- Mar 3 Gilbert Adrian, [Greenberg], Naugatuck CT, costume designer
- Mar 3 Rabbe A Enckell, Fins author/poet (Lutad about Brunnen)
- Mar 4 William C. Boyd, American immunochemist (d. 1983)
- Mar 4 John Scarne, American magician (d. 1985)
- Mar 6 Empress Kōjun of Japan (d. 2000)
- Mar 11 Dorothy Schiff, American owner and publisher (NY Post), born in NYC, New York (d. 1989)
- Mar 11 Ronald Syme, New Zealand classicist and historian, born in Eltham, New Zealand (d. 1989)
- Mar 11 J. Franklin Hyde, American inventor (created silica), born in Solvay, New York (d. 1999)
- Mar 14 Molla Mustafa Barzani, Iran, Kurd leader (KDP)
- Mar 14 Adolph Gottlieb American painter (d. 1974)
- Mar 16 Mike Mansfield, (Sen-D-Mont) majority whip
- Mar 19 Benjamin M Telders, president of Dutch Liberal States Party
- Mar 19 James Bullock, colliery manager
- Mar 22 James S Russell, US pilot/admiral (WW II Pacific Ocean)
- Mar 22 Jochen Klepper, writer
- Mar 24 Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939)
- Mar 24 Malcolm Muggeridge, English writer (Observer of Life)
- Mar 25 Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (d. 1990)
- Mar 30 Sol C Siegel, American producer (High Society, Gentlemen prefer blondes)
- Mar 30 Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (d. 1984)