Famous people born on 28 August

• Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGerman writer, artist, natural scientist and politician · 1749–1832
  82 yrs
• José Eduardo dos SantosPresident of Angola from 1979 to 2017 · 1942–2022
  79 yrs
• Philip II of FranceKing of France, and the first to be called by that title · 1165–1223
  57 yrs
• Chang Myon ↗South Korean politician · 1899–1966
  66 yrs
• Jack Kirby ↗American comic book artist · 1917–1994
  76 yrs
• C. Wright Mills ↗American sociologist · 1916–1962
  45 yrs
• Godfrey Hounsfield ↗English electrical engineer · 1919–2004
  84 yrs
• Andrei Platonov ↗Russian author · 1899–1951
  51 yrs
• George Whipple ↗American physician and biomedical researcher · 1878–1976
  97 yrs
• Tjalling Koopmans ↗Dutch American economist · 1910–1985
  74 yrs
• Ben Gazzara ↗American actor · 1930–2012
  81 yrs
• Charles Boyer ↗French actor · 1899–1978
  78 yrs
• Shunichiro Okano ↗Japanese association football player and manager · 1931–2017
  85 yrs
• Edward Burne-Jones ↗British Pre-Raphaelite painter · 1833–1898
  64 yrs
• Koxinga ↗17th-century Chinese military leader and first King of Tungning · 1624–1662
  37 yrs
• Donald O'Connor ↗American dancer, singer, and actor · 1925–2003
  78 yrs
• Lidia Gueiler Tejada ↗President of Bolivia · 1921–2011
  89 yrs
• Richard I of Normandy ↗10th-century duke of Normandy · AD 933–996
  63 yrs
• Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel ↗Holy Roman Empress consort · 1691–1750
  59 yrs
• Jack Vance ↗American mystery and speculative fiction writer · 1916–2013
  96 yrs
• Richard II ↗Duke of Normandy from 996 until 1026 · 963–1026
  63 yrs
• Shah Rukh ↗Timurid ruler · 1377–1447
  69 yrs
• Sheridan Le Fanu ↗Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels · 1814–1873
  58 yrs
• George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham ↗Politician from England · 1592–1628
  35 yrs
• Umberto Giordano ↗Italian opera composer · 1867–1948
  81 yrs
• Antoine Augustin Cournot ↗French economist and mathematician · 1801–1877
  75 yrs
• Lucy Webb Hayes ↗First Lady of the United States from 1877 to 1881 · 1831–1889
  57 yrs
• Bruno Bettelheim ↗Austrian-American child psychologist and writer · 1903–1990
  86 yrs
• Irinej ↗Serbian patriarch · 1930–2020
  90 yrs
• Vladimir Shukhov ↗Russian engineer-polymath, scientist and architect · 1853–1939
  85 yrs
• Fernando Fernán Gómez ↗Spanish actor, screenwriter, and director, · 1921–2007
  86 yrs
• Elizabeth Ann Seton ↗First native-born American saint of the Roman Catholic Church · 1774–1821
  46 yrs
• Emlyn Hughes ↗English association football player · 1947–2004
  57 yrs
• Karl Heinrich Ulrichs ↗German jurist, writer and gay rights activist · 1825–1895
  69 yrs

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