- Mar 1 Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet and diplomat (Strofi, Nobel Prize for Literature 1963), born in Vourla, Asia Minor, Ottoman Empire (d. 1971)
- Mar 1 Keith Falkner, British bass-baritone singer (Director of the Royal College of Music), born in Sawston, England (d. 1994)
- Mar 2 Kurt Weill, German-American composer and collaborator of Bertolt Brecht (Die Dreigroschenoper - The Threepenny Opera), born in Dessau, Germany (d. 1950)
- Mar 3 Edna Best, British actress (Key, Calendar, Escape, Intermezzo), born in Hove, England (d. 1974)
- Mar 3 Ruby Dandridge [Ruby Jean Butler], American actress (Father of the Bride), born in Wichita, Kansas (d. 1987)
- Mar 4 Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter (d. 1971)
- Mar 6 John Henry Pyle Pafford, British librarian (University of London), born in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire (d. 1996)
- Mar 6 Ludwig Donath, Austrian actor (Torn Curtain, Sirocco, Jolson Sings Again), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungar (d. 1967)
- Mar 6 Robert "Lefty" Grove, American Baseball HOF pitcher (6 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1929, 30; AL MVP 1931; Triple Crown 1930, 31; Philadelphia A's, Boston Red Sox), born in Lonaconing, Maryland (d. 1975)
- Mar 7 Carel Willink, Dutch painter (magic realism), born in Amsterdam (d. 1983)
- Mar 7 Evald Aav, Estonian composer (Vikerlased), born in Tallinn (d. 1939) [OS 22 Feb]
- Mar 7 Giuseppe Capogrossi, Italian painter (Roman School), born in Rome (d. 1972)
- Mar 8 Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer (Harvard Mark I computer), born in Hoboken, New Jersey (d. 1973)
- Mar 9 Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Italian king of Croatia (1941-43), born in Turin, Italy (d. 1948)
- Mar 12 Zoltán Vásárhelyi, Hungarian violinist, teacher, and choral conductor, born in Kecskemét, Hungary (d. 1977)
- Mar 14 Bernie Cummins, American jazz drummer and big band bandleader ("Dark Eyes"), born in Akron, Ohio (d. 1986)
- Mar 14 Ernest Hill, American jazz double-bassist, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1964)
- Mar 15 Colin McPhee, Canadian-American pianist, composer (Tabuh-Tabuhan; H2O; Mechanical Principles), and ethnomusicologist (Bali), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1964)
- Mar 15 George Fox, American US Army chaplain and Methodist minister (The Four Chaplains), born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania (d. 1943) [1]
- Mar 15 Gilberto Freye, Brazilian sociologist (Regionalist Manifesto), born in Recife, Brazil (d. 1987)
- Mar 17 Alfred Newman, American film music arranger, conductor and composer, winner of 9 Academy Awards (The Robe; How The West Was Won; Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1970)
Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900-1958)
Mar 19 French physicist (Nobel Prize for Physics 1935 for discovery of artificial radioactivity), born in Paris, France
- Mar 21 Eugenie Leontovitch, Russian actress (Homicidal, The Rains of Ranchipur), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1993)
- Mar 21 Paul Kletzki [Paweł Klecki], Polish-Swiss violinist, composer, and conductor, born in Łódź, Poland (d. 1973)
- Mar 23 Erich Fromm, German psychologist and psychoanalyst (Sane Society), born in Frankfurt Germany (d. 1980)
- Mar 23 José Antonio Calcaño, Venezuelan composer (De Profundis), music critic, and diplomat, born in Caracus, Venezuela (d. 1978)
- Mar 24 (Algeria Junius) "June" Clark, American jazz trumpeter and cornetist, born in Long Branch, New Jersey (d. 1963)
- Mar 26 Isadore Freed, Russian American composer, born in Brest-Litovsk, Russia (d. 1960)
- Mar 28 Achille Longo, Italian composer, born in Naples, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1954)
- Mar 28 Fosco Giachetti, Italian actor (Wastrel, We the Living), born in Sesto Fiorentino, Tuscany, Italy (d. 1974)
- Mar 28 Robert Harris, British actor (Big Caper, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Laughing Anne), born in Weston-super-Mare, England (d. 1995)
- Mar 29 John McEwen, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (1967-68), born in Chiltern, Australia (d. 1980)
- Mar 31 Henry, English Prince and Duke of Gloucester (son of King George V, Governor General of Australia 1945-47), born at Sandringham Estate, England (d. 1974)
About March 1900
How Old? 124 years old
Generation: Lost Generation
Leap Year: No
Year of the Rabbit
Year of the Dragon
Year of the Snake
Year of the Horse
Year of the Goat/Sheep
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