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The
28t o August
is the 240t day o the year (241st in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 125 days bidin.
Events
Births
- 1582
-
Taichang Emperor
o
Cheenae
(d.
1620
)
- 1749
-
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
, German author (d.
1832
)
- 1802
-
Thomas Aird
, Scots poet (d.
1876
)
- 1860
-
George McCrae
, Scots politeecian (d.
1928
)
- 1884
-
Peter Fraser
, Scots-born 24t
Prime meenister
o
New Zealand
(d.
1950
)
- 1891
-
Benno Schotz
, Estonie-Scots sculptor (d.
1984
)
- 1899
-
Chang Myon
, Korean statesman, eddicator, diplomat, jurnalist an social activist (d.
1966
)
- 1906
-
John Betjeman
, Inglis poet (d.
1984
)
- 1930
-
Ben Gazzara
, American actor (d.
2012
)
- 1937
-
Ian Campbell, 12t Duke o Argyll
, Scots peer (d.
2001
)
- 1938
-
Paul Martin
, umwhile Prime meenister o
Canadae
- 1942
-
Jose Eduardo dos Santos
, umwhile
Preses
o
Angolae
- 1951
-
Colin McAdam
, Scots fitbawer (d.
2013
)
- 1957
-
Ivo Josipovic
, umwhile
Preses
o
Croatie
- 1962
-
Duncan Shearer
, Scots fitbawer
- 1964
-
Kaj Leo Johannesen
, umwhile
Prime meenister
o the
Faroe Islands
- 1965
-
Shania Twain
, Canadian sangster an sangwriter
- 1967
-
Greg Clark
, Inglis politeecian
- 1968
-
Billy Boyd
, Scots actor an sangster
- 1969
-
Jack Black
, American actor an muisicker
- 1981
-
Kezia Dugdale
, Scots politeecian
- 1982
-
Kevin McNaughton
, Scots fitbawer
- 1982
-
Thiago Motta
, Brazilian-Italian fitbawer
- 1982
-
LeAnn Rimes
, American sangster
- 1984
-
Paula Fernandes
, Brazilian sangster
- 1986
-
Gilad Shalit
, Israeli sodger
- 1986
-
Florence Welch
, Inglis sangster (
Florence and the Machine
)
- 1987
-
Bob Harris
, Scots fitbawer
- 1989
-
Jamie Murphy
, Scots fitbawer
- 1989
-
Cesar Azpilicueta
, Spaingie fitbawer
- 1989
-
Valtteri Bottas
, Finnish racin driver
- 1990
-
Bojan Krkic
, Spaingie fitbawer
Daiths
- 388
-
Magnus Maximus
, Roman Emperor (b.
335
)
- 430
-
Augustine o Hippo
, Christian saunt
- 876
-
Louis the German
, Frankish king (b.
804
)
- 1645
-
Hugo Grotius
, Dutch polymath (b.
1583
)
- 1913
-
Alexander Macfarlane
, Scots logician, pheesicist an mathemateecian (b.
1851
)
- 1930
-
Bobby Walker
, Scots fitbawer (b.
1879
)
- 1941
-
William Hay Caldwell
, Scots zoologist (b.
1859
)
- 1943
- Tsar
Boris III o Bulgarie
(b.
1894
)
- 1987
-
John Huston
, American film director (b.
1906
)
- 1994
-
Neil Mochan
, Scots fitbawer (b.
1927
)
- 1995
-
Michael Ende
, German screiver (b.
1929
)
- 2003
-
William Cochran
, Scots pheesicist (b.
1922
)
- 2007
-
Antonio Puerta
, Spainyie fitbawer (b.
1984
)
- 2013
-
John Bellany
, Scots penter (b.
1942
)
- 2020
-
Chadwick Boseman
, American actor (b.
1976
)
Halidays
- Christian Feast Day o Assumption in the Orthodox Kirks
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