- Mar 1 Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter, archbishop of Toronto (d. 2003)
- 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 11 Robert Clifford Latham, pepys Scholar
- Mar 12 James McKay, lord provost of Edinburgh
- Mar 12 Kylie Tennant, novelist (Battlers, Lost Haven)
- Mar 12 Irving Layton, Canadian poet (d. 2006)
- Mar 13 James Friell, Scottish political cartoonist (Daily Worker), born in Glasgow (d. 1997)
- Mar 15 Duncan Stuart Wilson-MacDonald, fighter pilot
- 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 22 Henri Rousselot, admiral
- Mar 22 Lord Alport [Cuthbert Alport], politician, cabinet minister, and life peer
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
James Callaghan
Mar 27 James Callaghan, British Prime Minister (Labour: 1976-79), born in Portsmouth, England (d. 2005)
James Callaghan
- 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 31 Wilhelmus Berkelmans, civil servant/resistance fighter
About March 1912
How Old? 108 years old
Generation: Greatest Generation
Leap Year: Yes