- Mar 1 Marie-Louise de Baufremont, wife of Prince Jean de Merode of Netherlands, born in Paris, France (d. 1955)
- Mar 4 Helen Hellwig, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1894), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1960)
- Mar 5 Arthur van Schendel, Dutch writer (Het fregatschip Johanna Maria - The frigate Johanna Maria), born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies (d. 1946)
- Mar 5 Henry Travers [Travers John Heagerty], British stage and screen character actor (It's A Wonderful Life; Mrs. Miniver; Bells of St Mary), born in Prudhoe, Northumberland, England (d. 1965)
- Mar 9 Richard Ohlsson, Swedish composer, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1940)
- Mar 12 Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer, mostly of operettas (Bruder Straubinger; The Golden Mistress), born in Hernals, Austria (d. 1949)
- Mar 14 Anton Philips, Co-Founder of Royal Philips Electronics N.V., born in Zaltbommel, Gelderland, Netherlands (d. 1951)
- Mar 14 Mary Carr, American actress (Forbidden Trail, Pack Up Your Troubles), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1973)
- Mar 15 Eugène Fiset, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1951)
- Mar 15 Harold L. Ickes, American government official and politician (responsible for implementing the New Deal under FDR), born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania (d. 1952)
- Mar 17 Kincsem, Hungarian horse that never lost a race, born in Kisbér, Hungary (d. 1877)
- Mar 17 Stephen Samuel Wise, American Rabbi and President of Zionist Org of America, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1949)
- Mar 18 Jimmy 'Nixey' Callahan, American baseball pitcher, outfielder and manager (Chicago White Sox; first AL no-hitter 1902), born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts (d. 1934)
- Mar 18 Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian philosopher, born in Kiev, Russian Empire (d. 1948)
- Mar 20 Börries von Münchhausen, German poet and Nazi activist, born in Hildesheim, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1945)
- Mar 22 Ellen Glasgow, American novelist (Pulitzer Prize for the Novel 1942), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 1945)
Harry Houdini (1874-1926)
Mar 24 Famous magician and escape artist, born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Mar 26 American poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken), born in San Francisco, California
- Mar 29 Ioannis Georgiadis, Greek fencer (Olympic gold sabre 1896), born in Tripoli, Greece (d. 1960)
- Mar 29 Lou Henry Hoover, US First Lady (1929-33) and wife of the 31st President, Herbert Hoover, born in Waterloo, Iowa (d. 1944)
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