Events in History
- Mar 1 12 pro-independence revolutionaries captured in and around Chittagong in Bengal province, British India are sentenced to deportation for life, two to three-year prison terms with the remaining 32 being acquitted.
Event of Interest
Mar 1 The "Lindbergh kidnapping", 20 month old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh kidnapped from home in East Amwell, New Jersey, found dead 12 May
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Mar 7 Riots at Ford factory in Dearborn, Michigan, 4 killed
Event of Interest
Mar 9 Eamon De Valera becomes President of Ireland
Éamon de Valera
- Mar 9 Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria
Event of Interest
Mar 17 German police raid Adolf Hitler's Nazi headquarters
Adolf Hitler
Birthdays in History
- Mar 2 Frank E. Petersen Jr, American soldier and 1st African American Marine aviator & General, born in Topeka Kansas (d. 2015)
- Mar 3 Fred Storey, Canadian curler (World C'ship gold 1966, 68, 69), born in Empress, Alberta (d. 2019)
- Mar 4 Hessel Rienks, economist/Dutch 2nd chamber member (PvdA)
- Mar 4 Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, American car designer (d. 2001)
- Mar 4 Frank Wells, American entertainment businessman (d. 1994)
- Mar 5 Walter Charles Marshall, scientist
- Mar 7 Edward "Ed" Thrasher, American art director and photographer (Come & Gone), born in Glendale, California (d. 2006)
- Mar 9 Simon Heere Heeresma, Dutch writer and poet (Han de Wit goes in development aid), born in Amsterdam (d. 2011)
- Mar 9 Sister Bernard Ncube, South African religious sister and anti-apartheid, born in Johannesburg (d. 2012)
- Mar 11 Nigel Lawson, British government official (The Power Game)
- Mar 12 Andrew Young, US ambassador to UN (1977-79)/(Mayor-D-Atlanta)
- Mar 14 Naina Yeltsina, Russia's 1st First Lady (1991-99), born in Orenburg Region, Russia, Soviet Union
- Mar 15 Alan Bean, American Naval captain and astronaut (Ap 12, Skylab 3, 4th to walk on the moon), born in Wheeler, Texas (2018)
- Mar 15 David Alliance, Iran/British textile factory/multi-millionaire
- Mar 16 Ronnie Walter Cunningham, Col USMC/astronaut (Apollo 7), born in Creston, Iowa
- Mar 17 Donald N. Langenberg, American physicist
F. W. de Klerk
Mar 18 F. W. de Klerk, South African President (1989-94) and winner of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela, born in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province, South Africa
F. W. de Klerk
- Mar 18 John Updike, Shillington Pa, poet/novelist (Rabbit Run)
- Mar 22 Richard Thomas, admiral
- Mar 24 Yuri Anatoyevich Ponomaryov, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz 18 backup)
- Mar 26 Dick Nolan, football coach
- Mar 28 Sven Oskar Lindqvist, Swedish writer (Myten om Wu Tao-tzu), born in Stockholm, Sweden
- Mar 29 William Charette, American navy Hospital Corpsman and Medal of Honour recipient, born in Ludington, Michigan (d. 2012)
- Mar 30 A J Zuckerman, Dean (Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine)
- Mar 30 Ted Morgan, Swiss-born writer
- Mar 31 John Jakes, writer (Sir Scoundrel, Great Women Reporters), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Mar 31 Nagisa Oshima, director (Town of Love & Hope), born in Kyoto, Japan (d. 2013)
Deaths in History
Aristide Briand
Mar 7 Aristide Briand, 11 time Prime Minister of France (1909-22) and 1926 Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 69
Aristide Briand
George Eastman
Mar 14 George Eastman, American inventor (Kodak camera and founder of the Eastman Kodak Company), shoots himself in the heart at 77
George Eastman
- Mar 20 Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, Russian biologist (artificial insemination of animals), dies at 61