Historical Events
- Mar 1 Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided
- Mar 2 1st transport from Westerbork Netherlands to Sobibor concentration camp
- Mar 3 Battle of the Bismarck Sea: Australian and American air forces devastate Japanese navy convoy
- Mar 3 Bethnal Green Tube disaster: 173 die in a stampede sheltering in an air raid, UK's greatest loss of civilian life in WWII (details censored till January 20 1945)
- Mar 3 F Ryerson & Cohn Claues' "Harriet" premieres in NYC
15th Academy Awards
Mar 4 15th Academy Awards: "Mrs. Miniver", James Cagney & Greer Garson win
- Mar 4 Transport #50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek/Sobibor
- Mar 5 Anti-fascist strikes in Italy
- Mar 5 RAF bombs Essen Germany
Battle of Medenine
Mar 6 Battle of Medenine: Erwin Rommel's Axis forces counterattack in North Africa to delay an attack by the British on the Mareth Line in Tunisia
Patton in Tunisia
Mar 7 US General George S. Patton arrives in Djebel Kouif, Tunisia
- Mar 8 335 allied bombers attack German city of Nuremberg, a centre for military production
- Mar 8 Limited gambling legalized in Mexico
- Mar 8 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
- Mar 9 Delft, Netherlands anti-Nazi resistance group Pahud de Mortanges wiped out
- Mar 9 Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps
- Mar 11 Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands
- Mar 12 Soviet troops liberate Wjasma
- Mar 13 Baseball approves official ball (with cork & balata)
Attempt on Hitler
Mar 13 Failed assassin attempt on Adolf Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight
- Mar 13 Frank Dixon wins Knights of Columbus mile (4:09.6)
Kraków Ghetto Liquidated
Mar 13 Nazis liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków; Oskar Schindler with advance information, saves his workers by keeping them in his factory overnight
- Mar 15 Allied reconnaissance flight over Java
- Mar 15 Red Army evacuates Kharkov
- Mar 16 Ships Elin K (Norway) and Zaanland (Netherlands) torpedoed by German U-boats and sink
- Mar 17 Aldemarin (Ned) & Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed & sinks
- Mar 17 F. Hugh Herbert's "Kiss & Tell" premieres in NYC
- Mar 17 Physician Willem J. Kolff performs the world's first 'hemodialysis' using his artificial kidney machine, however the treatment is unsuccessful and the patient dies, in the Netherlands
- Mar 18 British merchant vessel "Canadian Star" is torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic by German U-boat U-221, 34 die with 54 survivors [1]
- Mar 18 Red Army evacuates Belgorod
- Mar 18 Ships James Oglethorpe (US) & Terkolei (Netherlands) torpedoed and sinks
- Mar 19 British 8th army opens assault on Mareth line, Tunisia
- Mar 19 Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard
LaMotta Defeats Reeves
Mar 19 In their third match, Jake LaMotta finally defeats Jimmy Reeves by knocking him out in the sixth round
- Mar 20 German U-384 bombed & sinks
- Mar 21 Assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler fails
- Mar 21 Massacre of the town of Kalavryta, Greece by German Nazi troops.
- Mar 22 Dutch SS police chief Hans Albin Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children
- Mar 22 Dutch work week extended to 54 hour
- Mar 22 Obligatory work for woman ends in Belgium
- Mar 23 German counterattack on US lines in Tunisia
- Mar 25 97% of all Dutch physicians strike against Nazi registration
Sanshiro Sugata
Mar 25 Akira Kurosawa's debut film "Sanshiro Sugata" is released
The Durante-Moore Show
Mar 25 Jimmy Durante & Garry Moore premiere on radio
- Mar 26 Battle of Komandorski Islands, naval battle between American navy and Japanese Imperial forces in the Pacific Ocean, ends inconclusively
- Mar 26 Elsie S. Ott is 1st woman to be awarded US Air Force Medal
Blue Ribbon Town
Mar 27 Blue Ribbon Town (with Groucho Marx) 1st heard on CBS Radio
- Mar 27 WWII: Dutch resistance fighters burn and bomb the Amsterdam civil registry office in effort to destroy records and prevent the Nazis from identifying Jews and others marked for persecution; about 15% of records destroyed and 12 of the 19 known participants were tried and executed by the Nazi occupiers
- Mar 27 WWII: US begins assault on Fondouk Pass, Tunisia
- Mar 29 Meat (784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI's), butter & cheese rationed in US during WW II
- Mar 30 5th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Wyoming beats Georgetown, 46-34; Cowboys' point guard Ken Sailors is named tournament Most Outstanding Player
- Mar 30 British 1st army recaptures Sejenane
- Mar 31 Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical "Oklahoma!" opens at the St. James Theatre, NYC; runs for 2,212 performances
- Mar 31 US errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 1 Akinori Nakayama, Japanese gymnast (6 x Olympic gold 1968, 72; 7 x World C'ships gold 1966, 70), born in Nagoya, Japan
- Mar 1 Benjamin W Jipcho, Mt Elgon Kenya, 3K steeplechase (Olympic silver 1972)
- Mar 1 Franz Hohler, Swiss writer, born in Biel
- Mar 1 Gil Amelio, American venture capitalist
- Mar 1 José Ángel Iribar, Spanish soccer goalkeeper and manager (49 caps; Athletic Bilbao), born in Zarautz, Spain
- Mar 1 Mauro Checcoli, Italian 3 day equestrian (Olympic gold 1964)
- Mar 1 Piet Veerman, Dutch rock guitarist and singer (The Cats -"Times Were When"; Solo - "Sailin' Home"), born in Volendam, Netherlands
- Mar 1 Rashid Sunyaev, Russian physicist
- Mar 1 Richard H. Price, American physicist
- Mar 1 Wolfgang Scheidel, German DR, luge (Olympic gold 1972)
- Mar 2 Gordon Black, English industrialist
- Mar 2 Juan Carlos Masnik, Uruguayan soccer defender (26 caps; NY Skyliners, Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, Nacional, NY Cosmos), born in Soriano, Uruguay (d. 2021)
- Mar 2 Peter Straub, American award-winning fantasy and horror author, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Mar 2 Robert Williams (often Robt. Williams) American painter, cartoonist (Zap Comix), and founder of Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine, born in Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Mar 2 Rosa DeLauro, American politician (Rep-D-Connecticut, 1991-), born in New Haven, Connecticut
- Mar 2 Stephen Dickman, American composer and librettist (Tibetan Dreams; Rabbi Nathan's Prayer), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Mar 2 Tony Meehan, British rock drummer (Vipers; Drifters: Shadows), born in Hampstead, London (d. 2005)
- Mar 3 Roger Swaybill, actor/writer (Porky's II, Breaking Point)
- Mar 4 Zoltán Jeney, Hungarian composer and educator (Franz Liszt Academy, 1995-2019), born in Szolnok, Hungary (d. 2019)
- Mar 5 Billy Backus, American boxer
- Mar 5 Hugh Scully, British TV presenter (The Antiques Roadshow), born in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire (d. 2015)
- Mar 5 Lucio Battisti, Italian pop singer and composer, born in Poggio Bustone, Italy (d. 1998)
- Mar 7 Billy MacMillan, Canadian NHL hockey right wing, 1970-77 (Toronto Maple Leafs, Atlanta Flames, NY Islanders), and coach, 1980-84 (Colorado Rockies/New Jersey Devils), born in Charlottetown, Canada (d. 2023)
- Mar 7 Chris White, British rock singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer (The Zombies - "She's Not There"; "Time Of The Season"), born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, England
- Mar 7 Leon Sylvers III, American R&B, disco, and funk multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer (The Sylers), born in Memphis, Tennessee
- Mar 7 Rick Redman, American College Football HOF linebacker (University of Washington; AFL All-Star 1967; San Diego Chargers), born in Portland, Oregon (d. 2022)
- Mar 8 Gayla Peevey, American singer ("I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas"), and songwriter, born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Lynn Redgrave (1943-2010)
Mar 8 British-American actress (Gods and Monsters, Georgy Girl), born in London, England
Bobby Fischer (1943-2008)
Mar 9 American chess player (world champion 1972-75), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Mar 9 Charles Gibson, American television journalist (Good Morning America), born in Evanston, Illinois
- Mar 9 Trish Van Devere [Patricia Louise Dressel], American actress (The Changeling), born in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
- Mar 10 Alfred Whitford 'Fred' Lerdahl, American composer (Arches), pedagogue, and music theorist, born in Madison, Wisconsin
- Mar 10 Angelique Pettyjohn, [Dorothy Lee Perrins], American actress (Clambake; Repo Man), and burlesque queen, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1992)
- Mar 10 Robert Allworth, Australian composer (A Different Time, A Different Place), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 2017)
- Mar 10 Rodney Gould, British motorcycle road racer (FIM 250cc World C'ship 1970; 10 x GP wins), born in Banbury, England (d. 2024)
- Mar 10 Sandra Palmer, American golfer (Titleholders Championship 1972, US Open 1975), born in Fort Worth, Texas
- Mar 10 Stephen Montague, American composer, born in Syracuse, New York
- Mar 13 André Téchiné, French director and screenwriter (Scene of the Crime, Rendez-Vous), born in Valence-d'Agen, Tarn-et-Garonne, France
- Mar 14 Jim Pons, American rock bassist (Turtles: Mothers of Invention), born in Santa Monica, California
- Mar 15 Brenda Scott, American actress (Midge - Road West), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
- Mar 15 David Cronenberg, director (Shivers, Fly, Brood), born in Toronto, Ontario
- Mar 15 Sly Stone [Sylvester Stewart] American funk musician (Sly & The Family Stone - "Everyday People"; "Dance To The Music"), born in Denton, Texas
- Mar 16 Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (d. 2005)
- Mar 16 Ursula Goodenough, American biologicst, Evolutionary Scholar, author and educator, born in New York City
- Mar 17 Don Mitchell, American actor (Mark-Ironside), born in Houston, Texas (d. 2013)
- Mar 17 Jim Weatherly, American pop and country songwriter ("Midnight Train To Georgia"), born in Pontotoc, Mississippi (d. 2021)
- Mar 17 Tony Newman, English drummer (Sounds Incorporated, T.Rex), born in Southampton, England
- Mar 18 Dennis Linde, American songwriter ("Burning Love"; "Goodbye Earl"), born in Abilene, Texas (d. 2006)
- Mar 18 Kevin Dobson, American actor (Kojak, Knots Landing, Shannon), born in Queens, New York (d. 2020)
- Mar 18 Nobuko Imai, Japanese classical solo and chamber violist, and educator, born in Tokyo, Japan
- Mar 18 Toula Grivas, Greek actress
- Mar 19 James Wynne, American physicist and co-inventor of excimer laser surgery at IBM, born in Brooklyn, New York [1]
- Mar 19 Mario Molina, Mexican chemist, 1995 Nobel Prize for Chemistry (CFC's effect on the ozone layer), born in Mexico City (d. 2020)
- Mar 19 Mario Monti, Italian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Italy (2011-13), born in Varese, Italy
- Mar 19 Vern Schuppan, Australian racing driver (won 1983 24 Hours Le Mans), born in Booleroo Centre, South Australia
- Mar 20 Gerard Malanga, American poet and photographer
- Mar 20 Naima Neidre, Estonian graphic artist
- Mar 20 Paul Junger Witt, American TV and film producer (Brian's Song; Soap; The Golden Girls; Dead Poets Society), born in New York City (d. 2018)
- Mar 21 (Victor) "Vivian" Stanshall, British singer and comic songwriter (Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - "I'm The Urban Spaceman"; Magical Mystery Tour), born in Shillingford, England (d. 1995)
- Mar 21 Alan Kalter, American television announcer (Late Show with David Letterman, 1995-2015), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2021)
- Mar 21 Antal Dunai, Hungarian soccer player (Olympic gold 1968)
- Mar 21 Hartmut Haenchen, German conductor (Netherlands Philharmonic, 1986-99), born in Dresden, Germany
- Mar 22 George Benson, American Grammy Award-winning jazz guitarist and singer ("Breezin'"; "This Masquerade"), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Mar 22 Joseph Schwantner, American composer (Aftertones of Infinity), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Mar 22 Keith Relf, British blues-rock singer and harmonica player (The Yardbirds - "For Your Love"; Renaissance, 1969-71), born in Richmond, England (d. 1976)
- Mar 23 Gail Goodrich, NBA star (Lakers, Suns)
- Mar 23 Lee May "The Big Bopper", American Major League Baseball 1st baseman, born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 2017)
- Mar 23 Mohammad al-Sadr, Iraqi Shiite cleric and leader who called for government reform, born in al-Kazimiya, Iraq (d. 1999) [1]
- Mar 23 Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish Sami writer (The Sun, My Father) and musician, born in Enontekiö, Finland (d. 2001)
- Mar 24 Marika Kilius, German FR, ice skating pair (Olympic silver 1960, 64)
- Mar 24 Martin Lancaster, American politician (Rep-D-NC 1987-95), born in Wayne, North Carolina
- Mar 25 Paul Michael Glaser, American actor (Starsky-Starsky & Hutch), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Mar 25 Pavel Lednev, Russian pentathlete (Olympic gold 1980)
Bob Woodward (81 years old)
Mar 26 American author and investigative reporter (Watergate, CIA crimes), born in Geneva Illinois
- Mar 27 Mike Curtis, American NFL linebacker (Super Bowl 1971; Pro Bowl 1968, 70, 71, 74; First-team All-Pro 1968, 69; Baltimore Colts), born in Rockville, Maryland (d. 2020)
- Mar 27 Milton Robert Carr, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1975-81, 83-95), born in Janesville, Wisconsin
- Mar 27 Phil Frank, American cartoonist (Farley, The Elderberries comics), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2007)
- Mar 28 Conchata Ferrell, American actress (LA Law, Two and a Half Men), born in Loudendale, West Virginia (d. 2020)
- Mar 28 Mike Newell, English director and producer (Bad Blood, Awakening, Amazing Grace & Chuck), born in St. Albans, Hertfordshire
- Mar 28 Richard Eyre, English film, theatre, television and opera director (National Theatre), born in Barnstaple, Devon, England
- Mar 29 Chad Allan [Allan Kowbel], Canadian pop-rock singer and musician (The Expressions/The Guess Who, 1962-65; Brave Belt), and television personality, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba (d. 2023) [1]
- Mar 29 Eric Idle, English comedian, writer, and actor (Monty Python; The Rutles; Nuns of The Run), born in South Shields, England
John Major (81 years old)
Mar 29 British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1990-97), born in Carshalton, Surrey, England
- Mar 29 Vangelis [Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou], Greek composer, keyboardist, and Academy Award winner (Chariots of Fire), born in Agria, Greece (d. 2022) [1]
- Mar 30 Jay Traynor, American pop singer (Jay and the Americans, 1960-62 - "She Cried"), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2014)
- Mar 30 Ken Forssi, American bassist (Love), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1998)
- Mar 31 Al Goodman, American pop-soul singer (Ray, Goodman, Brown - "Special Lady"), born in Jackson, Mississippi (d. 2010)
- Mar 31 Christopher [Ronald] Walken, American actor (The Deer Hunter, Brainstorm), born in New York City
- Mar 31 Roy Andersson, Swedish film director (A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence), born in Gothenburg, Sweden
Famous Weddings
Lana Turner
Mar 14 American movie actress Lana Turner (22) and American actor and restaurateur Steve Crane remarry in Tijuana, Mexico; divorce in 1944
John Steinbeck
Mar 29 American author John Steinbeck (41) weds second wife Gwyndolyn Conger; divorce 1948
Famous Deaths
- Mar 2 Alexandre Yersin, Swiss French bacteriologist (discovered bubonic plague bacillus), dies at 79
- Mar 4 Nikolaos Politis, Greek foreign minister and diplomat (Greek representative League of Nations), dies at 71
- Mar 9 Oskar Hêks, Czech marathon runner and anti-fascist, murdered in the gas chamber of Auschwitz extermination camp at 35
- Mar 10 Lawrence Binyon, English poet (For the Fallen), dies at 73
- Mar 10 Otto Modersohn, German landscape painter (Worpswede artist colony), dies at 78
- Mar 10 Tully Marshall, American actor (Let's Go, Red Dust), dies at 78
- Mar 12 Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor, dies at 73
- Mar 13 J. P. Morgan, Jr. [John Pierpont Morgan, Jr], American financier and son of J.P. Morgan, Sr., (J.P. Morgan & Co.), dies of a stroke at 75
- Mar 13 Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (b. 1898)
- Mar 14 Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Dutch poet, classicist, and mystic (Voices, Carmina), dies at 73
- Mar 19 Frank Nitti [Francesco Nitto], Italian-American gangster, dies from self-inflicted gunshots at 57
- Mar 19 Vicente Ripollés, Spanish composer, dies at 75
- Mar 23 Andre Lichtenberger, French Sudan writer (Le Petit Roi), dies at 72
- Mar 23 Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger, composer, dies at 47
- Mar 26 Ben Lindsey, American judge and social reformer, dies at 73
- Mar 26 Lillien Jane Martin, American psychologist who founded the world's 1st gerontology clinic in San Francisco, dies at 91
- Mar 27 Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, Russian test pilot (world speed record in BI-1 rocket plane), but killed in its crash at 35
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Mar 28 Russian-American piano virtuoso, conductor, and composer (Aleko; Piano Concerto No. 3), dies at 69
- Mar 30 Jan Bytnar, Polish activist (b. 1921)
- Mar 30 Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski, Polish activist (b. 1920)
