August 28th, 1971

Born on August 28th, 1971

Age in days, weeks and months
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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, 1971

52

Joann Sfar

French comics artist, graphic novelist, and film director

*August 28th, 1971, Nice

52

Janet Evans

American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, former world record-holder

*August 28th, 1971, Fullerton

52

Daniel Goddard

Actor

*August 28th, 1971, Sydney

52

Sal Masekela

Television host and commentator

*August 28th, 1971, Los Angeles

52

Takahito Eguchi

Japanese musician

*August 28th, 1971, Nagasaki

52

Mamadou Diallo

Senegalese footballer

*August 28th, 1971, Dakar

52

José Ignacio Sánchez

Spanish matador

*August 28th, 1971, Salamanca

52

Todd Eldredge

American figure skater

*August 28th, 1971, Chatham

52

Shane Andrews

American baseball player

*August 28th, 1971, Dallas

52

Bill Edwards

American basketball player (born 1971)

*August 28th, 1971, Middletown

52

Jorge Reyes Graterol

Venezuelan actor

*August 28th, 1971, Caracas

52

Alex Polizzi

British hotelier and TV presenter

*August 28th, 1971, Poplar

52

Stephanie Belding

Canadian actress

*August 28th, 1971, Lachine

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Who's birthday is on August 28th?

43

Petra Schmidt-Schaller

German actress

*August 28th, 1980, Magdeburg

49

Carsten Jancker

German association football player and manager

*August 28th, 1974, Grevesmühlen

54

Jack Black

American actor and musician (born 1969)

*August 28th, 1969, Santa Monica

29

Felix Jaehn

German DJ and music producer

*August 28th, 1994, Hamburg

51

Franck Boidin

French fencer

*August 28th, 1972, Hénin-Beaumont

48

Nick E. Tarabay

Lebanese and American actor

*August 28th, 1975, Beirut

58

Shania Twain

Canadian country music singer and songwriter

*August 28th, 1965, Windsor

82

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author (1828–1910)

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

54

Sheryl Sandbergs

American technology executive, activist, and authors

*August 28th, 1969, Washington, D.C.

55

Billy Boyd

Scottish actor and musician

*August 28th, 1968, Glasgow

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

42

Karl Otfried Müller

German scholar of classical Greek studies (1797–1840)

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

54

Jason Priestley

Canadian actor (born 1969)

*August 28th, 1969, Vancouver

46

Jojo Smollett

American actor

*August 28th, 1977, California

82

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

54

Anke Möhring

East German swimmer

*August 28th, 1969, Magdeburg

57

Christophe Galtier

French association football player and manager

*August 28th, 1966, Marseille

41

Kevin McNaughton

British footballer (born 1982)

*August 28th, 1982, Dundee

61

David Fincher

American film director

*August 28th, 1962, Denver

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Born in 1971

52

Kali Rocha

American actress

*December 5th, 1971, Memphis

52

Christina Cox

Canadian actress

*July 31st, 1971, Toronto

52

Billy Bush

American radio and television host (born 1971)

*October 13th, 1971, Los Angeles

53

Helge Sten

Norwegian musician

*January 26th, 1971, Røros Municipality

52

Stephan Groth

Danish-Norwegian singer

*August 10th, 1971, Odense

52

Anna Netrebko

Russian-born Austrian operatic soprano

*September 18th, 1971, Krasnodar

52

Elon Musk

Businessman (born 1971)

*June 28th, 1971, Pretoria

53

Susi Susanti

Indonesian badminton player

*February 11th, 1971, Tasikmalaya City

52

Chen Ying

Badminton player

*December 1st, 1971, Xijiang, Guizhou

52

John 5

American guitarist

*July 31st, 1971, Grosse Pointe

53

Ricky Subagja

Badminton player

*January 27th, 1971, Bandung City

52

Zarinah Abdullah

Badminton player

*July 12th, 1971, Singapore

52

Mario Abdo Benítez

50st President of Paraguay

*November 10th, 1971, Asunción

52

David Gauke

British politician and solicitor (born 1971)

*October 8th, 1971, Ipswich

52

Raoul Bova

Italian actor

*August 14th, 1971, Rome

52

Martin Gerster

German politician

*August 30th, 1971, Biberach an der Riss

52

Justin Trudeau

Prime Minister of Canada since 2015

*December 25th, 1971, Ottawa

52

Valentina Polkhanova

Russian racing cyclist

*August 15th, 1971, Saransk

53

Jeremy Renner

American actor, producer, and musician

*January 7th, 1971, Modesto

53

Ewan McGregor

Scottish-American actor

*March 31st, 1971, Perth

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1971 is a normal year and no leap year.

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