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March 28

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2025 Myanmar earthquake

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1483

Raphael

Died aged 37

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Pertinax

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AD 623 · 1403 yrs

Marwan I

Marwan ibn al-Hakam ibn Abi al-As ibn Umayya (Arabic: مروان بن الحكم بن أبي العاص بن أمية, romanized: Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam ibn Abī al-ʿĀṣ ibn Umayya; 623 or 626 – April/May 685), commonly known as Marwan I, was the fourth Umayyad caliph, ruling for less than a year in 684–685.

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PoliticsDied aged 62

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1483 · 543 yrs

Raphael

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian:; March 28 or 6 April 1483 – 6 April 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael (UK: RAF-ay-əl, US: RAF-ee-əl, RAY-fee-, RAH-fy-EL), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.

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ArtDied aged 37

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1515 · 511 yrs

Teresa of Ávila

Teresa of Ávila (born Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda Dávila y Ahumada; 28 March 1515 – 4 or 15 October 1582), religious name Teresa of Jesus, was a Carmelite nun, prominent Spanish mystic and spiritual reformer.

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ReligionDied aged 67

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1592 · 434 yrs

John Amos Comenius

John Amos Comenius (Czech: Jan Amos Komenský; German: Johann Amos Comenius; Polish: Jan Amos Komeński; Latinized: Ioannes Amos Comenius; 28 March 1592 – 15 November 1670) was a Moravian philosopher, pedagogue and theologian who is considered the father of modern education.

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PhilosophyDied aged 78

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1862 · 164 yrs

Aristide Briand

Aristide Pierre Henri Briand (French:; 28 March 1862 – 7 March 1932) was a French statesman who served eleven terms as Prime Minister of France during the French Third Republic. He is mainly remembered for his focus on international issues and reconciliation politics during the interwar period (1918–1939).

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PoliticsDied aged 69

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1868 · 158 yrs

Maxim Gorky

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков; 28 March 1868 – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, and proponent of socialism. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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LiteratureDied aged 68

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1874 · 152 yrs

Karl Kraus

Karl Kraus (Austrian German:; 28 April 1874 – 12 June 1936) was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He directed his satire at the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics.

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LiteratureDied aged 62

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1892 · 134 yrs

Corneille Heymans

Corneille Jean François Heymans (28 March 1892 – 18 July 1968) was a Belgian physiologist. He studied at the Jesuit College of Saint Barbara and then at Ghent University, where he obtained a doctor's degree in 1920.

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1914 · 112 yrs

Bohumil Hrabal

Bohumil Hrabal (Czech pronunciation:; 28 March 1914 – 3 February 1997) was a Czech writer, often named among the best Czech writers of the 20th century.

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1928 · 98 yrs

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Zbigniew "Zbig" Kazimierz Brzeziński (Polish:; March 28, 1928 – May 26, 2017) was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist. He served as a counselor to Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and was Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981.

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PoliticsWould be 98

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1928 · 98 yrs

Alexander Grothendieck

Alexander Grothendieck, later Alexandre Grothendieck in French (German:; French:; 28 March 1928 – 13 November 2014), was a German-born French mathematician who became the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.

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ScienceWould be 98

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1930 · 96 yrs

Jerome Isaac Friedman

Jerome Isaac Friedman (born March 28, 1930) is an American physicist. He is institute professor and professor of physics, emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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AD 193 · 1833 yrs

Pertinax

Publius Helvius Pertinax ( PER-tin-ax; 1 August 126 – 28 March 193) was Roman emperor for the first three months of 193, succeeding Commodus and becoming the first ruler of the turbulent Year of the Five Emperors. The son of a freedman, Pertinax rose from modest origins through a military career.

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RoyaltyDied aged 66

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1794 · 232 yrs

Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet (French:; 17 September 1743 – 29 March 1794), known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French philosopher, political economist, politician, and mathematician.

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ScienceDied aged 50

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1911 · 115 yrs

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (Polish: Mikołaj Konstanty Czurlanis; 22 September 1875 – 10 April 1911) was a Lithuanian composer, painter, choirmaster, cultural figure, and writer in Polish. Čiurlionis contributed to symbolism and Art Nouveau, and was representative of the fin de siècle epoch.

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ArtDied aged 35

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1933 · 93 yrs

Adolf Loos

Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos (German:; 10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, polemicist of modern architecture. He was inspired by modernism and a widely-known critic of the Art Nouveau movement.

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ArtDied aged 62

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1941 · 85 yrs

Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf ( "wolf"; née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.

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LiteratureWould be 144

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1943 · 83 yrs

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (1 April 1873 – 28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music.

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MusicDied aged 70

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1953 · 73 yrs

Jim Thorpe

James Francis Thorpe (Meskwaki: Wa-Tho-Huk; May 22 or 28, 1887 – March 28, 1953) was an American athlete who won Olympic gold medals and played professional football, baseball, and basketball.

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1969 · 57 yrs

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961.

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1982 · 44 yrs

William Giauque

William Francis Giauque (May 12, 1895 – March 28, 1982) was a Canadian-born American chemist and Nobel laureate. He was recognized in 1949, for his studies in the properties of matter, at temperatures close to absolute zero.

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1985 · 41 yrs

Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall (born Moishe Shagal; 6 July 1887 – 28 March 1985) was a Russian and French artist of Jewish ancestry.

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ArtWould be 139

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1994 · 32 yrs

Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco (French:; born Eugen Ionescu, Romanian:; 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century.

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LiteratureWould be 116

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2004 · 22 yrs

Peter Ustinov

Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov ( OO-stin-ov; 16 April 1921 – 28 March 2004) was a British actor, writer and humanitarian. An internationally known raconteur, he was a fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits for much of his career.

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Events5

1942 · 84 yrs

St Nazaire Raid

The St Nazaire Raid or Operation Chariot was a British amphibious attack on the heavily defended Normandie dry dock at St Nazaire in German-occupied France during the Second World War.

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War

1977 · 49 yrs

49th Academy Awards

The 49th Academy Awards were presented Monday, March 28, 1977, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, hosted by Richard Pryor, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda, and Warren Beatty.

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Culture

1979 · 47 yrs

Three Mile Island accident

The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown of the Unit 2 reactor (TMI-2) of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, located on the Susquehanna River in Londonderry Township, Dauphin County, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The reactor accident began at 4:00 a.m.

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Disaster

2010 · 16 yrs

2010 Australian Grand Prix

The 2010 Australian Grand Prix (formally the 2010 Formula 1 Qantas Australian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 28 March 2010 at the Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was the second round of the 2010 Formula One World Championship.

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Sports

2025 · 1 yrs

2025 Myanmar earthquake

On 28 March 2025, at 12:50:52 MMT (06:20:52 UTC), a moment magnitude (Mw) 7.7–7.9 earthquake struck the Sagaing Region of Myanmar, with an epicenter close to Mandalay, the country's second-largest city. The shaking caused by this strike-slip shock reached a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme).

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