Born on March 28
2 figures in our catalog were born on March 28, from the earliest to the most recent.
Ekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova
1743 — 1810
PoliticsSciencesLiterature
A learned Russian aristocrat and close associate of Catherine II, she played a part in the coup d'état of 1762. The first woman to head the Russian Academy of Sciences, she founded the Russian Academy devoted to the language.
Mario Vargas Llosa
1936 — 2025
LiteraturePolitics
Peruvian writer, a major figure of the Latin American “Boom” and winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. A novelist, essayist and engaged intellectual, he also ran for the presidency of Peru in 1990.
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