August 28th, 1942

Born on August 28th, 1942

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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

Born on August 28th, 1942

79

José Eduardo dos Santos

President of Angola from 1979 to 2017

*August 28th, 1942, Luanda †July 8th, 2022, Barcelona

79

Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino

Cardinal of the Catholic Church

*August 28th, 1942, Caracas †September 23rd, 2021, Caracas

53

Sterling Morrison

American musician

*August 28th, 1942, East Meadow †August 30th, 1995, Poughkeepsie

81

Marianne Gross

German actress and voice actress

*August 28th, 1942, Aschersleben

73

Lothar Meid

German musician and film composer (1942-2015)

*August 28th, 1942, Babenhausen †November 3rd, 2015, Hamburg

76

John Carlisle

British Conservative Party politician (1942-2019)

*August 28th, 1942, Henlow †February 18th, 2019, Seal Chart

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43

Petra Schmidt-Schaller

German actress

*August 28th, 1980, Magdeburg

80

David Soul

American-British actor (1943–2024)

*August 28th, 1943, Chicago †January 4th, 2024, London

73

Dietz-Otto Edzard

German Assyriologist

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

80

Karl-Michael Vogler

German actor

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

82

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author (1828–1910)

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

29

Felix Jaehn

German DJ and music producer

*August 28th, 1994, Hamburg

85

Paul Martin

Prime minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006

*August 28th, 1938, Windsor

42

Karl Otfried Müller

German scholar of classical Greek studies (1797–1840)

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

82

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

66

Roxie Roker

Bahamian–American actress (1929-1995)

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

91

Eckhard Müller-Mertens

German medievalist

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

49

Carsten Jancker

German association football player and manager

*August 28th, 1974, Grevesmühlen

76

Liza Wang

Hong Kong entertainer and politician

*August 28th, 1947, Chongming County

80

Surayud Chulanont

President of the Privy Council of Thailand

*August 28th, 1943, Prachin Buri

58

Shania Twain

Canadian country music singer and songwriter

*August 28th, 1965, Windsor

81

Heinz-Dieter Hasebrink

German association football player

*August 28th, 1941, Essen †January 17th, 2023

87

Dyson Lovell

British actor and producer

*August 28th, 1936, Rhodesia †January 11th, 2024

54

Jack Black

American actor and musician (born 1969)

*August 28th, 1969, Santa Monica

83

Christian Ludwig Attersee

Austrian artist

*August 28th, 1940, Bratislava

65

Scott Hamilton

American figure skater

*August 28th, 1958, Bowling Green

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81

Joe Biden

President of the United States since 2021

*November 20th, 1942, Scranton

77

Terry Jones

Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian and writer (1942–2020)

*February 1st, 1942, Colwyn Bay †January 21st, 2020, North London

81

Dietrich Hollinderbäumer

German-Swedish actor

*August 16th, 1942, Essen

76

Stephen Hawking

British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)

*January 8th, 1942, Oxford †March 14th, 2018, Cambridge

81

Katherine Justice

American actress

*October 28th, 1942, Sacramento

81

Wolfgang Schäuble

German politician and statesman (1942–2023)

*September 18th, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau †December 26th, 2023, Offenburg

81

Richard Stoltzman

American musician

*July 12th, 1942, Omaha

81

Amitabh Bachchan

Indian film actor (born 1942)

*October 11th, 1942, Prayagraj

82

John Cale

Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer

*March 9th, 1942, Garnant

81

Paul McCartney

English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942)

*June 18th, 1942, Liverpool

74

Daliah Lavi

Israeli actress, singer and model (1942-2017)

*October 12th, 1942, Shavei Tzion †May 3rd, 2017, Asheville

74

Muhammad Ali

American boxer, philanthropist, and activist (1942–2016)

*January 17th, 1942, Louisville †June 3rd, 2016, Scottsdale

82

Per A. Anonsen

Norwegian actor, film editor, screenwriter and film producer

*January 8th, 1942, Oslo

81

Søren Steen

Danish actor

*August 22nd, 1942, Denmark

69

Muammar Gaddafi

Libyan dictator, politician and political theorist (1942–2011)

*June 7th, 1942, Qasr Abu Hadi †October 20th, 2011, Sirte

82

Michel Mayor

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

*January 12th, 1942, Lausanne

76

Aretha Franklin

American singer, songwriter, and pianist (1942–2018)

*March 25th, 1942, Memphis †August 16th, 2018, Detroit

82

Jun'ichirō Koizumi

Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006

*January 8th, 1942, Yokosuka

81

Raman Ghosh

Badminton player

*August 15th, 1942, Bareilly

81

Hu Jintao

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012

*December 21st, 1942, Jiangyan District

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