Anniversaries 28 August
Birth
![Koxinga photo]()
Chinese military leader
1624–1662
![Johann Wolfgang von Goethe photo]()
German writer, artist, and politician
1749–1832
![Antoine Augustin Cournot photo]()
French economist and mathematician
1801–1877
![J. Sheridan Le Fanu photo]()
Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels
1814–1873
![Karl Heinrich Ulrichs photo]()
German jurist, writer and pioneer of LGBT human rights
1825–1895
![Narayana Guru photo]()
Indian social reformer
1855–1928
![Práxedis Guerrero photo]()
Mexican journalist and anarchist revolutionary
1882–1910
![Ivor Gurney photo]()
English composer and poet
1890–1937
![Норман Шварцкопф photo]()
United States Army general and first superintendent of the …
1895–1958
![Bruno Bettelheim photo]()
child psychologist and writer
1903–1990
![John Betjeman photo]()
English poet, writer and broadcaster
1906–1984
![Robertson Davies photo]()
Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and nov…
1913–1995
![Tasha Tudor photo]()
American illustrator and writer
1915–2008
![C. Wright Mills photo]()
American sociologist
1916–1962
![Jack Vance photo]()
American mystery and speculative fiction writer
1916–2013
![Jack Kirby photo]()
American comic book artist, writer and editor
1917–1994
![Zalman Schachter-Shalomi photo]()
American writer and activist, Jewish Renewal movement pione…
1924–2014
![Janet Frame photo]()
New Zealand author
1924–2004
![Eugene Kennedy photo]()
American psychologist
1928–2015
![Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon photo]()
Indian physicist
1928–2016
![Andy Bathgate photo]()
Canadian ice hockey player
1932–2016
![Paul Martin photo]()
21st Prime Minister of Canada
1938
![Simon LeVay photo]()
American neuroscientist
1943
![Vonda N. McIntyre photo]()
American writer
1948–2019
![Barbara Hambly photo]()
American fiction writer
1951
![Rita Dove photo]()
American poet and author (1952)
1952
![Ai Weiwei photo]()
Chinese concept artist
1957
![Leroy Chiao photo]()
American astronaut and engineer
1960
![Jennifer Coolidge photo]()
American actress and comedian
1961
![David Fincher photo]()
American film director
1962
![Shania Twain photo]()
Canadian country pop singer-songwriter
1965
![Jack Black photo]()
American actor, comedian, musician, music producer
1969
![Molly Cameron photo]()
American racing cyclist
1976
![Kaya Jones photo]()
American pop singer, glamour model and actress
1984
Death
![Aurelius Augustinus photo]()
early Christian theologian and philosopher
354–430
![Fatimah photo]()
daughter of Muhammad and Khadijah
604–632
![David Hartley (philosopher) photo]()
British philosopher
1705–1757
![Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet photo]()
British lawyer and Tory politician
1783–1870
![Leigh Hunt photo]()
English critic, essayist, poet and writer
1784–1859
![Henry Sidgwick photo]()
English philosopher
1838–1900
![Henry Smith Pritchett photo]()
American astronomer
1857–1939
![Alfredo Rocco photo]()
Italian politician and jurist
1875–1935
![Boris III of Bulgaria photo]()
Tsar of Bulgaria
1894–1943
![Ruth Gordon photo]()
American playwright and actress
1896–1985
![Joseph the Hesychast photo]()
Greek Orthodox Christian Athonite monk
1897–1959
![Fritz Wotruba photo]()
Austrian sculptor (23 April 1907, Vienna – 28 August 1975,…
1907–1975
![Paul MacCready photo]()
American aeronautical engineer
1925–2007
![Robert Heller photo]()
British magician
1932–2012
![Melvin Schwartz photo]()
American experimental physicist
1932–2006
![Sogyal Rinpoche photo]()
Tibetan Dzogchen lama of the Nyingma tradition
1947–2019
