Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 28

Births

 * 1793 - Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist,  (d. 1864)
 * 1868 - Maxim Gorky, Russian author (d. 1936) (pictured)
 * 1930 - Elizabeth Bainbridge, English opera singer
 * 1955 - Reba McEntire, American singer and actress
 * 1970 - Vince Vaughn, American actor

Deaths

 * 1941 - Virginia Woolf, English feminist writer (b. 1882)
 * 1953 - Jim Thorpe, American athlete (b. 1887)
 * 1958 - W.C. Handy, American composer (b. 1873)
 * 1985 - Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (b. 1887)
 * 1987 - Maria von Trapp, Austrian-born singer (b. 1905)
 * 2004 - Peter Ustinov, British actor (b. 1921)