Born on March 28
March 28 birthdays & history
If you were born on March 28, you share a birthday with Lady Gaga, Maxim Gorky and Mario Vargas Llosa. March 28 babies are Aries, with aquamarine as their birthstone and the daffodil as their birth flower. March 28 is the 88th day of the year in leap years (87th in other years).
Famous people born on March 28
- 1986Lady Gaga, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1868Maxim Gorky, Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright
- 1936Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1928Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-American political activist and analyst; United States National Security Advisor
- 1930Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1942Daniel Dennett, American philosopher and academic
- 1985Stanislas Wawrinka, Swiss tennis player
- 1955Reba McEntire, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1925Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Russian actor
- 1970Vince Vaughn, American actor
What happened on March 28
- 37Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate.
- 364Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor.
- 1776Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
- 1795Partitions 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.
- 1802German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered Pallas, the second asteroid to be identified, but at the time considered to be a planet.
- 1842First concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Otto Nicolai.
- 1902The Hexham Abbey high-altar cross, amongst the most important works produced that year by the Keswick School of Industrial Art, was unveiled on Good Friday.
- 1910Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from water runway Étang le Barre, near Marseille.
- 1959The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the government of Tibet.
- 1978The US Supreme Court hands down 5–3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.
- 1990United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
- 2001Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos begins operation.
Also observed on March 28
- Serfs Emancipation Day (Tibet)
- Teachers' Day (Czech Republic and Slovakia)
Questions, answered
What star sign is March 28?
People born on March 28 are Aries. Their birthstone is aquamarine and their birth flower is the daffodil.
Which famous people were born on March 28?
Lady Gaga (1986), Maxim Gorky (1868), Mario Vargas Llosa (1936), Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928), Jerome Isaac Friedman (1930), Daniel Dennett (1942) were all born on March 28.
What happened on March 28 in history?
Among other things: in 1978, The US Supreme Court hands down 5–3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity; in 1990, United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal; in 2001, Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos begins operation.
Can I get a newspaper front page from March 28?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any March 28 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.
Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “March 28”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.