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Stiles began acting at the age of 11 as part of New York's La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club.
Famous Birthdays on March 28
1981 — Julia Stiles
American actress
March 28 has 177 recorded notable births across history, from 1472 to 2004. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on March 28
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- 1801 Treaty of Florence is signed, ending the war between the French Republic and the Kingdom of Naples. Source
- 1994 In South Africa, African National Congress security guards kill dozens of Inkatha Freedom Party protesters. Source
- 1963 Civil rights movement: Over one hundred high school students conduct a sit-in protest in Rome, Georgia. Source
- 2006 At least one million union members, students and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law. Source
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Laura Harrier began modeling at the age of 17 after she was discovered by a location scout.
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Conchata Ferrell's big screen work included roles in such films as Network (1976), Where the River Runs Black (1986), For Keeps (1988), Edward Scissorhands (1990), True Romance (1993), Erin Brockovich (2000) and Krampus (2015).
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Jackson Wang 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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A pugnacious right-handed batsman, Hussain scored over 30,000 runs from more than 650 matches across all first-class and List-A cricket, including 62 centuries.
More major people born on March 28
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1990
Laura Harrier
American actress and model
Laura Ruth Harrier is an American actress and model. She began modeling at the age of 17 after she was discovered by a location scout.
1943
Conchata Ferrell
American actress (died 2020)
Conchata Galen Ferrell was an American actress. She played Berta the housekeeper on the sitcom Two and a Half Men from 2003 to 2015, and she received two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding…
1994
Jackson Wang
Hong Kong rapper
Jackson Wang is a Hong Kong rapper, singer, and songwriter. After a career as a competitive fencer, he joined the South Korean boy band Got7, which debuted under JYP Entertainment in 2014.
1968
Nasser Hussain
Indian-English cricketer and sportscaster
Nasser Hussain is an English cricket commentator and former player who captained the England cricket team between 1999 and 2003, with his overall international career extending from 1990 to 2004.
1912
Marina Raskova
Russian pilot and navigator (died 1943)
Marina Mikhaylovna Raskova was the first woman in the Soviet Union to achieve the diploma of professional air navigator.
1836
Frederick Pabst
German-American brewer, founded the Pabst Brewing Company (died 1904)
Johann Gottlieb Friedrich "Frederick" Pabst was a German-American ship's captain and brewer and the namesake of the Pabst Brewing Company.
1913
Toko Shinoda
Japanese artist (died 2021)
Toko Shinoda was a Japanese artist. Shinoda is best known for her abstract sumi ink paintings and prints.
1926
Polly Umrigar
Indian cricketer (died 2006)
Pahlan Ratanji "Polly" Umrigar was an Indian cricketer. He played in the Indian cricket team and played first-class cricket for Bombay and Gujarat.
1978
Nathan Cayless
Australian-New Zealand rugby league player and coach
Nathan Frederick Cayless is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s, and has coached in the 2010s.
1472
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…
1911
Consalvo Sanesi
Italian race car driver (died 1998)
Consalvo Sanesi was best known as the Alfa Romeo works' test driver in the period following World War II, but he also competed in races with the Alfa Romeo Tipo 158/159 cars in the period before the Formula One World…
1638
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.
1924
Freddie Bartholomew
American actor (died 1992)
Frederick Cecil Bartholomew, known for his acting work as Freddie Bartholomew, was an English-American child actor who was very popular in 1930s Hollywood films.
1884
Angelos Sikelianos
Greek poet and playwright (died 1951)
Angelos Sikelianos was a Greek lyric poet and playwright. His themes include Greek history, religious symbolism as well as universal harmony in poems such as The Moonstruck, Prologue to Life, Mother of God, and Delphic…
1930
Jerome Isaac Friedman
American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Jerome Isaac Friedman is an American physicist. He is institute professor and professor of physics, emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1959
Laura Chinchilla
Costa Rican politician, 46th President of Costa Rica
Laura Chinchilla Miranda is a Costa Rican political scientist and politician who served as President of Costa Rica from 2010 to 2014.
1985
Stanislas Wawrinka
Swiss tennis player
Stanislas "Stan" Wawrinka is a Swiss professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 3 in singles by the ATP.
1979
Shakib Khan
Bangladeshi film actor, producer, singer and media personality
Masud Rana Sheikh, better known by the stage name Shakib Khan, is a Bangladeshi actor and filmmaker who works in Bengali films.
1936
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian writer and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2025)
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician.