Anniversaries 28 March
Birth
![Teresa of Ávila photo]()
Roman Catholic saint
1515–1582
![John Amos Comenius photo]()
Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer
1592–1670
![Thomas Clarkson photo]()
English abolitionist
1760–1846
![Oscar Levy photo]()
German physician and writer
1867–1946
![Spencer W. Kimball photo]()
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1895–1985
![Nelson Algren photo]()
American novelist, short story writer
1909–1981
![Bohumil Hrabal photo]()
Czech bookwriter and writer
1914–1997
![Robert L. Kahn photo]()
American psychologist
1918–2019
![Grace Hartigan photo]()
American artist
1922–2008
![Alexander Grothendieck photo]()
French mathematician
1928–2014
![Zbigniew Brzeziński photo]()
Polish-American political scientist
1928–2017
![Robert Ashley photo]()
American composer
1930–2014
![Mario Vargas Llosa photo]()
Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, and essayist
1936
![Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson photo]()
American writer and activist
1941
![Daniel Dennett photo]()
American philosopher
1942
![Rodrigo Duterte photo]()
Filipino politician and the 16th President of the Philippin…
1945
![Henry Paulson photo]()
74th United States Secretary of the Treasury
1946
![Steve Keen photo]()
Australian economist
1953
![Reba McEntire photo]()
American country music artist and actress
1955
![Krishna Dharma photo]()
British Hindu scholar and author
1955
![José Maria Neves photo]()
Cape Verdean politician and former prime minister of Cape V…
1960
![Bernice King photo]()
American minister, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr.
1963
![Cheryl James photo]()
American rapper and actress
1966
![Iris Chang photo]()
American historian
1968–2004
![Joseph Tobji photo]()
archeparch of Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo
1971
![Shanna Moakler photo]()
American actress and model
1975
![Lady Gaga photo]()
American singer, songwriter, and actress
1986
![Bowe Bergdahl photo]()
American soldier captured by the Taliban in 2009 and releas…
1986
![Jonathan Van Ness photo]()
American hairstylist and television personality
1987
Death
![Guru Angad Dev photo]()
The second Guru of Sikhism
1504–1552
![Robert-François Damiens photo]()
French domestic servant and attempted assassin
1715–1757
![Thomas Morton (playwright) photo]()
English playwright
1764–1838
![George Henry Thomas photo]()
United States Army general
1816–1870
![Margaret Junkin Preston photo]()
American writer
1820–1897
![Piet Joubert photo]()
Boer politician and general
1834–1900
![Frederick Brotherton Meyer photo]()
English Baptist pastor and evangelist
1847–1929
![Stephen Leacock photo]()
writer and economist
1869–1944
![Sergei Rachmaninoff photo]()
Russian composer, pianist, and conductor
1873–1943
![W. C. Handy photo]()
American blues composer and musician
1873–1958
![Marc Chagall photo]()
French artist and painter
1887–1985
![Christopher Morley photo]()
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
1890–1957
![Dwight D. Eisenhower photo]()
American general and politician, 34th president of the Unit…
1890–1969
![Carolyn Keene photo]()
house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate
1905–2002
![Anthony Powell photo]()
English novelist
1905–2000
![Eric Shipton photo]()
British explorer
1907–1977
![Eugéne Ionesco photo]()
Romanian playwright
1909–1994
![Bernard Hollowood photo]()
English cricketer
1910–1981
![George E. P. Box photo]()
British statistician
1919–2013
![Peter Ustinov photo]()
English actor, writer, and dramatist
1921–2004
![Maurice Jarre photo]()
French composer
1924–2009
![Jeremiah Denton photo]()
American Vietnam War POW and politician
1924–2014
![Harry Crews photo]()
Novelist, short story writer, essayist
1935–2012
![Scott Cunningham photo]()
U.S. writer about Wicca and the occult
1956–1993
![Maria Rosa Antognazza photo]()
professor, author
1964–2023
