August 28th, 1984

Born on August 28th, 1984

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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, 1984

39

Paula Fernandes

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*August 28th, 1984, Sete Lagoas

39

Will Harris

Baseball player

*August 28th, 1984, Houston

39

Kaya Jones

American pop singer, glamour model and actress

*August 28th, 1984, Toronto

39

Majk Spirit

Slovak rapper

*August 28th, 1984, Bratislava

39

Osvaldo Supino

Italian singer

*August 28th, 1984, Torremaggiore

39

Anna Passey

English actress (born 1984)

*August 28th, 1984, Burton upon Trent

39

Him Law

Hong Kong actor

*August 28th, 1984, Hong Kong

39

Richard Cabral

American television actor

*August 28th, 1984, Los Angeles

39

Jordi Wild

Spanish YouTuber

*August 28th, 1984, Manresa

39

Sarah Roemer

American actress

*August 28th, 1984, San Diego

39

Mercy Johnson

Nigerian actress, film director and film producer

*August 28th, 1984, Lagos

39

Zehra Fazal

American voice actress

*August 28th, 1984, Libertyville

39

Seda Güven

Turkish actress

*August 28th, 1984, İzmir

39

Akis Konstantakopoulos

Greek actor

*August 28th, 1984, Thessaloniki

39

Andy Favreau

American actor

*August 28th, 1984, Boston

31

Michael Galeota

American actor (1984-2016)

*August 28th, 1984, Smithtown †January 10th, 2016, Glendale

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Who's birthday is on August 28th?

43

Petra Schmidt-Schaller

German actress

*August 28th, 1980, Magdeburg

29

Felix Jaehn

German DJ and music producer

*August 28th, 1994, Hamburg

40

Manuela Mölgg

Italian alpine skier

*August 28th, 1983, Bruneck

41

Kevin McNaughton

British footballer (born 1982)

*August 28th, 1982, Dundee

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

Thiago Motta

Italian association football player and manager

*August 28th, 1982, São Bernardo do Campo

38

Kjetil Jansrud

Norwegian alpine skier

*August 28th, 1985, Stavanger Municipality

27

Kim Se-jeong

South Korean singer and actress

*August 28th, 1996, Gimje

37

Armie Hammer

American actor

*August 28th, 1986, Santa Monica

48

Nick E. Tarabay

Lebanese and American actor

*August 28th, 1975, Beirut

34

César Azpilicueta

Spanish association football player

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

42

Karl Otfried Müller

German scholar of classical Greek studies (1797–1840)

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

34

Valtteri Bottas

Finnish Formula 1 racing driver

*August 28th, 1989, Nastola

73

Dietz-Otto Edzard

German Assyriologist

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

82

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

80

Karl-Michael Vogler

German actor

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

37

Florence Welch

English musician, singer and songwriter

*August 28th, 1986, Camberwell

46

Jojo Smollett

American actor

*August 28th, 1977, California

33

Bojan Krkić

Spanish association football player

*August 28th, 1990, Linyola

Same year
Born in 1984

39

Basshunter

Swedish singer, record producer and DJ

*December 22nd, 1984, Halmstad

40

Marc Zwiebler

German badminton player

*March 13th, 1984, Bonn

39

Helene Fischer

German singer

*August 5th, 1984, Krasnoyarsk

40

Juliette Armanet

French singer

*March 4th, 1984, Lille

39

Robert Huth

German association football player

*August 18th, 1984, East Berlin

39

Molly Nilsson

Swedish record producer, keyboardist and singer-songwriter

*December 14th, 1984, Stockholm

39

Sony Dwi Kuncoro

Indonesian badminton player

*July 7th, 1984, Surabaya

40

Salakjit Ponsana

Badminton player

*February 14th, 1984, Bangkok

39

Avril Lavigne

Canadian singer and songwriter (born 1984)

*September 27th, 1984, Belleville

40

Chanan Colman

Danish-American-Israeli former basketball player

*March 10th, 1984, Gladsaxe Municipality

39

Scarlett Johansson

American actress (born 1984)

*November 22nd, 1984, Manhattan

40

Valeria Sorokina

Russian badminton player

*March 29th, 1984, Reshetikha, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

39

French Montana

Moroccan rapper

*November 9th, 1984, Casablanca

40

Patrícia Kimberly

Brazilian pornographic actress

*January 6th, 1984, São Paulo

40

Duanganong Aroonkesorn

Thai badminton player

*February 6th, 1984, Bangkok

39

Valeriy Atrashchenkov

Badminton player

*August 20th, 1984, Kharkiv

39

Andrej Ashmarin

Badminton player

*November 9th, 1984, Moscow

39

Mark Zuckerberg

American internet entrepreneur

*May 14th, 1984, White Plains

39

Jinjin Harder

German singer

*August 30th, 1984, Wuhan

39

Ave Pajo

Estonian badminton and football player

*July 9th, 1984, Estonia

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Leap year

Yes: 1984 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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