March 28

March 28 in recent years

2024 (Thursday)

2023 (Tuesday)

2022 (Monday)

2021 (Sunday)

2020 (Saturday)

2019 (Thursday)

2018 (Wednesday)

2017 (Tuesday)

2016 (Monday)

2015 (Saturday)

March 28 is the 87th day of the year (88th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 278 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

Pre-1600

• AD 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate.
• 0193 – After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Didius Julianus.
• 0364 – Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor.
• 1566 – The foundation stone of Valletta, Malta's capital city, is laid by Jean Parisot de Valette, Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

1601–1900

• 1737 – The Marathas under Baji Rao I attack and defeat the Mughals in the Battle of Delhi.
• 1776 – Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
• 1794 – Allies under Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld defeat French forces at Le Cateau.
• 1795 – Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, a northern fief of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia.
• 1801 – Treaty of Florence is signed, ending the war between the French Republic and the Kingdom of Naples.
• 1802 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid ever to be discovered.
• 1809 – Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medellín.
• 1814 – War of 1812: In the Battle of Valparaíso, two American naval vessels are captured by two Royal Navy vessels of equal strength.
• 1842 – First concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Otto Nicolai.
• 1854 – Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.
• 1860 – First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
• 1862 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Glorieta Pass, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of the New Mexico Territory. The battle began on March 26.
• 1871 – The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
• 1883 – Tonkin Campaign: French victory in the Battle of Gia Cuc.

1901–present

• 1910 – Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
• 1918 – General John J. Pershing, during World War I, cancels 42nd 'Rainbow' Division's orders to Rolampont for further training and diverted it to the occupy the Baccarat sector. Rainbow Division becomes "the first American division to take over an entire sector on its own, which it held longer than any other American division-occupied sector alone for a period of three months".
• 1920 – Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
• 1933 – The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airliner lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board.
• 1939 – Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege.
• 1942 – World War II: A British combined force permanently disables the Louis Joubert Lock in Saint-Nazaire in order to keep the German battleship Tirpitz away from the mid-ocean convoy lanes.
• 1946 – Cold War: The United States Department of State releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
• 1951 – First Indochina War: In the Battle of Mạo Khê, French Union forces, led by World War II hero Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, inflict a defeat on Việt Minh forces commanded by General Võ Nguyên Giáp.
• 1959 – The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the government of Tibet.
• 1965 – An M_w  7.4 earthquake in Chile sets off a series of tailings dam failures, burying the town El Cobre and killing at least 500.
• 1968 – Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is killed by military police at a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students.
• 1969 – Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
• 1970 – An earthquake strikes western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killing 1,086 and injuring 1,260.
• 1978 – The US Supreme Court hands down 5–3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.
• 1979 – A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.
• 1979 – The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government by 1 vote, precipitating a general election.
• 1990 – United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
• 1994 – In South Africa, African National Congress security guards kill dozens of Inkatha Freedom Party protesters.
• 1999 – Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in Izbica.
• 2003 – In a friendly fire incident, two American A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing one soldier.
• 2005 – An earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong), leaving 915–1,314 people dead and 340–1,146 injured.
• 2006 – Massive protests are mounted against France's First Employment Contract law, meant to reduce youth unemployment.

Births

Pre-1600

• 0931 – Liu Chengyou, emperor of Later Han (d. 951)
• 1097 – Atsiz, Abbasid caliph (d. 1156)
• 1416 – Jodha of Mandore, Ruler of Marwar (d. 1489)
• 1468 – Charles I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1490)
• 1472 – Fra Bartolomeo, Italian painter (d. 1517)
• 1483 – Raphael, Italian painter and architect (d. 1520)
• 1515 – Teresa of Ávila, Spanish nun and saint (d. 1582)
• 1522 – Albert the Warlike, German prince (d. 1557)
• 1527 – Isabella Markham, English courtier (d. 1579)
• 1591 – William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English earl (d. 1668)
• 1592 – John Amos Comenius, Czech bishop and educator (d. 1670)
• 1599 – Witte de With, Dutch captain (d. 1658)

1601–1900

• 1613 – Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang of China (d. 1688)
• 1621 – Heinrich Schwemmer, German composer and educator (d. 1696)
• 1638 – Frederik Ruysch, Dutch botanist and anatomist (d. 1731)
• 1652 – Samuel Sewall, English judge (d. 1730)
• 1725 – Andrew Kippis, English minister and author (d. 1795)
• 1727 – Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, (d. 1777)
• 1743 – Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, Russian academic and politician (d. 1810)
• 1750 – Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan general and politician, President of Venezuela (d. 1816)
• 1760 – Thomas Clarkson, English activist (d. 1846)
• 1773 – Henri Gatien Bertrand, French general (d. 1844)
• 1793 – Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist (d. 1864)
• 1795 – Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian and author (d. 1876)
• 1806 – Thomas Hare, English lawyer and political scientist (d. 1891)
• 1811 – John Neumann, Czech-American bishop and saint (d. 1860)
• 1815 – Arsène Houssaye, French author and poet (d. 1896)
• 1818 – Wade Hampton III, American general and politician, 77th Governor of South Carolina (d. 1902)
• 1819 – Joseph Bazalgette, English architect and engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge and Battersea Bridge (d. 1891)
• 1828 – Melchior Anderegg, Swiss mountain guide (d. 1914)
• 1832 – Henry D. Washburn, American politician, general and explorer (d. 1871)
• 1836 – Frederick Pabst, German-American brewer, founded the Pabst Brewing Company (d. 1904)
• 1840 – Emin Pasha, German-Jewish Egyptian physician and politician (d. 1892)
• 1847 – Gyula Farkas, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (d. 1930)
• 1849 – James Darmesteter, French historian and author (d. 1894)
• 1850 – Kyrle Bellew, English theatre actor (d. 1911)
• 1851 – Bernardino Machado, Portuguese academic and politician, 3rd President of Portugal (d. 1944)
• 1862 – Aristide Briand, French politician, Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)
• 1866 – Jimmy Ross, Scottish footballer (d. 1902)
• 1868 – Maxim Gorky, Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright (d. 1936)
• 1871 – Willem Mengelberg, Dutch-Swiss conductor (d. 1951)
• 1873 – John Geiger, American rower (d. 1956)
• 1878 – Abraham Walkowitz, Russian-American painter (d. 1965)
• 1879 – Terence MacSwiney, Irish republican politician and hunger striker; Lord Mayor of Cork (d. 1920)
• 1881 – Martin Sheridan, Irish-American discus thrower and jumper (d. 1918)
• 1884 – Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet and playwright (d. 1951)
• 1886 – Gustave Mesny, French general (d. 1945)
• 1890 – Paul Whiteman, American violinist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1967)
• 1892 – Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
• 1892 – Tom Maguire, Irish general (d. 1993)
• 1893 – Spyros Skouras, Greek-American businessman (d. 1971)
• 1894 – Ernst Lindemann, German captain (d. 1941)
• 1895 – Ángela Ruiz Robles, Spanish teacher, writer and inventor, pioneer of the electronic book (d. 1975)
• 1895 – Christian Herter, American politician, 53rd United States Secretary of State (d. 1966)
• 1895 – Donald Grey Barnhouse, American pastor and theologian (d. 1960)
• 1895 – Spencer W. Kimball, American religious leader, 12th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1985)
• 1897 – Sepp Herberger, German footballer and manager (d. 1977)
• 1897 – Tillie Voss, American football player (d. 1975)
• 1899 – Gussie Busch, American businessman (d. 1989)
• 1899 – Harold B. Lee, American religious leader, 11th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1973)
• 1899 – Buck Shaw, American football player and coach (d. 1977)
• 1900 – Edward Wagenknecht, American critic and educator (d. 2004)

1901–present

• 1902 – Flora Robson, English actress (d. 1984)
• 1902 – Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech fiddler and composer (d. 1988)
• 1903 – Rudolf Serkin, Czech-American pianist and educator (d. 1991)
• 1904 – Isabel Cuchí Coll, Puerto Rican author and journalist (d. 1993)
• 1904 – Margaret Tucker, Australian author and activist (d. 1996)
• 1905 – Pandro S. Berman, American production manager and producer (d. 1996)
• 1905 – Marlin Perkins, American zoologist and television host (d. 1986)
• 1906 – Murray Adaskin, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 2002)
• 1906 – Robert Allen, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1906 – Dorothy Knowles, South African-English author, fencer and academic (d. 2010)
• 1907 – Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun (d. 2005)
• 1907 – Norrey Ford, English author (d. 1985)
• 1907 – Irving Paul Lazar, American lawyer and talent agent (d. 1993)
• 1909 – Nelson Algren, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1981)
• 1910 – Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr., American librarian and art collector (d. 2001)
• 1910 – Jimmie Dodd, American actor and singer-songwriter (d. 1964)
• 1910 – Ingrid of Sweden, (d. 2000)
• 1911 – Consalvo Sanesi, Italian race car driver (d. 1998)
• 1912 – A. Bertram Chandler, English-Australian author (d. 1984)
• 1912 – Marina Raskova, Russian pilot and navigator (d. 1943)
• 1913 – Kazuo Taoka, Japanese crime boss (d. 1981)
• 1913 – Toko Shinoda, Japanese artist (d. 2021)
• 1914 – Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2000)
• 1914 – Bohumil Hrabal, Czech author (d. 1997)
• 1914 – Kenneth Richard Norris, Australian entomologist and academic (d. 2003)
• 1914 – Edmund Muskie, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 58th United States Secretary of State (d. 1996)
• 1914 – Everett Ruess, American explorer, poet, and painter (d. 1934)
• 1915 – Jay Livingston, American singer-songwriter (d. 2001)
• 1917 – Claude Bertrand, Canadian neurosurgeon and scholar (d. 2014)
• 1918 – Edward Amy, Canadian soldier (d. 2011)
• 1919 – Jacob Avshalomov, American composer and conductor (d. 2013)
• 1919 – Tom Brooks, Australian cricket umpire (d. 2007)
• 1919 – Eileen Crofton, British physician and author (d. 2010)
• 1919 – Vic Raschi, American baseball player and coach (d. 1988)
• 1921 – Harold Agnew, American physicist and academic (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Dirk Bogarde, English actor and author (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Herschel Grynszpan, German assassin of Ernst vom Rath (d. 1960)
• 1921 – Walter Neugebauer, Croatian-German author and illustrator (d. 1992)
• 1922 – Neville Bonner, Australian politician (d. 1999)
• 1922 – Grace Hartigan, American painter and educator (d. 2008)
• 1922 – Joey Maxim, American boxer and actor (d. 2001)
• 1922 – B. Neminathan, Sri Lankan politician (d. unknown)
• 1923 – Paul C. Donnelly, American scientist and engineer (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Thad Jones, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1986)
• 1924 – Freddie Bartholomew, American actor (d. 1992)
• 1924 – Fred Flanagan, Australian footballer (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Russian actor (d. 1994)
• 1925 – Dorothy DeBorba, American child actress (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba (d. 2014)
• 1926 – Polly Umrigar, Indian cricketer (d. 2006)
• 1927 – Theo Colborn, American zoologist and academic (d. 2014)
• 1927 – Marianne Fredriksson, Swedish journalist and author (d. 2007)
• 1927 – Vina Mazumdar, Indian academic and activist (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-American political activist and analyst; 10th United States National Security Advisor (d. 2017)
• 1928 – Alexander Grothendieck, German-French mathematician and theorist (d. 2014)
• 1929 – Paul England, Australian race car driver and engineer (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Robert Ashley, American soldier and composer (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1930 – Elizabeth Bainbridge, English soprano
• 1933 – Tete Montoliu, Spanish pianist (d. 1997)
• 1933 – Frank Murkowski, American soldier, banker, and politician, 8th Governor of Alaska
• 1934 – Lester R. Brown, American environmentalist, founded the Earth Policy Institute and Worldwatch Institute
• 1934 – Laurie Taitt, Guyanese-English hurdler (d. 2006)
• 1935 – Frank Judd, Baron Judd, English politician, Secretary of State for International Development (d. 2021)
• 1935 – Michael Parkinson, English journalist and author
• 1935 – Józef Szmidt, Polish triple jumper
• 1936 – Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, politician, journalist and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1938 – Hans-Jürgen Bäsler, German footballer (d. 2002)
• 1939 – Dov Frohman, Israeli electrical engineer and business executive
• 1940 – Tony Barber, English-Australian television host
• 1940 – Luis Cubilla, Uruguayan footballer and coach (d. 2013)
• 1942 – Daniel Dennett, American philosopher and academic
• 1942 – Kitanofuji Katsuaki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 52nd Yokozuna
• 1942 – Neil Kinnock, Welsh politician, Vice-President of the European Commission
• 1942 – Mike Newell, English director and producer
• 1942 – Samuel Ramey, American opera singer
• 1942 – Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (d. 1998)
• 1942 – Jerry Sloan, American basketball player and coach (d. 2020)
• 1943 – Richard Eyre, English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1943 – Conchata Ferrell, American actress (d. 2020)
• 1944 – Rick Barry, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1944 – Ken Howard, American actor (d. 2016)
• 1945 – Rodrigo Duterte, Filipino politician, 16th President of the Philippines
• 1945 – Johnny Famechon, French-Australian boxer
• 1945 – Björn Hamilton, Swedish engineer and politician
• 1946 – Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut (d. 2014)
• 1946 – Henry Paulson, American banker and politician, 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury
• 1946 – Alejandro Toledo, Peruvian economist and politician, 48th President of Peru
• 1947 – Greg Thompson, Canadian educator and politician, 25th Minister of Veterans Affairs (d. 2019)
• 1948 – John Evan, English keyboard player and songwriter
• 1948 – Janice Lynde, American actress
• 1948 – Dianne Wiest, American actress
• 1948 – Milan Williams, American keyboard player (d. 2006)
• 1949 – Ronnie Ray Smith, American sprinter (d. 2013)
• 1952 – Keith Ashfield, Canadian politician (d. 2018)
• 1952 – Tony Brise, English race car driver (d. 1975)
• 1953 – Melchior Ndadaye, Burundian banker and politician, 4th President of Burundi (d. 1993)
• 1953 – Rosemary Ashe, British actress and singer
• 1954 – Donald Brown, American pianist and educator
• 1955 – John Alderdice, Baron Alderdice, Northern Irish psychiatrist and politician, 1st Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly
• 1955 – Reba McEntire, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1956 – Susan Ershler, American mountaineer and author
• 1957 – Harvey Glance, American sprinter and coach
• 1958 – Edesio Alejandro, Cuban composer
• 1958 – Elisabeth Andreassen, Swedish-Norwegian singer
• 1958 – Bart Conner, American gymnast and sportscaster
• 1958 – Curt Hennig, American wrestler, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2003)
• 1959 – Laura Chinchilla, Costa Rican politician, President of Costa Rica
• 1959 – Chiaki Morosawa, Japanese anime screenwriter (d. 2016)
• 1959 – Chris Myers, American journalist and sportscaster
• 1960 – Chris Barrie, British actor and comedian
• 1960 – José Maria Neves, Cape Verdeian politician, Prime Minister of Cape Verde
• 1960 – Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, French-Belgian author and playwright
• 1961 – Byron Scott, American basketball player and coach
• 1962 – Jure Franko, Slovenian skier
• 1962 – Simon Bazalgette, English businessman
• 1963 – Jan Masiel, Polish politician
• 1964 – Karen Lumley, English politician
• 1966 – Cheryl James, American rapper and actress
• 1967 – John Ziegler, German-American radio host and director
• 1968 – Iris Chang, Chinese-American journalist and author (d. 2004)
• 1968 – Nasser Hussain, Indian-English cricketer and sportscaster
• 1968 – Colin Brazier, English journalist
• 1969 – Rodney Atkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1969 – Brett Ratner, American director and producer
• 1970 – Vince Vaughn, American actor
• 1970 – Jennifer Weiner, American journalist and author
• 1971 – Christianne Meneses Jacobs, Nicaraguan-American journalist and educator
• 1971 – Orfeh, American singer, songwriter and actress
• 1972 – Nick Frost, English actor and screenwriter
• 1972 – Keith Tkachuk, American ice hockey player
• 1973 – Björn Kuipers, Dutch footballer and referee
• 1975 – Fabrizio Gollin, Italian race car driver
• 1975 – Kate Gosselin, American television personality
• 1975 – Iván Helguera, Spanish footballer
• 1975 – Shanna Moakler, American model
• 1976 – Dave Keuning, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1977 – Lauren Weisberger, American author
• 1978 – Nathan Cayless, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player
• 1979 – Shakib Khan, Bangladeshi film actor, producer, singer and media personality
• 1980 – Cho Seung-woo, South Korean actor
• 1980 – David Lee, English footballer
• 1980 – Rasmus Seebach, Danish singer-songwriter and producer
• 1980 – Luke Walton, American basketball player
• 1981 – Lindsay Frimodt, American fashion model
• 1981 – Edwar Ramírez, American baseball player
• 1981 – Julia Stiles, American actress
• 1983 – Ladji Doucouré, French sprinter and hurdler
• 1984 – Shakib Khan, Bangladeshi actor
• 1984 – Christopher Samba, Congolese footballer
• 1984 – Nikki Sanderson, English actress
• 1985 – Stefano Ferrario, Italian footballer
• 1985 – Sauli Koskinen, Finnish TV host and entertainer
• 1985 – Steve Mandanda, French footballer
• 1985 – Stanislas Wawrinka, Swiss tennis player
• 1986 – Bowe Bergdahl, American sergeant
• 1986 – Lady Gaga, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1986 – J-Kwon, American rapper
• 1986 – Amaia Salamanca, Spanish actress
• 1986 – Barbora Strýcová, Czech tennis player
• 1987 – Jean-Paul Adela, Seychellois footballer
• 1987 – Yohan Benalouane, French-Tunisian footballer
• 1987 – Simeon Jackson, Canadian soccer player
• 1987 – Kagney Linn Karter, American pornographic actress
• 1987 – Yotam Solomon, Israeli/American fashion designer
• 1987 – Jonathan Van Ness, hairdresser and television personality
• 1987 – Mary Kate Wiles, American actress
• 1988 – Ryan Kalish, American baseball player
• 1988 – Lacey Turner, English actress
• 1989 – Afrikan Boy, English rapper
• 1989 – David Goodwillie, Scottish footballer
• 1989 – Lukas Jutkiewicz, English footballer
• 1989 – Mira Leung, Canadian figure skater
• 1989 – Marek Suchý, Czech footballer
• 1990 – Zac Clarke, Australian footballer
• 1990 – Delroy Edwards, American musician
• 1990 – Laura Harrier, American actress and model
• 1990 – Zoella (Zoe Sugg), English Youtuber
• 1991 – Amy Bruckner, American actress
• 1991 – Lisa-Maria Moser, Austrian tennis player
• 1991 – Marie-Philip Poulin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1991 – Ondřej Palát, Czech ice hockey player
• 1992 – Sergi Gómez, Spanish footballer
• 1992 – Lucho Ayala, Filipino actor
• 1994 – Jackson Wang, Hong Kong rapper
• 1995 – Jonathan Drouin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1996 – Matt Renshaw, English-Australian cricketer
• 2004 – Anna Shcherbakova, Russian figure skater (two-time Russian National Champion - '19 & '20)

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 0193 – Pertinax, Roman emperor (b. 126)
• 0592 – Guntram, French king (b. 532)
• 0741 – Hatsusebe, Japanese princess
• 0965 – Arnulf I, count of Flanders
• 0966 – Flodoard, Frankish canon and chronicler
• 1072 – Ordulf, Duke of Saxony (b. 1022)
• 1134 – Stephen Harding, founder of the Cistercian order
• 1239 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180)
• 1241 – Valdemar II of Denmark (b. 1170)
• 1254 – William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby (b. 1193)
• 1285 – Pope Martin IV (b. 1220)
• 1346 – Venturino of Bergamo, Dominican preacher (b. 1304)
• 1461 – John Clifford, 9th Baron de Clifford (b. 1435)
• 1563 – Heinrich Glarean, Swiss poet and theorist (b. 1488)
• 1566 – Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian historian and diplomat (b. 1486)
• 1583 – Magnus, Duke of Holstein (b. 1540)
• 1584 – Ivan the Terrible, Russian king (b. 1530)

1601–1900

• 1687 – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596)
• 1818 – Antonio Capuzzi, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1755)
• 1865 – Petrus Hofman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar and critic (b. 1786)
• 1866 – Solomon Foot, American lawyer and politician (b. 1802)
• 1868 – James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1797)
• 1870 – George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)
• 1874 – Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish-German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1795)
• 1881 – Modest Mussorgsky, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1839)
• 1893 – Edmund Kirby Smith, American general (b. 1824)
• 1900 – Piet Joubert, South African soldier and politician (b. 1831 or 1834)

1901–present

• 1910 – Édouard Colonne, French violinist and conductor (b. 1838)
• 1916 – James Strachan-Davidson, English classical scholar, academic administrator, translator, and author (b. 1843)
• 1917 – Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter (b. 1847)
• 1923 – Charles Hubbard, American archer (b. 1849)
• 1929 – Katharine Lee Bates, American poet and songwriter (b. 1859)
• 1929 – Lomer Gouin, Canadian lawyer and politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1861)
• 1934 – Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor and educator (b. 1891)
• 1941 – Marcus Hurley, American basketball player and cyclist (b. 1883)
• 1941 – Virginia Woolf, English writer (b. 1882)
• 1942 – Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1910)
• 1943 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1873)
• 1944 – Stephen Leacock, English-Canadian political scientist and author (b. 1869)
• 1947 – Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)
• 1953 – Jim Thorpe, American football player (b. 1887)
• 1958 – W. C. Handy, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1873)
• 1962 – Hugo Wast, Argentinian author (b. 1883)
• 1963 – Antonius Bouwens, Dutch target shooter (b. 1876)
• 1965 – Clemence Dane, English author and playwright (b. 1888)
• 1969 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)
• 1971 – Robert Hunter, American golfer (b. 1886)
• 1972 – Donie Bush, American baseball player, manager, and team owner (b. 1887)
• 1974 – Arthur Crudup, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1905)
• 1974 – Dorothy Fields, American songwriter (b. 1905)
• 1974 – Françoise Rosay, French actress (b. 1891)
• 1976 – Richard Arlen, American actor (b. 1898)
• 1977 – Eric Shipton, English mountaineer and explorer (b. 1907)
• 1979 – Emmett Kelly, American clown and actor (b. 1898)
• 1980 – Dick Haymes, Argentinian-American actor and singer (b. 1918)
• 1982 – William Giauque, Canadian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
• 1984 – Carmen Dragon, American conductor and composer (b. 1914)
• 1985 – Marc Chagall, Russian-French painter and poet (b. 1887)
• 1986 – Virginia Gilmore. American actress (b. 1919)
• 1987 – Maria von Trapp, Austrian-American singer (b. 1905)
• 1992 – Nikolaos Platon, Greek archaeologist and academic (b. 1909)
• 1993 – Scott Cunningham, American author (b. 1956)
• 1994 – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright and critic (b. 1909)
• 1996 – Shin Kanemaru, Japanese politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1914)
• 1999 – Franco Gasparri, Italian actor (b. 1948)
• 2000 – Anthony Powell, English soldier and author (b. 1905)
• 2001 – Moe Koffman, Canadian flute player, saxophonist, and composer (b. 1928)
• 2004 – Peter Ustinov, English-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 2005 – Moura Lympany, English-Monacan pianist (b. 1916)
• 2005 – Robin Spry, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1939)
• 2006 – Pro Hart, Australian painter (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Charles Schepens, Belgian-American ophthalmologist and author (b. 1912)
• 2006 – Caspar Weinberger, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)
• 2009 – Maurice Jarre, French-American composer and conductor (b. 1924)
• 2009 – Janet Jagan, 6th President of Guyana (b. 1920)
• 2010 – June Havoc, American actress, dancer, and director (b. 1912)
• 2011 – Wenche Foss, Norwegian actress (b. 1917)
• 2012 – John Arden, English author and playwright (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Alexander Arutiunian, Armenian pianist and composer (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Harry Crews, American novelist, playwright, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Addie L. Wyatt, African American labor leader (b. 1924)
• 2013 – George E. P. Box, English-American statistician and educator (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Manuel García Ferré, Spanish-Argentinian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Richard Griffiths, English actor (b. 1947)
• 2013 – Art Malone, American race car driver (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Hugh McCracken, American guitarist, harmonica player, and producer (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Heinz Patzig, German footballer and manager (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Bob Teague, American college football star and television news-reporter (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Gus Triandos, American baseball player and scout (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Robert Zildjian, American businessman, founded Sabian (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Jeremiah Denton, American admiral and politician (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Lorenzo Semple, Jr., American screenwriter and producer (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Avraham Yaski, Israeli architect and academic (b. 1927)
• 2015 – Chuck Brayton, American baseball player and coach (b. 1925)
• 2015 – Joseph Cassidy, Canadian-English priest and academic (b. 1954)
• 2015 – Miroslav Ondříček, Czech cinematographer (b. 1934)
• 2015 – Gene Saks, American actor and director (b. 1921)
• 2016 – James Noble, American actor (b. 1922)
• 2021 - Didier Ratsiraka, Malagasy politician and naval officer (b. 1936)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Priscus
  • Pope Sixtus III
  • March 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Serfs Emancipation Day (Tibet)
• Teachers' Day (Czech Republic and Slovakia)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• Historical Events on March 28
• Today in Canadian History