What happened on March 28 ?

193 - Pertinax, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 126)

1239 - Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180)

1285 - Pope Martin IV

1563 - Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (b. 1488)

1566 - Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (b. 1486)

1677 - Václav Hollar, Czech-born actor (b. 1607)

1687 - Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596)

1794 - Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist (b. 1743)

1868 - James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, British military leader (b. 1797)

1870 - George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)

1881 - Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer (b. 1839)

1910 - David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1837)

1910 - Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (b. 1838)

1941 - Virginia Woolf, English feminist writer (b. 1882)

1942 - Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet, death in prison (b. 1910)

1943 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1873)

1947 - Karol ?wierczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)

1949 - Grigora? Dinicu, Romanian composer and violinist (b. 1889)

1953 - Jim Thorpe, American athlete (b. 1887)

1958 - W.C. Handy, American composer (b. 1873)

1965 - Jack Hoxie, American actor, rodeo performer (b. 1885)

1969 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)

1978 - Dino Ciani, Italian pianist (d. 1941)

1979 - Emmett Kelly, American clown (b. 1898)

1980 - Dick Haymes, Argentine-born singer (b. 1918)

1982 - William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)

1985 - Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (b. 1887)

1987 - Maria von Trapp, Austrian-born singer (b. 1905)

1987 - Patrick Troughton, British actor (b. 1920)

1995 - Hugh O'Connor, American actor (b. 1962)

2000 - Anthony Powell, British novelist (b. 1905)

2001 - Moe Koffman, Canadian musician (b. 1928)

2004 - Art James, American game show host (b. 1929)

2004 - Peter Ustinov, British actor (b. 1921)

2006 - Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)

2006 - Charles Schepens, American ophthalmologist and member of the French Resistance (b. 1912)