Historical Events
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 1 Laura Netzel (née Pistolekors), Finnish-Swedish pianist, composer, concert organizer, and humanitarian, born in Rantasalmi, Finland (d. 1927)
- Mar 3 Jamsetji Tata, Indian pioneer industrialist (Tata Group), born in Navsari, British India (d. 1904)
- Mar 8 James Mason Crafts, American chemist (Friedel-Crafts alkylation synthesis), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1917)
- Mar 8 Josephine Cochrane, American inventor (automatic dishwasher), born in Ashtabula County, Ohio (d. 1913)
- Mar 9 Felix Huston Robertson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas (d. 1928)
- Mar 9 Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer and organist, born in New York City (d. 1908)
- Mar 10 Dudley Buck, American organist, composer, and music writer, born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 1909)
- Mar 16 John Butler Yeats, Irish painter, and father of W.B. Yeats, born in Lawrencetown, County Down, Ireland (d. 1922)
- Mar 16 Sully Prudhomme, French poet and the 1st winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1901, born in Paris (d. 1907)
- Mar 17 Josef Rheinberger, German organist, composer, and educator (Munich Conservatory, 1877-1901), born in Vaduz, Liechtenstein (d. 1901)
- Mar 18 Francis Fessenden, American lawyer, politician, and Major General (Union Army), born in Portland, Maine (d. 1906)
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Mar 21 Russian composer (Boris Godunov; Night on Bald Mountain; Pictures at an Exhibition), born in Karevo, Russia
- Mar 25 William Bell Wait, American educator of the blind (NY Point system), born in Amsterdam, New York (d. 1916)
John Ballance (1839-1893)
Mar 27 14th Prime Minister of New Zealand and the founder of the Liberal Party, born in Glenavy, Ireland
