- Mar 1 Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japan, writer (Rashomon in Kappa)
- Mar 1 Billy Coutu, Canadian ice hockey defenceman (Stanley Cup 1924; Montreal Canadiens; only player banned from NHL for life, attacked referee 1927), born in North Bay, Ontario (d. 1977)
- Mar 2 Felix Bressart, German actor (Ninotchka, Escape, Crossroads), born in Eydtkuhnen, East Prussia, Germany (d. 1949)
- Mar 3 Edmund Lowe, American actor (Black Sheep, Good Sam, Dillinger, Hot Pepper), born in San Jose, California (d. 1971)
- Mar 3 Rui Coelho, Portuguese composer, born in Alcacer do Sal (d. 1986)
- Mar 8 Mátyás Rákosi, Hungarian party leader and Prime Minister (1952-53), born in Ada, Serbia (d. 1971)
- Mar 9 David Garnett, English novelist and editor (Lady into Fox), born in Brighton, East Sussex (d. 1981)
- Mar 9 Frank Puglia, Italian actor (Black Orchid, Jungle Book), born in Sicily, Italy (d. 1975)
- Mar 9 Josef Weinheber, Austrian poet and writer (Adel und Untergang), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1945)
- Mar 9 Vita Sackville-West, English novelist, poet (The Land) and gardener (Sissinghurst), born in Knole House, Kent (d. 1962)
Arthur Honegger
Mar 10 Arthur Honegger, Swiss composer (King David; Pacific 231), born in Le Havre, France (d. 1955)
Arthur Honegger
- Mar 10 Eva Turner, British operatic soprano, born in Werneth, Oldham, England (d. 1990)
- Mar 10 Gregory La Cava, American director (d. 1952)
- Mar 11 Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general (WW I, WW II)
- Mar 13 Alec Rowley, English composer, born in London (d. 1958)
- Mar 13 Janet Flanner, American journalist (New Yorker), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1978)
- Mar 14 Olive Netta Parsons, co-founder (Collet's Bookshop)
- Mar 15 James Basevi Ord, US army officer (d. 1938)
- Mar 16 Caesar Vallejo, Peruvian/French poet (Los Heraldos Negros)
- Mar 16 James Petrillo, leader of the U.S. musicians union (d. 1984)
- Mar 17 Sayed Darwish, Egyptian singer & songwriter, "father of Egyptian popular music" (Ana Haweet), born in Kôm el-Dikka, Alexandria (d. 1923)
- Mar 18 Robert P Tristram Coffin, poet/reporter (WWII)
- Mar 19 Robert Denzler, composer
- Mar 19 Siegfried T Bok, neurobiologist/anatomist (Cybernetica)
- Mar 19 James Van Fleet, American general (d. 1992)
- Mar 25 Andy Clyde, Scottish actor (The Real McCoys, Lassie), born in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland (d. 1967)
- Mar 27 Ferde Grofé, American pianist, composer (Grand Canyon Suite), and arranger (Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue), born in New York (d. 1972)
- Mar 27 Thorne Smith, American sci-fi author (Topper, Rain in the Doorway, Stray Lamb), born in Annapolis, Maryland (d. 1934)
- Mar 28 Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist (Nobel 1938), born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1968)
- Mar 28 Tom Maguire, Irish republican (d. 1993)
- Mar 29 Jozsef Mindszenty József Pehm], Hungarian cardinal who opposed fascism and communism in Hungary, born in Csehimindszent, Hungary (d. 1975)
- Mar 30 Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian
- Mar 30 Fortunato Depero, Italian artist (d. 1960)
- Mar 30 Erhard Milch, German field marshal (d. 1972)
- Mar 31 Stanislav Wladyslaw Maczek, Polish/British general-major/commandant