Events in History
Scientific Discovery
Mar 7 Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole

Roald Amundsen
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
- 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
- Mar 16 Mrs William Howard Taft plants 1st cherry tree in Washington, D.C.
- Mar 17 Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick
- Mar 22 Agnes Martin, Macklin Canada, Canadian-American abstract painter
- Mar 27 1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Washington, D.C.
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
- Mar 30 French protectorate in Morocco established
Birthdays in History
- 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
Deaths in History
- Mar 1 Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Danish politician (Council President of Denmark), dies at 72
- Mar 6 August Toepler, German physicist, dies at 75
- 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