Births on 28 August
2000s
Quvenzhané Wallis
2003
American actress (born 2003)
Kamilla Rakhimova
2001
Uzbekistani tennis player (born 2001)
Marissa Bode
2000
American actress (born 2000)
1900s
Weston McKennie
1998
American soccer player (born 1998)
Kim Se-jeong
1996
South Korean singer and actress (born 1996)
Manon Arcangioli
1994
French tennis player
Ons Jabeur
1994
Tunisian tennis women player (born 1994)
Jakub Sokolík
1993
Czech footballer
Bismack Biyombo
1992
Congolese basketball player (born 1992)
Max Collins (actress)
1992
American-Filipino actress and model
Gabriela Drăgoi
1992
Romanian artistic gymnast
Felicio Brown Forbes
1991
Costa Rican footballer (born 1991)
Samuel Larsen
1991
American actor and singer (born 1991)
Kyle Massey
1991
American actor (born 1991)
Andreja Pejić
1991
Australian model and actress (born 1991)
Katie Findlay
1990
Canadian actor
Bojan Krkić
1990
Spanish footballer (born 1990)
César Azpilicueta
1989
Spanish footballer (born 1989)
Valtteri Bottas
1989
Finnish racing driver (born 1989)
Jo Kwon
1989
South Korean singer and actor
Cassadee Pope
1989
American singer
Shalita Grant
1988
American actress (born 1988)
Rosie MacLennan
1988
Canadian trampoline gymnast
Caleb Moore
1987
American snowmobile racer
Jeff Green (basketball)
1986
American basketball player (born 1986)
Armie Hammer
1986
American actor (born 1986)
Tommy Hanson
1986
American baseball player (1986–2015)
Simon Mannering
1986
New Zealand rugby league footballer
Gilad Shalit
1986
Israeli former hostage and soldier (born 1986)
Florence Welch
1986
English singer and songwriter (born 1986)
Kjetil Jansrud
1985
Norwegian alpine skier
Will Harris (baseball)
1984
American baseball player (born 1984)
Lasith Malinga
1983
Sri Lankan bowler
Luke McAlister
1983
NZ & Maori international rugby union player
Lilli Schwarzkopf
1983
German heptathlete
Anderson de Silva (footballer, born 1982)
1982
Brazilian footballer
Kevin McNaughton
1982
Scottish footballer (born 1982)
Thiago Motta
1982
Football manager (born 1982)
Carlos Quentin
1982
American baseball player (born 1982)
LeAnn Rimes
1982
American singer (born 1982)
Kezia Dugdale
1981
Former Leader of the Scottish Labour Party, MSP for Lothian (born 1981)
Daniel Gygax
1981
Swiss footballer (born 1981)
Raphael Matos
1981
Brazilian open-wheel racing driver
Jake Owen
1981
American country singer (born 1981)
Ahmed Talbi
1981
Moroccan footballer
Agata Wróbel
1981
Polish weightlifter (born 1981)
Antony Hämäläinen
1980
Finnish singer (born 1980)
Debra Lafave
1980
American former teacher
Ryan Madson
1980
American baseball player (born 1980)
Jaakko Ojaniemi
1980
Finnish decathlete (born 1980)
Carly Pope
1980
Canadian actress (born 1980)
Jonathan Reynolds
1980
British politician (born 1980)
Shaila Dúrcal
1979
Musical artist
2005 German football match-fixing scandal
1979
Sports scandal in Germany
Kristen Heinrich
1979
Australian netball player
Markus Pröll
1979
German footballer
Ruth Riley
1979
American basketball player (born 1979)
Karine Turcotte
1978
Canadian weightlifter
Federico Magallanes
1976
Uruguayan footballer (born 1976)
Jamie Cureton
1975
English footballer (born 1975)
Gareth Farrelly
1975
Irish former professional footballer
Hamish McLachlan
1975
Australian sports broadcaster
Royce Willis
1975
Rugby player
Johan Andersson (game developer)
1974
Swedish video game producer (born 1974)
Takahito Eguchi
1974
Japanese musician (born 1971)
Carsten Jancker
1974
German footballer
J. August Richards
1973
American actor
Ravindu Shah
1972
Kenyan cricketer (born 1972)
Jay Witasick
1972
American baseball player (born 1972)
Shane Andrews
1971
American baseball player (born 1971)
Todd Eldredge
1971
American figure skater
Janet Evans
1971
American swimmer (born 1971)
Daniel Goddard (actor)
1971
Australian American actor and model (born 1971)
Raúl Márquez
1971
American boxer
Melina Aslanidou
1970
Greek singer
Rick Recht
1970
American rock musician (born 1970)
Jack Black
1969
American actor, comedian, and musician (born 1969)
Mary McCartney
1969
English photographer and cookbook author (born 1969)
Jason Priestley
1969
Canadian actor (born 1969)
Sheryl Sandberg
1969
American business executive (born 1969)
Pierre Turgeon
1969
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1969)
Billy Boyd
1968
Scottish actor and musician (born 1968)
Jamie Osborne (jockey)
1967
British jockey and racehorse trainer
Priya Dutt
1966
Indian politician and social worker (born 1966)
Dan Crowley (rugby union)
1965
Australia international rugby union player
Sonia Kruger
1965
Australian television presenter (born 1965)
Satoshi Tajiri
1965
Japanese video game designer (born 1965)
Amanda Tapping
1965
British-Canadian actress and director (born 1965)
Shania Twain
1965
Canadian country singer (born 1965)
Lee Janzen
1964
American professional golfer
Kaj Leo Johannesen
1964
Faroese politician (born 1964)
Maria Gheorghiu
1963
Romanian folk singer and songwriter (born 1963)
Regina Jacobs
1963
American middle-distance runner
Paul Allen (footballer)
1962
English footballer (born 1962)
Craig Anton
1962
American actor and comedian (born 1962)
David Fincher
1962
American film director (born 1962)
Kim Appleby
1961
Singer
Cliff Benson
1961
American football player (born 1961)
Jennifer Coolidge
1961
American actress (born 1961)
Ian Pont
1961
Deepak Tijori
1961
Indian film director and actor (born 1961)
Emma Samms
1960
British actress
Brian Thompson (actor)
1959
American actor (born 1959)
Scott Hamilton (figure skater)
1958
American figure skater
Greg Clark
1957
British Conservative politician
Ivo Josipović
1957
President of Croatia from 2010 to 2015
Daniel Stern (actor)
1957
American actor, artist, director and screenwriter (born 1957)
Ai Weiwei
1957
Chinese conceptual artist and dissident (born 1957)
Luis Guzmán
1956
Puerto Rican actor (born 1956)
John Long (basketball player)
1956
American basketball player (born 1956)
Steve Whiteman
1956
American singer (born 1956)
Katharine Abraham
1954
American economist (born 1954)
George Church (geneticist)
1954
American geneticist (born 1954)
John Dorahy
1954
Australian RL coach and former rugby league footballer
Ravi Kanbur
1954
Professor
Ditmar Jakobs
1953
German former footballer (born 1953)
Tõnu Kaljuste
1953
Estonian conductor (born 1953)
Jacques Chagnon
1952
Canadian politician
Rita Dove
1952
American poet and author (born 1952)
Wendelin Wiedeking
1952
German businessman (born 1952)
Colin McAdam (footballer)
1951
Scottish footballer
Wayne Osmond
1951
American musician (1951–2025)
Keiichi Suzuki
1951
Musical artist
Ron Guidry
1950
American baseball player and coach (born 1950)
Tony Husband
1950
British cartoonist (1950–2023)
Hugh Cornwell
1949
English guitarist and singer-songwriter (born 1949)
Svetislav Pešić
1949
Serbian basketball player and coach (born 1949)
Vonda N. McIntyre
1948
American science fiction writer (1948–2019)
Murray Parker (cricketer)
1948
New Zealand cricketer (born 1948)
Heather Reisman
1948
Canadian businesswoman
Danny Seraphine
1948
American drummer (b. 1948)
Elizabeth Wilmshurst
1948
British civil servant
Emlyn Hughes
1947
English footballer (1947–2004)
Debra Mooney
1947
American actress
Liza Wang
1947
Hong Kong actress and singer
Bob Segarini
1945
American-Canadian musician and radio host (1945–2023)
Marianne Heemskerk
1944
Dutch swimmer (born 1944)
Jihad Al-Atrash
1943
Lebanese actor
Surayud Chulanont
1943
Prime Minister of Thailand from 2006 to 2008
Robert Greenwald
1943
American filmmaker
Shuja Khanzada
1943
Pakistani officer and politician (1943–2015)
Lou Piniella
1943
American baseball player and manager (born 1943)
David Soul
1943
American-British actor (1943–2024)
Wendy Davies
1942
British historian
Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino
1942
Cardinal of the Catholic Church (1942–2021)
Michael Craig-Martin
1941
Irish contemporary conceptual artist and painter
Toomas Leius
1941
Estonian tennis player (1941–2025)
John Marshall (drummer)
1941
English drummer (1941–2023)
Paul Plishka
1941
American operatic bass (1941–2025)
William Cohen
1940
American politician (born 1940)
Ken Jenkins
1940
American actor
Roger Pingeon
1940
French cyclist
John Kingman
1939
British mathematician (born 1939)
Marla Adams
1938
American actress (1938–2024)
Maurizio Costanzo
1938
Italian television presenter (1938–2023)
Bengt Fahlström
1938
Swedish journalist and television presenter
Marcello Gandini
1938
Italian car designer (1938–2024)
Paul Martin
1938
Prime Minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006
Don Denkinger
1936
American baseball umpire (1936–2023)
Warren M. Washington
1936
American atmospheric scientist (1936–2024)
Melvin Charney
1935
Canadian artist and architect
Gilles Rocheleau
1935
Canadian politician
Sonny Shroyer
1935
American actor (born 1935)
Philip French
1933
English film critic and radio producer (1933–2015)
Patrick Kalilombe
1933
Roman Catholic theologian
Yakir Aharonov
1932
Israeli physicist (born 1932)
Andy Bathgate
1932
Canadian ice hockey player (1932–2016)
Tito Capobianco
1931
Argentine American stage director and general manager
Cristina Deutekom
1931
Dutch operatic soprano
Ola L. Mize
1931
United States Army officer (1931–2014)
John Shirley-Quirk
1931
English bass-baritone (1931–2014)
Roger Williams (hepatologist)
1931
British hepatologist (1931–2020)
Windsor Davies
1930
British actor (1930–2019)
Ben Gazzara
1930
American actor (1930–2012)
István Kertész (conductor)
1929
Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor
Roxie Roker
1929
American actress (1929–1995)
F. William Free
1928
Vilayat Khan
1928
Indian musician
Billy Grammer
1925
American country music singer-songwriter (1925–2011)
Donald O'Connor
1925
American film actor (1925–2003)
Philip Purser
1925
British television critic (1925–2022)
Janet Frame
1924
New Zealand author (1924–2004)
Tony MacGibbon
1924
New Zealand cricketer
Peggy Ryan
1924
American actress and dancer (1924–2004)
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
1924
American Rabbi, writer, and activist
John Herbert Chapman
1921
Canadian space researcher
Fernando Fernán Gómez
1921
Spanish actor and film director (1921–2007)
Nancy Kulp
1921
American actress and educator (1921–1991)
Lidia Gueiler
1921
President of Bolivia in 1979 to 1980
Godfrey Hounsfield
1919
British electrical engineer (1919–2004)
L. B. Cole
1918
American cartoonist
Jack Kirby
1917
American comic book artist (1917–1994)
Hélène Baillargeon
1916
Canadian singer, actor and folklorist (1916–1997)
C. Wright Mills
1916
American sociologist (1916–1962)
Jack Vance
1916
American writer (1916–2013)
Max Robertson
1915
Sports commentator and author (1915–2009)
Tasha Tudor
1915
American illustrator and writer (1915–2008)
Robertson Davies
1913
Canadian novelist
Jack Dreyfus
1913
American businessman
Lindsay Hassett
1913
Australian cricketer (1913–1993)
Robert Irving (conductor)
1913
British conductor (1913–1991)
Terence Reese
1913
Bridge player and writer
Richard Tucker
1913
American opera singer (1913–1975)
Joseph Luns
1911
Dutch politician and diplomat (1911–2002)
Morris Graves
1910
American painter (1910–2001)
Tjalling Koopmans
1910
American mathematician (1910–1985)
Roger Tory Peterson
1908
American naturalist, ornithologist and writer (1908–1996)
John Betjeman
1906
English poet (1906–1984)
Cyril Walters
1905
English cricketer
Secondo Campini
1904
Italian engineer and pioneer of the jet engine
Leho Laurine
1904
Estonian chess player (1904–1998)
Bruno Bettelheim
1903
Austrian-American child psychologist and writer (1903–1990)
1800s
Charles Boyer
1899
French-American actor (1899–1978)
Andrei Platonov
1899
Russian author
James Wong Howe
1899
American cinematographer (1899–1976)
Charlie Grimm
1898
American baseball player and manager (1898–1983)
Firaq Gorakhpuri
1896
Indian Urdu poet
Karl Böhm
1894
Austrian conductor (1894–1981)
Benno Schotz
1891
Estonian-Scottish sculptor
Evadne Price
1888
Australian-British writer, actress, astrologer and media personality (1888–1985)
August Kippasto
1887
Estonian wrestler (1887–1973)
István Kühár
1887
Slovene Roman Catholic priest, politician and writer
Vance Palmer
1885
Australian writer
Peter Fraser
1884
Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1940 to 1949
George Whipple
1878
American biomedical researcher (1878–1976)
Umberto Giordano
1867
Italian opera composer
Lida Howell
1859
American archer (1859–1938)
Vittorio Sella
1859
Italian photographer and mountaineer (1859–1943)
Vladimir Shukhov
1853
Russian polymath, engineer, scientist and architect (1853–1939)
Alexander Cameron Sim
1840
British businessman active in Japan
Francis, Duke of Teck
1837
Austrian-born British nobleman (1837–1900)
Edward Burne-Jones
1833
English painter and designer (1833–1898)
Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia
1827
Grand Duchess of Russia
Graham Berry
1822
Australian politician
Charles Sladen
1816
Australian politician
Sheridan Le Fanu
1814
Irish Gothic and mystery writer (1814–1873)
Antoine Augustin Cournot
1801
French economist and mathematician (1801–1877)
Before 1800
Elizabeth Ann Seton
1774
American Roman Catholic educator and saint (1774–1821)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749
German writer and polymath (1749–1832)
John Lynch (1740–1820)
1740
American founder of Lynchburg (1740–1820)
Agostino Accorimboni
1739
Italian composer (1739–1818)
John Stark
1728
18th century soldier from New Hampshire
Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick
1714
German prince and military officer
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
1691
Holy Roman Empress from 1711 to 1740
Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow
1667
Queen of Denmark and Norway from 1699 to 1721
Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn
1612
Dutch linguist (1612–1653)
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
1592
English politician (1592–1628)
John Christian of Brieg
1591
Taichang Emperor
1582
Emperor of China in 1620
Francisco de Sá de Miranda
1481
Portuguese poet (1481–1558)
Kanō Motonobu
1476
Japanese painter (1476–1559)
Jean II Le Maingre
1366
French knight, marshal and crusader (1366–1421)
Emperor Go-Reizei
1023
Emperor of Japan from 1045 to 1068