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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
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. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
AD 37 Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of
the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate. ·
193 After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the
throne to Didius Julianus.[1] ·
364 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. ·
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 PolishLithuanian
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.[2] ·
1802 Heinrich
Wilhelm Matthδus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid ever to be discovered. ·
1809 Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in
the Battle of Medellνn. ·
1814 War of 1812: In the Battle of Valparaνso,
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. ·
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[3]. 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[4]". ·
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. ·
1941 World War II: Britain's Mediterranean Fleet sinks three
heavy cruisers and two destroyers of Italy's Regia Marina. ·
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 AchesonLilienthal
Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power. ·
1951 First Indochina War:
In the Battle of Mạo
Khκ, French Union forces,
led by World War II hero Jean de Lattre
de Tassigny, inflict a defeat on Việt Minh forces commanded by
General Vυ Nguyκn Giαp. ·
1959 The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves
the government of Tibet. ·
1968 Brazilian high
school student Edson Luνs 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 53 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 9151,314 people
dead and 3401,146 injured. ·
2006 Massive
protests are mounted against France's First
Employment Contract law, meant to reduce youth unemployment. Births[edit]
·
931 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 Αvila,
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) ·
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 Arsθne 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)[5] ·
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 Αngela 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) ·
1902 Flora Robson, English actress (d. 1984) ·
1902 Jaromνr Vejvoda,
Czech fiddler and composer (d. 1988) ·
1903 Rudolf Serkin, Czech-American pianist and
educator (d. 1991)[6] ·
1904 Isabel Cuchν Coll,
Puerto Rican author and journalist (d. 1993) ·
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 Lϊcia 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 ·
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)[7] ·
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)[8] ·
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 ·
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)[9] ·
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 ·
1935 Michael Parkinson,
English journalist and author ·
1935 Jσzef Szmidt, Polish triple jumper ·
1936 Mario Vargas Llosa,
Peruvian writer, politician, journalist and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1938 Hans-Jόrgen Bδsler,
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 ·
1943 Richard Eyre, English director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1943 Conchata Ferrell, American actress ·
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 Bjφrn 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,
producer, 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 Josι Maria Neves,
Cape Verdeian politician, Prime
Minister of Cape Verde ·
1960 Ιric-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 Bjφrn Kuipers, Dutch footballer and referee ·
1975 Fabrizio Gollin, Italian race car driver ·
1975 Kate Gosselin, American television
personality ·
1975 Ivαn 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[10] ·
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 Ramνrez, American baseball player ·
1981 Julia Stiles, American actress ·
1983 Ladji Doucourι,
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,
dancer, producer, and actress ·
1986 J-Kwon, American rapper ·
1986 Amaia Salamanca, Spanish actress ·
1986 Barbora Strύcovα,
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 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 Suchύ, Czech footballer ·
1990 Zac Clarke, Australian footballer ·
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 Palαt,
Czech ice hockey player ·
1992 Sergi Gσmez, 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[edit]
·
193 Pertinax, Roman emperor (b. 126) ·
741 Hatsusebe,
Japanese princess ·
965 Arnulf I,
count of Flanders ·
966 Flodoard, Frankish canon and chronicler ·
1072 Ordulf, Duke of
Saxony (b. 1022) ·
1134 Saint 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) ·
1687 Constantijn Huygens,
Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596) ·
1794 Marquis de Condorcet,
French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1743) ·
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) ·
1910 Ιdouard Colonne,
French violinist and conductor (b. 1838) ·
1917 Albert Pinkham Ryder,
American painter (b. 1847) ·
1923 Charles Hubbard,
American archer (b. 1849) ·
1927 Joseph-Mιdard Ιmard,
Canadian archbishop (b. 1853) ·
1929 Katharine Lee Bates,
American poet and songwriter (b. 1859) ·
1929 Lomer Gouin, Canadian lawyer and politician,
13th 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 Kavasji
Jamshedji Petigara, Indian police officer (b. 1877) ·
1941 Virginia Woolf, English novelist, essayist,
short story writer, and critic (b. 1882) ·
1942 Miguel Hernαndez,
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) ·
1949 Grigoraș Dinicu,
Romanian violinist and composer (b. 1889) ·
1953 Jim Thorpe, American football player and
coach (b. 1887) ·
1958 W. C. Handy, American trumpet player and
composer (b. 1873) ·
1962 Hugo Wast, Argentinian author and
screenwriter (b. 1883) ·
1963 Antonius Bouwens, Dutch target shooter (b.
1876) ·
1965 Clemence Dane, English author and playwright
(b. 1888) ·
1965 Jack Hoxie, American actor (b. 1885) ·
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 Franηoise Rosay,
French actress (b. 1891) ·
1976 Richard Arlen, American actor (b. 1898) ·
1977 Eric Shipton, Sri Lankan-English mountaineer
and explorer (b. 1907) ·
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 Eugθne 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 Vethathiri Maharishi,
Indian philosopher and author (b. 1911) ·
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) ·
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)[11] ·
2013 George E. P. Box, English-American
statistician and educator (b. 1919) ·
2013 Manuel Garcνa Ferrι,
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)[12] ·
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)[13] ·
2015 Joseph Cassidy,
Canadian-English priest and academic (b. 1954)[14] ·
2015 Miroslav
Ondřνček, Czech cinematographer (b. 1934)[15] ·
2015 Gene Saks, American actor and director (b.
1921)[16] ·
2016 James Noble,
American actor (b. 1922)[17] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o Guntram o Priscus o Tuotilo o March
28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Commemoration of Sen no Rikyū (Schools
of Japanese tea ceremony) ·
Serfs Emancipation
Day (Tibet) ·
Teachers' Day (Czech Republic and Slovakia) |
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