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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 1st of March 0293 | EVENT | Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Constantius Chlorus as Caesar to Maximian. |
| 1st of March 0317 | EVENT | Crispus and Constantine II, sons of Roman Emperor Constantine I, and Licinius Iunior, son of Emperor Licinius, are made Caesares |
| 1st of March 0350 | EVENT | Vetranio is asked by Constantina, sister of Constantius II, to proclaim himself Caesar. |
| 1st of March 1457 | EVENT | The Unitas Fratrum is established in the village of Kunvald, on the Bohemian-Moravian borderland. It is to date the second oldest Protestant denomination. |
| 1st of March 1562 | EVENT | 23 Huguenots are massacred by Catholics in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion. |
| 1st of March 1565 | EVENT | The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded. |
| 1st of March 1593 | EVENT | The Uppsala Synod is summoned to confirm the exact forms of the Lutheran Church of Sweden. |
| 1st of March 1628 | EVENT | Writs issued in February by Charles I of England mandate that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date. |
| 1st of March 1633 | EVENT | Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu. |
| 1st of March 1642 | EVENT | Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine), becomes the first incorporated city in the United States. |
| 1st of March 1692 | EVENT | Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials. |
| 1st of March 1700 | EVENT | Sweden introduces its own Swedish calendar, in an attempt to gradually merge into the Gregorian calendar, reverts to the Julian calendar on this date in 1712, and introduces the Gregorian Calendar on this date in 1753. |
| 1st of March 1781 | EVENT | The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation. |
| 1st of March 1790 | EVENT | The first United States census is authorized. |
| 1st of March 1803 | EVENT | Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state. |
| 1st of March 1805 | EVENT | Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial by the U.S. Senate. |
| 1st of March 1811 | EVENT | Leaders of the Mameluke dynasty are killed by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali. |
| 1st of March 1815 | EVENT | Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba. |
| 1st of March 1836 | EVENT | A convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico. |
| 1st of March 1845 | EVENT | President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas. |
| 1st of March 1847 | EVENT | The state of Michigan formally abolishes capital punishment. |
| 1st of March 1852 | EVENT | Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. |
| 1st of March 1854 | EVENT | German psychologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; two years later his remains are found in a canal near Charlottenburg. |
| 1st of March 1867 | EVENT | Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital. |
| 1st of March 1870 | EVENT | Marshal F.S. Lopez dies during the Battle of Cerro Cora thus marking the end of the War of the Triple Alliance. |
| 1st of March 1872 | EVENT | Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park. |
| 1st of March 1873 | EVENT | E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter. |
| 1st of March 1886 | EVENT | The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham. |
| 1st of March 1893 | EVENT | Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri. |
| 1st of March 1896 | EVENT | Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity. |
| 1st of March 1896 | EVENT | Battle of Adowa: an Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo : Ethiopian War. |
| 1st of March 1910 | EVENT | The worst avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people. |
| 1st of March 1912 | EVENT | Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane. |
| 1st of March 1914 | EVENT | The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union. |
| 1st of March 1917 | EVENT | The U.S. government releases the unencrypted text of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public. |
| 1st of March 1919 | EVENT | March 1st Movement begins in Korea. |
| 1st of March 1921 | EVENT | The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years. |
| 1st of March 1932 | EVENT | The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped. |
| 1st of March 1936 | EVENT | The Hoover Dam is completed. |
| 1st of March 1936 | EVENT | A strike occurs aboard the S.S. California, leading to the demise of the International Seamen's Union and the creation of the National Maritime Union. |
| 1st of March 1939 | EVENT | A Japanese Imperial Army ammunition dump explodes at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94. |
| 1st of March 1941 | EVENT | World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers. |
| 1st of March 1941 | EVENT | W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the U.S.. |
| 1st of March 1946 | EVENT | The Bank of England is nationalised. |
| 1st of March 1947 | EVENT | The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations. |
| 1st of March 1950 | EVENT | Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data. |
| 1st of March 1953 | EVENT | Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later. |
| 1st of March 1954 | EVENT | Nuclear testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States. |
| 1st of March 1954 | EVENT | Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives. |
| 1st of March 1956 | EVENT | The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization. |
| 1st of March 1956 | EVENT | Formation of the National People's Army |
| 1st of March 1958 | EVENT | Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia. |
| 1st of March 1961 | EVENT | President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps. |
| 1st of March 1961 | EVENT | Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections. |
| 1st of March 1962 | EVENT | American Airlines Flight 1 crashes on take off in New York. |
| 1st of March 1964 | EVENT | Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Conaripe. |
| 1st of March 1966 | EVENT | Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface. |
| 1st of March 1966 | EVENT | The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria. |
| 1st of March 1971 | EVENT | President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan. |
| 1st of March 1971 | EVENT | A bomb explodes in a men's room in the United States Capitol: the Weather Underground claims responsibility. |
| 1st of March 1972 | EVENT | The Thai province of Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani province. |
| 1st of March 1973 | EVENT | Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages. |
| 1st of March 1974 | EVENT | Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice. |
| 1st of March 1981 | EVENT | Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze. |
| 1st of March 1989 | EVENT | The United States becomes a member of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. |
| 1st of March 1990 | EVENT | Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. |
| 1st of March 1992 | EVENT | Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. |
| 1st of March 1995 | EVENT | Prime Minister of Poland Waldemar Pawlak resigns from parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Jozef Oleksy. |
| 1st of March 1995 | EVENT | Yahoo! is incorporated. |
| 1st of March 2000 | EVENT | Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC. |
| 1st of March 2000 | EVENT | The Constitution of Finland is rewritten. |
| 1st of March 2002 | EVENT | U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan. |
| 1st of March 2002 | EVENT | The Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800 kilometers (500 miles) above the Earth on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8500 kilograms (9.5 tons). |
| 1st of March 2002 | EVENT | The peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced by the euro (EUR). |
| 1st of March 2003 | EVENT | Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security. |
| 1st of March 2003 | EVENT | The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague. |
| 1st of March 2004 | EVENT | Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum becomes President of Iraq. |
| 1st of March 2006 | EVENT | English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station. |
| 1st of March 2007 | EVENT | Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths are at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama. |
| 1st of March 2007 | EVENT | "Squatters" are evicted from Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, provoking the March 2007 Denmark Riots. |
| 1st of March 2008 | EVENT | The Armenian police clashed with peaceful opposition rally protesting against allegedly fraudulent presidential elections 2008 killing at least 10 people. |
| 1st of March 0040 | BIRTHDAY | Martial, Latin poet (d. 102) |
| 1st of March 1432 | BIRTHDAY | Isabel of Coimbra, queen of Portugal (d. 1455) |
| 1st of March 1445 | BIRTHDAY | Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (d. 1510) |
| 1st of March 1456 | BIRTHDAY | King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (d. 1516) |
| 1st of March 1474 | BIRTHDAY | Saint Angela Merici, Italian religious leader and saint (d. 1540) |
| 1st of March 1547 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (d. 1628) |
| 1st of March 1597 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (d. 1652) |
| 1st of March 1611 | BIRTHDAY | John Pell, English mathematician (d. 1685) |
| 1st of March 1657 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (d. 1740) |
| 1st of March 1683 | BIRTHDAY | Caroline of Ansbach, wife of George II of Great Britain (d. 1737) |
| 1st of March 1683 | BIRTHDAY | Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (d. 1706) |
| 1st of March 1732 | BIRTHDAY | William Cushing, American jurist (d. 1810) |
| 1st of March 1760 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French revolutionary (d. 1794) |
| 1st of March 1769 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Severin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (d. 1796) |
| 1st of March 1781 | BIRTHDAY | Javiera Carrera, Chilean aristoctrat (d. 1862) |
| 1st of March 1807 | BIRTHDAY | Wilford Woodruff, American religious figure (d. 1898) |
| 1st of March 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Frederic Chopin, Polish composer (d. 1849) |
| 1st of March 1812 | BIRTHDAY | Augustus Pugin, English-born architect (d. 1852) |
| 1st of March 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Dupre, Italian sculptor (d. 1882) |
| 1st of March 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Catholic bishop (d. 1896) |
| 1st of March 1837 | BIRTHDAY | William Dean Howells, American writer, historian and politician (d. 1920) |
| 1st of March 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolaos Gyzis, Greek painter (d. 1901) |
| 1st of March 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Irish-born American sculptor (d. 1907) |
| 1st of March 1852 | BIRTHDAY | Theophile Delcasse, French statesman (d. 1923) |
| 1st of March 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1918) |
| 1st of March 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (d. 1930) |
| 1st of March 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Abe Iso, Japanese politician (d. 1949) |
| 1st of March 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Harney, American composer and ragtime pianist (d. 1938) |
| 1st of March 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian amateur sports executive (d. 1942) |
| 1st of March 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Giles Lytton Strachey, British writer (d. 1932) |
| 1st of March 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter and poet (d. 1980) |
| 1st of March 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Ewart Astill, English cricketer (d. 1948) |
| 1st of March 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (d. 1960) |
| 1st of March 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (d. 1927) |
| 1st of March 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Mercedes de Acosta, American socialite (d. 1968) |
| 1st of March 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitris Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (d. 1960) |
| 1st of March 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Moriz Seeler, German writer and producer (d. 1942) |
| 1st of March 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German Nazi official (d. 1972) |
| 1st of March 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Hartman, American actor (d. 1973) |
| 1st of March 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Miller, American bandleader (d. 1944) |
| 1st of March 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Doris Hare, Welsh actress (d. 2000) |
| 1st of March 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Pham Van Dong, North Vietnamese politician (d. 2000) |
| 1st of March 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002) |
| 1st of March 1910 | BIRTHDAY | David Niven, English actor (d. 1983) |
| 1st of March 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Chertok, Polish-born Russian rocket designer |
| 1st of March 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald Emmett Carter, Canadian archbishop (d. 2003) |
| 1st of March 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Ellison, American writer (d. 1994) |
| 1st of March 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Caray, American sportscaster (d. 1998) |
| 1st of March 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Lowell, American poet (d. 1977) |
| 1st of March 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Delgado, English actor (d. 1973) |
| 1st of March 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Joao Goulart, President of Brazil (d. 1976) |
| 1st of March 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Gladys Noon Spellman, American politician (d. 1988) |
| 1st of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1984) |
| 1st of March 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Terence Cooke, American cardinal archbishop (d. 1983) |
| 1st of March 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Wilbur, American poet |
| 1st of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | William Gaines, American publisher (d. 1992) |
| 1st of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1995) |
| 1st of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Kuczka Peter, Hungarian writer and editor (d. 1999) |
| 1st of March 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Deke Slayton, American astronaut (d. 1993) |
| 1st of March 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Clary, French-born actor |
| 1st of March 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Cesare Danova, Italian-born American actor (d. 1992) |
| 1st of March 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Rozelle, American professional sports executive (d. 1996) |
| 1st of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Bork, American legal scholar |
| 1st of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Belafonte, American actor and musician |
| 1st of March 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Seymour Papert, South African mathematician |
| 1st of March 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Rivette, French film director |
| 1st of March 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (d. 1978) |
| 1st of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist (d. 1980) |
| 1st of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Gerry Bron, British record producer |
| 1st of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Conrad, American actor |
| 1st of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Monique Begin, French-Canadian politician |
| 1st of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Edern Hallier, French author (d. 1997) |
| 1st of March 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Jed Allan, American actor |
| 1st of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Brouwer, Cuban composer and guitarist |
| 1st of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | David Broome, Welsh showjumper |
| 1st of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Grossman, American illustrator |
| 1st of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Joo Hyun, South Korean actor |
| 1st of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Donnie Walsh, American basketball coach and executive |
| 1st of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Bowman Myers, American soldier, 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| 1st of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Gil Amelio, American venture capitalist |
| 1st of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Angel Iribar, Spanish footballer |
| 1st of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Richard H. Price, American physicist |
| 1st of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Akinori Nakayama, Japanese gymnast |
| 1st of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Rashid Sunyaev, Russian physicist |
| 1st of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | John Breaux, American politician |
| 1st of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Mike d'Abo, English singer (Manfred Mann) |
| 1st of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Daltrey, English musician (The Who) |
| 1st of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Dirk Benedict, American actor |
| 1st of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Elvin Bethea, American football player |
| 1st of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Gerry Boulet, French-Canadian singer (d. 1990) |
| 1st of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Lana Wood, American actress |
| 1st of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Thicke, Canadian actor and songwriter |
| 1st of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Burning Spear, Jamaican singer and musician |
| 1st of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Kourdakov, former KGB agent |
| 1st of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Barnes, American writer |
| 1st of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jerri Nielsen, American physician (d. 2009) |
| 1st of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Winters, American basketball player and coach |
| 1st of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Leigh Matthews, Australian rules footballer and coach |
| 1st of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Martin O'Neill, Northern Irish footballer and manager |
| 1st of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine Bach, American actress |
| 1st of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Howard, American actor and director |
| 1st of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Dalia Grybauskaite, Lithuanian politician |
| 1st of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Timothy Daly, American actor |
| 1st of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Athans, American mountaineer |
| 1st of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Bertrand Piccard, Swiss balloonist and psychiatrist |
| 1st of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Nik Kershaw, English musician |
| 1st of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Chosei Komatsu, Japanese conductor |
| 1st of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Griffin, British politician |
| 1st of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Diamanto Manolakou, Greek politician |
| 1st of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | William Bennett, English musician (Whitehouse) |
| 1st of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Melanie Moore, American actress |
| 1st of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Affuso, American drummer |
| 1st of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Anders, German singer (Modern Talking) |
| 1st of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Michaels, American musician and record producer |
| 1st of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Benard, American actor |
| 1st of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Russell Wong, American actor |
| 1st of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Francis, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1st of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Le Guen, French football manager |
| 1st of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Clinton Gregory, American musician |
| 1st of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Stewart Elliott, Canadian jockey |
| 1st of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Booker Huffman, American professional wrestler |
| 1st of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Lou Lord, American singer/songwriter |
| 1st of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Auch, Canadian speed-skater |
| 1st of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Yelena Afanasyeva, Russian athlete |
| 1st of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | George Eads, American actor |
| 1st of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Aron Winter, Dutch footballer |
| 1st of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Salil Ankola, Indian cricketer and TV actor |
| 1st of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Creek, American baseball player |
| 1st of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Javier Bardem, Spanish actor |
| 1st of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Dafydd Ieuan, Welsh drummer (Super Furry Animals) |
| 1st of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jozsef Szabo, Hungarian swimmer |
| 1st of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jason V Brock, American author |
| 1st of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Tyler Hamilton, American cyclist |
| 1st of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Davenport, English actor |
| 1st of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Peake, Canadian guitarist (Nickelback) |
| 1st of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Webber, American basketball player |
| 1st of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo Resoort, Dutch DJ |
| 1st of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Gunn, American politician |
| 1st of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Davis, American football player |
| 1st of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Mark-Paul Gosselaar, American actor |
| 1st of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Shane Harwood, Australian cricketer |
| 1st of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Maya Kulenovic, Canadian painter |
| 1st of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Francesco Mazzariol, Italian rugby player |
| 1st of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Peter F. Bell, Australian rules footballer |
| 1st of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Malkoff, American TV news reporter |
| 1st of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Rens Blom, Dutch athlete |
| 1st of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Esther Canadas, Spanish actress and model |
| 1st of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jensen Ackles, American actor |
| 1st of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Donovan Patton, Guamanian television star |
| 1st of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Alicia Leigh Willis, American actress |
| 1st of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Shahid Afridi, Pakistani cricketer |
| 1st of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Abdur Rehman, Pakistani cricketer |
| 1st of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Djimi Traore, Malian footballer |
| 1st of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ana Hickmann, Brazilian supermodel |
| 1st of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Adam LaVorgna, American actor |
| 1st of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Will Power, Australian racing driver |
| 1st of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Winchester, American ice hockey player |
| 1st of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Shalva Didebashvili, Georgian-born German rugby player |
| 1st of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Elan Sara DeFan, Mexican singer-songwriter |
| 1st of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Hackett, English footballer |
| 1st of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Blake Hawksworth, Canadian baseball player |
| 1st of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Carvalho, Brazilian footballer |
| 1st of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob Lillyman, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 1st of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Naima Mora, American model |
| 1st of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Steen, Canadian-born Swedish ice hockey player |
| 1st of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Tupou, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 1st of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Ottl, German footballer |
| 1st of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | J Leman, American football player |
| 1st of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Spector, American soccer player |
| 1st of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Ke$ha, American singer |
| 1st of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Sammie, American singer |
| 1st of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Trevor Cahill, American baseball player |
| 1st of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Katija Pevec, American actress |
| 1st of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Sonya Kitchell, American singer |
| 1st of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Anjo Buckman, German rugby player |
| 1st of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Vela, Mexican footballer |
| 1st of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Daniella Monet, American actress |
| 1st of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Eden, English actor |
| 1st of March 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Bieber, Canadian pop star |
| 1st of March 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Krohn, American political prodigy |
| 1st of March 2001 | BIRTHDAY | Ramona Marquez, English child actress |
| 1st of March 0317 | DEATH | Valerius Valens, Roman Emperor |
| 1st of March 0589 | DEATH | Saint David, Patron Saint of Wales (Born 500) |
| 1st of March 0986 | DEATH | King Lothair of France (Born 941) |
| 1st of March 1131 | DEATH | King Stephen II of Hungary (Born 1101) |
| 1st of March 1233 | DEATH | Count Thomas I of Savoy (Born 1178) |
| 1st of March 1244 | DEATH | Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, son of Llywelyn the Great (Born 1200) |
| 1st of March 1320 | DEATH | Buyantu Khagan, Emperor of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty (Born 1286) |
| 1st of March 1383 | DEATH | Amadeus VI of Savoy (Born 1334) |
| 1st of March 1510 | DEATH | Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier and explorer |
| 1st of March 1536 | DEATH | Bernardo Accolti, Italian poet (Born 1465) |
| 1st of March 1546 | DEATH | George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (Born 1513) |
| 1st of March 1620 | DEATH | Thomas Campion, English poet and composer (Born 1567) |
| 1st of March 1633 | DEATH | George Herbert, English poet and orator (Born 1593) |
| 1st of March 1643 | DEATH | Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (Born 1583) |
| 1st of March 1661 | DEATH | Richard Zouch, English jurist (Born 1590) |
| 1st of March 1697 | DEATH | Francesco Redi, Italian physician (Born 1626) |
| 1st of March 1706 | DEATH | Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German field marshal and Governor of Berlin (Born 1632) |
| 1st of March 1734 | DEATH | Roger North, English biographer (Born 1653) |
| 1st of March 1757 | DEATH | Edward Moore, English writer (Born 1712) |
| 1st of March 1768 | DEATH | Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (Born 1694) |
| 1st of March 1773 | DEATH | Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect (Born 1700) |
| 1st of March 1777 | DEATH | Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer (Born 1715) |
| 1st of March 1792 | DEATH | Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 1747) |
| 1st of March 1817 | DEATH | Giacomo Quarenghi, Italian architect (Born 1744) |
| 1st of March 1841 | DEATH | Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (Born 1764) |
| 1st of March 1862 | DEATH | Peter Barlow, English mathematician (Born 1776) |
| 1st of March 1875 | DEATH | Tristan Corbiere, French poet (Born 1845) |
| 1st of March 1879 | DEATH | Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (Born 1825) |
| 1st of March 1884 | DEATH | Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (Born 1820) |
| 1st of March 1898 | DEATH | George Bruce Malleson, English officer in India, author (Born 1825) |
| 1st of March 1906 | DEATH | Jose Maria de Pereda, Spanish novelist (Born 1833) |
| 1st of March 1911 | DEATH | Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1852) |
| 1st of March 1912 | DEATH | George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer (Born 1847) |
| 1st of March 1914 | DEATH | Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (Born 1845) |
| 1st of March 1920 | DEATH | John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (Born 1842) |
| 1st of March 1920 | DEATH | Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian Zionist (Born 1880) |
| 1st of March 1922 | DEATH | Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (Born 1892) |
| 1st of March 1929 | DEATH | Royal H. Weller, American politician (Born 1881) |
| 1st of March 1932 | DEATH | Frank Teschemacher, American jazz clarinetist (Born 1906) |
| 1st of March 1933 | DEATH | U?adzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (Born 1900) |
| 1st of March 1936 | DEATH | Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (Born 1871) |
| 1st of March 1938 | DEATH | Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer, war hero, and politician (Born 1863) |
| 1st of March 1940 | DEATH | Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (Born 1878) |
| 1st of March 1942 | DEATH | George S. Rentz, Navy chaplain (Born 1882) |
| 1st of March 1943 | DEATH | Alexandre Yersin, Swiss physician (Born 1863) |
| 1st of March 1952 | DEATH | Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (Born 1873) |
| 1st of March 1963 | DEATH | Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (Born 1923) |
| 1st of March 1963 | DEATH | Irish Meusel, American baseball player (Born 1893) |
| 1st of March 1966 | DEATH | Fritz Houtermans, German physicist (Born 1903) |
| 1st of March 1970 | DEATH | Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (Born 1894) |
| 1st of March 1974 | DEATH | Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (Born 1935) |
| 1st of March 1979 | DEATH | Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (Born 1903) |
| 1st of March 1980 | DEATH | Dixie Dean, English footballer (Born 1907) |
| 1st of March 1980 | DEATH | Wilhelmina, high-fashion model and owner of model agency (Born 1940) |
| 1st of March 1982 | DEATH | Frank Sargeson, New Zealand writer (Born 1903) |
| 1st of March 1984 | DEATH | Jackie Coogan, American actor (Born 1914) |
| 1st of March 1988 | DEATH | Joe Besser, American comedian and actor (Born 1907) |
| 1st of March 1989 | DEATH | Vasantdada Patil, Indian politician (Born 1917) |
| 1st of March 1991 | DEATH | Edwin H. Land, American scientist and inventor (Polaroid Corporation) (Born 1909) |
| 1st of March 1995 | DEATH | Vladislav Listyev, Russian television journalist (Born 1956) |
| 1st of March 1995 | DEATH | Georges J.F. Kohler, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1946) |
| 1st of March 2001 | DEATH | Henry Wade, American lawyer (Born 1914) |
| 1st of March 2005 | DEATH | Peter Malkin, Israeli secret agent (Born 1927) |
| 1st of March 2006 | DEATH | Harry Browne, American politician and author (Born 1933) |
| 1st of March 2006 | DEATH | Johnny Jackson, American musician (Born 1951) |
| 1st of March 2006 | DEATH | Peter Osgood, English footballer (Born 1947) |
| 1st of March 2006 | DEATH | Jack Wild, British actor (Born 1952) |
| 1st of March 2008 | DEATH | Raul Reyes, second-in-command of FARC guerrilla (Born 1948) |
| 1st of March 2010 | DEATH | Kristian Digby, British television presenter and director (Born 1977) |