What happened on March 28 ?

1472 - Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (d. 1517)

1496 - Mary Tudor, queen consort of Louis XII of France (d. 1533)

1515 - Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Carmelite nun and poet (d. 1582)

1522 - Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (d. 1557)

1569 - Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1622)

1592 - Comenius, Czech bishop of Unity of the Brethren (d. 1670)

1599 - Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (d. 1658)

1609 - King Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670)

1652 - Samuel Sewall, English-born judge (d. 1730)

1725 - Andrew Kippis, English non-conformist clergyman and biographer (d. 1795)

1760 - Thomas Clarkson, American abolitionist (d. 1846)

1773 - Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (d. 1844)

1819 - Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (d. 1891)

1851 - Bernardino Machado, Portuguese President (d. 1944)

1862 - Aristide Briand, French politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932)

1868 - Maxim Gorky, Russian author (d. 1936)

1871 - Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (d. 1951)

1890 - Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (d. 1967)

1892 - Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)

1895 - Spencer W. Kimball, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1985)

1897 - Sepp Herberger, German football coach (d. 1977)

1899 - Harold B. Lee, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1973)

1902 - Dame 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 - Marlin Perkins, American naturalist and television host (d. 1986)

1909 - Nelson Algren, American writer (d. 1981)

1910 - Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr. Bibliophile and director of the Pierpont Morgan Library (d. 2001)

1910 - Jimmie Dodd, American television actor (d. 1964)

1910 - Queen Ingrid of Denmark (d. 2000)

1914 - Edmund Muskie, American politician (d. 1996)

1915 - Jay Livingston, American composer and songwriter (d. 2001)

1921 - Dirk Bogarde, English actor (d. 1999)

1924 - Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (d. 1992)

1928 - Zbigniew Brzezinski, U.S. National Security Advisor

1930 - Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1935 - Michael Parkinson, English broadcaster and talk show host

1936 - Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author and politician

1941 - Jim Turner, American football player

1942 - Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (d. 1998)

1942 - Jerry Sloan, American basketball coach

1942 - Mike Newell, English film director

1942 - Neil Kinnock, British statesman

1944 - Rick Barry, American basketball player

1944 - Ken Howard, American actor

1946 - Alejandro Toledo, President of Peru

1946 - Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut

1948 - Dianne Wiest, American actress

1951 - Karen Kain, Canadian ballerina

1953 - Melchior Ndadaye, first President of Burundi (d. 1993)

1955 - John Alderdice, Northern Irish politician

1955 - Reba McEntire, American singer and actress

1956 - April Margera, Bam Margera's mother

1958 - Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)

1958 - Elisabeth Andreassen, Scandinavian singer

1959 - Chris Myers, American radio host/sportscaster

1960 - Chris Barrie, British actor

1961 - Byron Scott, American basketball player

1962 - Jure Franko, Slovenian skier

1968 - Iris Chang, American author (d. 2004)

1968 - Nasser Hussain, English cricketer

1970 - Vince Vaughn, American actor

1971 - Mr. Cheeks, American rapper

1974 - Mark King, English snooker player

1974 - Scott Mills, British radio disc jockey

1975 - Richard Kelly, American film director

1976 - David Keuning, American guitar player (The Killers)

1977 - Devon, American pornographic actress

1980 - Luke Walton, basketball player

1981 - Julia Stiles, American actress

1983 - Ryan Ashington, English footballer

1984 - Nikki Sanderson, British actress and model

1988 - Lacey Turner, British Soap Actress

1991 - Amy Bruckner, American actress