28 March: today's birthdays

• Zbigniew Brzeziński - Polish-born American political scientist
• André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri - French photographer
• Rodrigo Duterte - 16th President of the Philippines
• Maksim Gor'kij (Gorky) - Pen name of Russian author and dramatist Aleksej Maksimovič Peškov. He wrote The Lower Depths, Twenty-six Men and a Girl, and The Mother
• Bohumil Hrabal - Czech writer
• Masato Ibu - Japanese actor
• Lady Gaga - Stage name of American singer Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta
• Mario Vargas Llosa - Peruvian writer, journalist, and politician, born Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010. He wrote The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y los perros)
• Paolo Lopriore - Italian chef
• Tete Montoliu - Catalan pianist and composer
  
• Mike Newell - English film director
• Aleksej Maksimovič Peškov (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov) - Russian author and dramatist best known as Maksim Gor'kij
• Frederik Ruysch - Dutch botanist and anatomist
• Vince Vaughn - American actor
• Stan Wawrinka - Swiss professional tennis player, born Stanislas Wawrinka. His father is German of Czechoslovakian descent