Celebrities born on August 28

Phranc (born Susan Gottlieb) is an American singer-songwriter whose career began playing in a few LA punk bands in the late 1970s. In the 1980s she became a solo artist, turning into the self-proclaimed "All-American Jewish lesbian folksinger." She also became famous selling for Tupperware, a multi-level marketing scheme involving plasticware/kitchen storage but has stopped selling for the company since 2013.

Theaster Gates is an American social practice installation artist and a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he still lives and works.