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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 31st of March 0307 | EVENT | After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian. |
| 31st of March 1146 | EVENT | Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vezelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade. |
| 31st of March 1492 | EVENT | Queen Isabella of Castille issues the Alhambra decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion. |
| 31st of March 1717 | EVENT | A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy. |
| 31st of March 1774 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act. |
| 31st of March 1822 | EVENT | The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion, depicted by the French artist Eugene Delacroix. |
| 31st of March 1854 | EVENT | Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade. |
| 31st of March 1866 | EVENT | The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaiso, Chile. |
| 31st of March 1877 | EVENT | The family with samurai antecedents that responded to the Saigo army in Oita Nakatsu, rebels. |
| 31st of March 1885 | EVENT | The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland. |
| 31st of March 1889 | EVENT | The Eiffel Tower is officially opened. |
| 31st of March 1903 | EVENT | Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft. |
| 31st of March 1906 | EVENT | The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States. |
| 31st of March 1909 | EVENT | Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
| 31st of March 1910 | EVENT | Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent. |
| 31st of March 1917 | EVENT | The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands. |
| 31st of March 1918 | EVENT | Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed. |
| 31st of March 1918 | EVENT | Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time. |
| 31st of March 1921 | EVENT | The Royal Australian Air Force is formed. |
| 31st of March 1930 | EVENT | The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty eight years. |
| 31st of March 1931 | EVENT | An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000. |
| 31st of March 1931 | EVENT | TWA Flight 599 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas killing 8 including Knute Rockne, head football coach at the University of Notre Dame |
| 31st of March 1933 | EVENT | The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment. |
| 31st of March 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession. |
| 31st of March 1945 | EVENT | World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands. |
| 31st of March 1949 | EVENT | The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada. |
| 31st of March 1951 | EVENT | Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau. |
| 31st of March 1957 | EVENT | Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government. |
| 31st of March 1958 | EVENT | In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265. |
| 31st of March 1959 | EVENT | The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum. |
| 31st of March 1964 | EVENT | A coup d'etat in Brazil establishes a military government, under the aegis of general Castello Branco. |
| 31st of March 1965 | EVENT | An Iberia Airlines Convair 440 crashes into the sea on approach to Tangier, killing 47 of 51 occupants. |
| 31st of March 1966 | EVENT | The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon. |
| 31st of March 1970 | EVENT | Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit. |
| 31st of March 1970 | EVENT | Nine terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijack Japan Airlines Flight 351 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb. |
| 31st of March 1979 | EVENT | The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien). |
| 31st of March 1980 | EVENT | The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors. |
| 31st of March 1985 | EVENT | The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York. |
| 31st of March 1986 | EVENT | Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England. |
| 31st of March 1986 | EVENT | A Mexicana Boeing 727 en route to Puerto Vallarta erupts in flames and crashes in the mountains northwest of Mexico City, killing 166. |
| 31st of March 1990 | EVENT | 200,000 protestors take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax. |
| 31st of March 1991 | EVENT | The Islamic Constitutional Movement, or Hadas, is established in Kuwait. |
| 31st of March 1991 | EVENT | Georgian independence referendum, 1991: nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union. |
| 31st of March 1992 | EVENT | The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California. |
| 31st of March 1994 | EVENT | Human evolution: The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull. |
| 31st of March 2004 | EVENT | In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed. |
| 31st of March 0250 | BIRTHDAY | Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (d. 306) |
| 31st of March 1360 | BIRTHDAY | Philippa of Lancaster, queen of Portugal (d. 1415) |
| 31st of March 1425 | BIRTHDAY | Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan (d. 1468) |
| 31st of March 1499 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Pius IV (d. 1565) |
| 31st of March 1504 | BIRTHDAY | Guru Angad Dev, second Sikh guru (d. 1552) |
| 31st of March 1519 | BIRTHDAY | King Henry II of France (d. 1559) |
| 31st of March 1536 | BIRTHDAY | Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (d. 1565) |
| 31st of March 1576 | BIRTHDAY | Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia (d. 1644) |
| 31st of March 1596 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Descartes, French philosopher, mathematician (d. 1650) |
| 31st of March 1621 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Marvell, English poet (d. 1678) |
| 31st of March 1651 | BIRTHDAY | Karl II, Elector Palatine (d. 1685) |
| 31st of March 1675 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Benedict XIV (d. 1758) |
| 31st of March 1718 | BIRTHDAY | Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain (d. 1781) |
| 31st of March 1723 | BIRTHDAY | King Frederick V of Denmark (d. 1766) |
| 31st of March 1730 | BIRTHDAY | Etienne Bezout, French mathematician (d. 1783) |
| 31st of March 1732 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809) |
| 31st of March 1777 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (d. 1859) |
| 31st of March 1778 | BIRTHDAY | Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (d. 1858) |
| 31st of March 1794 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician and cabinet member (d. 1852) |
| 31st of March 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Lindblad, Swedish composer (d. 1864) |
| 31st of March 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Ukrainian-born Russian writer (d. 1852) |
| 31st of March 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Edward FitzGerald, English poet (d. 1883) |
| 31st of March 1811 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Bunsen, German chemist (d. 1899) |
| 31st of March 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst, German statesman (d. 1901) |
| 31st of March 1823 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Boykin Chesnut, American author (d. 1886) |
| 31st of March 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (d. 1878) |
| 31st of March 1855 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred E. Hunt, American entrepreneur (d. 1899) |
| 31st of March 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Griffith, Irish politician (d. 1922) |
| 31st of March 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandra Kollontai, Russian statesman (d. 1952) |
| 31st of March 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Serge Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (d. 1929) |
| 31st of March 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Borisav Stankovic, Serbian writer (d. 1927) |
| 31st of March 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Johnson, American boxer (d. 1946) |
| 31st of March 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-born American astronomer (d. 1946) |
| 31st of March 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Pascin, Bulgarian painter (d. 1930) |
| 31st of March 1890 | BIRTHDAY | William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971) |
| 31st of March 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Varconi, Hungarian film actor (d. 1976) |
| 31st of March 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (d. 1954) |
| 31st of March 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Vardis Fisher, American author (d. 1968) |
| 31st of March 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Shin'ichiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979) |
| 31st of March 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Quillan, American actor (d. 1990) |
| 31st of March 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Red Norvo, American jazz vibraphonist (d. 1999) |
| 31st of March 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Elisabeth Grummer, German soprano (d. 1986) |
| 31st of March 1912 | BIRTHDAY | William Lederer, American writer (d. 2009) |
| 31st of March 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1998) |
| 31st of March 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese military man (d. 1997) |
| 31st of March 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Hourani, English historian (d. 1993) |
| 31st of March 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Lucille Bliss, American voice actress |
| 31st of March 1916 | BIRTHDAY | John H. Wood, Jr., American jurist (d. 1979) |
| 31st of March 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Akins, American football player (d. 1993) |
| 31st of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, English noble |
| 31st of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (d. 1999) |
| 31st of March 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Guggenheim, American film director and producer (d. 2002) |
| 31st of March 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Buscaglia, American author (d. 1998) |
| 31st of March 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Coutu, French Canadian actor (d. 1999) |
| 31st of March 1926 | BIRTHDAY | John Fowles, English author (d. 2005) |
| 31st of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | William Daniels, American actor |
| 31st of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Cesar Chavez, American labor activist (d. 1993) |
| 31st of March 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Lefty Frizzell, American singer and songwriter (d. 1975) |
| 31st of March 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 31st of March 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Bertram Fields, American lawyer |
| 31st of March 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer (d. 2007) |
| 31st of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Miller Barber, American golfer |
| 31st of March 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Nagisa Oshima, Japanese film director |
| 31st of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Nichita Stanescu, Romanian poet (d. 1983) |
| 31st of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Chamberlain, American actor |
| 31st of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Shirley Jones, American singer and actress |
| 31st of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo Rubbia, Italian physicist, Nobel Laureate |
| 31st of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | John D. Loudermilk, American singer and songwriter |
| 31st of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Herb Alpert, American trumpeter and band leader |
| 31st of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Judith Rossner, American author |
| 31st of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Marge Piercy, American writer |
| 31st of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Pulford, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 31st of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Dokumamushi Sandayu, Japanese actor |
| 31st of March 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Hicke, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005) |
| 31st of March 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Sheila Dikshit, Indian statesman |
| 31st of March 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Michiko Nomura, Japanese voice actor |
| 31st of March 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur B. Rubinstein, American composer |
| 31st of March 1938 | BIRTHDAY | David Steel, Scottish politician |
| 31st of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian politician (d. 1993) |
| 31st of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Volker Schlondorff, German film director |
| 31st of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Leahy, American politician |
| 31st of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Barney Frank, American politician |
| 31st of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Savage, American radio host and political commentator |
| 31st of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Ulla Hoffmann, Swedish politician |
| 31st of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Walken, American actor |
| 31st of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Pascal Danel, French singer and songwriter |
| 31st of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Mick Ralphs, English guitarist (Mott the Hoople, Bad Company) |
| 31st of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Valerie Curtin, American actress, writer, and producer |
| 31st of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Myfanwy Talog, Welsh actress (d. 1995) |
| 31st of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Gabe Kaplan, American actor and comedian |
| 31st of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Gonzalo Marquez, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1984) |
| 31st of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Kristian Blak, Danish musician and recording executive |
| 31st of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, Colombian politician |
| 31st of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Al Gore, 45th Vice President of the United States and Nobel laureate |
| 31st of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Rhea Perlman, American actress |
| 31st of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Gustaaf Van Cauter, Belgian cyclist |
| 31st of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Andras Adorjan, Hungarian chess player |
| 31st of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Marinaro, American football player and actor |
| 31st of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Frankie Sabath, Puerto Rican performer/singer |
| 31st of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (d. 1998) |
| 31st of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Angus Young, Scottish-born Australian guitarist (AC/DC) |
| 31st of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Vance, New Zealand cricketer |
| 31st of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Duncan, British politician |
| 31st of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Marc McClure, American actor |
| 31st of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Cox, American actor |
| 31st of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Markus Hediger, Swiss poet and translator |
| 31st of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Ali McMordie, Irish bassist (Stiff Little Fingers) |
| 31st of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Nicastro, American actress and singer (d. 2010) |
| 31st of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | John Taylor, American football player |
| 31st of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Mercurio, Australian actor/dancer |
| 31st of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Fez Marie Whatley, American radio host and comedian |
| 31st of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Wong Koon-Chung, Hong Kong musician (Beyond) |
| 31st of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Barrasso, American ice hockey player |
| 31st of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (d. 2006) |
| 31st of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Steven T. Seagle, American comic-book writer |
| 31st of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Black, English athlete |
| 31st of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Firestone, American race car driver |
| 31st of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Naoya Ogawa, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 31st of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | J.R. Reid, American basketball player |
| 31st of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Nyamko Sabuni, Swedish politician |
| 31st of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Samantha Brown, American television host |
| 31st of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Smith, American basketball player |
| 31st of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Demetris Assiotis, Greek-Cypriot footballer |
| 31st of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Craig McCracken, American Animator |
| 31st of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Pavel Bure, Russian ice hockey player |
| 31st of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor |
| 31st of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Alejandro Amenabar, Spanish film director |
| 31st of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ze Frank, American internet personality |
| 31st of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Bowen, American actor |
| 31st of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Hristos Polihroniou, Greek hammer thrower |
| 31st of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Luca Gentili, Italian footballer |
| 31st of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Eicher, Swiss film director |
| 31st of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Stefan Olsdal, Swedish bassist (Placebo) |
| 31st of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Emma Atkins, English actress |
| 31st of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Green, American film director |
| 31st of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Prodromos Dreliozis, Greek basketball player |
| 31st of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ashton Moore, American porn actress |
| 31st of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Saviano, American actor |
| 31st of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Garth Tander, Australian racing driver |
| 31st of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Toshiya, Japanese musician (Dir en grey) |
| 31st of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Clemence, English footballer |
| 31st of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Yayo, American rapper |
| 31st of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jerome Rothen, French footballer |
| 31st of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Kinney, American baseball player |
| 31st of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Ryder, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 31st of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Clark, English footballer |
| 31st of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Maaya Sakamoto, Japanese voice actor/Singer |
| 31st of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Chien-Ming Wang, Taiwanese baseball player |
| 31st of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Bingham, American singer/songwriter |
| 31st of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Pa Dembo Tourray, Gambian footballer |
| 31st of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard McCarthy, British actor |
| 31st of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Maarten van der Weijden, Dutch swimmer |
| 31st of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ryland Blackinton, American guitarist (Cobra Starship) |
| 31st of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Audrey Kawasaki, American painter |
| 31st of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Tal Ben Haim, Israeli footballer |
| 31st of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Lennon Murphy, American rock singer/songwriter |
| 31st of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Vlasios Maras, Greek gymnast |
| 31st of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Paddy McCarthy, Irish footballer |
| 31st of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Dario Bova, Italian footballer |
| 31st of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | David Clarkson, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 31st of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | James Jones, American football player |
| 31st of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Johnson, American footballer |
| 31st of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Yanin Vismistananda, Thai actress |
| 31st of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Szohr, American actress |
| 31st of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Nordin Amrabat, Dutch footballer |
| 31st of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Humpy Koneru, Indian chess grandmaster |
| 31st of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Hogan Ephraim, English footballer |
| 31st of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Liu Zige, Chinese swimmer |
| 31st of March 2003 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Alexander Acosta, Filipino child actor and dancer |
| 31st of March 1074 | DEATH | Regency Yorimichi Fujiwara of Japan (Born 992) |
| 31st of March 1340 | DEATH | Ivan I of Russia, Prince of Moscow (Born 1288) |
| 31st of March 1547 | DEATH | Francis I of France (Born 1494) |
| 31st of March 1567 | DEATH | Philipp I of Hesse (Born 1504) |
| 31st of March 1621 | DEATH | King Philip III of Spain (Born 1578) |
| 31st of March 1631 | DEATH | John Donne, English writer and prelate (Born 1572) |
| 31st of March 1671 | DEATH | Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (Born 1637) |
| 31st of March 1703 | DEATH | Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (Born 1642) |
| 31st of March 1723 | DEATH | Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British-born U.S. state governor (Born 1661) |
| 31st of March 1727 | DEATH | Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and physicist (Born 1643) |
| 31st of March 1741 | DEATH | Pieter Burmann the Elder, Dutch classical scholar (Born 1668) |
| 31st of March 1783 | DEATH | Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (Born 1718) |
| 31st of March 1797 | DEATH | Olaudah Equiano, Nigerian slave (Born1745) |
| 31st of March 1837 | DEATH | John Constable, English painter (Born 1776) |
| 31st of March 1850 | DEATH | John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States (Born 1782) |
| 31st of March 1855 | DEATH | Charlotte Bronte, English author (Born 1816) |
| 31st of March 1877 | DEATH | Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician (Born 1801) |
| 31st of March 1880 | DEATH | Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (Born 1835) |
| 31st of March 1885 | DEATH | Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer (Born 1819) |
| 31st of March 1913 | DEATH | J. P. Morgan, American financier (Born 1837) |
| 31st of March 1915 | DEATH | Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish athlete (Born 1882) |
| 31st of March 1917 | DEATH | Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician, Nobel laureate (Born 1854) |
| 31st of March 1924 | DEATH | George Charles Haite, English designer, painter and illustrator (Born1855) |
| 31st of March 1930 | DEATH | Ludwig Schuler, German politician (Born 1836) |
| 31st of March 1931 | DEATH | Knute Rockne, American football coach (Born 1888) |
| 31st of March 1935 | DEATH | Georges V. Matchabelli, Russian-born perfumer (Born 1885) |
| 31st of March 1944 | DEATH | Mineichi Koga, Japanese admiral (Born 1885) |
| 31st of March 1945 | DEATH | Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1881) |
| 31st of March 1945 | DEATH | Anne Frank, German-born diarist (Born 1929) |
| 31st of March 1945 | DEATH | Frank Findlay, New Zealand politician (Born 1884) |
| 31st of March 1952 | DEATH | Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (Born 1877) |
| 31st of March 1956 | DEATH | Ralph DePalma, Italian-born race car driver (Born 1884) |
| 31st of March 1968 | DEATH | Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (Born 1885) |
| 31st of March 1972 | DEATH | Meena Kumari, Indian actress (Born 1932) |
| 31st of March 1975 | DEATH | Percy Alliss, English Golfer (Born 1897) |
| 31st of March 1976 | DEATH | Paul Strand, American photographer and filmmaker (Born 1890) |
| 31st of March 1978 | DEATH | Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (Born 1899) |
| 31st of March 1980 | DEATH | Vladimir Holan, Czech poet (Born 1905) |
| 31st of March 1980 | DEATH | Jesse Owens, American athlete (Born 1913) |
| 31st of March 1981 | DEATH | Enid Bagnold, British playwright (Born 1889) |
| 31st of March 1983 | DEATH | Christina Stead, Australian writer (Born 1902) |
| 31st of March 1984 | DEATH | Ronald Clark O'Bryan, American murderer (Born 1944) |
| 31st of March 1986 | DEATH | Jerry Paris, American actor (Born 1925) |
| 31st of March 1986 | DEATH | O'Kelly Isley, Jr., American singer (The Isley Brothers) (Born 1937) |
| 31st of March 1988 | DEATH | William McMahon, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (Born 1908) |
| 31st of March 1993 | DEATH | Chichay, Filipino actress (Born 1918) |
| 31st of March 1993 | DEATH | Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (Born 1900) |
| 31st of March 1993 | DEATH | Brandon Lee, American actor (Born 1965) |
| 31st of March 1995 | DEATH | Selena Quintanilla Perez, Mexican-American singer (Born 1971) |
| 31st of March 1996 | DEATH | Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American musician (The Gun Club) (Born 1958) |
| 31st of March 1998 | DEATH | Bella Abzug, American politician (Born 1920) |
| 31st of March 1998 | DEATH | Tim Flock, American race car driver (Born 1924) |
| 31st of March 1999 | DEATH | Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist (Born 1922) |
| 31st of March 2001 | DEATH | Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1915) |
| 31st of March 2001 | DEATH | David Rocastle, English footballer (Born 1967) |
| 31st of March 2002 | DEATH | Barry Took, British comedian (Born 1928) |
| 31st of March 2002 | DEATH | Moturu Udayam, Indian women's activist (Born 1924) |
| 31st of March 2003 | DEATH | H.S.M. Coxeter, English-born geometer (Born 1907) |
| 31st of March 2003 | DEATH | Tommy Seebach, Danish singer (Born 1949) |
| 31st of March 2003 | DEATH | Anne Gwynne, American film actress (Born 1918) |
| 31st of March 2004 | DEATH | Scott Helvenston, American Navy SEAL and Blackwater Contractor (Born 1965) |
| 31st of March 2005 | DEATH | Stanley J. Korsmeyer, American oncologist (Born 1951) |
| 31st of March 2005 | DEATH | Frank Perdue, American poultry farmer (Born 1920) |
| 31st of March 2005 | DEATH | Terri Schiavo, American figure in right-to-die case (Born 1963) |
| 31st of March 2005 | DEATH | Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (Born 1905) |
| 31st of March 2006 | DEATH | Angela Devi, American adult model (Born 1975) |
| 31st of March 2006 | DEATH | Jackie McLean, American jazz saxophonist (Born 1931) |
| 31st of March 2007 | DEATH | Paul Watzlawick, Austrian-born theoreticist (Born 1921) |
| 31st of March 2008 | DEATH | Jules Dassin, American film director (Born 1911) |
| 31st of March 2008 | DEATH | Bill Keightley (Mr. Wildcat), American basketball equipment manager (Born 1926) |
| 31st of March 2009 | DEATH | Raul Alfonsin, former President of Argentina (Born 1927) |
| 31st of March 2009 | DEATH | Choor Singh, Singaporean judge (Born 1911) |
| 31st of March 2009 | DEATH | Jarl Alfredius, Swedish news anchor (Born 1943) |
| 31st of March 2010 | DEATH | Shirley Mills, American actress (Born 1926) |