Born on This Day: March 28

Spanish mystic and reformer whose writings and institutional work profoundly influenced Christian spirituality.

Czech educator whose universal and child-centered methods helped shape modern schooling and textbooks.

Russian writer whose fiction and activism strongly influenced modern literature and socialist culture.

American business leader whose expansion of Anheuser-Busch transformed brewing, marketing, and professional sports ownership.

Bohemian-American pianist and educator whose interpretations and teaching influenced twentieth-century classical music.

English actor and writer whose later films helped expand psychological and social complexity in cinema.

Polish-American strategist whose national-security work influenced United States foreign policy during the Cold War.

Peruvian novelist and essayist whose formally ambitious fiction and public writing shaped Latin American and world literature.