| 97951 | August 28 | Birth | 1992 – Gabriela Drăgoi, Romanian gymnast |
| 97952 | August 28 | Birth | 1992 – Sora Amamiya, Japanese voice actress and singer |
| 97953 | August 28 | Birth | 1993 – Jakub Sokolík, Czech footballer |
| 97954 | August 28 | Birth | 1994 – Felix Jaehn, German DJ and producer |
| 97955 | August 28 | Birth | 1994 – Junior Malanda, Belgian footballer (d. 2015) |
| 97956 | August 28 | Birth | 1997 – Emilia McCarthy, Canadian actress and dancer |
| 97957 | August 28 | Birth | 1999 – Prince Nikolai of Denmark |
| 97958 | August 28 | Birth | 2001 – Anna Trincher, Ukrainian singer |
| 97959 | August 28 | Birth | 2003 – Quvenzhané Wallis, American actress and singer |
| 97960 | August 28 | Death | 388 – Magnus Maximus, Roman emperor (b. 335) |
| 97961 | August 28 | Death | 430 – Augustine of Hippo, Algerian bishop, theologian, and saint (b. 354) |
| 97962 | August 28 | Death | 476 – Orestes, Roman general and politician |
| 97963 | August 28 | Death | 632 – Fatimah, Saudi Arabian daughter of Muhammad (b. 605) |
| 97964 | August 28 | Death | 770 – Empress Kōken of Japan (b. 718) |
| 97965 | August 28 | Death | 876 – Louis the German, Frankish king (b. 804) |
| 97966 | August 28 | Death | 1481 – Afonso V of Portugal (b. 1432) |
| 97967 | August 28 | Death | 1645 – Hugo Grotius, Dutch playwright, philosopher, and jurist (b. 1583) |
| 97968 | August 28 | Death | 1648 – George Lisle, English general (b. 1610) |
| 97969 | August 28 | Death | 1648 – Charles Lucas, English general (b. 1613) |
| 97970 | August 28 | Death | 1654 – Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583) |
| 97971 | August 28 | Death | 1678 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1602) |
| 97972 | August 28 | Death | 1735 – Edwin Stead, English landowner and cricketer (b. 1701) |
| 97973 | August 28 | Death | 1757 – David Hartley, English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1705) |
| 97974 | August 28 | Death | 1784 – Junípero Serra, Spanish-American priest and missionary (b. 1713) |
| 97975 | August 28 | Death | 1793 – Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (b. 1740) |
| 97976 | August 28 | Death | 1805 – Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader and author (b. 1722) |
| 97977 | August 28 | Death | 1818 – Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, American fur trader, founded Chicago (b. 1750) |
| 97978 | August 28 | Death | 1820 – Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor and urban planner (b. 1754) |
| 97979 | August 28 | Death | 1839 – William Smith, English geologist and engineer (b. 1769) |
| 97980 | August 28 | Death | 1888 – Julius Krohn, Finnish poet and journalist (b. 1835) |