Famous Birthdays on March 28

177 people 1472 – 2004

March 28 has seen 177 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 1472 – 2004. Below are the most significant names born on this date.

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Jackson Wang

1994 — Jackson Wang

Hong Kong rapper

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He founded the Chinese record label Team Wang in 2017, serving as the creative director and lead designer for its subsidiary fashion brand Team Wang Design

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Wang released his first solo album Mirrors in 2019, which peaked at number 32 on the US Billboard 200, followed by his second album Magic Man in 2022, which peaked at number 15

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After a career as a competitive fencer, he joined the South Korean boy band Got7, which debuted under JYP Entertainment in 2014

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His third album Magic Man 2 (2025) reached number 13.

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Jackson Wang is a Hong Kong rapper, singer, and songwriter


Fra Bartolomeo
Italian painter (died 1517)
Fra Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo, also known as Bartolommeo di Pagholo, Bartolommeo di San Marco, Bartolomeo di Paolo di Jacopo del Fattorino, and his original nickname Baccio della Porta, was an Italian Renaissance…
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1472
Teresa of Ávila
Spanish nun and saint (died 1582)
Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, was a Carmelite nun and prominent Spanish mystic and religious reformer.
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1515
Albert Alcibiades
German prince (died 1557)
Albert II was the margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (Brandenburg-Bayreuth) from 1527 to 1553. He was a member of the Franconian branch of the House of Hohenzollern. Because of his bellicose nature, Albert was given the…
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1522
John Amos Comenius
Czech bishop and educator (died 1670)
John Amos Comenius was a Czech philosopher, pedagogue and theologian who is considered the father of modern education. He served as the last bishop of the Unity of the Brethren before becoming a religious refugee and…
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1592
Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang of China (died 1688)
Bumbutai, of the Khorchin Mongol Borjigit clan, was the consort of Hong Taiji. She was 21 years his junior. She was honoured as Empress Dowager Zhaosheng during the reign of her son, Fulin, the Shunzhi Emperor, and as…
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1613
Frederik Ruysch
Dutch botanist and anatomist (died 1731)
Frederik Ruysch was a Dutch botanist and anatomist. He is known for developing techniques for preserving anatomical specimens, which he used to create dioramas or scenes incorporating human parts. His anatomical…
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1638
Samuel Sewall
English judge (died 1730)
Samuel Sewall was a judge, businessman, and printer in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, best known for his involvement in the Salem witch trials, for which he later apologized, and his essay The Selling of Joseph…
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1652
Andrew Kippis
English minister and author (died 1795)
Andrew Kippis was an English nonconformist clergyman and biographer.
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1725
Maximilian III Joseph
Elector of Bavaria, (died 1777)
Maximilian III Joseph, also known by his epithet "the much beloved" was a Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire and Duke of Bavaria from 1745 to 1777. He was the last of the Bavarian branch of the House of Wittelsbach…
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1727
Francisco de Miranda
Venezuelan general and politician (died 1816)
Sebastián Francisco de Miranda y Rodríguez de Espinoza, commonly known as Francisco de Miranda, was a Venezuelan military leader and revolutionary who fought in the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolution and…
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1750
Thomas Clarkson
English activist (died 1846)
Thomas Clarkson was an English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire. He helped found the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade and helped achieve passage…
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1760
Henry Schoolcraft
American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist (died 1864)
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 1832 expedition to the source of the Mississippi River. He is…
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1793
Georg Heinrich Pertz
German historian and author (died 1876)
Georg Heinrich Pertz was a German historian and librarian.
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1795
Thomas Hare
English lawyer and political scientist (died 1891)
Thomas Hare was a British lawyer and supporter of electoral reform. He is credited with inventing the single transferable vote system of proportional representation which he was a proponent and defender, now used in…
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1806
John Neumann
Czech-American bishop and saint (died 1860)
John Nepomucene Neumann was a Bohemian-born American prelate of the Catholic Church.
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1811
Arsène Houssaye
French author and poet (died 1896)
Arsène Houssaye was a French novelist, poet and man of letters.
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1815
Wade Hampton III
American general and politician, 77th Governor of South Carolina (died 1902)
Wade Hampton III was an American politician from South Carolina. He was a prominent member of one of the richest families in the antebellum Southern United States, owning thousands of acres of cotton land in South…
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1818
Joseph Bazalgette
English architect and engineer (died 1891)
Sir Joseph William Bazalgette CB was a British civil engineer. As Chief Engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation of the London Main Drainage, the sewerage system for…
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1819
Henry D. Washburn
American politician and general (died 1871)
Henry Dana Washburn was a U.S. representative from Indiana and a colonel and was breveted twice as brigadier general and major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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1832
Emmanuel Benner
French artist (died 1896)
Emmanuel Benner was a French Academic painter and draughtsman. The son of the painter Jean Benner-Fries, he was twin to fellow artist, Jean Benner, and the uncle of the painter Emmanuel Michel Benner, Jean's son. Like…
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1836
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Jackson Wang — Hong Kong rapper (born 1994)

FeaturedJackson Wang
Birth year1994
Known forAfter a career as a competitive fencer, he joined the South Korean boy band Got7, which debuted under JYP Entertainment in 2014
Birthdays on this date177 (1472 – 2004)

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