The 87th day of the year, the 88th in a leap year
Born on 28 March
Every 28 March birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Aries, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- AriesFire, cardinal, ruled by Mars.
- Birthstone
- Aquamarine, BloodstoneThe 1912 list put Bloodstone first.
- Birth flower
- DaffodilUsually taken today to mean new beginnings.
- Most common weekdays
- Monday and Saturday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 28 March in any year.
Which weekday 28 March falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 28 March falls on every day of the week: Monday 16, Saturday 16, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Thursday 15.
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How common a birthday 28 March is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,780 babies were born on 28 March in each year of the twenty, making it the joint 277th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 28 March
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Lady Gaga | 1986– | American singer-songwriter and actress |
| Maxim Gorky | 1868–1936 | Russian and Soviet writer |
| Mario Vargas Llosa | 1936–2025 | Peruvian, Spanish and Dominican novelist and writer |
| Rodrigo Duterte | 1945– | President of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022 |
| Teresa of Ávila | 1515–1582 | Roman Catholic saint |
| John Amos Comenius | 1592–1670 | Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer |
| Zbigniew Brzezinski | 1928–2017 | Polish-American diplomat and political scientist |
| Aristide Briand | 1862–1932 | politician, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate from France |
| Laura Chinchilla | 1959– | President of Costa Rica from 2010 to 2014 |
| Jerome Isaac Friedman | 1930– | American physicist |
| Daniel Dennett | 1942–2024 | American philosopher |
| Stan Wawrinka | 1985– | Swiss tennis player |
| Reba McEntire | 1955– | American country singer and actress |
| Vince Vaughn | 1970– | American actor |
| Innokenty Smoktunovsky | 1925–1994 | Soviet and Russian actor |
| Alexander Grothendieck | 1928–2014 | French mathematician |
| Julia Stiles | 1981– | American actress |
| Steve Mandanda | 1985– | French footballer |
Died on 28 March
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1890–1969 | president of the United States from 1953 to 1961 |
| Virginia Woolf | 1882–1941 | English modernist writer |
| Ivan the Terrible | 1530–1584 | Tsar of all Russia from 1547 to 1584 |
| Marc Chagall | 1887–1985 | Russian-French artist |
| Eugène Ionesco | 1909–1994 | Romanian-French playwright |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff | 1873–1943 | Russian composer, pianist and conductor |
| Modest Mussorgsky | 1839–1881 | Russian composer |
| Peter Ustinov | 1921–2004 | British actor, writer and director |
| Richard Griffiths | 1947–2013 | British actor |
| Maurice Jarre | 1924–2009 | French composer and conductor |
| Jim Thorpe | 1887–1953 | American track and field athlete and baseball player |
| William Giauque | 1895–1982 | American chemist |
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