Jack Black (08/28/1969 - ) American film and television actor and musician. He is best known for his roles in the films "School of Rock" (2003) and "King Kong" (2005).
Charles Boyer (08/28/1899 - 08/26/1978) French actor who starred in several classic Hollywood films. He best known for his role in the 1944 film "Gaslight" in which he tried to convince Ingrid Bergman's character that she was going insane.
Ben Gazzara (08/28/1930 - ) American actor whose most popular film roles have been in "Anatomy of a Murder" (1959), "A Rage to Live" (1965) and "The Bridge at Remagen" (1969).
Johann Wolfgang Goethe (08/28/1749 - 03/22/1832) Key figure in German literature and the movement of Weimar Classicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries; this movement coincides with Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, Sensibility ("Empfindsamkeit"), and Romanticism.
Scott Hamilton (08/28/1958 - ) American figure skater and 1984 Olympic gold medalist known for his originality and engaging on-ice personalities.
Jason Priestley (08/28/1969 - ) American actor best known for his role on the television series "Beverly Hills 90210" as the virtuous Brandon Walsh.
LeAnn Rimes (08/28/1982 - ) American country music singer who is most recognized for her crossover hit "How Do I Live" which spent 69 weeks on the U.S Hot 100 charts.
Elizabeth Ann Seton (08/28/1774 - 01/04/1821) Catholic nun who founded the first religious community of apostolic women of the United States, the Sisters of Charity (in the Archdiocese of Baltimore).
David Soul (08/28/1943 - ) American-born actor and singer best known for his role as the handsome police detective Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson in the cult television program "Starsky and Hutch" (1975-79).
Daniel Stern (08/28/1957 - ) American television and film actor. He may be most remembered for playing bumbling but lovable idiots, such as Phil from the "City Slickers" movies and Marv from the first two "Home Alone" movies.
Leo Tolstoy (08/28/1828 - 11/20/1910) Russian novelist, philosopher, Christian anarchist, pacifist, educational reformer, vegetarian, moral thinker and an influential member of the Tolstoy family. Tolstoy. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for h
Shania Twain (08/28/1965 - ) Canadian singer and songwriter who has, among her hit singles, "Any Man of Mine" (1995) and "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under" (1995).
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