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Born on August 28

Died on August 28
  • 2013 » John Bellany, Scottish painter and academic (b. 1942)
  • 2014 » Glenn Cornick, English bass guitarist (b. 1947)
  • 2014 » Hal Finney, American cryptographer and programmer (b. 1956)
  • 2014 » John Anthony Walker, American soldier and spy (b. 1937)
  • 2015 » Al Arbour, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1932)
  • 2015 » Mark Krasniqi, Kosovan ethnographer, poet, and translator (b. 1920)
  • 2015 » Nelson Shanks, American painter and educator (b. 1937)
  • 2016 » Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer and songwriter (b. 1950)
  • 2016 » Mr. Fuji, American professional wrestler and manager (b. 1934)
  • 2017 » Mireille Darc, French actress and model (b. 1938)

Names that were popular for boys in 2016
  1. Lucas
  2. Benjamin
  3. Tijn
  4. Max
  5. Jan
  6. Mats
  7. Levi
  8. Boaz
  9. Alexander
  10. Jesse
  11. Thijs
  12. Oscar
  13. Noah
  14. Jacob
  15. Ruben
  16. Liam
Names that were popular for girls in 2016
  1. Emma
  2. Sophie
  3. Olivia
  4. Nora
  5. Mila
  6. Eva
  7. Sara
  8. Charlotte
  9. Feline
  10. Zoë
  11. Isa
  12. Julia
  13. Femke
  14. Lola
  15. Ella
  16. Anna

Source: Wikipedia Historical events 2016
  • Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
  • The Netherlands had about 17.0 million citizens.
  • January 8 » Joaquín Guzmán, widely regarded as the world's most powerful drug trafficker, is recaptured following his escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico.
  • February 11 » A man shoots six people dead at an education center in Jizan Province, Saudi Arabia.
  • April 22 » The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming.
  • May 27 » Barack Obama is the first president of United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.
  • December 10 » Two explosions outside a football stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, kill 38 people and injure 166 others.
  • December 22 » A study finds the VSV-EBOV vaccine against the Ebola virus between 70-100% effective, and thus making it the first proven vaccine against the disease.
Weather August 28, 2016

The temperature on August 28, 2016 was between 17.7 °C and 24.6 °C and averaged 20.5 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.

Source: KNMI