List of Famous people born on August 28th
Walmor Chagas
Walmor de Souza Chagas was a Brazilian actor. He appeared in more than 50 films and television shows between 1965 and 2013. Chagas died on 18 January 2013, in his home in Guaratinguetá, São Paulo. He was found with a bullet wound in the head. It is believed that he committed suicide.
Rodrigo Ezequiel Díaz
Rodrigo Ezequiel Díaz is an Argentine former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Díaz nickname was El Rengo, the Spanish word for lame or one-legged.
Brian Thompson
Brian Earl Thompson is an American actor. His career began with a small role in the 1984 film The Terminator. He played the villainous "Night Slasher" in the 1986 film Cobra. His first named role was on Werewolf, a horror series that ran during Fox's inaugural broadcasting year of 1987–1988. Thompson has played several characters in the Star Trek franchise, the Alien Bounty Hunter on The X-Files, and Eddie Fiori on Kindred: The Embraced. In 2014, he produced, wrote and starred in the B movie parody The Extendables.
Lev Shcheglov
Lev Shcheglov was a Russian physician who focused on sexology and psychotherapy.
Hiroshi Takeshima
Hiroshi Takeshima is a Japanese enka singer. He has one major hit with "Sapporo Elegy" in 2001.
Tiago Correa
Tiago Kadú Correa Girrulat, is a Chilean actor of films and telenovelas.
Yokasta Valle
Yokasta Galeth Valle Álvarez is a Costa Rican professional boxer. She is a world champion in two weight classes, having held the IBF female mini flyweight title since 2019 and previously the IBF female junior mini flyweight title in 2016. She has also challenged once for the WBO female junior flyweight title in 2017 and once for the WBC female mini flyweight title in 2018. As of May 2020, she is ranked as the world's fourth best active female mini flyweight by BoxRec.
Mirko Englich
Mirko Englich is a German Greco-Roman wrestler. He won two silver medals at the European Wrestling Championships in 2003 and 2008. Englich won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He defeated U.S.A's Adam Wheeler in the semi-finals to face Russia's Aslanbek Khushtov.
Jack Vance
John Holbrook "Jack" Vance was an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer. Though most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance, he also wrote several mystery novels under different pen names.
Shirley Cruz Traña
Shirley Cruz Traña is a Costa Rican footballer who plays as a midfielder for OL Reign of the National Women's Soccer League and the Costa Rica women's national football team. A creative midfielder who often acts as a deep-lying playmaker, Cruz is the second-ever female footballer from Costa Rica to play abroad when she joined Lyon in 2005.