidia Gueiler Tejada — President of Bolivia (1921-2011)
Deaths · 60
- 388(Julian date)Magnus Maximus — late 4th-century Roman emperor of Britain and usurper of the West
- 430(Julian date)Augustine of Hippo — Christian theologian, philosopher, and saint (354–430)
- 476Orestes — Roman politician and general (420-476)
- 683K'inich Janaab' Pakal — Maya ruler of Palenque
- 770(Julian date)Kōken — Empress of Japan
- 876(Julian date)Louis the German — King of East Francia from 843 to 876
- 1055(Julian date)Emperor Xingzong of Liao — emperor of the Liao Dynasty
- 1231Eleanor of Portugal — Queen of Denmark
- 1341Leo IV — King of Armenia
- 1481(Julian date)Afonso V of Portugal — King of Portugal and the Algarves
- 1540(Julian date)Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua — Marquis and later first Duke of Mantua (1500-1540)
- 1645Hugo Grotius — Dutch jurist and scholar (1583-1645)
- 1654Axel Oxenstierna — Swedish statesman (1583-1654)
- 1665Elisabetta Sirani — Italian painter (1638-1665)
- 1757David Hartley — British philosopher
- 1784Junípero Serra — Christian missionary
- 1793Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine — French general (1740-1793)
- 1818Jean Baptiste Point du Sable — early founder of Chicago
- 1839William Smith — English geologist
- 1888Julius Krohn — Finnish folk poetry researcher, professor, poet, hymn writer, translator and journalist (1835–1888)
- 1891Robert Caldwell — British orientalist and dravidologist (1814–1891)
- 1900Henry Sidgwick — English philosopher (1838–1900)
- 1903Frederick Law Olmsted — American landscape designer, journalist, social critic, and public administrator (1822-1903)
- 1919Adolf Schmal — Austrian fencer and cyclist (1872–1919)
- 1934Edgeworth David — Australian geologist (1858–1934)
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