Anniversaries 28 August

Birth

Francisco de Sá de Miranda2

Portuguese poet 1491

Koxinga7

Chinese military leader 1624–1662

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe185

German writer, artist, and politician 1749–1832

Antoine Augustin Cournot5

French economist and mathematician 1801–1877

Constant Troyon2

French painter 1810–1865

J. Sheridan Le Fanu13

Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels 1814–1873

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs6

German jurist, writer and pioneer of LGBT human rights 1825–1895

Leo Tolstoy456

Russian writer 1828–1910

Narayana Guru2

Indian social reformer 1855–1928

Robb Wilton5

comedian 1881–1957

Práxedis Guerrero2

Mexican journalist and anarchist revolutionary 1882–1910

Ivor Gurney2

English composer and poet 1890–1937

Норман Шварцкопф1

United States Army general and first superintendent of the … 1895–1958

Liam O'Flaherty4

Irish writer 1896–1984

Bruno Bettelheim2

child psychologist and writer 1903–1990

John Betjeman30

English poet, writer and broadcaster 1906–1984

Ivan Agayants3

KGB officer 1911–1968

Robertson Davies282

Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and nov… 1913–1995

Tasha Tudor2

American illustrator and writer 1915–2008

C. Wright Mills55

American sociologist 1916–1962

Jack Vance213

American mystery and speculative fiction writer 1916–2013

Jack Kirby22

American comic book artist, writer and editor 1917–1994

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi2

American writer and activist, Jewish Renewal movement pione… 1924–2014

Janet Frame8

New Zealand author 1924–2004

Eugene Kennedy2

American psychologist 1928–2015

Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon1

Indian physicist 1928–2016

Andy Bathgate2

Canadian ice hockey player 1932–2016

Alan Williams (novelist)3

novelist 1935

Paul Martin6

21st Prime Minister of Canada 1938

William S. Cohen1

American politician 1940

Simon LeVay1

American neuroscientist 1943

Vonda N. McIntyre5

American writer 1948–2019

Randolph Roque Calvo1

Catholic bishop 1951

Barbara Hambly2

American fiction writer 1951

Rita Dove1

American poet and author (1952) 1952

Ai Weiwei218

Chinese concept artist 1957

Erwin Raphael McManus1

Salvadoran minister 1958

Leroy Chiao1

American astronaut and engineer 1960

Daniel E. Flores1

Catholic bishop 1961

Jennifer Coolidge2

American actress and comedian 1961

David Fincher22

American film director 1962

Shania Twain1

Canadian country pop singer-songwriter 1965

Daniel Drezner2

American journalist 1968

Jack Black5

American actor, comedian, musician, music producer 1969

Josh Kilmer-Purcell1

American writer 1969

Jon Pineda3

American writer 1971

Molly Cameron2

American racing cyclist 1976

Dan Deacon2

American musician 1981

Karanvir Bohra2

Indian actor 1982

Kaya Jones1

American pop singer, glamour model and actress 1984

Nader Nadernejad4

producer 1997

Death

Aurelius Augustinus183

early Christian theologian and philosopher 354–430

Fatimah17

daughter of Muhammad and Khadijah 604–632

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas48

French writer 1544–1590

Hugo Grotius4

philosopher 1583–1645

David Hartley (philosopher)2

British philosopher 1705–1757

Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet11

British lawyer and Tory politician 1783–1870

Leigh Hunt17

English critic, essayist, poet and writer 1784–1859

Henry Sidgwick5

English philosopher 1838–1900

Henry Smith Pritchett1

American astronomer 1857–1939

Alfredo Rocco16

Italian politician and jurist 1875–1935

Boris III of Bulgaria2

Tsar of Bulgaria 1894–1943

Ruth Gordon1

American playwright and actress 1896–1985

Joseph the Hesychast1

Greek Orthodox Christian Athonite monk 1897–1959

Fritz Wotruba20

Austrian sculptor (23 April 1907, Vienna – 28 August 1975,… 1907–1975

Paul MacCready1

American aeronautical engineer 1925–2007

Michael Ende26

German author 1929–1995

Robert Heller21

British magician 1932–2012

Melvin Schwartz1

American experimental physicist 1932–2006

Shulamith Firestone20

Feminist 1945–2012

Sogyal Rinpoche8

Tibetan Dzogchen lama of the Nyingma tradition 1947–2019

Adam Goldstein15

American DJ 1973–2009

Chadwick Boseman7

American actor 1976–2020