About the day » Sunday August 28, 1904Calender converter

• Aleid Brascamp, Olst († 1960)
• Albertus Dirk Woestenenk, Vorden († 1986)
• Aaltje Keijnemans, Nederhemert
• Aaltje Kleijnemans, Nederhemert, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Baaij, Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland († 1983)
• Johanna Elizabeth lieman, amsterdam
• Agustín Barrón, General Cepeda, Coahuila, México († 1905)
• Albertus Gernant, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1905)
• Alida Josepha Margaretha van der Burg, Vlissingen, Zeeland, NL
• Aareke van de Wal, Capelle aan de IJssel (NL) († 1987)

• Albertje van der Molen * (36), Wetering (Steenwijkerwold)
• Anna Verheijen (85), Maasbree
• Antonius Joosten (26), Deurne en Liessel
• Adriana Rodenburg (86), Delft
• Antonie van Weert (0), Riethoven (gemeente Bergeijk)
• Simons (0), Oostwold, Midwolda, Groningen, Nederland
• Akke Melles Rollema (52), Rauwerd
• Albertje van der Molen (36), Wetering (Steenwijkerwold)
• Adriaan Cornelis Minheere (1)
• Catharina Dorresteijn (39), Baarn

• 1898 » Charlie Grimm, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster († 1983)
• 1899 » Andrei Platonov, Russian author and poet († 1951)
• 1899 » Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer († 1978)
• 1899 » James Wong Howe, Chinese American cinematographer († 1976)
• 1903 » Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American psychologist and author († 1990)
• 1904 » Leho Laurine, Estonian chess player († 1998)
• 1904 » Secondo Campini, Italian-American engineer († 1980)
• 1905 » Cyril Walters, Welsh-English cricketer († 1992)
• 1906 » John Betjeman, English poet and academic († 1984)
• 1908 » Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and author († 1996)

• 1888 » Julius Krohn, Finnish poet and journalist (b. 1835)
• 1891 » Robert Caldwell, English missionary and linguist (b. 1814)
• 1900 » Henry Sidgwick, English economist and philosopher (b. 1838)
• 1903 » Frederick Law Olmsted, American journalist and architect, co-designed Central Park (b. 1822)
• 1919 » Adolf Schmal, Austrian fencer and cyclist (b. 1872)
• 1934 » Edgeworth David, Welsh-Australian geologist and explorer (b. 1858)
• 1937 » George Prendergast, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Victoria (b. 1854)
• 1943 » Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)
• 1943 » Georg Hellat, Estonian architect (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Emmett Till, American murder victim (b. 1941)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacobus
10. Jacob
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Wilhelmus
15. Gerardus
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Aaltje
15. Neeltje
16. Helena

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
• February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
• April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
• June 28 » The SSNorge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.
• July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
• August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
• November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).

The temperature on August 28, 1904 was between 7.6 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.