- Mar 1 Lois Moran, American actress (Waterfront), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1990)
- Mar 1 Richard de Guide, composer
- Mar 1 Robert Selby Taylor, bishop
- Mar 2 Hanoch Jacoby, composer
- Mar 2 Jan Fabricius, Dutch playwright
- Mar 2 Mel Ott, American baseball player, 1st NLer to hit 500 home runs, hall of famer (NY Giants) (d. 1958)
- Mar 3 Jay Morris Arena, inventor/pediatrician
- Mar 3 Kenton Kilmer, American writer, born in Morristown, New Jersey (d. 1995)
- Mar 4 Harry B Helmsley, American billionaire builder (Empire State Building), born in NYC, New York
- Mar 5 Sutan Sjahrir, premier of Indonesia (1945-47)
- Mar 6 Dave Clark, music promoter/songwriter
- Mar 6 Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian statesman and nationalist, born in Ikenne, British Nigeria (d. 1987)
- Mar 7 Greta Schoon, German poet, born in Spetzerfehn (d. 1991)
- Mar 7 Leo Malet, French crime novelist
- Mar 8 Anthony Donato, composer
- Mar 8 Hugh Murphy, English multi-millionaire
- Mar 9 Derk Bodde, American sinologist and historian of China, born in Marshfield, Massachusetts (d. 2003)
- Mar 10 Gerard Croiset, Dutch paragnost
- Mar 11 Ljubica Maric, composer
- Mar 13 Gilbert Inglefield, British architect and Mayor of London (1967-68) (d. 1991)
- Mar 14 Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, French writer (Margin)
- Mar 17 Patrick Reilly, Ootacamund, India, British diplomat
- Mar 18 Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (d. 2007)
- Mar 19 Louis Hayward, British-American actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors), born in Johannesburg, South Africa (d. 1985)
- Mar 19 Attilio Demaria, Argentinian footballer (d. 1990)
- Mar 22 Gabrielle Roy, French-Canadian novelist (Tin Flute)
- Mar 22 Jack Popplewell, British composer and playwright (If I Should Fall In Love Again), born in Leeds, England (d. 1996)
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Mar 24 Clyde Barrow, American bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame), born in Ellis County, Texas (d. 1934)
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- Mar 24 Thomas "Tommy" Trinder, British radio comedian and actor (Save a Little Sunshine, Phoenix), born in Streatham, London, England (d. 1989)
- Mar 25 Dutch (Emil) Leonard, baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox, 1.01 ERA 1914)
- Mar 25 Jay Blackton, American conductor/arranger (Guys & Dolls), born in NYC, New York
- Mar 26 Chips Rafferty [John William Pilbean Goffage], Australian actor (Wake in Fright, Desert Rats), born in Broken Hill, New South Wales (d. 1971)
- Mar 26 Chris[tiaan R] Reumer, Dutch opera singer
- Mar 27 Ben Webster, American tenor saxophonist, born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1973)
- Mar 27 Golo Mann, German-American historian (Antisemitism), born in Munich (d. 1994)
- Mar 28 Nelson Algren, American novelist (Man with the Golden Arm), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 1981)
- Mar 29 Aubrey "Moon" Mullican, American hillbilly pianist (7 Nights of Rock), born in Polk County, Texas (d. 1967)
- Mar 29 Yvonne Waegemans, Flemish writer (Gnome Patjoepelke)
- Mar 30 Ernst Gombrich, OM/FBA/director (Warburg Institute)
- Mar 31 Pieter Jongeling, Dutch author (under Piet Prins) and politician
- Mar 31 Robert Brasillach, French author/nazi collaborator