Events in History
Birthdays in History
- Mar 3 Cyril Burt, educational psychologist (d. 1971)
- Mar 5 Marius Barbeau, French Canadian ethnographer and folklorist (d. 1969)
- Mar 9 Umberto Saba, Italian writer, born in Trieste, Austria-Hungary (d. 1957)
- Mar 12 Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian Nazi (d. 1959)
- Mar 16 Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (d. 1958)
- Mar 17 Urmuz, Romanian writer (d. 1923)
- Mar 19 Joseph W. Stilwell, American general (commanded U.S. forces in China, Burma, and India in WWII), born in Palatka, Florida (d. 1946)
- Mar 19 Sir Walter Norman Haworth, British chemist (Nobel Prize, 1937) born at Chorley, Lancashire, England (d. 1950)
- Mar 24 James I Wedgwood, British theosophist and bishop (Liberal Catholic Church), born in London (d. 1951)
- Mar 27 Marie Under, Estonian author and poet, born in Tallinn, Russian Empire (d. 1980)
- Mar 29 Donald Dexter Van Slyke, American chemist (Micromanometric analysis), born in Pike, New York (d. 1971)
- Mar 30 Jo Davidson, American sculptor (Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman), born in New York City (d. 1952)
Deaths in History
Alexander H. Stephens (1812-1883)
Mar 4 American Vice President of the Confederate States (1861-65), dies at 71
- Mar 9 Arnold Toynbee, English economic historian and social reformer, dies at 30
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Mar 14 German philosopher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital), dies at 64
- Mar 15 Henry C. Wayne, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 67
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