Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 28

Births

 * 1582 - Taichang Emperor of the Ming dynasty of China (d. 1620)
 * 1592 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1628)
 * 1899 - Charles Boyer, French actor (d. 1978)
 * 1906 - John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)
 * 1930 - Ben Gazzara, American actor (d. 2012)
 * 1938 - Paul Martin, former Prime Minister of Canada
 * 1943 - David Soul, American actor
 * 1965 - Shania Twain, Canadian singer
 * 1969 - Jack Black, American actor
 * 1986 - Gilad Shalit, Israeli military officer

Deaths

 * 430 - Augustine of Hippo, North African saint and theologian (b. 354) (pictured)
 * 1654 - Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583)
 * 1818 - Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, founder of Chicago
 * 1900 - Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (b. 1838)
 * 1987 - John Huston, American movie director (b. 1906)