August 28th, 1983

Born on August 28th, 1983

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, 1983

40

Manuela Mölgg

Italian alpine skier

*August 28th, 1983, Bruneck

40

Lilli Schwarzkopf

German heptathlete

*August 28th, 1983, Novopokrovka, Chuy

40

Luke McAlister

New Zealand rugby union player

*August 28th, 1983, Waitara

40

Lasith Malinga

Sri Lankan cricketer

*August 28th, 1983, Galle

40

Alfonso Herrera Rodriguez

Mexican actor and former singer (born 1983)

*August 28th, 1983, Mexico City

40

Will Herring

American football linebacker

*August 28th, 1983, Opelika

40

Nate Washington

American football player

*August 28th, 1983, Toledo

40

Christian Pander

German footballer

*August 28th, 1983, Münster

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Who's birthday is on August 28th?

43

Petra Schmidt-Schaller

German actress

*August 28th, 1980, Magdeburg

41

Kevin McNaughton

British footballer (born 1982)

*August 28th, 1982, Dundee

29

Felix Jaehn

German DJ and music producer

*August 28th, 1994, Hamburg

39

Paula Fernandes

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*August 28th, 1984, Sete Lagoas

41

Thiago Motta

Italian association football player and manager

*August 28th, 1982, São Bernardo do Campo

49

Carsten Jancker

German association football player and manager

*August 28th, 1974, Grevesmühlen

82

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author (1828–1910)

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

41

LeAnn Rimes

American singer and actress (born 1982)

*August 28th, 1982, Jackson

48

Nick E. Tarabay

Lebanese and American actor

*August 28th, 1975, Beirut

27

Kim Se-jeong

South Korean singer and actress

*August 28th, 1996, Gimje

42

Karl Otfried Müller

German scholar of classical Greek studies (1797–1840)

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

46

Jojo Smollett

American actor

*August 28th, 1977, California

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

34

César Azpilicueta

Spanish association football player

*August 28th, 1989, Zizur Mayor/Zizur Nagusia

54

Jack Black

American actor and musician (born 1969)

*August 28th, 1969, Santa Monica

34

Valtteri Bottas

Finnish Formula 1 racing driver

*August 28th, 1989, Nastola

37

Armie Hammer

American actor

*August 28th, 1986, Santa Monica

58

Shania Twain

Canadian country music singer and songwriter

*August 28th, 1965, Windsor

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Born in 1983

40

Kamilla Rytter Juhl

Danish badminton player

*November 23rd, 1983, Skagen

40

Loreen

Moroccan and Swedish singer and songwriter

*October 16th, 1983, Danderyd

40

Katrina Kaif

British-Indian actress (born 1983)

*July 16th, 1983, Hong Kong

41

John Lundvik

Swedish singer, songwriter, and former sprinter

*January 27th, 1983, London

41

Kaisa Mäkäräinen

Finnish biathlete

*January 11th, 1983, Ristijärvi

40

Carsten Mogensen

Danish badminton player

*July 24th, 1983, Roskilde

41

Lee Jae-jin

South Korean badminton player

*January 26th, 1983, Miryang

41

Bao Chunlai

Badminton player

*February 17th, 1983, Changsha

41

Summer Cem

German rapper

*April 11th, 1983, Mönchengladbach

40

Liisi Koikson

Estonian singer

*June 4th, 1983, Kilingi-Nõmme

40

Philipp Lahm

German association football player

*November 11th, 1983, Munich

41

Laura de Boer

Dutch actress

*February 26th, 1983, Amsterdam

40

Lin Dan

Chinese badminton player

*October 14th, 1983, Longyan

40

Petya Nedelcheva

Bulgarian badminton player

*July 30th, 1983, Stara Zagora

41

Vitaa

French singer-songwriter

*March 14th, 1983, Mulhouse

41

Michelle Butler-Emmett

Badminton player

*March 4th, 1983, Durban

40

Shama Aboobakar

Mauritian badminton player

*June 7th, 1983, Beau Bassin-Rose Hill

40

Mila Kunis

Ukrainian-American actress

*August 14th, 1983, Chernivtsi

40

Chris Dednam

Badminton player

*August 8th, 1983, Bloemfontein

40

Anastasia Russkikh

Russian badminton player

*May 20th, 1983, Gatchina

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No: With 365 days 1983 is a normal year and no leap year.

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