Historical Events
- Mar 2 British vice admiral Sackville Hamilton Carden begins bombardment of Dardanelles forts
- Mar 2 Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine
Elihu Root Retires
Mar 3 Elihu Root finishes his tenure as United States Senator from New York after choosing not to seek re-election
- Mar 3 US National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) created, the predecessor of NASA
- Mar 5 World War I: The LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend.
Premier Venizelos Fired
Mar 6 Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos
- Mar 8 1st US navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned
- Mar 10 British Army captures Neuve Chapelle, Belgium
- Mar 11 The British declare a blockade of all German ports
- Mar 13 Brooklyn Robins manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substitutes a grapefruit
- Mar 14 German cruiser Dresden scuttled off Más a Tierra, Chile, having been pursued by the Royal Navy after the Battle of the Falkland Islands, with her engines worn out and virtually no coal
- Mar 16 British battle cruisers Inflexible & Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelles
- Mar 16 Federal Trade Commission organizes
- Mar 18 Failed British attack in Dardanelles
- Mar 18 French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed
- Mar 19 Pluto photographed for 1st time (although unknown at the time)
- Mar 19 VI Summer (Modern) Olympic Games: IOC President Pierre de Coubertin writes to Associated Press indicating 1916 Berlin Games won't take place because of WWI
- Mar 23 Zion Mule Corp formed by the British Army
- Mar 25 1st submarine disaster; a US F-4 sinks off Hawaii, killing 21
- Mar 25 German U boat torpedoes Netherlands merchant ship Medea
- Mar 26 77th Grand National: legendary jockey Jack Anthony wins his second of 3 GN's aboard 100/8 bet Ally Sloper
- Mar 26 Stanley Cup Final, Denman Arena, Vancouver, BC: Barney Stanley scores 5 goals as Vancouver Millionaires beat Ottawa Senators, 12-3 for a 3-0 sweep of first non-challenge series; Vancouver first PCHA champions
Typhoid Mary Arrested
Mar 27 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and returned to quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five years evading health authorities and causing several further outbreaks of typhoid
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 1 Joop Klant, Dutch economist and author, born in Warmenhuizen, Netherlands (d. 1994)
- Mar 2 Lona Andre [Launa Anderson], American actress (Death in the Air, Case of Baby Sitter), born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 1992)
- Mar 4 Carlos Surinach, Spanish-American composer, most notably of ballet music (Feast of Ashes), born in Barcelona, Spain (d. 1997)
- Mar 5 Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician (d. 2002)
- Mar 6 Benny de Weille, German swing jazz clarinetist and bandleader, born in Lübeck, Germany (d. 1977)
- Mar 6 Leonard Tose, American trucking magnate and owner of NFL Philadelphia Eagles (1969-85), born in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania (d. 2003)
- Mar 6 Mohammed Burhanuddin, Indian Islamic religious leader (52nd Da'i al Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohrans), born in Surat, British India (d. 2014)
- Mar 6 Pete Gray [Wyshner], American baseball one-armed outfielder (St Louis Browns), born in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania (d. 2002)
- Mar 7 Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician, French Prime Minister of France (1969-72), and 3-time President of the National Assembly, born in Paris, France (d. 2000)
- Mar 8 Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete, actor, and singer (Me tulemme taas, Rion yö), born in Pirkkala, Finland (d. 1979)
- Mar 8 Vivien John, English painter and daughter of Augustus John, born in Dorset (d. 1994)
- Mar 10 Charles Groves, English conductor (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, 1963-77), born in London (d. 1992)
- Mar 10 Harry Bertoia, Italian-born American artist and furniture designer (d. 1978)
- Mar 11 J. C. R. Licklider, American computer scientist and Internet pioneer (d. 1990)
- Mar 11 Karl Krolow, German poet and translator, born in Hannover (d. 1999)
- Mar 11 Vijay Hazare, Indian cricket batsman and captain (30 Tests, 7 x 100, HS 164no; Maharashtra, Central India, Baroda, Holkar), born in Sangli, India (d. 2004)
- Mar 12 Alberto Burri, Italian abstract painter, born in Città di Castello, Italy (d. 1995)
- Mar 12 Red Byron, American auto racer (NASCAR Strictly Stock Series C'ship 1949), born in Plasterco, Virginia (d. 1960)
- Mar 14 Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist, conductor, educator, and composer (McGill Chamber Orchestra), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2005)
- Mar 14 Eunice Katunda, Brazilian pianist and composer, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (d. 1990)
- Mar 14 Kenneth Rowntree, British artist, born in Scarborough, England (d. 1997)
- Mar 15 David Schoenbrun, American journalist (CBS broadcast bureau head), born in New York City (d. 1988)
- Mar 15 Richard Ward, African American actor (Death of a Salesman, Beacon Hill), born in Glenside Pennsylvania (d. 1979)
- Mar 17 Hans Namuth, German-born photographer (Todos Santos, Guatemala), born in Essen, Germany (d. 1990)
- Mar 17 Henry Bumstead, American art director (d. 2006)
- Mar 17 William "Bill" Roycroft, Australian equestrian 3 day (Olympic bronze 1976), born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 2011)
- Mar 18 Richard Condon, American author (The Manchurian Candidate), born in New York City (d. 1996)
- Mar 19 Norman Yardley, English cricket batsman and captain (20 Tests; Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1948), born in Barnsley, Yorkshire (d. 1989)
- Mar 19 Patricia Morison, American actress (Peyton Place, Dressed to Kill, Kiss Me, Kate The King and I), born in New York City (d. 2018)
- Mar 19 Robert G. Cole, American Paratrooper of the 101st, 502nd division (d. 1944)
- Mar 20 Rudolf Kirchschläger, President of Austria (d. 2000)
- Mar 20 Sister Rosetta Tharpe [Nubin], American gospel and R&B singer, songwriter, and electric guitarist ("This Train"; "Down By The Riverside"), born in Cotton Plant, Arkansas, (d. 1973)
- Mar 20 Stan Spence, American baseball center fielder (MLB All-Star 1942, 44, 46, 47; Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, St. Louis Browns), born in South Portsmouth, Kentucky (d. 1983)
- Mar 20 Sviatoslav Richter, Soviet pianist considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, Russian Empire (d. 1997)
- Mar 22 Fen Cresswell, New Zealand cricket slow bower (3 Tests, 13 wickets; Wellington, Central Districts), born in Wanganui, New Zealand (d. 1966)
- Mar 22 Forest 'Bud' Sagendorf, American cartoonist (Popeye), born in Wenatchee, Washington (d. 1994)
- Mar 22 Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and writer (The Secret Agent's Blunder), born in Petrograd, Russian Empire (d. 2005)
- Mar 23 Francis Berry, British poet and academic (Shakespearean scholar), born in Ipoh, Malaya (d. 2006)
- Mar 23 Vasily Zaitsev, Soviet World War II hero (d. 1991)
- Mar 24 Gorgeous George, American professional wrestler (d. 1963)
- Mar 25 Dick Winslow, American actor (Tom Sawyer, Mutiny on the Bounty), born in Jennings, Louisiana (d. 1991)
- Mar 26 Flip Phillips [Joseph Filippelli], American jazz and swing tenor saxophonist and clarinet player (Jazz at the Philharmonic; Woody Herman), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2001)
- Mar 27 Robert Lockwood Jr., American blues guitarist, born in Turkey Scratch, Arkansas (d. 2006)
- Mar 28 Jay Livingston, American composer ("Buttons & Bows"; "Mona Lisa"; "Tammy"), born in McDonald, Pennsylvania (d. 2001)
- Mar 28 Ray Emery, New Zealand cricket all-rounder (2 Tests, 2 wickets, BB 2/52; Auckland, Canterbury), born in Auckland (d. 1982)
- Mar 28 Selma Rubin, American environmental activist (Earth Day co-founder), born in Toledo, Ohio (d. 2012)
- Mar 29 George Chisholm, Scottish jazz trombonist, born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1997)
- Mar 31 Eliseo Pajaro, Filipino composer (The Life of Lam-Ling; Marilag Fantasy), pedagogue, and school administrator, born in Badoc, Philippines (d. 1984)
- Mar 31 Henry Morgan, American comedian and TV panelist (I've Got a Secret, Arena), born in New York City (d. 1994)
- Mar 31 Jack Perry, English businessman and the 1st Western businessperson to visit Communist China, born in London (d. 1996) [1]
- Mar 31 Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese military man (d. 1997)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 4 William Willett, British inventor of Daylight Saving Time, dies of influenza at 58
- Mar 11 Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (Robbery Under Arms), dies at 88
- Mar 13 Sergei Witte, 1st Prime Minister of Russia (1905-06), dies at 65
- Mar 17 Walter Crane, English painter, cartoonist and illustrator (The Lady of Shalott), dies at 69
- Mar 19 Antonio Agliardi, Italian diplomat and Roman Catholic cardinal, dies at 82
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915)
Mar 21 American mechanical engineer and the father of scientific management, dies of influenza at 59
