music minder The Premier Online Music & Entertainment Directory Search For: In Table: Albums Birthdates Businesses Entertainers Hits Lyrics Memorials On This Day Home Entertainers Businesses About Contact Albums Birthdates Hits Instruments Lyrics Memorials On This Day Home > Birthdates Menu > List Birthdates BIRTHDATES Search Results for Date: AUGUST 28th Click on an Entertainer's name in the list below to view more information about that Entertainer. Click on a date in the list to view a list of other Entertainers with the same birthdate.   Number of Records Matching Query: 19   BEN GAZZARA   Date Born: Thursday 28 August 1930   Description: Actor, Director, USA   Summary: Gazzara appeared in 38 films, many for television, in the 1990s. BILLY GRAMMER   Date Born: Friday 28 August 1925   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: In 1990, Grammer was inducted into the Illinois Country Music Hall of Fame, along with Tex Williams, Lulu Belle and Scotty, and Patsy Montana. DAN SERAPHINE   Date Born: Saturday 28 August 1948   Description: Drummer, USA   Summary: Danny Seraphine was born in Chicago and raised in the Little Italy district. He started playing drums at the age of nine. DANIEL STERN   Date Born: Wednesday 28 August 1957   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Stern was born to a social worker father and a mother who managed a day care center. His brother is television writer David M. Stern. DAVID SOUL   Date Born: Saturday 28 August 1943   Description: Actor, Vocalist, USA   Summary: Soul was born in Chicago,to father, Dr. Richard Solberg, a Lutheran minister, was a senior representative for Lutheran World Relief during the reconstruction of Germany after World War II. Soul's brother is a Lutheran minister and social activist. DONALD OCONNOR   Date Born: Friday 28 August 1925   Description: Actor, Vocalist, Dancer, USA   Summary: Although was born in St. Elizabeth Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, into an Irish family of vaudeville entertainers. Tragedy struck his family when, as a toddler, he and his sister Arlene were involved in an automobile accident outside the theater which resulted in her death. His father died of a heart attack only a few weeks later. FLORENCE WELCH   Date Born: Thursday 28 August 1986   Description: Vocalist, UK   Summary: She is the daughter of Evelyn Welch, a Professor of Renaissance Studies and Academic Dean of Arts at Queen Mary, University of London, and Nick Welch, an advertising executive. HUGH CORNWELL   Date Born: Sunday 28 August 1949   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, UK   Summary: Cornwell grew up in Tufnell Park and Kentish Town and attended William Ellis School in Highgate, where he played bass in a band with Richard Thompson, later a member of Fairport Convention. JASON PRIESTLEY   Date Born: Thursday 28 August 1969   Description: Actor, USA   Summary: Born in 1969 in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Priestley became a naturalized American in 2007. JAYNE WALTON ROSEN   Date Born: Tuesday 28 August 1917   Description: Vocalist , USA   Summary: She began singing at local radio stations in San Antonio, beforing moving on to stations in Oklahoma City, Dallas and Chicago. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE   Date Born: Thursday 28 August 1749   Description: Poet, Novelist, Playwright, Germany   Summary: Goethe had a great effect on the nineteenth century. In many respects, he was the originator of many ideas which later became widespread. KENNY DREW SR   Date Born: Tuesday 28 August 1928   Description: Pianist, USA   Summary: Drew was born in New York City in 1928 and received piano lessons from the age of five. Drew's first recording, in 1950, was with Howard McGhee, and over the next two years he worked in bands led by Buddy DeFranco, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, and Charlie Parker, among others.[1] After a brief period with his own trio in California, Drew returned to New York, playing with Dinah Washington, Johnny Griffin, Buddy Rich, and several others over the following few years. LEANN RIMES   Date Born: Saturday 28 August 1982   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: An only child, Rimes started singing before the age of two, and was only 8 years old when she appeared on Star Search in 1990. In 1991 before the age of 11, she released her first album. MARTIN LAMBLE   Date Born: Sunday 28 August 1949   Description: Drummer, UK PEGGY RYAN   Date Born: Thursday 28 August 1924   Description: Singer, Actress, USA   Summary: Her parents were vaudevilleians, "The Merry Dancing Ryans", and Peggy joined them onstage before she was two years old. known for starring in a series of movie musicals at Universal Pictures with Donald O'Connor and Gloria Jean. SHANIA TWAIN   Date Born: Saturday 28 August 1965   Description: Vocalist, Composer, Canada   Summary: Twain was born the daughter of Clarence Edwards and his wife Sharon. Her parents divorced when she was two and her mother then moved with Eilleen and her sister Jill, where she married Jerry Twain. He adopted the girls, legally changing their last name to Twain. SHERRIE AUSTIN   Date Born: Friday 28 August 1970   Description: Vocalist, Actress, Australian   Summary: Sherrié initially recorded as one half of the duo Colorhaus, which also featured Phil Radford. WALKER WILLIAMS   Date Born:   Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   Summary: Walker is a longtime Denver, Colorado resident and leader of The Walker Williams Band. WAYNE OSMOND   Date Born: Tuesday 28 August 1951   Description: Vocalist, USA   Summary: Wayne Osmond with brothers Merrill and Alan wrote many of the Osmonds' hit songs in the 1970s.           Disclaimer:   Music Minder takes as much care as possible to check the accuracy of the information provided. However, we can not guarantee the absolute accuracy of any material provided. If you have any information different to or in addition to that provided by our site, we encourage you to contact us.   Please direct all enquiries to enquiries@musicminder.com       Copyrights:   © Music Minder & Mark Reynolds IT Consulting   All rights reserved: Prosecution rights will be exercised for any breaches of copyright.