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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 28th of March 0037 | EVENT | Roman Emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate. |
| 28th of March 0193 | EVENT | Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus. |
| 28th of March 0364 | EVENT | Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor. |
| 28th of March 0845 | EVENT | Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving. |
| 28th of March 1776 | EVENT | Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco. |
| 28th of March 1794 | EVENT | Allies under the prince of Coburg defeat French forces at Le Cateau. |
| 28th of March 1795 | EVENT | Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland, a northern fief of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia. |
| 28th of March 1802 | EVENT | Heinrich Wilhelm Matthaus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man. |
| 28th of March 1809 | EVENT | Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medelin. |
| 28th of March 1854 | EVENT | Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia. |
| 28th of March 1860 | EVENT | First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins. |
| 28th of March 1862 | EVENT | 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. |
| 28th of March 1871 | EVENT | The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris. |
| 28th of March 1889 | EVENT | The Yngsjo murder occurs in Yngsjo, Sweden and Anna Mansdotter is arrested along with her son. |
| 28th of March 1910 | EVENT | Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France. |
| 28th of March 1913 | EVENT | Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
| 28th of March 1920 | EVENT | Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states. |
| 28th of March 1930 | EVENT | Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara. |
| 28th of March 1939 | EVENT | Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid. |
| 28th of March 1941 | EVENT | 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. |
| 28th of March 1942 | EVENT | World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces successfully raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire. |
| 28th of March 1946 | EVENT | Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson : Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power. |
| 28th of March 1959 | EVENT | The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the Government of Tibet. |
| 28th of March 1968 | EVENT | Brazilian high school student Edson Luis 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. |
| 28th of March 1969 | EVENT | The McGill francais 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. |
| 28th of March 1969 | EVENT | Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece. |
| 28th of March 1978 | EVENT | 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. |
| 28th of March 1979 | EVENT | 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. |
| 28th of March 1979 | EVENT | The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government, precipitating a general election. |
| 28th of March 1990 | EVENT | President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal. |
| 28th of March 1994 | EVENT | In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths. |
| 28th of March 1999 | EVENT | Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in the Izbica massacre. |
| 28th of March 2000 | EVENT | Three children are killed when a Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train. |
| 28th of March 2003 | EVENT | 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. |
| 28th of March 2005 | EVENT | The 2005 Sumatran earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the fourth strongest earthquake since 1965. |
| 28th of March 2006 | EVENT | 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. |
| 28th of March 1472 | BIRTHDAY | Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (d. 1517) |
| 28th of March 1515 | BIRTHDAY | Teresa of Avila, Spanish Carmelite nun and saint (d. 1582) |
| 28th of March 1522 | BIRTHDAY | Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (d. 1557) |
| 28th of March 1569 | BIRTHDAY | Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1622) |
| 28th of March 1592 | BIRTHDAY | John Amos Comenius, Czech bishop (d. 1670) |
| 28th of March 1599 | BIRTHDAY | Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (d. 1658) |
| 28th of March 1613 | BIRTHDAY | Empress Xiaozhuangwen of the Qing Dynasty (d. 1688) |
| 28th of March 1652 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Sewall, American magistrate (d. 1730) |
| 28th of March 1725 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Kippis, English clergyman and biographer (d. 1795) |
| 28th of March 1750 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan nationalist (d. 1816) |
| 28th of March 1760 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Clarkson, British abolitionist (d. 1846) |
| 28th of March 1773 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (d. 1844) |
| 28th of March 1793 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer and geologist (d. 1864) |
| 28th of March 1795 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian (d. 1876) |
| 28th of March 1806 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Hare, English political scientist (d. 1891) |
| 28th of March 1811 | BIRTHDAY | John Neumann, Bohemian-born American bishop and Roman Catholic saint (d. 1860) |
| 28th of March 1815 | BIRTHDAY | Arsene Houssaye, French novelist (d. 1896) |
| 28th of March 1818 | BIRTHDAY | Wade Hampton III, American soldier and politician (d. 1902) |
| 28th of March 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (d. 1891) |
| 28th of March 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Pabst, American brewer (d. 1904) |
| 28th of March 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Emin Pasha, Equatorian politician (d. 1892) |
| 28th of March 1842 | BIRTHDAY | William Harvey Carney, American Civil War officer (d. 1908) |
| 28th of March 1849 | BIRTHDAY | James Darmesteter, French author and antiquarian (d. 1894) |
| 28th of March 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Bernardino Machado, Portuguese politician (d. 1944) |
| 28th of March 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Aristide Briand, French politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932) |
| 28th of March 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Ross, Scottish footballer (d. 1902) |
| 28th of March 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Maxim Gorky, Russian author (d. 1936) |
| 28th of March 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (d. 1951) |
| 28th of March 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Terence MacSwiney, Irish nationalist (d. 1920) |
| 28th of March 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (d. 1967) |
| 28th of March 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968) |
| 28th of March 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Maguire, Irish republican (d. 1993) |
| 28th of March 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Spyros Skouras, Greek-born American movie executive (d. 1971) |
| 28th of March 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Lindemann, German naval officer (d. 1941) |
| 28th of March 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Herter, American politician (d. 1966) |
| 28th of March 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Spencer W. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1985) |
| 28th of March 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Sepp Herberger, German football coach (d. 1977) |
| 28th of March 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Tillie Voss, American football player (d. 1975) |
| 28th of March 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Harold B. Lee, American religious figure (d. 1973) |
| 28th of March 1899 | BIRTHDAY | August Anheuser Busch, Jr., American brewer and baseball executive (d. 1989) |
| 28th of March 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Buck Shaw, American football coach (d. 1977) |
| 28th of March 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Wagenknecht, American literary critic (d. 2004) |
| 28th of March 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Dame Flora Robson, English actress (d. 1984) |
| 28th of March 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Jaromir Vejvoda, Czech composer (d. 1988) |
| 28th of March 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Starrett, American actor (d. 1986) |
| 28th of March 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (d. 1991) |
| 28th of March 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Marlin Perkins, American zoologist and television host (d. 1986) |
| 28th of March 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (d. 1996) |
| 28th of March 1907 | BIRTHDAY | "Swifty" Lazar, American talent agent (d. 1993) |
| 28th of March 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Nelson Algren, American writer (d. 1981) |
| 28th of March 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmie Dodd, American actor (d. 1964) |
| 28th of March 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr., American librarian (d. 2001) |
| 28th of March 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Ingrid of Denmark (d. 2000) |
| 28th of March 1911 | BIRTHDAY | John Langshaw Austin, British language philosopher (d. 1960) |
| 28th of March 1912 | BIRTHDAY | A. Bertram Chandler Australian author (d. 1984) |
| 28th of March 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Marina Raskova, Russian navigator (d. 1943) |
| 28th of March 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (d. 2000) |
| 28th of March 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Edmund Muskie, American politician (d. 1996) |
| 28th of March 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Bohumil Hrabal, Czech writer (d. 1997) |
| 28th of March 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Richard Norris, Australian entomologist (d. 2003) |
| 28th of March 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Livingston, American composer and songwriter (d. 2001) |
| 28th of March 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Vic Raschi, American baseball player (d. 1988) |
| 28th of March 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Dirk Bogarde, English actor (d. 1999) |
| 28th of March 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Herschel Grynszpan, German assassin of Ernst vom Rath (year of death unknown) |
| 28th of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (d. 1990) |
| 28th of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Joey Maxim, American boxer (d. 2001) |
| 28th of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Neville Bonner, Australian politician (d. 1999) |
| 28th of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Thad Jones, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1986) |
| 28th of March 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (d. 1992) |
| 28th of March 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothy DeBorba, American child actress (d. 2010) |
| 28th of March 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba |
| 28th of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Marianne Fredriksson, Swedish author (d. 2007) |
| 28th of March 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Grothendieck, German mathematician |
| 28th of March 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-born American political scientist and geostrategist |
| 28th of March 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Paul England, Australian racing driver |
| 28th of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Bainbridge, English opera singer |
| 28th of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Ashley, American composer |
| 28th of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 28th of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Tete Montoliu, Catalonian jazz pianist (d. 1997) |
| 28th of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Murkowski, American politician |
| 28th of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Lester Brown, American environmentalist |
| 28th of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Parkinson, English broadcaster |
| 28th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author, politician and Nobel laureate |
| 28th of March 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Liz Trotta, American journalist |
| 28th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Barber, Australian television personality |
| 28th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Loughery, American basketball coach |
| 28th of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Turner, American pro football player |
| 28th of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Alf Clausen, America orchestra conductor |
| 28th of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, American author |
| 28th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Dennett, American philosopher |
| 28th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Kitanofuji Katsuaki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 52nd Yokozuna |
| 28th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (d. 1998) |
| 28th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Newell, English film director |
| 28th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Sloan, American basketball player and head coach |
| 28th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Ramey, American opera singer |
| 28th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Kinnock, British politician |
| 28th of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Conchata Ferrell, American actress |
| 28th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Barry, American basketball player |
| 28th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Howard, American actor |
| 28th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Count Bjorn Hamilton, Swedish politician |
| 28th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Paulson Jr., American economist |
| 28th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Alejandro Toledo, President of Peru |
| 28th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut |
| 28th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | John Landecker, American disk jockey |
| 28th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Dianne Wiest, American actress |
| 28th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Gerry House, American radio personality |
| 28th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | John Evan, British musician (Jethro Tull) |
| 28th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Corbett, English retired actor |
| 28th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Milan Williams, American musician (The Commodores) (d. 2006) |
| 28th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Unkovic, American author |
| 28th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jayne Ann Krentz, American novelist |
| 28th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Claudio Lolli, Italian singer-songwriter |
| 28th of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Karen Kain, Canadian ballerina |
| 28th of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Matti Pellonpaa, Finnish actor and musician (d. 1995) |
| 28th of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Brise, British racing driver (d. 1975) |
| 28th of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Melchior Ndadaye, Burundian politician (d. 1993) |
| 28th of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Morris Mason, American convicted rapist and murderer (d. 1985) |
| 28th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | John Alderdice, Northern Irish politician |
| 28th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Reba McEntire, American singer and actress |
| 28th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | April Margera, mother of Bam Margera |
| 28th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Ershler, American mountaineer |
| 28th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (d. 2003) |
| 28th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Edesio Alejandro, Cuban music composer |
| 28th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Franceschetti, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 28th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Myers, American sportscaster |
| 28th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Maria Neves, Cape Verdeian politician |
| 28th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, French author and dramatist |
| 28th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Barrie, British actor |
| 28th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Byron Scott, American basketball player and coach |
| 28th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Orla Brady, Irish actress |
| 28th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jure Franko, Slovenian skier |
| 28th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Szopinski, American pro-wrestler |
| 28th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Bull, English footballer |
| 28th of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | John Ziegler, American talk-show host |
| 28th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Iris Chang, American author (d. 2004) |
| 28th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Nasser Hussain, English cricketer |
| 28th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Lee, British drummer (d. 2002) |
| 28th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Lovejoy, British television presenter |
| 28th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Max Perlich, American actor |
| 28th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Brett Ratner, American film director |
| 28th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Rodney Atkins, American country music singer-songwriter |
| 28th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Elliot Perry, American basketball player |
| 28th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Vince Vaughn, American actor |
| 28th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Gildernew, Irish republican politician |
| 28th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Aiga Zagorska, Lithuanian track and road cyclist |
| 28th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Christianne Meneses Jacobs, Nicaraguan-born American writer and educator |
| 28th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Mr. Cheeks, American rapper |
| 28th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Wesley Person, American basketball player |
| 28th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Eby J. Jose, Indian journalist |
| 28th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Frost, English comedian and actor |
| 28th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Tkachuk, American ice hockey player |
| 28th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Fatu, Samoan professional wrestler (d. 2009) |
| 28th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Nathanson, American singer-songwriter |
| 28th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Mills, British radio disc jockey |
| 28th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Mark King, English snooker player |
| 28th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Shanna Moakler, American beauty queen and TV personality |
| 28th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Reis, American soccer goalkeeper |
| 28th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Kelly, American film director |
| 28th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Helguera, Spanish footballer |
| 28th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Hill, American racing driver |
| 28th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Gosselin, American TV personality |
| 28th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Keuning, American guitar player (The Killers) |
| 28th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Rasmussen, American ice hockey player |
| 28th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Annie Wersching, American actress |
| 28th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Lauren Weisberger, American novelist |
| 28th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Park Chae-rim, South Korean actress |
| 28th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Crystal Cox, American reality television contestant |
| 28th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Luke Walton, American basketball player |
| 28th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Chitrangada Singh, Indian actress |
| 28th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Stiliani Pilatou, Greek long jumper |
| 28th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Lindsay Frimodt, American model |
| 28th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Gareth David-Lloyd, Welsh Actor |
| 28th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Edwar Ramirez, American baseball player |
| 28th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Stiles, American actress |
| 28th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Rizzo, Italian footballer |
| 28th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Sonia Agarwal, Indian actress |
| 28th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Ashington, English footballer |
| 28th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Samba, French footballer |
| 28th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Nikki Sanderson, British actress and model |
| 28th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Yordanos Abay, Ethiopian footballer |
| 28th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ol Drake, English guitarist (Evile) |
| 28th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Abuda, Brazilian footballer |
| 28th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | J-Kwon, American rapper |
| 28th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Yoon Joon-Soo, South Korean footballer |
| 28th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Lady Gaga, American singer-songwriter and dancer |
| 28th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Barbora Zahlavova-Strycova, Czech tennis player |
| 28th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Hea-Kang, South Korean footballer |
| 28th of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Lacey Turner, British actress |
| 28th of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Lukas Jutkiewicz, English footballer |
| 28th of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | David Goodwillie, Scottish footballer |
| 28th of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Marek Suchy, Czech footballer |
| 28th of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Mira Leung, Canadian figure skater |
| 28th of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Zac Clarke, Australian rules footballer |
| 28th of March 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Bruckner, American actress |
| 28th of March 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Sergi Gomez, Spanish footballer |
| 28th of March 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Liam Hess, British actor |
| 28th of March 0193 | DEATH | Pertinax, Roman Emperor (Born 126) |
| 28th of March 1072 | DEATH | Ordulf, Duke of Saxony |
| 28th of March 1239 | DEATH | Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (Born 1180) |
| 28th of March 1285 | DEATH | Pope Martin IV |
| 28th of March 1563 | DEATH | Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (Born 1488) |
| 28th of March 1566 | DEATH | Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (Born 1486) |
| 28th of March 1677 | DEATH | Vaclav Hollar, Czech-born etcher (Born 1607) |
| 28th of March 1687 | DEATH | Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (Born 1596) |
| 28th of March 1794 | DEATH | Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and philosopher (Born 1743) |
| 28th of March 1818 | DEATH | Antonio Capuzzi, Italian composer (Born 1755) |
| 28th of March 1850 | DEATH | Gerard C. Brandon, American politician (Born 1788) |
| 28th of March 1866 | DEATH | Solomon Foot, American politician (Born 1802) |
| 28th of March 1868 | DEATH | James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, British military leader (Born 1797) |
| 28th of March 1870 | DEATH | George Henry Thomas, American general (Born 1816) |
| 28th of March 1874 | DEATH | Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (Born 1795) |
| 28th of March 1881 | DEATH | Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Russian composer (Born 1839) |
| 28th of March 1884 | DEATH | Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, son of Queen Victoria (Born 1853) |
| 28th of March 1910 | DEATH | Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (Born 1838) |
| 28th of March 1910 | DEATH | David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (Born 1837) |
| 28th of March 1928 | DEATH | Nathan Stubblefield, American inventor (Born 1860) |
| 28th of March 1929 | DEATH | Lomer Gouin, Canadian politician (Born 1861) |
| 28th of March 1939 | DEATH | Francis Matthew John Baker, Australian politician (Born 1903) |
| 28th of March 1941 | DEATH | Virginia Woolf, English feminist writer (Born 1882) |
| 28th of March 1941 | DEATH | Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian Police Commissioner (Born 1877) |
| 28th of March 1942 | DEATH | Miguel Hernandez, Spanish poet, death in prison (Born 1910) |
| 28th of March 1943 | DEATH | Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist (Born 1873) |
| 28th of March 1944 | DEATH | Stephen Leacock, Canadian humorist (Born 1869) |
| 28th of March 1946 | DEATH | Chick Fullis, baseball player (Born 1904) |
| 28th of March 1947 | DEATH | Karol Swierczewski, Polish general (Born 1897) |
| 28th of March 1949 | DEATH | Grigoras Dinicu, Romanian composer and violinist (Born 1889) |
| 28th of March 1953 | DEATH | Jim Thorpe, American athlete (Born 1887) |
| 28th of March 1958 | DEATH | William Christopher Handy, American composer (Born 1873) |
| 28th of March 1962 | DEATH | Hugo Wast, Argentine writer (Born 1883) |
| 28th of March 1965 | DEATH | Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (Born 1888) |
| 28th of March 1965 | DEATH | Jack Hoxie, American actor and rodeo performer (Born 1885) |
| 28th of March 1965 | DEATH | Charles William Train, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (Born 1890) |
| 28th of March 1969 | DEATH | Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States (Born 1890) |
| 28th of March 1969 | DEATH | Aryeh Levin, Orthodox Jewish rabbi (Born 1885) |
| 28th of March 1974 | DEATH | Dorothy Fields, American librettist and lyricist (Born 1905) |
| 28th of March 1976 | DEATH | Richard Arlen, American actor (Born 1898) |
| 28th of March 1976 | DEATH | Arthur Crudup, American blues singer and guitarist (Born 1905) |
| 28th of March 1977 | DEATH | Eric Shipton, British explorer and mountaineer (Born 1907) |
| 28th of March 1978 | DEATH | Dino Ciani, Italian pianist (Born 1941) |
| 28th of March 1979 | DEATH | Emmett Kelly, American clown (Born 1898) |
| 28th of March 1980 | DEATH | Dick Haymes, Argentine-born singer and actor (Born 1918) |
| 28th of March 1982 | DEATH | William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1895) |
| 28th of March 1984 | DEATH | Carmen Dragon, American conductor, composer and arranger (Born 1914) |
| 28th of March 1985 | DEATH | Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (Born 1887) |
| 28th of March 1986 | DEATH | Virginia Gilmore. American actress (Born 1919) |
| 28th of March 1987 | DEATH | Patrick Troughton, British actor (Born 1920) |
| 28th of March 1987 | DEATH | Maria von Trapp, Austrian-born singer (Born 1905) |
| 28th of March 1989 | DEATH | Robert J. Wilke, American actor (Born 1914) |
| 28th of March 1992 | DEATH | Nikolaos Platon, Greek archaeologist (Born 1909) |
| 28th of March 1993 | DEATH | Scott Cunningham, Occult author (Born 1956) |
| 28th of March 1994 | DEATH | Eugene Ionesco, Romanian-born French playwright (Born 1909) |
| 28th of March 1995 | DEATH | Hugh O'Connor, American actor (Born 1962) |
| 28th of March 2000 | DEATH | Anthony Powell, British novelist (Born 1905) |
| 28th of March 2001 | DEATH | Moe Koffman, Canadian musician (Born 1928) |
| 28th of March 2003 | DEATH | Rusty Draper, American country and pop singer (Born 1923) |
| 28th of March 2004 | DEATH | Peter Ustinov, British actor (Born 1921) |
| 28th of March 2004 | DEATH | Art James, American game show host (Born 1929) |
| 28th of March 2005 | DEATH | Dame Moura Lympany, British pianist (Born 1916) |
| 28th of March 2006 | DEATH | Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (Born 1917) |
| 28th of March 2006 | DEATH | Kevin Pro Hart, Australian artist (Born 1928) |
| 28th of March 2006 | DEATH | Proinsias O Maonaigh, Irish musician (Born 1922) |
| 28th of March 2006 | DEATH | Vethathiri Maharishi, Indian philosopher (Born 1911) |
| 28th of March 2006 | DEATH | Charles Schepens, American ophthalmologist (Born 1912) |
| 28th of March 2010 | DEATH | June Havoc, American actress (Born 1913) |
| 28th of March 2011 | DEATH | Wenche Foss, Norwegian actress (Born 1917) |