August 28th, 1473

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Born on August 28th, 1473 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on August 28th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on August 28th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (August 1473)

Born on August 28th, 1473

Weekday

Thursday

August 28th, 1473 was a Thursday.

Age

550

People born on August 28th, 1473 will turn 551 this year (2024), in exactly 121 days .

Zodiac

♍

Virgo (The Maiden)

August 24th, 1473 - September 23rd, 1473

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 201,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 872 days, exactly on September 18th, 2026, people who were born on August 28th, 1473 will be 202,000 days old!

201,128 Days

28,732 Weeks

6,608 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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What happened on August 28th?

August 28th, 2021

The second phase of the Thomson-East Coast MRT line opens for service

August 28th, 2003

A pizza delivery man in Erie, Pennsylvania, was killed during a complex bank robbery when a bomb that was locked around his neck exploded.

August 28th, 1993

The first direct Presidential election in Singapore was held.

August 28th, 1987

Construction began on the Ryugyong Hotel (pictured) in Pyongyang, the tallest building in North Korea.

August 28th, 1973

Swedish police used gas bombs to end a seven-day hostage situation in Stockholm; during the incident the hostages had bonded with their captors, leading to the term Stockholm syndrome.

August 28th, 1963

American civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the speech "I Have a Dream" during the March on Washington, calling for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.

August 28th, 1955

African-American teenager Emmett Till was lynched near Money, Mississippi, for allegedly flirting with a white woman, energizing the nascent American civil rights movement.

August 28th, 1950

In tennis, Althea Gibson became the first African-American woman to compete at the U.S. National Championships.

August 28th, 1914

In the first naval battle of the First World War, British ships ambushed a German naval patrol in the Heligoland Bight.

August 28th, 1909

The 1909 Monterrey hurricane dissipated; one of the deadliest Atlantic tropical cyclones on record, it killed an estimated 4,000 people throughout Mexico.

August 28th, 1833

The Slavery Abolition Act 1833, officially abolishing slavery in most of the British Empire, received royal assent.

August 28th, 1830

Tom Thumb, the first American-built steam locomotive, engaged in an impromptu race against a horse-drawn car in Maryland.

August 28th, 1789

William Herschel discovered Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, during the first use of his new telescope which was then the largest in the world.

August 28th, 1640

Bishops' Wars: Scottish Covenanter forces led by Alexander Leslie defeated the English army near Newburn, England.

August 28th, 1619

Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia and Hungary, was unanimously elected Holy Roman Emperor.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 28th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on August 28th?

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author (1828–1910)

*August 28th, 1828, Yasnaya Polyana †November 7th, 1910, Astapovo

Petra Schmidt-Schaller

German actress

*August 28th, 1980, Magdeburg

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)

*August 28th, 1749, Frankfurt †March 22nd, 1832, Weimar

Karl Otfried Müller

German scholar of classical Greek studies (1797–1840)

*August 28th, 1797, Brzeg †August 1st, 1840, Athens

Felix Jaehn

German DJ and music producer

*August 28th, 1994, Hamburg

Karl-Michael Vogler

German actor

*August 28th, 1928, Remscheid †June 9th, 2009, Seehausen am Staffelsee

Dietz-Otto Edzard

German Assyriologist

*August 28th, 1930, Bremen †June 2nd, 2004, Munich

Carsten Jancker

German association football player and manager

*August 28th, 1974, Grevesmühlen

Heinrich Heydemann

German classical archaeologist

*August 28th, 1842, Greifswald †September 10th, 1890, Halle (Saale)

Eckhard Müller-Mertens

German medievalist

*August 28th, 1923, Berlin †January 14th, 2015, Berlin

Umberto Giordano

Italian opera composer

*August 28th, 1867, Foggia †November 12th, 1948, Milan

Kim Se-jeong

South Korean singer and actress

*August 28th, 1996, Gimje

Shania Twain

Canadian country music singer and songwriter

*August 28th, 1965, Windsor

Roxie Roker

Bahamian–American actress (1929-1995)

*August 28th, 1929, Miami †December 2nd, 1995, Los Angeles

Kanō Motonobu

Japanese painter (1476-1559)

*August 28th, 1476, Kyoto †November 5th, 1559, Kyoto

Jack Black

American actor and musician (born 1969)

*August 28th, 1969, Santa Monica

Francisco de Sá de Miranda

Portuguese poet (1481–1558)

*August 28th, 1491, Coimbra †November 30th, 1557, Amares

Nick E. Tarabay

Lebanese and American actor

*August 28th, 1975, Beirut

Kevin McNaughton

British footballer (born 1982)

*August 28th, 1982, Dundee

Louis Constanz Berger

German manufacturer and liberal politician (1829-1891)

*August 28th, 1829, Witten †August 9th, 1891, Koblenz-Horchheim

Same year
Born in 1473

Nicolaus Copernicus

Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473–1543)

*February 19th, 1473, Toruń †May 24th, 1543, Frombork

James IV of Scotland

King of Scotland from 1488 to 1513

*March 17th, 1473, Holyrood Abbey †September 9th, 1513, Northumberland

Nityananda

Hindu saint

*January 12th, 1473, India †November 30th, 1539, India

Georg von Frundsberg

German noble

*September 24th, 1473, Mindelheim †August 20th, 1528, Mindelheim

Maddalena de' Medici

Italian noble

*July 25th, 1473, Florence †December 2nd, 1519, Rome

Henry IV

Duke of Saxony

*March 16th, 1473, Dresden †August 18th, 1541, Dresden

Margaret of Münsterberg

Silesian princess of the house Münsterberg, by marriage, Duchess of Anhalt (1473-1530)

*August 25th, 1473, Wrocław †June 28th, 1530, Dessau

Ercole Strozzi

Italian poet

*September 2nd, 1473, Ferrara †June 6th, 1508, Ferrara

Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York

Second son of King Edward IV of England, younger of the princes in the Tower

*August 17th, 1473, Shrewsbury †June 26th, 1483, London

John Corvinus

Illegitimate son of King Matthias of Hungary and Ban of Croatia, Presumptive crown prince of Hungary (1473-1504)

*April 2nd, 1473, Buda †October 12th, 1504, Krapina

Reinhard IV, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg

Count of Hanau-Münzenberg

*March 14th, 1473, Hanau †January 30th, 1512, Hanau

Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury

English peeress, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence (1473-1541)

*August 14th, 1473, Bath †May 27th, 1541, Tower of London

Martin Baumgartner auf Breitenbach

*November 11th, 1473, Kufstein †January 1st, 1535, Kufstein

Lucas Fernández

Spanish writer (1474-1542)

*November 30th, 1473, Salamanca †January 1st, 1542, Salamanca

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on August 28th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on August 28th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XXVIII.VIII.MCDLXXIII

28.8.1473

Legend

M = 1000

CD = 400

L = 50

X = 10

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1473 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
August 1473

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