1572 death of Claude Goudimel (age 52-58) – French composer, music editor and publisher, and theorist; was murdered in Lyon, along with much of the Huguenot population of the city, sometime between August 28th and 31st during what’s known as the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (which is referenced in Giacomo Meyerbeer’s opera Les Huguenots).
1850 premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin at the Staatskapelle Weimar under the direction of Franz Liszt, a close friend and early supporter of Wagner; Liszt chose the date to honor Weimar's most famous son, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who was born on 28 August 1749.
1867 Umberto Giordano – Italian composer (d.1948); his best-known work, Andrea Chénier (1896), is based on the life of the French poet André Chénier.
1890 Ivor Gurney – English composer and poet (d.1937); wounded twice in World War I, but managed to write poetry while at the front and the collection Severn and Somme was published in 1917; composed songs and some orchestral works.
1948 Horacio Gutierrez – Cuban-American pianist (76 years old); moved with his family to the United States from Havana in 1961; first seen on American television in 1966, on one of the Young People's Concerts with Leonard Bernstein, playing The Great Gate of Kiev from Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky.