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.
Where the sun stands on 28 March. The marked arc is every position it has held on 28 March, midnight to midnight UTC, in any year since 1920.

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

18 people born on 28 March, from English Wikipedia's list of births on this day, chosen and ordered by how many Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have a page about them.
NameYearsKnown for
Lady Gaga1986–American singer-songwriter and actress
Maxim Gorky1868–1936Russian and Soviet writer
Mario Vargas Llosa1936–2025Peruvian, Spanish and Dominican novelist and writer
Rodrigo Duterte1945–President of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022
Teresa of Ávila1515–1582Roman Catholic saint
John Amos Comenius1592–1670Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer
Zbigniew Brzezinski1928–2017Polish-American diplomat and political scientist
Aristide Briand1862–1932politician, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate from France
Laura Chinchilla1959–President of Costa Rica from 2010 to 2014
Jerome Isaac Friedman1930–American physicist
Daniel Dennett1942–2024American philosopher
Stan Wawrinka1985–Swiss tennis player
Reba McEntire1955–American country singer and actress
Vince Vaughn1970–American actor
Innokenty Smoktunovsky1925–1994Soviet and Russian actor
Alexander Grothendieck1928–2014French mathematician
Julia Stiles1981–American actress
Steve Mandanda1985–French footballer

Died on 28 March

12 people who died on 28 March, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969president of the United States from 1953 to 1961
Virginia Woolf1882–1941English modernist writer
Ivan the Terrible1530–1584Tsar of all Russia from 1547 to 1584
Marc Chagall1887–1985Russian-French artist
Eugène Ionesco1909–1994Romanian-French playwright
Sergei Rachmaninoff1873–1943Russian composer, pianist and conductor
Modest Mussorgsky1839–1881Russian composer
Peter Ustinov1921–2004British actor, writer and director
Richard Griffiths1947–2013British actor
Maurice Jarre1924–2009French composer and conductor
Jim Thorpe1887–1953American track and field athlete and baseball player
William Giauque1895–1982American chemist

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