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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Charles H. Aldrich
Attorney
28-Aug-1850 13-Apr-1929 US Solicitor General, 1892-93
Stanley Andrews
Actor
28-Aug-1891 23-Jun-1969 Death Valley Days
J. D. Roy Atchison
Government
28-Aug-1954 5-Oct-2007 Assistant US Attorney
James Aubrey
Actor
28-Aug-1947 6-Apr-2010 Lord of the Flies
Robert L. Barry
Diplomat
28-Aug-1934   US Ambassador to Indonesia, 1992-95
Andy Bathgate
Hockey
28-Aug-1932   NHL Hall of Famer
John Betjeman
Poet
28-Aug-1906 19-May-1984 Summoned By Bells
Bruno Bettelheim
Psychologist
28-Aug-1903 13-Mar-1990 Fraudulent child psychologist
Jack Black
Musician
28-Aug-1969   Half of Tenacious D
Karl Böhm
Conductor
28-Aug-1894 14-Aug-1981 Conductor, Vienna State Opera
Billy Boyd
Actor
28-Aug-1968   Pippin in The Lord of the Rings
Charles Boyer
Actor
28-Aug-1899 26-Aug-1978 Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Edward Burne-Jones
Painter
28-Aug-1833 16-Jun-1898 British Pre-Raphaelite painter
E. E. Clive
Actor
28-Aug-1879 6-Jun-1940 Tenney in Bulldog Drummond
William Cohen
Government
28-Aug-1940   US Secretary of Defense, 1997-01
Jennifer Coolidge
Actor
28-Aug-1961   Legally Blonde
Hugh Cudlipp
Business
28-Aug-1913 17-May-1998 British news magnate
Robertson Davies
Author
28-Aug-1913 3-Dec-1995 Fifth Business
Laura Day
TV Personality
28-Aug-1972   Interior decorator on Trading Spaces
José Eduardo dos Santos
Head of State
28-Aug-1942   President of Angola
Rita Dove
Poet
28-Aug-1952   7th US Poet Laureate, 1993-95
Leslie Dwyer
Actor
28-Aug-1906 29-Dec-1986 Mr Partridge in Hi-de-Hi!
Janet Evans
Swimmer
28-Aug-1971   Olympic distance swimmer
Frank Fahrenkopf
Business
28-Aug-1939   CEO, American Gaming Association
Fernando Fernán-Gómez
Actor
28-Aug-1921 21-Nov-2007 Voyage to Nowhere
David Fincher
Film Director
28-Aug-1962   Fight Club
Janet Frame
Author
28-Aug-1924 29-Jan-2004 Kiwi author, subject of An Angel at My Table
Peter Fraser
Head of State
28-Aug-1884 5-Aug-1950 Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1940-49
Ben Gazzara
Actor
28-Aug-1930 3-Feb-2012 The Thomas Crown Affair
Daniel Goddard
Actor
28-Aug-1971   Dar on BeastMaster
Goethe
Author
28-Aug-1749 22-Mar-1832 Most influential German writer
Robert Greenwald
Film/TV Producer
28-Aug-1945   Outfoxed, Xanadu
Ron Guidry
Baseball
28-Aug-1950   Yankees Pitcher, 1975-88
Ivor Gurney
Poet
28-Aug-1890 26-Dec-1937 War's Embers
Luis Guzmán
Actor
28-Aug-1956   Ramon on John From Cincinnati
John H. Hager
Politician
28-Aug-1936   Lt. Governor of Virginia, 1998-2002
Scott Hamilton
Figure Skating
28-Aug-1958   Olympic ice skater
Armie Hammer
Actor
28-Aug-1986   Billy: The Early Years
Lucy Hayes
First Lady
28-Aug-1831 25-Jun-1889 Wife of US President Rutherford B. Hayes
Godfrey N. Hounsfield
Engineer
28-Aug-1919 12-Aug-2004 Computerized axial tomography (CAT scans)
Whip Hubley
Actor
28-Aug-1958   Russkies
Lowell Jacoby
Military
28-Aug-1945   Director, Defense Intelligence Agency, 2002-05
Lee Janzen
Golf
28-Aug-1964   Winner of the US Open, 1993 and 1998
Ken Jenkins
Actor
28-Aug-1940   Dr. Bob Kelso on Scrubs
István Kertész
Conductor
28-Aug-1929 16-Apr-1973 Hungarian operatic conductor
Jack Kirby
Cartoonist
28-Aug-1917 6-Feb-1994 Captain America
Jen Kirkman
Comic
28-Aug-1974   Chelsea Lately
Tjalling C. Koopmans
Economist
28-Aug-1910 26-Feb-1985 Linear programming
Nancy Kulp
Actor
28-Aug-1921 3-Feb-1991 Miss Jane Hathaway on Beverly Hillbillies
Richard A. Lerner
Biologist
28-Aug-1938   Scripps Research Institute
S. Robert Lichter
Scholar
28-Aug-1948   Center for Media and Public Affairs
Joseph Luns
Politician
28-Aug-1911 17-Jul-2002 Dutch Foreign Minister, 1952-71
John F. Maisto
Diplomat
28-Aug-1938   US Ambassador to the OAS, 2003-06
Burton Malkiel
Economist
28-Aug-1932   A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Paul Martin
Head of State
28-Aug-1938   21st Prime Minister of Canada
Kyle Massey
Actor
28-Aug-1991   Cory on That's So Raven
Dick Mayer
Golf
28-Aug-1924 2-Jun-1989 Winner, 1957 US Open
C. Wright Mills
Sociologist
28-Aug-1916 20-Mar-1962 The Power Elite
Debra Mooney
Actor
28-Aug-1947   Edna Harper on Everwood
John Allen Nelson
Actor
28-Aug-1959   Warren Lockridge on Santa Barbara
Bruno Nuytten
Film Director
28-Aug-1945   Jean de Florette
Donald O'Connor
Actor
28-Aug-1925 27-Sep-2003 Singin' in the Rain
Liam O'Flaherty
Novelist
28-Aug-1896 7-Sep-1984 Thy Neighbour's Wife
Simon Oakland
Actor
28-Aug-1915 29-Aug-1983 Tony Vincenzo on Kolchak
Wayne Osmond
Musician
28-Aug-1951   One of the Osmonds
Jake Owen
Country Musician
28-Aug-1981   Barefoot Blue Jean Night
Kay Parker
Pornstar
28-Aug-1944   Taboo series of films
Lou Piniella
Baseball
28-Aug-1943   Manager, Chicago Cubs
Carly Pope
Actor
28-Aug-1980   Sam McPherson on Popular
Jason Priestley
Actor
28-Aug-1969   Brandon Walsh on Beverly Hills 90210
Ernest S. Rady
Business
28-Aug-1937   CEO of WestCorp, 1978-2006
LeAnn Rimes
Country Musician
28-Aug-1982   How Do I Live
Sarah Roemer
Actor
28-Aug-1984   Disturbia
Roxie Roker
Actor
28-Aug-1929 2-Dec-1995 Helen Willis on The Jeffersons
Rick Rossovich
Actor
28-Aug-1957   Navy Seals
Emma Samms
Actor
28-Aug-1960   Fallon Carrington on Dynasty
Sheryl Sandberg
Business
28-Aug-1969   COO of Facebook
Sonny Shroyer
Actor
28-Aug-1935   Enos on The Dukes of Hazzard
David Soul
Actor
28-Aug-1943   Hutch on Starsky and Hutch
Adolphus Staton
Military
28-Aug-1879 4-Jun-1964 US Navy admiral
Daniel Stern
Actor
28-Aug-1957   City Slickers
Amanda Tapping
Actor
28-Aug-1965   Stargate: SG1
Brian Thompson
Actor
28-Aug-1959   The Tillamook Treasure
Richard Tucker
Singer
28-Aug-1913 8-Jan-1975 Operatic tenor, NY Metropolitan Opera
Paul Turan
Mathematician
28-Aug-1910 26-Sep-1976 Hungarian mathematician
Shania Twain
Country Musician
28-Aug-1965   You're Still the One
Jack Vance
Novelist
28-Aug-1916   The Dying Earth
Jones Very
Poet
28-Aug-1813 8-May-1880 Religious mystic
Florence Welch
Singer
28-Aug-1986   Florence and the Machine
George H. Whipple
Scientist
28-Aug-1878 2-Feb-1976 Bile, hemoglobin, and the liver
Patricia J. Williams
Scholar
28-Aug-1951   The Alchemy of Race and Rights
Marguerite Young
Author
28-Aug-1908 17-Nov-1995 Miss MacIntosh, My Darling


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