Historical Events
- Mar 2 US Congress renames the Office of Immigration as the Bureau of Immigration
Resurrection
Mar 4 Gustav Mahler conducts the premiere of his incomplete 2nd Symphony ("Resurrection") in Berlin, Germany, with the Berlin Philharmonic; complete version debuts in December
- Mar 6 England beat Australia to win one of the best cricket series ever, 3-2; Jack Brown hits the fastest 50 in test cricket in 28 mins
- Mar 9 Stanley Cup, Victoria Rink, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Victorias clinches trophy as Montreal HC beats Queens University (Kingston, Ontario), 5-1
- Mar 11 Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks in Straits of Gibraltar, over 400 die
- Mar 18 200 African Americans leave Savannah, Georgia for Liberia
- Mar 19 Los Angeles Railway is established to provide streetcar service
- Mar 22 Auguste & Louis Lumiere show their 1st movie to an invited audience
- Mar 25 Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
- Mar 26 King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day
- Mar 29 57th Grand National: Joe Widger aboard 10/1 chance Wild Man From Borneo wins by 1.5 lengths from Cathal
- Mar 30 British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford and Cambridge boat race
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 1 Duke Keats, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame centre (WCHL First-Team All-Star 1921-26; Edmonton Eskimos; NHL: Chicago Black Hawks), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1972)
- Mar 3 Alexander Voormolen, Dutch composer and music librarian, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1980)
- Mar 3 Juanita Hansen, American actress (Fast Company, Broadway Love), born in Des Moines, Iowa (d. 1961)
- Mar 3 Matthew Ridgway, American general (World War II, Korean War, NATO Supreme Commander) and Chief of Staff of the US Army (1953-55), born in Fort Monroe, Virginia (d. 1993)
- Mar 3 Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and 1st winner of the Nobel prize in economics in 1969, born in Oslo, Norway (d. 1973)
- Mar 3 Robert Gordon, American silent film actor (Hearts and Spangles; King of the Pack), born in Belleville, Kansas (d. 1971)
- Mar 4 Bjarne Brustad, Norwegian composer, born in Oslo, Norway (d. 1978)
- Mar 4 Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator (Count Screwloose), born in The Bronx. New York (d. 1953)
- Mar 5 Fritz Usinger, German writer (Eternal Struggle) (d. 1982)
- Mar 7 Juan Jose Castro, Argentine composer, born in Avellaneda, Argentina (d. 1968)
Shemp Howard (1895-1955)
Mar 11 American actor and comedian (3 Stooges), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Mar 12 William C. Lee, U.S. Army general (d. 1948)
- Mar 14 François Louis Ganshof, Belgian medieval historian, born in Bruges, Belgium (d. 1980)
- Mar 20 Fredric Wertham, German-born psychologist (d. 1981)
- Mar 23 Dane Rudhyar [Daniel Chennevière] French-American composer (Tetragram; Granite), philosopher (The Astrology of Personality), and transcendental painter, born in Paris, France (d. 1985)
- Mar 23 Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (d. 2001)
- Mar 24 Syd Saylor [Leo Sailor], American silent and sound screen character actor (Arizona Days; The Three Mesquiteers), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1962)
- Mar 25 Siegfried Handloser, German military physician (WWI; WWII - Chief of Armed Services Medical Services, 1942-44), and convicted Nazi war criminal, born in Konstanz, Germany (d. 1954)
- Mar 28 Christian Herter, American Republican politician, 59th Governor of Massachusetts (1953-57) and US Secretary of State (1959-61), born in Paris, France (d. 1966)
- Mar 28 Spencer W. Kimball, American 12th President of the Latter-day Saints (1973-1985), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1985)
- Mar 29 Ernst Jünger, German soldier (WWI and WWII), author (Storm of Steel), and entomologist, born in Heidelberg, Germany (d. 1998)
- Mar 30 Jean Giono, French writer (World Chant), born in Manosque, France (d. 1970)
- Mar 31 John Jay McCloy, American lawyer and banker (Secretary of War 1941-45, Chairman Chase Manhattan Bank, President of World Bank 1947-49), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1989)
- Mar 31 Lizzie Miles [Elizabeth Landreaux], Creole American jazz, blues and gospel singer ("Man O'War"), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1963)
- Mar 31 Vardis Fisher, American author (Darkness & Deep), born in Annis, Idaho (d. 1968)
- Mar 31 Zlatko Baloković, Croatian-American concert violinist, born in Zagreb, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1955)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 1 Pauline Musters, Dutch world's smallest woman at 24 inches (61 cm), dies at 19
- Mar 2 Berthe Morisot, French Impressionist painter who helped start the Impressionist movement, dies of pneumonia at 54
- Mar 2 Ismail Pasha, kedive of Egypt (1863-79), dies at 64
- Mar 5 Henry Rawlinson, British army officer and oriental scholar (major role in deciphering cuneiform), dies at 84
- Mar 5 Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), and playwright, dies at 64
- Mar 6 Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (b. 1813)
- Mar 8 Frederick Ellsworth Sickels, American inventor of a valve for steam engines, dies at 75 [1]
- Mar 9 Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (word masochism derived from his name), dies at 59
- Mar 9 Rebecca Lee Crumpler, American physician and medical writer (first African American woman to receive a medical degree), dies at 64 [1]
- Mar 10 Charles Frederick Worth, British fashion designer (House of Worth - Paris), dies of pneumonia at 69
- Mar 12 Henry Eustace McCulloch, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 78
- Mar 12 John H. Balsley, American carpenter and inventor (a practical folding wooden stepladder), dies at 71
- Mar 13 Louise Otto-Peters, German suffragist, women's rights movement activist and author (The Wandering Star), dies at 75
- Mar 17 Adolphe Nibelle, French composer (Le Loup-Garou (The Werewolf)), dies at 69
