Born on August 28.

1749		Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, playwright and novelist, best known for  Faust.
1774		Elizabeth Ann Seton, founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph and the first U.S.-born saint.
1828		Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (War and Peace, Anna Karenina).
1882		Belle Benchley, the first female zoo director in the world, who directed the Zoological Gardens of San Diego.
1896		Liam O’Flaherty, Irish novelist and short-story writer.
1903		Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian psychologist, educator of autistic and emotionally disturbed 1965 Shania Twain (Eilleen Regina Edwards), five-time Grammy-winning singer (“You’re Still the One”); only female artist to have three consecutive Diamond albums (10 million units sold).