Historical Events
- Mar 2 National Association of Professional Baseball Players officially adopts the batter's box; decide any player betting on his own team will be expelled; any player betting on any other team to forfeit his pay
- Mar 10 Purdue University (Indiana) admits its 1st student
- Mar 14 English FA Cup Final, Kennington Oval, London: Oxford University beats Royal Engineers, 2-0
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 1 Marie-Louise de Baufremont, wife of Prince Jean de Merode of Netherlands, born in Paris, France (d. 1955)
- Mar 4 Helen Hellwig, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1894), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1960)
- Mar 5 Arthur van Schendel, Dutch writer (Het fregatschip Johanna Maria - The frigate Johanna Maria), born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies (d. 1946)
- Mar 5 Henry Travers [Travers John Heagerty], British stage and screen character actor (It's A Wonderful Life; Mrs. Miniver; Bells of St Mary), born in Prudhoe, Northumberland, England (d. 1965)
- Mar 9 Richard Ohlsson, Swedish composer, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1940)
- Mar 12 Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer, mostly of operettas (Bruder Straubinger; The Golden Mistress), born in Hernals, Austria (d. 1949)
- Mar 14 Anton Philips, Co-Founder of Royal Philips Electronics N.V., born in Zaltbommel, Gelderland, Netherlands (d. 1951)
- Mar 14 Mary Carr, American actress (Forbidden Trail, Pack Up Your Troubles), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1973)
- Mar 15 Eugène Fiset, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1951)
- Mar 15 Harold L. Ickes, American government official and politician (responsible for implementing the New Deal under FDR), born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania (d. 1952)
- Mar 17 Kincsem, Hungarian horse that never lost a race, born in Kisbér, Hungary (d. 1877)
- Mar 17 Stephen Samuel Wise, American Rabbi and President of Zionist Org of America, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1949)
- Mar 18 Jimmy 'Nixey' Callahan, American baseball pitcher, outfielder and manager (Chicago White Sox; first AL no-hitter 1902), born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts (d. 1934)
- Mar 18 Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian philosopher, born in Kiev, Russian Empire (d. 1948)
- Mar 20 Börries von Münchhausen, German poet and Nazi activist, born in Hildesheim, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1945)
- Mar 22 Ellen Glasgow, American novelist (Pulitzer Prize for the Novel 1942), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 1945)
Harry Houdini (1874-1926)
Mar 24 Famous magician and escape artist, born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Mar 26 American poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken), born in San Francisco, California
- Mar 29 Ioannis Georgiadis, Greek fencer (Olympic gold sabre 1896), born in Tripoli, Greece (d. 1960)
- Mar 29 Lou Henry Hoover, US First Lady (1929-33) and wife of the 31st President, Herbert Hoover, born in Waterloo, Iowa (d. 1944)
Famous Weddings
Ulysses S. Grant
Mar 21 Ulysses S. Grant's daughter Nellie marries in the White House
Famous Deaths
Millard Fillmore (1800-1874)
Mar 8 13th President of the United States (Whig: 1850-53), dies at 74
- Mar 11 Charles Sumner, American politician, Senator Massachusetts (1851-74) and anti-slavery advocate, dies at 63
- Mar 14 Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer (published the most complete map of the Moon of the time, Mappa Selenographica, 4 vol. with Wilhelm Beer), dies at 79
- Mar 20 Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish waltz composer, and musical director (Tivoli Gardens, 1843-72), dies at 63
- Mar 28 Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish-German astronomer (Hansen hypothesis), dies at 78
