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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 28th of August 0475 | EVENT | The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna. |
| 28th of August 0489 | EVENT | Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy. |
| 28th of August 1189 | EVENT | Third Crusade: the Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan |
| 28th of August 1349 | EVENT | 6,000 Jews are killed in Mainz, accused of being the cause of the plague. |
| 28th of August 1511 | EVENT | The Portuguese conquer Malacca. |
| 28th of August 1521 | EVENT | The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade. |
| 28th of August 1542 | EVENT | Turkish-Portuguese War (1538-1557) : Battle of Wofla: the Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovao da Gama is captured and later executed. |
| 28th of August 1609 | EVENT | Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay. |
| 28th of August 1619 | EVENT | Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. |
| 28th of August 1640 | EVENT | Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn. |
| 28th of August 1789 | EVENT | William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn. |
| 28th of August 1810 | EVENT | Battle of Grand Port : the French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet. |
| 28th of August 1830 | EVENT | The Tom Thumb presages the first railway service in the United States. |
| 28th of August 1845 | EVENT | The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published. |
| 28th of August 1849 | EVENT | After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent, surrenders to Austria. |
| 28th of August 1859 | EVENT | A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as far away as Japan. |
| 28th of August 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas. |
| 28th of August 1867 | EVENT | The United States takes possession of the, at this point unoccupied, Midway Atoll. |
| 28th of August 1879 | EVENT | Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British. |
| 28th of August 1898 | EVENT | Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola". |
| 28th of August 1901 | EVENT | Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. The first American private school in the country. |
| 28th of August 1913 | EVENT | Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague. |
| 28th of August 1914 | EVENT | World War I: the Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight. |
| 28th of August 1914 | EVENT | World War I: German troops conquer Namur. |
| 28th of August 1916 | EVENT | World War I: Germany declares war on Romania. |
| 28th of August 1916 | EVENT | World War I: Italy declares war on Germany. |
| 28th of August 1917 | EVENT | Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House. |
| 28th of August 1924 | EVENT | The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union. |
| 28th of August 1931 | EVENT | France and Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression. |
| 28th of August 1937 | EVENT | Toyota Motors becomes an independent company. |
| 28th of August 1943 | EVENT | World War II: in Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started. |
| 28th of August 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated. |
| 28th of August 1953 | EVENT | Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement. |
| 28th of August 1955 | EVENT | Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement. |
| 28th of August 1961 | EVENT | Motown releases what would be its first #1 hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes. |
| 28th of August 1963 | EVENT | March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech |
| 28th of August 1963 | EVENT | Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie are murdered in their Manhattan flat, prompting the events that would lead to the passing of the Miranda Rights. |
| 28th of August 1964 | EVENT | The Philadelphia race riot begins. |
| 28th of August 1968 | EVENT | Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention. |
| 28th of August 1979 | EVENT | An IRA bomb explodes on the Grand Place in Brussels. |
| 28th of August 1981 | EVENT | The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men. These will soon be recognized as symptoms of an immune disorder, which will be called AIDS. |
| 28th of August 1986 | EVENT | United States Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years imprisonment for espionage for the Soviet Union. |
| 28th of August 1988 | EVENT | Ramstein airshow disaster: three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. 75 are killed and 346 seriously injured. |
| 28th of August 1990 | EVENT | Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province. |
| 28th of August 1990 | EVENT | The Plainfield Tornado: an F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people. |
| 28th of August 1991 | EVENT | Collapse of the Soviet Union : Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. |
| 28th of August 1991 | EVENT | Ukraine declares its independence from the Soviet Union. |
| 28th of August 1996 | EVENT | Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales divorce. |
| 28th of August 1998 | EVENT | Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate. |
| 28th of August 2003 | EVENT | An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500,000 people living in south east England and brings 60% of London's underground rail network to a halt. |
| 28th of August 2005 | EVENT | Hurricane Katrina begins to make landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi in the afternoon, and brings the most severe damage to Slidell and New Orleans. |
| 28th of August 1025 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (d. 1068) |
| 28th of August 1582 | BIRTHDAY | Taichang Emperor, of the Ming Dynasty of China (d. 1620) |
| 28th of August 1592 | BIRTHDAY | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1628) |
| 28th of August 1612 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (d. 1653) |
| 28th of August 1667 | BIRTHDAY | Louise of Mecklenburg-Gustrow, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1721) |
| 28th of August 1691 | BIRTHDAY | Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1750) |
| 28th of August 1714 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (d. 1774) |
| 28th of August 1749 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (d. 1832) |
| 28th of August 1774 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Ann Seton, American-born Catholic saint (d. 1821) |
| 28th of August 1789 | BIRTHDAY | Stephanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden (d. 1860) |
| 28th of August 1801 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician (d. 1877) |
| 28th of August 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873) |
| 28th of August 1827 | BIRTHDAY | Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1894) |
| 28th of August 1828 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (birthdate according to O.S.) (d. 1910) |
| 28th of August 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish merchant (d. 1900) |
| 28th of August 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Shukhov, Russian engineer and inventor (d. 1939) |
| 28th of August 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Vittorio Sella, Italian photographer (d. 1943) |
| 28th of August 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (d. 1948) |
| 28th of August 1878 | BIRTHDAY | George Whipple, American doctor and Nobel laureate (d. 1976) |
| 28th of August 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Fraser, former Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1950) |
| 28th of August 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Vance Palmer, Australian author (d. 1959) |
| 28th of August 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Istvan Kuhar, Slovene (Prekmurian) writer and politician (d. 1922) |
| 28th of August 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Bohm, Austrian conductor (d. 1981) |
| 28th of August 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Grimm, American baseball player (d. 1983) |
| 28th of August 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Andrei Platonov, Russian writer (d. 1951) |
| 28th of August 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Boyer, French actor (d. 1978) |
| 28th of August 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Bettelheim, American psychologist (d. 1990) |
| 28th of August 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Secondo Campini, Italian jet engine pioneer (d. 1980) |
| 28th of August 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Cyril Walters, England cricketer (d. 1992) |
| 28th of August 1906 | BIRTHDAY | John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984) |
| 28th of August 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist (d. 1996) |
| 28th of August 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-born economist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985) |
| 28th of August 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Luns, Dutch politician (d. 2002) |
| 28th of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Robertson Davies, Canadian writer (d. 1995) |
| 28th of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Dreyfus, American entrepreneur (d. 2009) |
| 28th of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Pahor, Slovenian writer |
| 28th of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Terence Reese, British bridge player (d. 1996) |
| 28th of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (d. 1993) |
| 28th of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Tucker, American tenor (d. 1975) |
| 28th of August 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Max Robertson, British sports commentator (d. 2009) |
| 28th of August 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Tasha Tudor, American illustrator (d. 2008) |
| 28th of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Helene Baillargeon, Quebec singer and folklorist (d. 1997) |
| 28th of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | C. Wright Mills American sociologist (d. 1962) |
| 28th of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Vance, American author |
| 28th of August 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Kirby, American comic book artist (d. 1994) |
| 28th of August 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer Nobel Laureate (d. 2004) |
| 28th of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Fernan Gomez, Spanish actor, director, academic and playwright (d. 2007) |
| 28th of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Kulp, American actress (d. 1991) |
| 28th of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Peggy Ryan, American actress (d. 2004) |
| 28th of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Janet Frame, New Zealand author (d. 2004) |
| 28th of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Tony MacGibbon, New Zealand cricketer |
| 28th of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Grammer, American country music singer and guitarist |
| 28th of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Donald O'Connor, American singer, dancer, and actor (d. 2003) |
| 28th of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | F. William Free, American advertising executive (d. 2003) |
| 28th of August 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian conductor (d. 1973) |
| 28th of August 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Gampu, South African actor (d. 2003) |
| 28th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Gazzara, American actor |
| 28th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Windsor Davies, British actor |
| 28th of August 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Tito Capobianco, Argentinian stage impresario and director |
| 28th of August 1931 | BIRTHDAY | John Shirley-Quirk, English bass-baritone |
| 28th of August 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 28th of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (d. 1998) |
| 28th of August 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Don Denkinger, American baseball umpire |
| 28th of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Martin, Canadian politician |
| 28th of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Maurizio Costanzo, Italian television journalist |
| 28th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Jenkins, American actor |
| 28th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Nik Turner, English musician (Hawkwind) |
| 28th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Pingeon, French cylist |
| 28th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Sybille de Selys Longchamps, Belgian aristocrat |
| 28th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Plishka, American opera singer |
| 28th of August 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (d. 1995) |
| 28th of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Piniella, American baseball manager |
| 28th of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Surayud Chulanont, Thai 24th Prime Minister (former) |
| 28th of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | David Soul, American actor |
| 28th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Marianne Heemskerk, Dutch swimmer |
| 28th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Melvin Dummar, American claimant to the Howard Hughes estate |
| 28th of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Greenwald, American film director/producer |
| 28th of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Segarini, American musician |
| 28th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress |
| 28th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Seraphine, American musician (Chicago) |
| 28th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Murray Parker, New Zealand cricketer |
| 28th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Heather Reisman, Canadian businesswoman |
| 28th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh Cornwell, British musician (The Stranglers) |
| 28th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Svetislav Pesic, Serbian basketball player and coach |
| 28th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Keiichi Suzuki, Japanese composer |
| 28th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Osmond, American singer (The Osmonds) |
| 28th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Rita Dove, American poet |
| 28th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman |
| 28th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Nadon, Canadian actor |
| 28th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Chagnon, Canadian politician |
| 28th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | George Church, American geneticist |
| 28th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Guzman, Puerto Rican actor |
| 28th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Lutz, Puerto Rican actor |
| 28th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Ivo Josipovic, President of Croatia |
| 28th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Stern, American actor |
| 28th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Rossovich, American actor |
| 28th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Hamilton, American figure skater |
| 28th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Dinah Cancer, American singer 45 Grave |
| 28th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Emma Samms, English actress |
| 28th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Appleby, English singer |
| 28th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Cliff Benson, American football player |
| 28th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Allen, English footballer |
| 28th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | David Fincher, American music video and film director |
| 28th of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Regina Jacobs, American athlete |
| 28th of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Coolidge, American actress |
| 28th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Satoshi Tajiri, founder of Game Freak |
| 28th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Tapping, Canadian actress, director and producer |
| 28th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Shania Twain, Canadian singer |
| 28th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Priya Dutt, Indian social worker and politician |
| 28th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Kesner, Philippine-born Australian poet |
| 28th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Boyd, Scottish actor |
| 28th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Priestley, Canadian-born actor |
| 28th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Black, American actor |
| 28th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Turgeon, French Canadian ice hockey player |
| 28th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Mary McCartney, English photographer |
| 28th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Sherrie Austin, Australian actress/singer |
| 28th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Recht, Jewish singer |
| 28th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Janet Evans, American swimmer |
| 28th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Raul Marquez, Mexican-born American boxer |
| 28th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Shane Andrews, American baseball player |
| 28th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Eldredge, American figure skater |
| 28th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Witasick, American baseball player |
| 28th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ravindu Shah, Kenyan cricketer |
| 28th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew John Armstrong, American actor |
| 28th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | DJ Assault, American musician |
| 28th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Kirby Morrow, Canadian voice actor |
| 28th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Takahito Eguchi, Japanese composer |
| 28th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Andersson, Swedish game programmer |
| 28th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Kaori Mizuhashi, Japanese voice actress |
| 28th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Carsten Jancker, German footballer |
| 28th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Cureton, English footballer |
| 28th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Vera Jordanova, Finnish actress and model |
| 28th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Gareth Farrelly, Irish footballer |
| 28th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Federico Magallanes, Uruguayan footballer |
| 28th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jess Margera, American drummer (CKY) |
| 28th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Hoyzer, German football referee |
| 28th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Shaila Durcal, Spanish singer |
| 28th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Kristen Hughes, Australian netballer |
| 28th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Riley, American basketball player |
| 28th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Markus Proll, German footballer |
| 28th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Debra Lafave, American former teacher and convicted sex offender |
| 28th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Carly Pope, Canadian actress |
| 28th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Erat, Czech hockey player |
| 28th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer |
| 28th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Agata Wrobel, Polish weightlifter |
| 28th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Raphael Matos, Brazilian racing driver |
| 28th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | LeAnn Rimes, American singer |
| 28th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin McNaughton, Scottish footballer |
| 28th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Anderson Silva de Franca, Brazilian footballer |
| 28th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Thiago Motta, Brazilian footballer |
| 28th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer |
| 28th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Luke McAlister, New Zealand All Black rugby player |
| 28th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Alfonso Herrera, Mexican actor and singer (RBD) |
| 28th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Roemer, American actress and model |
| 28th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Green, American basketball player |
| 28th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Gilad Shalit, Israeli soldier |
| 28th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Florence Welch, British singer (Florence + the Machine) |
| 28th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Mohombi, Swedish-Colognese singer |
| 28th of August 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Cassadee Pope, American Pop Musician (Hey Monday) |
| 28th of August 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Jokwon, South Korean singer (2AM) |
| 28th of August 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Bojan Krkic, Spanish footballer |
| 28th of August 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Kyle Massey, American actor and rapper |
| 28th of August 1999 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Nikolai of Denmark, Danish royalty |
| 28th of August 0388 | DEATH | Magnus Maximus, Roman usurper |
| 28th of August 0430 | DEATH | Augustine of Hippo, North African saint and theologian (Born 354) |
| 28th of August 1341 | DEATH | King Leo V of Armenia (Born 1309) |
| 28th of August 1481 | DEATH | King Afonso V of Portugal (Born 1432) |
| 28th of August 1645 | DEATH | Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (Born 1583) |
| 28th of August 1654 | DEATH | Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (Born 1583) |
| 28th of August 1678 | DEATH | John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (Born 1602) |
| 28th of August 1757 | DEATH | David Hartley, English philosopher (Born 1705) |
| 28th of August 1784 | DEATH | Junipero Serra, Spanish missionary (Born 1713) |
| 28th of August 1785 | DEATH | Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (Born 1714) |
| 28th of August 1793 | DEATH | Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (executed) (Born 1740) |
| 28th of August 1805 | DEATH | Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (Born 1722) |
| 28th of August 1818 | DEATH | Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, founder of Chicago |
| 28th of August 1820 | DEATH | Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (Born 1754) |
| 28th of August 1839 | DEATH | William Smith, English geologist (Born 1769) |
| 28th of August 1900 | DEATH | Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Born 1838) |
| 28th of August 1903 | DEATH | Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (Born 1822) |
| 28th of August 1933 | DEATH | Helen Dunbar, American actress (Born 1863) |
| 28th of August 1943 | DEATH | King Boris III of Bulgaria (Born 1894) |
| 28th of August 1947 | DEATH | Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (Born 1917) |
| 28th of August 1955 | DEATH | Emmett Till, American civil rights movement icon (Born 1941) |
| 28th of August 1959 | DEATH | Bohuslav Martinu, Czech composer (Born 1890) |
| 28th of August 1965 | DEATH | Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (Born 1909) |
| 28th of August 1971 | DEATH | Reuvein Margolies, Austrian-Hungarian-born Israeli author and Talmudic scholar (Born 1889) |
| 28th of August 1975 | DEATH | Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (Born 1907) |
| 28th of August 1976 | DEATH | Anissa Jones, American actress (Born 1958) |
| 28th of August 1978 | DEATH | Robert Shaw, English actor and writer (Born 1927) |
| 28th of August 1981 | DEATH | Bela Guttman, Hungarian footballer (Born 1900) |
| 28th of August 1982 | DEATH | Geoff Chubb, South African cricketer (Born 1911) |
| 28th of August 1985 | DEATH | Ruth Gordon, American actress (Born 1896) |
| 28th of August 1987 | DEATH | John Huston, American movie director (Born 1906) |
| 28th of August 1988 | DEATH | Jean Marchand, French Canadian union leader and politician (Born 1918) |
| 28th of August 1990 | DEATH | Willy Vandersteen, Belgian cartoonist (Born 1913) |
| 28th of August 1991 | DEATH | Alekos Sakellarios, Greek writer and film director (Born 1913) |
| 28th of August 1993 | DEATH | William Stafford, American poet (Born 1914) |
| 28th of August 1995 | DEATH | Earl Bascom, American rodeo pioneer (Born 1906) |
| 28th of August 2003 | DEATH | Brian Douglas Wells, American criminal (failed) (Born 1956) |
| 28th of August 2005 | DEATH | Jacques Dufilho, French actor (Born 1914) |
| 28th of August 2005 | DEATH | Esther Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (Born 1910) |
| 28th of August 2005 | DEATH | George Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (Born 1911) |
| 28th of August 2006 | DEATH | Benoit Sauvageau, French Canadian politician (Born 1963) |
| 28th of August 2006 | DEATH | Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1932) |
| 28th of August 2007 | DEATH | Hilly Kristal, American musician (Born 1932) |
| 28th of August 2007 | DEATH | Arthur Jones, American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines (Born 1926) |
| 28th of August 2007 | DEATH | Paul MacCready, American aeronautical engineer (Born 1925) |
| 28th of August 2007 | DEATH | Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (Born 1984) |
| 28th of August 2007 | DEATH | Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (Born 1935) |
| 28th of August 2007 | DEATH | Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-born American actress (Born 1929) |
| 28th of August 2007 | DEATH | Nikola Nobilo, New Zealand winemaker (Born 1913) |
| 28th of August 2008 | DEATH | Phil Hill, American race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (Born 1927) |
| 28th of August 2009 | DEATH | Adam Goldstein, American DJ also known as DJ AM (Born 1973) |
| 28th of August 2009 | DEATH | Wayne Tippit, American actor (Born 1932) |
| 28th of August 2010 | DEATH | William P. Foster, American band director and educator (Born 1919) |