Famous Birthdays Aug 28 Kanō Motonobu, Japanese painter and calligrapher (Kanō school of painting), born in Kyoto, Japan (d. 1559) Born in 1476 Famous Deaths Aug 4 Jacob van Armagnac-Pardiac, French duke of Nemours, beheaded 1475 History by Year 1477 Famous People by Generation Greatest Generation Silent Generation Baby Boomer Generation X Millennial Generation Z