Historical Events
Scientific Discovery
Mar 7 Roald Amundsen announces his discovery of the South Pole (located 14 December 1911)
Roald Amundsen
- Mar 11 First Stanley Cup challenge game to be played in three 20-minute periods (formerly 30-minute halves), Quebec beats Moncton, 9-3 on way to series sweep
Election of Interest
Mar 11 Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again.
Eleftherios Venizelos
Event of Interest
Mar 12 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low
Juliette Gordon Low
Event of Interest
Mar 12 Helen Hayes Theater (Little Theatre) opens at 240W 44th St, NYC
Helen Hayes
- Mar 12 Establishment of the first football club in Bulgaria - Botev Plovdiv
- Mar 13 Stanley Cup, Quebec Skating Rink, Quebec City, Quebec: Quebec Bulldogs rout Moncton Victorias (NB), 8-0 for a 2-0 sweep of the challenge series
- Mar 13 Bulgaria and Serbia conclude an alliance pact ostensibly against Austria, but it secretly provides for a possible war against Turkey
- Mar 14 King Vittorio Emanuel III of Italy injured in an assassination attempt
Event of Interest
Mar 29 Captain Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"
Robert Falcon Scott
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 1 Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter, archbishop of Toronto (d. 2003)
- Mar 2 Arthur Langton, South African cricket medium pace bowler (15 Tests, 40 wickets), born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa (d. 1942)
- Mar 2 Theodore "Red" Saunders, American jazz drummer and bandleader, based in Chicago, born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1981)
- Mar 3 Joe Stydahar, NFL tackle (Chicago Bears)
- Mar 4 Afro [Basaldella], Italian painter
- Mar 4 Carl Marzani, Italian-born American leftwing political activist, publisher and documentarian, born in Rome, Italy (d. 1994)
- Mar 6 Madge Adam, astronomer
- Mar 8 Preston Smith, 40th Governor of Texas, born in Williamson County, Texas (d. 2003)
- Mar 9 Arky Vaughn, American Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop (MLB All-Star 1934–42; NL batting champion 1935; NL stolen base leader 1943), born in Clifty, Arkansas (d. 1952)
- Mar 11 Robert Clifford Latham, pepys Scholar
- Mar 11 Xavier Montsalvatge, Spanish composer (El gato con botas)
- Mar 12 James McKay, lord provost of Edinburgh
- Mar 12 Kylie Tennant, novelist (Battlers, Lost Haven)
- Mar 12 Paul Weston [Wetstein], American pianist and orchestra leader (Jim Nabors Hour, Crescent City Suite), born in Springfield, Massachusetts (d. 1996)
- Mar 12 Irving Layton, Canadian poet (d. 2006)
- Mar 13 Ernst Hess, Swiss composer, born in Schaffhausen (d. 1968)
- Mar 13 Igor Youskevitch, Russian-Ukrainian ballet dancer, born in Pyriatyn, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine (d. 1994)
- Mar 13 James Friell, Scottish political cartoonist (Daily Worker), born in Glasgow (d. 1997)
- Mar 14 Les Brown, American big band leader (His Band of Renown - "Sentimental Journey"), born in Reinerton, Pennsylvania (d. 2001)
- Mar 15 Duncan Stuart Wilson-MacDonald, fighter pilot
Lightnin Hopkins
Mar 15 Lightnin' [Sam] Hopkins, American blues musician (Ball of Twine), born in Centerville, Texas (d. 1982)
Lightnin Hopkins
- Mar 15 Louis Paul Boon, Flemish writer (Kapellekensbaan)
- Mar 16 Patricia Nixon [Thelma Catherine], Ely Nevada, 1st lady (1968-74)
- Mar 19 Adolf Galland, fighter Pilot
- Mar 19 Russ Case, Hamburg Iowa, orchestra leader (Julius La Rosa Show)
- Mar 21 Peter Bull, British actor and author (The African Queen, Tom Jones, Dr Strangelove), born in London, England (d. 1984)
- Mar 22 Henri Rousselot, admiral
- Mar 22 Lord Alport [Cuthbert Alport], politician, cabinet minister, and life peer
- Mar 22 Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (Hard Day's Night, Steptoe and Son), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1985)
- Mar 22 Karl Malden [Mladen George Sekulovich], American actor (Streets of San Francisco, American Express, A Streetcar Named Desire), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2009)
- Mar 23 Alfred Schwarzmann, German gymnast (Olympic-2 golds-1936)
Wernher von Braun
Mar 23 Wernher von Braun, German rocket scientist (I Aim at the Stars), born in Wirsitz, Germany (now Wyrzysk, Poland) (d. 1977)
Wernher von Braun
Dorothy Height
Mar 24 Dorothy Height, American civil rights and women's rights activist (National Council of Negro Women), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 2010)
Dorothy Height
- Mar 25 Jean Vilar, French stage and film actor and director (Théâtre National Populaire), born in Sète, France (d. 1971)
James Callaghan
Mar 27 James Callaghan, British Prime Minister (Labour: 1976-79), born in Portsmouth, England (d. 2005)
James Callaghan
- Mar 27 Reuel Lahmer, composer, born in Maple, Ontario
- Mar 27 Robert Watson Hughes, Scottish-Australian composer, born in Levan, Inverclyde, Scotland (d. 2007)
- Mar 28 A. Bertram Chandler, Anglo-Australian mariner and sci-fi author (Empress of Outer Space), born in Aldershot, England (d. 1984)
- Mar 28 Marina Raskova, Russian navigator, born in Moscow (d. 1943)
- Mar 29 Hanna Reitsch, German aviator and test pilot, born in Hirschberg, Silesia (d. 1979)
- Mar 30 Andrew Rodger Waterson, scholar/naturalist
- Mar 30 Jack Cowie, cricketer (successful NZ fast bowler either side of WWII)
- Mar 31 Wilhelmus Berkelmans, civil servant/resistance fighter
Famous Deaths
- Mar 1 George Grossmith, British actor, comedian and writer (The Diary of a Nobody, A Society Clown), dies at 64
- Mar 1 Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Danish politician (Council President of Denmark), dies at 72
- Mar 6 August Toepler, German physicist, dies at 75
- Mar 15 Louis van Westerhoven, Dutch actor, singer and opera director (Youth), dies at 58
- Mar 17 Lawrence "Titus" Oates, British explorer (Antarctica), sacrifices himself during the Terra Nova Expedition at 32
- Mar 22 Henry Harrison Walker, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 79
Robert Falcon Scott
Mar 29 Robert Falcon Scott, British pole explorer, dies in Antarctica at 43
Robert Falcon Scott
- Mar 30 Karl May, German writer (Winnetou/Kara Ben Nemsi), dies at 70
