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On This Day March 28
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1945 – Actor Barry Bostwick (“The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” “Spin City,” “Scandal”)
1950 – Blues-rock singer-songwriter George Thorogood (“Bad to the Bone,” “I Drink Alone”)
1955 – Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs (d. 2011)
1965 – Actress Kristin Davis (“Melrose Place,” “Sex and the City”)
1966 – Actor Billy Zane (“Dead Calm,” “The Phantom,” “Titanic,” “Tombstone”)
1977 – Five-division world champion boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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1822 – Scientist Gregor Mendel, known as the father of modern genetics (d. 1884)
1919 – Explorer Sir Edmund Hillary, the first climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest (d. 2008)
1938 – Actress Diana Rigg, who played Emma Peel from the 60s British TV spy drama “The Avengers”
1945 – Singer-songwriter Kim Carnes, best known for her 1981 hit single “Bette Davis Eyes”
1969 – Actor Josh Holloway, best known for playing Sawyer on the ABC series “Lost”
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1918 – Nobel Laureate and former South African President Nelson Mandela (d. 2013)
1921 – Former astronaut (first American to orbit the Earth) and U.S. Senator John Glenn (d. 2016)
1954 – Grammy-winning country music and bluegrass singer Ricky Skaggs
1961 – Actress Elizabeth McGovern (“Ragtime,” “Once Upon a Time in America,” “Downton Abbey”)
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1776 – United States of America
1872 – Calvin Coolidge, 30th U.S. president (d. 1933)
1911 – Musician-conductor-TV host Mitch Miller (d. 2010)
1918 – Advice columnist Ann Landers (d. 2002)
1920 – Businesswoman Leona Helmsley, nicknamed “Queen of Mean” (d. 2007)
1930 – Former New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner (d. 2010)
1943 – Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist-TV host Geraldo Rivera
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