March 28

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

Events

• 37 – Roman Emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate.
• 193 – Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sells the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
• 364 – Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor.
• 845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
• 1776 – Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
• 1794 – Allies under the prince of Coburg 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.
• 1802 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
• 1809 – Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medelin.
• 1854 – Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.
• 1860 – First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Glorieta Pass – in New Mexico, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory. The battle began on March 26.
• 1871 – The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
• 1889 – The Yngsjö murder occurs in Yngsjö, Sweden and Anna Månsdotter is arrested along with her son.
• 1910 – Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
• 1913 – Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1920 – Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
• 1930 – Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
• 1933 – The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airline 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: Battle of Cape Matapan – in the Mediterranean Sea, British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham leads the Royal Navy in the destruction of three major Italian heavy cruisers and two destroyers.
• 1942 – World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces successfully raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.
• 1946 – Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
• 1951 – First Indochina War: In the Battle of Mao Khe, 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.
• 1968 – Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is shot by the police in a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students. The aftermath of his death is one of the first major events against the military dictatorship.
• 1969 – Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
• 1969 – The McGill français movement protest occurs, the second largest protest in Montreal's history with 10,000 trade unionists, leftist activists, CEGEP students, and even some McGill students at McGill's Roddick Gates. This led to the majority of the protesters getting arrested.
• 1970 – Gediz earthquake: A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killed 1,086 and injured 1,260.
• 1978 – The US Supreme Court hands down 5-3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.
• 1979 – Operators of Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania fail to recognize that a relief valve in the primary coolant system has stuck open following an unexpected shutdown. As a result, enough coolant drains out of the system to allow the core to overheat and partially melt down.
• 1979 – The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government, precipitating a general election.
• 1990 – President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
• 1994 – In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.
• 1994 – BBC Radio 5 is closed and replaced with a new news and sport station BBC Radio 5 Live.
• 1999 – Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in the Izbica massacre.
• 2000 – Three children are killed when a Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train.
• 2003 – In a friendly fire incident, two A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft from the United States Idaho Air National Guard's 190th Fighter Squadron attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing British soldier Matty Hull.
• 2005 – The 2005 Sumatra earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the fourth strongest earthquake since 1965.
• 2006 – At least 1 million union members, students, and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law.

Births

• 1472 – Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (d. 1517)
• 1515 – Teresa of Avila, Spanish Carmelite nun and saint (d. 1582)
• 1522 – Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (d. 1557)
• 1569 – Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1622)
• 1592 – John Amos Comenius, Czech bishop (d. 1670)
• 1599 – Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (d. 1658)
• 1613 – Empress Xiaozhuangwen of the Qing Dynasty (d. 1688)
• 1621 – Heinrich Schwemmer German music teacher and composer (d. 1696)
• 1652 – Samuel Sewall, American magistrate (d. 1730)
• 1725 – Andrew Kippis, English clergyman and biographer (d. 1795)
• 1750 – Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan nationalist (d. 1816)
• 1760 – Thomas Clarkson, British abolitionist (d. 1846)
• 1773 – Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (d. 1844)
• 1793 – Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer and geologist (d. 1864)
• 1795 – Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian (d. 1876)
• 1806 – Thomas Hare, English political scientist (d. 1891)
• 1811 – Saint John Nepomucene Neumann, Bohemian-born American bishop and Roman Catholic saint (d. 1860)
• 1815 – Arsène Houssaye, French novelist (d. 1896)
• 1818 – Wade Hampton III, American soldier and politician (d. 1902)
• 1819 – Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (d. 1891)
• 1836 – Frederick Pabst, German-American brewer, founded the Pabst Brewing Company (d. 1904)
• 1840 – Emin Pasha, Egyptian politician (d. 1892)
• 1842 – William Harvey Carney, American Civil War officer (d. 1908)
• 1849 – James Darmesteter, French author and antiquarian (d. 1894)
• 1851 – Bernardino Machado, Portuguese politician (d. 1944)
• 1862 – Aristide Briand, French politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932)
• 1866 – Jimmy Ross, Scottish footballer (d. 1902)
• 1868 – Maxim Gorky, Russian author (d. 1936)
• 1871 – Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (d. 1951)
• 1879 – Terence MacSwiney, Irish nationalist (d. 1920)
• 1890 – Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (d. 1967)
• 1892 – Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
• 1892 – Tom Maguire, Irish republican, commandant-general in the Western Command of the Irish Republican Army (d. 1993)
• 1893 – Spyros Skouras, Greek-born American movie executive (d. 1971)
• 1894 – Ernst Lindemann, German naval officer (d. 1941)
• 1895 – Christian Herter, American politician (d. 1966)
• 1895 – Spencer W. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1985)
• 1897 – Sepp Herberger, German football coach (d. 1977)
• 1897 – Tillie Voss, American football player (d. 1975)
• 1899 – Gussie Busch, American brewer and baseball executive (d. 1989)
• 1899 – Harold B. Lee, American religious figure (d. 1973)
• 1899 – Buck Shaw, American football coach (d. 1977)
• 1900 – Edward Wagenknecht, American literary critic (d. 2004)
• 1902 – Flora Robson, English actress (d. 1984)
• 1902 – Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (d. 1988)
• 1903 – Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (d. 1991)
• 1903 – Charles Starrett, American actor (d. 1986)
• 1905 – Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (d. 1996)
• 1905 – Marlin Perkins, American zoologist and television host (d. 1986)
• 1906 – Murray Adaskin, Canadian violinist, composer and teacher (d. 2002)
• 1907 – Norrey Ford, British writer (d. 1985)
• 1907 – Irving "Swifty" Lazar, American talent agent (d. 1993)
• 1909 – Nelson Algren, American writer (d. 1981)
• 1910 – Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr., American librarian (d. 2001)
• 1910 – Jimmie Dodd, American actor (d. 1964)
• 1910 – Queen Ingrid of Denmark (d. 2000)
• 1911 – John Langshaw Austin, British philosopher (d. 1960)
• 1912 – A. Bertram Chandler Australian author (d. 1984)
• 1912 – Marina Raskova, Russian navigator (d. 1943)
• 1914 – Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1914 – Bohumil Hrabal, Czech writer (d. 1997)
• 1914 – Edmund Muskie, American politician (d. 1996)
• 1914 – Kenneth Richard Norris, Australian entomologist (d. 2003)
• 1915 – Jay Livingston, American composer and songwriter (d. 2001)
• 1917 – Claude Bertrand, Canadian neurosurgeon
• 1919 – Vic Raschi, American baseball player (d. 1988)
• 1921 – Sir Dirk Bogarde, English actor (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Herschel Grynszpan, German assassin of Ernst vom Rath (d. 1960)
• 1921 – Walter Neugebauer, Croatian comic book author (d. 1992)
• 1922 – Neville Bonner, Australian politician (d. 1999)
• 1922 – Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra) (d. 1990)
• 1922 – Joey Maxim, American boxer (d. 2001)
• 1923 – Ike Isaacs, American jazz bassist (d. 1981)
• 1923 – Thad Jones, American jazz trumpeter (Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band) (d. 1986)
• 1924 – Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (d. 1992)
• 1924 – Byrd Baylor, American author
• 1925 – Dorothy DeBorba, American actress (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba
• 1927 – Marianne Fredriksson, Swedish author (d. 2007)
• 1928 – Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-born American political scientist and geostrategist
• 1928 – Alexander Grothendieck, stateless mathematician
• 1929 – Paul England, Australian racing driver
• 1930 – Robert Ashley, American composer
• 1930 – Elizabeth Bainbridge, English opera singer
• 1930 – Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1933 – Tete Montoliu, Catalonian jazz pianist (d. 1997)
• 1933 – Frank Murkowski, American politician
• 1934 – Lester Brown, American environmentalist
• 1935 – Michael Parkinson, English broadcaster
• 1936 – Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author, politician and Nobel laureate
• 1937 – Liz Trotta, American journalist
• 1938 – Hans-Jürgen Bäsler, German footballer (d. 2002)
• 1940 – Tony Barber, Australian game show host
• 1940 – Yves Bérubé, Canadian engineer and politician (d. 1993)
• 1940 – Kevin Loughery, American basketball coach
• 1941 – Alf Clausen, American composer
• 1941 – Jim Turner, American football player
• 1941 – Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, American author
• 1942 – Daniel Dennett, American philosopher
• 1942 – Kitanofuji Katsuaki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 52nd Yokozuna
• 1942 – Neil Kinnock, British politician
• 1942 – Mike Newell, English director
• 1942 – Samuel Ramey, American opera singer
• 1942 – Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (d. 1998)
• 1942 – Jerry Sloan, American basketball player and coach
• 1943 – Conchata Ferrell, American actress
• 1943 – Pierre St.-Jean, Canadian weightlifter
• 1944 – Rick Barry, American basketball player
• 1944 – Ken Howard, American actor
• 1945 – Count Björn Hamilton, Swedish politician
• 1946 – Alejandro Toledo, Peruvian politician, President of Peru
• 1946 – Henry Paulson Jr., American economist
• 1946 – Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut
• 1947 – John Landecker, American disk jockey
• 1947 – Greg Thompson, Canadian politician
• 1948 – Matthew Corbett, English actor
• 1948 – John Evan, British musician (Jethro Tull)
• 1948 – Gerry House, American radio personality
• 1948 – Jayne Ann Krentz, American novelist
• 1948 – Dennis Unkovic, American author
• 1948 – Dianne Wiest, American actress
• 1948 – Milan Williams, American musician (The Commodores) (d. 2006)
• 1950 – Claudio Lolli, Italian singer-songwriter
• 1951 – Karen Kain, Canadian ballerina
• 1951 – Matti Pellonpää, Finnish actor and musician (d. 1995)
• 1952 – Keith Ashfield, Canadian politician
• 1952 – Tony Brise, British racing driver (d. 1975)
• 1953 – Melchior Ndadaye, Burundian politician (d. 1993)
• 1954 – Morris Mason, American convicted rapist and murderer (d. 1985)
• 1954 – Donald Brown, American jazz pianist
• 1955 – John Alderdice, Northern Irish politician
• 1955 – Reba McEntire, American singer and actress
• 1956 – Susan Ershler, American public speaker, author, and climber of Mount Everest
• 1956 – April Margera, American television personality, mother of Bam Margera
• 1957 – Paul Eiding, American voice actor
• 1958 – Curt Hennig, American wrestler (d. 2003)
• 1958 – Edesio Alejandro, Cuban composer
• 1958 – Lou Franceschetti, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1959 – Chris Myers, American sportscaster
• 1960 – Chris Barrie, British actor
• 1960 – José Maria Neves, Cape Verdeian politician
• 1960 – Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, French author and dramatist
• 1961 – Orla Brady, Irish actress
• 1961 – Byron Scott, American basketball player and coach
• 1962 – Jure Franko, Slovenian skier
• 1962 – Terry Szopinski, American wrestler
• 1964 – Pablo Contrisciani, Argentine-born abstract painter
• 1965 – Steve Bull, English footballer
• 1967 – John Ziegler, American radio talk-show host
• 1968 – Iris Chang, American author (d. 2004)
• 1968 – Nasser Hussain, English cricketer
• 1968 – Jon Lee, British drummer (The Darling Buds and Feeder) (d. 2002)
• 1968 – Tim Lovejoy, British television presenter
• 1968 – Max Perlich, American actor
• 1969 – Rodney Atkins, American singer-songwriter
• 1969 – Daniel Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1969 – Elliot Perry, American basketball player
• 1969 – Brett Ratner, American director
• 1970 – Michelle Gildernew, Irish republican politician
• 1970 – Vince Vaughn, American actor
• 1970 – Jennifer Weiner, American author
• 1970 – Aiga Zagorska, Lithuanian track and road cyclist
• 1971 – Mr. Cheeks, American rapper (The Lost Boyz)
• 1971 – Christianne Meneses Jacobs, Nicaraguan-American writer and educator
• 1971 – Wesley Person, American basketball player
• 1972 – Nick Frost, English comedian and actor
• 1972 – Eby J. Jose, Indian journalist
• 1972 – Keith Tkachuk, American ice hockey player
• 1973 – Eddie Fatu, Samoan wrestler (d. 2009)
• 1973 – Scott Mills, British radio disc jockey
• 1973 – Matt Nathanson, American singer-songwriter
• 1974 – Mark King, English snooker player
• 1975 – Kate Gosselin, American TV personality
• 1975 – Iván Helguera, Spanish footballer
• 1975 – Derek Hill, American racing driver
• 1975 – Richard Kelly, American director
• 1975 – Shanna Moakler, American model and actress
• 1975 – Matt Reis, American soccer goalkeeper
• 1976 – Dave Keuning, American guitar player (The Killers)
• 1977 – Erik Rasmussen, American ice hockey player
• 1977 – Lauren Weisberger, American novelist
• 1977 – Annie Wersching, American actress
• 1979 – Park Chae-rim, South Korean actress
• 1979 – Crystal Cox, American track and field athlete
• 1980 – Stiliani Pilatou, Greek long jumper
• 1980 – Chitrangada Singh, Indian actress
• 1980 – Rasmus Seebach, Danish singer
• 1980 – Luke Walton, American basketball player
• 1981 – Lindsay Frimodt, American model
• 1981 – Gareth David-Lloyd, Welsh Actor
• 1981 – Edwar Ramirez, American baseball player
• 1981 – Antonio Rizzo, Italian footballer
• 1981 – Julia Stiles, American actress
• 1982 – Sonia Agarwal, Indian actress
• 1983 – Ryan Ashington, English footballer
• 1984 – Yordanos Abay, Ethiopian footballer
• 1984 – Ol Drake, English guitarist (Evile)
• 1984 – Christopher Samba, Congolese footballer
• 1984 – Nikki Sanderson, British actress and model
• 1985 – Stefano Ferrario, Italian footballer
• 1986 – Abuda, Brazilian footballer
• 1986 – Lady Gaga, American singer and songwriter
• 1986 – J-Kwon, American rapper
• 1986 – Yoon Joon-Soo, South Korean footballer
• 1986 – Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová, Czech tennis player
• 1987 – Lee Hea-Kang, South Korean footballer
• 1988 – Patrick Mayer, German footballer
• 1988 – Lacey Turner, British actress
• 1989 – Logan Couture, Canadian hockey player
• 1989 – David Goodwillie, Scottish footballer
• 1989 &ndash:Lukas Jutkiewicz, English footballer
• 1989 – Mira Leung, Canadian figure skater
• 1989 – Marek Suchý, Czech footballer
• 1990 – Zac Clarke, Australian rules footballer
• 1990 – Dok2, South Korean rapper
• 1991 – Amy Bruckner, American actress
• 1991 – Marie-Philip Poulin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1992 – Sergi Gómez, Spanish footballer
• 1992 – Liam Hess, British actor

Deaths

• 193 – Pertinax, Roman Emperor (b. 126)
• 1072 – Ordulf, Duke of Saxony
• 1239 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180)
• 1285 – Pope Martin IV
• 1552 – Guru Angad Dev Indian Sikh Guru (b.1504)
• 1563 – Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (b. 1488)
• 1566 – Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (b. 1486)
• 1677 – Václav Hollar, Czech etcher (b. 1607)
• 1687 – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596)
• 1794 – Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1743)
• 1818 – Antonio Capuzzi, Italian composer (b. 1755)
• 1850 – Gerard C. Brandon, American politician (b. 1788)
• 1866 – Solomon Foot, American politician (b. 1802)
• 1868 – James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, British military leader (b. 1797)
• 1870 – George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)
• 1874 – Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (b. 1795)
• 1881 – Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Russian composer (b. 1839)
• 1884 – Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (b. 1853)
• 1910 – David Josiah Brewer, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1837)
• 1910 – Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (b. 1838)
• 1927 – Joseph-Médard Émard, Canadian Catholic archbishop (b. 1853)
• 1928 – Nathan Stubblefield, American inventor (b. 1860)
• 1929 – Lomer Gouin, Canadian politician (b. 1861)
• 1934 – Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor (b. 1891)
• 1939 – Francis Matthew John Baker, Australian politician (b. 1903)
• 1941 – Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian Police Commissioner (b. 1877)
• 1941 – Virginia Woolf, English writer (b. 1882)
• 1942 – Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet (b. 1910)
• 1943 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1873)
• 1944 – Stephen Leacock, Canadian teacher, political scientist, and writer (b. 1869)
• 1946 – Chick Fullis, baseball player (b. 1904)
• 1947 – Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)
• 1949 – Grigoraş Dinicu, Romanian composer and violinist (b. 1889)
• 1953 – Jim Thorpe, American athlete (b. 1887)
• 1958 – W. C. Handy, American composer (b. 1873)
• 1962 – Hugo Wast, Argentine writer (b. 1883)
• 1965 – Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (b. 1888)
• 1965 – Jack Hoxie, American actor and rodeo performer (b. 1885)
• 1965 – Charles William Train, English Sergeant, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1890)
• 1969 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, American politician, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)
• 1969 – Aryeh Levin, Orthodox Jewish rabbi (b. 1885)
• 1974 – Arthur Crudup, American singer and guitarist (b. 1905)
• 1974 – Dorothy Fields, American librettist and lyricist (b. 1905)
• 1974 – Françoise Rosay, French opera singer (b. 1891)
• 1976 – Richard Arlen, American actor (b. 1898)
• 1977 – Eric Shipton, British explorer and mountaineer (b. 1907)
• 1978 – Dino Ciani, Italian pianist (b. 1941)
• 1979 – Emmett Kelly, American clown (b. 1898)
• 1980 – Dick Haymes, Argentine-born singer and actor (b. 1918)
• 1982 – William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
• 1984 – Carmen Dragon, American conductor, composer and arranger (b. 1914)
• 1985 – Marc Chagall, Russian painter (b. 1887)
• 1986 – Virginia Gilmore. American actress (b. 1919)
• 1987 – Maria von Trapp, Austrian singer (b. 1905)
• 1987 – Patrick Troughton, British actor (b. 1920)
• 1989 – Robert J. Wilke, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1992 – Nikolaos Platon, Greek archaeologist (b. 1909)
• 1993 – Scott Cunningham, Occult author (b. 1956)
• 1994 – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright (b. 1909)
• 1995 – Hugh O'Connor, American actor (b. 1962)
• 1996 – Shin Kanemaru, Japanese politician (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Anthony Powell, British novelist (b. 1905)
• 2001 – Moe Koffman, Canadian jazz musician (b. 1928)
• 2003 – Rusty Draper, American singer (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Art James, American game show host (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Peter Ustinov, British actor (b. 1921)
• 2005 – Moura Lympany, British pianist (b. 1916)
• 2005 – Robin Spry, Canadian filmmaker and producer (b. 1939)
• 2006 – Kevin Charles "Pro" Hart, Australian artist (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Vethathiri Maharishi, Indian philosopher (b. 1911)
• 2006 – Proinsias Ó Maonaigh, Irish fiddler (b. 1922)
• 2006 – Charles Schepens, American ophthalmologist (b. 1912)
• 2006 – Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)
• 2010 – Herb Ellis, American jazz guitarist (b. 1921)
• 2010 – June Havoc, American actress (b. 1913)
• 2011 – Wenche Foss, Norwegian actress (b. 1917)
• 2012 – John Arden, English playwright (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Harry Crews, American writer (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Earl Scruggs, American musician (Flatt and Scruggs) (b. 1924)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Guntram
  • Priscus
  • Pope Sixtus III
  • 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)

External links

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