Get even...Live long enough to be a problem to your children.

T1D Diabetic Meme


Can't Fix Diabetes




Get even...Live long enough to be a problem to your children.is my saying for today (August 28th)!

Quote of the day: "Judge a man not by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes." by Thomas R. Dewar

Word of the day: oligophagous - adjective: feeding on only a few particular type of food. especially insects.

August 28th is the 240th day of the year (241st in a leap year) and there are 125 days left until the end of the year.

If today is your Birthday, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

If you would like your birthday or a family member, or even a friends included in my "Birthday List", just leave a comment with all the pertinent information like Name, nickname, occupation and date of birth!

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Famous People who were born on August 28th

1025, Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (d. 1068)

1582, Emperor of the Ming Dynasty of China, Taichang (d. 1620)

1592, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman, George Villiers (d. 1628)

1612, Dutch scholar, Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn (d. 1653)

1667, Queen of Denmark and Norway, Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (d. 1721)

1691, Holy Roman Empire Empress, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1750)

1714, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Anthony Ulrich II (d. 1774)

1749, German writer and scientist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (d. 1832)

1774, American-born Catholic saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton (d. 1821)

1789, Grand Duchess of Baden, Stéphanie de Beauharnais (d. 1860)

1801, French mathematician, Antoine Augustin Cournot (d. 1877)

1814, Irish writer, Sheridan le Fanu (d. 1873)

1827, Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1894)

1828, Russian author, Leo Tolstoy (d. 1910)

1840, Scottish merchant, Alexander Cameron Sim (d. 1900)

1853, Russian engineer and inventor, Vladimir Shukhov (d. 1939)

1859, Italian photographer, Vittorio Sella (d. 1943)

1867, Italian composer, Umberto Giordano (d. 1948)

1878, American doctor and Nobel laureate, George Whipple (d. 1976)

1884, Former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Peter Fraser (d. 1950)

1885, Australian author, Vance Palmer (d. 1959)

1894, Austrian conductor, Karl Böhm (d. 1981)

1898, American baseball player, Charlie Grimm (d. 1983)

1899, French actor, Charles Boyer (d. 1978)

1899, Russian writer, Andrei Platonov (d. 1951)

1903, American psychologist, Bruno Bettelheim (d. 1990)

1904, Italian jet engine pioneer, Secondo Campini (d. 1980)

1905, England cricketer, Cyril Walters (d. 1992)

1906, English poet, John Betjeman (d. 1984)

1908, American ornithologist, Roger Tory Peterson (d. 1996)

1910, Dutch-born economist Nobel Prize laureate, Tjalling Koopmans (d. 1985)

1911, Dutch politician, Joseph Luns (d. 2002)

1913, Canadian writer, Robertson Davies (d. 1995)

1913, American entrepreneur, Jack Dreyfus (d. 2009)

1913, Australian cricketer, Lindsay Hassett (d. 1993)

1913, Slovenian writer, Boris Pahor

1913, British bridge player, Terence Reese (d. 1996)

1913, American tenor, Richard Tucker (d. 1975)

1915, British sports commentator, Max Robertson (d. 2009)

1915, American illustrator, Tasha Tudor (d. 2008)

1916, American author, Jack Vance

1916, Quebec singer and folklorist, Hélène Baillargeon (d. 1997)

1917, American comic book artist, Jack Kirby (d. 1994)

1919, English electrical engineer, Nobel Laureate, Godfrey Hounsfield (d. 2004)

1921, Spanish actor, director, academic and playwright, Fernando Fernán Gómez (d. 2007)

1921, American actress, Nancy Kulp (d. 1991)

1924, New Zealand author, Janet Frame (d. 2004)

1924, American actress, Peggy Ryan (d. 2004)

1924, New Zealand cricketer, Tony MacGibbon

1925, American singer, dancer, and actor, Donald O'Connor (d. 2003)

1925, American country music singer and guitarist, Billy Grammer

1928, American advertising executive, F. William Free (d. 2003)

1929, Hungarian conductor, István Kertész (d. 1973)

1929, South African actor, Ken Gampu (d. 2003)

1930, British actor, Windsor Davies

1930, American actor, Ben Gazzara

1931, English bass-baritone, John Shirley-Quirk

1931, Argentinian stage impresario and director, Tito Capobianco

1932, Canadian hockey player, Andy Bathgate

1935, French Canadian politician, Gilles Rocheleau (d. 1998)

1936, American baseball umpire, Don Denkinger

1938, Canadian politician, Paul Martin

1938, Italian television journalist, Maurizio Costanzo

1940, American actor, Ken Jenkins

1940, French cylist, Roger Pingeon

1940, English musician, Nik Turner

1941, Belgian aristocrat, Sybille de Selys Longchamps

1941, American opera singer, Paul Plishka

1942, American guitarist, Sterling Morrison (d. 1995)

1943, American actor, David Soul

1943, American baseball manager, Lou Piniella

1943, Thai 24th Prime Minister (former), Surayud Chulanont

1944, Dutch swimmer, Marianne Heemskerk

1944, American claimant to the Howard Hughes estate, Melvin Dummar

1945, American film director/producer, Robert Greenwald

1945, American musician, Bob Segarini

1947, Hong Kong actress, Liza Wang

1947, Japanese martial artist, Shoto Tanemura

1948, American musician, Danny Seraphine

1948, New Zealand cricketer, Murray Parker

1948, Canadian businesswoman, Heather Reisman

1949, British musician, Hugh Cornwell

1949, Serbian basketball player and coach, Svetislav Pešic

1951, Japanese composer, Keiichi Suzuki

1951, American singer, Wayne Osmond

1952, American poet, Rita Dove

1952, German businessman, Wendelin Wiedeking

1952, Canadian actor, Guy Nadon

1952, Canadian politician, Jacques Chagnon

1954, American geneticist, George Church

1956, Puerto Rican actor, Luis Guzmán

1956, Puerto Rican actor, Mark Lutz

1957, President of Croatia, Ivo Josipovic

1957, American actor, Daniel Stern

1957, American actor, Rick Rossovich

1958, American figure skater, Scott Hamilton

1960, English actress, Emma Samms

1961, English singer, Kim Appleby

1961, American football player, Cliff Benson

1962, English footballer, Paul Allen

1962, American music video and film director, David Fincher

1963, American actress, Jennifer Coolidge

1963, American athlete, Regina Jacobs

1965, Founder of Game Freak, Satoshi Tajiri

1965, Canadian actress, Amanda Tapping

1965, Canadian singer, Shania Twain

1966, Indian social worker and politician, Priya Dutt

1967, Philippine-born Australian poet, Frederick Kesner

1968, Scottish actor, Billy Boyd

1969, Canadian-born actor, Jason Priestley

1969, American actor, Jack Black

1969, English photographer, Mary McCartney

1969, French Canadian hockey player, Pierre Turgeon

1970, Australian actress/singer, Sherrié Austin

1970, Jewish singer, Rick Recht

1971, American figure skater, Todd Eldredge

1971, American swimmer, Janet Evans

1971, Mexican-born American boxer, Raul Marquez

1971, American baseball player, Shane Andrews

1972, American baseball player, Jay Witasick

1972, Kenyan cricketer, Ravindu Shah

1973, American actor, Matthew John Armstrong

1973, American musician, DJ Assault

1973, Kirby Morrow, Canadian voice actor

1974, Swedish game programmer, Johan Andersson

1974, German footballer, Carsten Jancker

1974, Japanese composer, Takahito Eguchi

1975, English footballer, Jamie Cureton

1975, Irish footballer, Gareth Farrelly

1975, Finnish actress and model, Vera Jordanova

1976, Uruguayan footballer, Federico Magallanes

1978, American drummer, Jess Margera

1979, German football referee, Robert Hoyzer

1979, Spanish singer, Shaila Durcal

1979, Australian netballer, Kristen Hughes

1979, German footballer, Markus Pröll

1979, American basketball player, Ruth Riley

1980, Canadian actress, Carly Pope

1981, Czech hockey player, Martin Erat

1981, Swiss footballer, Daniel Gygax

1981, Polish weightlifter, Agata Wróbel

1981, Brazilian racing driver, Raphael Matos

1982, Brazilian footballer, Anderson Silva de França

1982, American singer, LeAnn Rimes

1982, Scottish footballer, Kevin McNaughton

1982, Brazilian footballer, Thiago Motta

1983, Sri Lankan cricketer, Lasith Malinga

1983, Mexican actor and singer, Alfonso Herrera

1984, American actress and model, Sarah Roemer

1986, Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit

1989, American Pop Musician, Cassadee Pope

1989, South Korean singer, Jokwon

1990, Spanish footballer, Bojan Krkic

1991, American actor and rapper, Kyle Massey

1999, Danish royalty, Prince Nikolai of Denmark

Famous People who died on August 28th

388, Roman usurper, Magnus Maximus

430, North African saint and theologian, Augustine of Hippo (b. 354)

1341, King Leo V of Armenia (b. 1309)

1481, King Afonso V of Portugal (b. 1432)

1645, Dutch philosopher and writer, Hugo Grotius (b. 1583)

1654, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden, Axel Oxenstierna (b. 1583)

1678, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier, John Berkeley (b. 1602)

1757, English philosopher, David Hartley (b. 1705)

1784, Spanish missionary, Junípero Serra (b. 1713)

1785, French sculptor, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (b. 1714)

1793, French general (executed), Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine (b. 1740)

1805, Scottish church leader, Alexander Carlyle (b. 1722)

1818, Founder of Chicago, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable

1820, American surveyor, Andrew Ellicott (b. 1754)

1839, English geologist, William Smith (b. 1769)

1900, English philosopher, Henry Sidgwick (b. 1838)

1903, American landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted (b. 1822)

1933, American actress, Helen Dunbar (b. 1863)

1943, King Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)

1947, Spanish bullfighter, Manolete (b. 1917)

1955, American civil rights movement icon, Emmett Till (b. 1941)

1959, Czech composer, Bohuslav Martinu (b. 1890)

1965, Israeli physicist, Giulio Racah (b. 1909)

1971, Austrian-Hungarian-born Israeli author and Talmudic scholar, Reuvein Margolies (b. 1889)

1975, Austrian sculptor, Fritz Wotruba (b. 1907)

1976, American actress, Anissa Jones (b. 1958)

1978, English actor and writer, Robert Shaw (b. 1927)

1981, Hungarian footballer, Béla Guttman (b. 1900)

1982, South African cricketer, Geoff Chubb (b. 1911)

1985, American actress, Ruth Gordon (b. 1896)

1987, American movie director, John Huston (b. 1906)

1988, French Canadian union leader and politician, Jean Marchand (b. 1918)

1990, Belgian cartoonist, Willy Vandersteen (b. 1913)

1991, Greek writer and film director, Alekos Sakellarios (b. 1913)

1993, American poet, William Stafford (b. 1914)

1995, American rodeo pioneer, Earl Bascom (b. 1906)

2003, American criminal, Brian Douglas Wells (b. 1956)

2005, French actor, Jacques Dufilho (b. 1914)

2005, Hungarian mathematician, Esther Szekeres (b. 1910)

2005, Hungarian mathematician, George Szekeres (b. 1911)

2006, French Canadian politician, Benoît Sauvageau (b. 1963)

2006, American physicist, Nobel laureate, Melvin Schwartz (b. 1932)

2007, American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines, Arthur Jones (b. 1926)

2007, American musician, Hilly Kristal (b. 1932)

2007, American aeronautical engineer, Paul B. MacCready, Jr. (b. 1925)

2007, Spanish footballer, Antonio Puerta (b. 1984)

2007, Spanish journalist, Novelist, Biographer and essayist, Francisco Umbral (b. 1935)

2007, Japanese-born American actress, Miyoshi Umeki (b. 1929)

2007, New Zealand winemaker, Nikola Nobilo (b. 1913)

2008, American race car driver and one-time F1 world champion, Phil Hill (b. 1927)

2009, American DJ also known as DJ AM, Adam Goldstein (b. 1973)

2010, Notable band director and founder of the Marching 100 of Florida A&M University, William P. Foster