Historical Events
- Mar 3 1st cattle tuberculosis test in US made, Villa Nova, Penn
- Mar 11 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Massachusetts)
- Mar 15 1st escalator patented by American engineer Jesse Reno - first used at Old Iron Pier, Coney Island, New York City [1]
- Mar 15 New York State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)
- Mar 18 Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)
- Mar 19 3 brothers Hearne play in same Test Cricket England v South Africa (Cape Town)
- Mar 20 54th Grand National: Capt. Roddy Owen wins aboard 20/1 chance Father O'Flynn
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 1 Billy Coutu, Canadian ice hockey defenceman (Stanley Cup 1924; Montreal Canadiens; only player banned from NHL for life, attacked referee 1927), born in North Bay, Ontario (d. 1977)
- Mar 1 Ryunosuke Akutagawa 'father of the Japanese short story', Japanese writer (Rashomon in Kappa), born in Kyōbashi, Japan (d. 1927)
- Mar 2 Felix Bressart, German actor (Ninotchka, Escape, Crossroads), born in Eydtkuhnen, East Prussia, Germany (d. 1949)
- Mar 3 Edmund Lowe, American actor (Black Sheep, Good Sam, Dillinger, Hot Pepper), born in San Jose, California (d. 1971)
- Mar 3 Rui Coelho, Portuguese composer, born in Alcacer do Sal, Portugal (d. 1986)
- Mar 8 Mátyás Rákosi, Hungarian party leader and Prime Minister (1952-53), born in Ada, Serbia (d. 1971)
- Mar 9 David Garnett, English novelist and editor (Lady into Fox), born in Brighton, East Sussex (d. 1981)
- Mar 9 Frank Puglia, Italian actor (Black Orchid, Jungle Book), born in Sicily, Italy (d. 1975)
- Mar 9 Josef Weinheber, Austrian poet and writer (Adel und Untergang), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1945)
- Mar 9 Vita Sackville-West, English novelist, poet (The Land) and gardener (Sissinghurst), born in Knole House, Kent (d. 1962)
Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)
Mar 10 Swiss composer (King David; Pacific 231), born in Le Havre, France
- Mar 10 Eva Turner, British operatic soprano, born in Werneth, Oldham, England (d. 1990)
- Mar 10 Gregory La Cava, American director (d. 1952)
- Mar 13 Alec Rowley, English composer, born in London, England (d. 1958)
- Mar 13 Janet Flanner, American journalist (New Yorker), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1978)
- Mar 15 James Basevi Ord, US army officer (d. 1938)
- Mar 16 César Vallejo, Peruvian-French poet and novelist (Los Heraldos Negros; Trilce; Russia in 1931), born in Santiago de Chuco, Peru (d. 1938)
- Mar 16 James Petrillo, American labor leader (American Federation of Musicians president, 1940-58), and radio orchestra music director (WBBM Chicago), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1984)
- Mar 17 Sayed Darwish, Egyptian singer-songwriter and "father of Egyptian popular music" (Ana Haweet), born in Kôm el-Dikka, Alexandria, Egypt (d. 1923)
- Mar 18 Robert P.T. Coffin, American poet ("Strange Holiness", Pulitzer Prize, 1936), writer, and editor (Yankee Magazine), born in Brunswick, Maine (d. 1955)
- Mar 19 James Van Fleet, American US Army General (served during WWI, WWII, and Korean War), born in Fort Lee, New Jersey (d. 1992)
- Mar 19 Robert Denzler, Swiss concert pianist, conductor, champion of contemporary music, and composer, born in Zurich, Switzerland (d. 1972)
- Mar 19 Siegfried T. Bok, Dutch neurobiologist and anatomist (Cybernetica) (d. 1964)
- Mar 25 Andy Clyde, Scottish actor (The Real McCoys, Lassie), born in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland (d. 1967)
- Mar 27 Ferde Grofé, American pianist, composer (Grand Canyon Suite), and arranger (Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue), born in New York City (d. 1972)
- Mar 27 Thorne Smith, American sci-fi author (Topper, Rain in the Doorway, Stray Lamb), born in Annapolis, Maryland (d. 1934)
- Mar 28 Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist (Nobel 1938), born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1968)
- Mar 28 Tom Maguire, Irish republican (d. 1993)
- Mar 29 Jozsef Mindszenty [József Pehm], Hungarian cardinal who opposed fascism and communism in Hungary, born in Csehimindszent, Hungary (d. 1975)
- Mar 30 Erhard Milch, German field marshal (d. 1972)
- Mar 30 Erwin Panofsky, German-American Jewish art historian and iconologist (Early Netherlandish Painting), born in Hannover, Germany (d. 1968)
- Mar 30 Fortunato Depero, Italian artist (d. 1960)
- Mar 31 Stanislav Maczek, Polish general, tank commander and war hero (WWII Battle of Falaise, Normandy invasion), born in Lwòw, Poland (d. 1994)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 1 Archibald Scott Couper, Scottish chemist (advances in chemical theory including bonding of carbon atoms), dies of diabetes at 60
- Mar 10 Otto von Rees, Dutch Governor-General of Dutch East Indies (1884-88), dies at 69
- Mar 16 Samuel F. Miller, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York), dies at 64
- Mar 20 Arthur Goring Thomas, English composer, dies at 41
- Mar 26 Anton Wallerstein, German composer, dies at 78
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Mar 26 American poet (Leaves of Grass) and volunteer nurse during the Civil War, dies of pneumonia at 72
