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Brian Thompson's first named role was on Werewolf, a horror series that ran during Fox's inaugural broadcasting year of 1987–1988.
Famous Birthdays on August 28
1959 — Brian Thompson
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
August 28 has 218 recorded notable births across history, from 1023 to 2004. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on August 28
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- 1917 Ten suffragists, members of the Silent Sentinels, are arrested while picketing the White House in favor of women's suffrage in the United States. Source
- 1993 Singaporean presidential election: Former Deputy Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong is elected President of Singapore. Although it is the first presidential election to be determined by popular vote, the allowed candidates consist only of Ong and a reluctant whom the government had asked to run to confer upon the election the semblance of an opposition. Source
- 1993 NASA's Galileo probe performs a flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida. Astronomers later discover a moon, the first known asteroid moon, in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl. Source
- 1901 Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country. Source
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Thriller at 10 – Fareb, a TV mini-series produced by Tijori won the 2001 Indian Television Academy Awards in the category best mini-series.
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" in police reports and "Jack" in her estranged then-husband's book Gorgeous Disaster: The Tragic Story of Debra LaFave, in the summer of 2004 when she was 23 and "M.
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Francis von Hohenstein's wife, Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, was a first cousin of Queen Victoria.
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Ruth Riley's Notre Dame team won the NCAA women's championship in 2001, and her Detroit Shock team won the WNBA championship in 2003 and 2006.
More major people born on August 28
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1961
Deepak Tijori
Indian actor and director
Deepak Tijori is an Indian film director and actor who works in Bollywood and Gujarati films and is well known for his supporting roles in Aashiqui (1990), Khiladi (1992), Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar (1992), Kabhi Haan Kabhi…
1980
Debra Lafave
American sex offender and former teacher
Debra Jean Williams, better known by her former married name of Debra Lafave, is an American sex offender and former teacher at Angelo L. Greco Middle School in Temple Terrace, Florida.
1837
Francis von Hohenstein
duke of Teck (died 1900)
Francis, Duke of Teck, known as Count Francis von Hohenstein until 1863, was an Austrian-born nobleman who married into the British royal family.
1979
Ruth Riley
American basketball player
Ruth Ellen Riley Hunter is a retired American professional basketball player, playing most recently for the Atlanta Dream in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
1943
Robert Greenwald
American director and producer
Robert Greenwald is an American filmmaker, and the founder of Brave New Films, a nonprofit film and advocacy organization whose work is distributed for free in concert with nonprofit partners and movements in order to…
1913
Lindsay Hassett
Australian cricketer and sportscaster (died 1993)
Arthur Lindsay Hassett was an Australian cricketer who played for Victoria and the Australian national team. The diminutive Hassett was an elegant middle-order batsman, described by Wisden as, "...
1982
Kevin McNaughton
Scottish footballer
Kevin Paul McNaughton is a Scottish professional football player and coach who is a co-manager of Midlands Premier League club Dundee North End.
1898
Charlie Grimm
American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (died 1983)
Charles John Grimm, nicknamed "Jolly Cholly", was an American professional baseball player and manager.
1941
Paul Plishka
American opera singer
Paul Plishka was an American operatic bass based at the Metropolitan Opera (Met) in New York City where he appeared first in 1967 and last in 2018, in 88 roles and 1672 performances.
1985
Kjetil Jansrud
Norwegian skier
Kjetil Jansrud is a Norwegian former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic champion.
1988
Rosie MacLennan
Canadian trampoline gymnast
Rosannagh "Rosie" MacLennan is a Canadian retired trampoline gymnast.
1986
Simon Mannering
New Zealand rugby league player
Simon Alexander Mannering is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. He played for the New Zealand Warriors in the NRL.
2003
Quvenzhané Wallis
American actress
Quvenzhané Wallis is an American actress and author. She made her acting debut in the drama film Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the…
1952
Rita Dove
American poet and essayist
Rita Frances Dove is an American poet and essayist. She served as poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995, becoming the first African American appointed to the position after it…
1899
Charles Boyer
French-American actor, singer, and producer (died 1978)
Charles Boyer was a French-American actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976.
1814
Sheridan Le Fanu
Irish author (died 1873)
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic literature, journalist and newspaper proprietor.
1957
Greg Clark
English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Gregory David Clark is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from 2016 to 2019.
1983
Lasith Malinga
Sri Lankan cricketer
Separamadu Lasith Malinga is a Sri Lankan former cricketer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest limited overs bowlers of all time.
1899
Andrei Platonov
Russian author and poet (died 1951)
Andrei Platonovich Platonov was a Soviet Russian novelist, short story writer, philosopher, playwright, and poet.