Who Was Born Today – March 28 Birthdays
Important and famous people from throughout history born on this day
Born on March 28 | ||
1652 | Samuel Sewall, British colonial merchant and one of the Salem witch trial judges. | |
1818 | Wade Hampton, Confederate general in the American Civil War. | |
1862 | Aristide Briand, premier of France (1909-22). | |
1868 | Maxim Gorky, Russian short story writer and novelist. | |
1895 | James McCudden, the first RAF pilot to receive the Victoria Cross. | |
1909 | Nelson Algren, novelist (The Man with the Golden Arm, A Walk on the Wild Side). | |
1929 | Frederick Exley, American novelist (A Fan’s Notes). | |
1930 | Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, helped confirm the existence of quarks. | |
1936 | Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian novelist (Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Death in the Andes). |