Historical Events
- Mar 3 American Protective Association forms (anti-Catholic) in Clinton Iowa
Helen Keller Begins Lessons
Mar 3 Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6-year-old blind-deaf Helen Keller
- Mar 7 North Carolina State University is founded by the North Carolina General Assembly.
- Mar 8 Everett Horton, CT, patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes
- Mar 15 1st salaried fish & game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan)
- Mar 24 Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)
- Mar 25 49th Grand National: Bill Daniels aboard 20/1 chance Gamecock wins by 3 lengths from Savoyard
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 4 Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress (The Magic Cloak), born in Grand Rapids, Michigan (d. 1953)
- Mar 5 Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer, cellist, guitarist, and conductor (Bachianas Brasileiras), born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (d. 1959)
- Mar 6 David Imboden, American silent film actor (King of Kings), muralist, and theater director, born in Kansas City, Kansas (d. 1974)
- Mar 6 Henri Gagnon, Canadian organist (Notre-Dame Basilica (Quebec), 1915-1961), composer (Rondel de Thibaut de Champagne), and music educator, born in Quebec City, Quebec (d. 1961)
- Mar 7 Heino Eller, Estonian composer (Koit (Dawn); Videvik (Twilight)), pedagogue (Tallinn Conservatory, 1940 -70), and teacher of Arvo Pärt, born in Tartu, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (now Estonia) (d. 1970)
- Mar 9 Fritz Lenz, German geneticist and Nazi eugenics influencer, born in Pflugrade, Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia (now Redło, Poland) (d. 1976)
- Mar 9 Phil Mead, English cricket batsman (17 Tests, 4 x 100, HS 182no; Hampshire CCC, MCC, Suffolk CCC), born in Battersea, England (d. 1958)
- Mar 10 Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Japanese martial artist and Grandmaster of Ninjutsu (d. 1972)
- Mar 11 Raoul Walsh, American film director (Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry), (d. 1980)
- Mar 13 Carlos Isamitt, Chilean composer, born in Rengo, Chile (d. 1974)
- Mar 14 George Creten, Belgian sculptor and painter, born in Saint-Gilles, Belgium (d. 1966)
- Mar 14 Lawrance Collingwood, British composer, and opera conductor, born in London, England (d. 1982)
- Mar 14 Sylvia Beach, American publisher and bookseller (Shakespeare and Company), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1962)
- Mar 15 Marjorie Merriweather Post, American socialite and businesswoman (d. 1973)
- Mar 18 Frank Moran, American heavyweight boxer and film actor, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1967)
- Mar 21 Edwin Scharff, German sculptor, and educator, deemed "entartete" (degenerate) by Nazi regime, born in Neu-Ulm, Gemrany (d. 1955)
- Mar 22 Chico Marx [Leonard], American comedian (Marx Brothers), born in New York City (d. 1961)
- Mar 23 Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (Haydn catalog), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1983)
- Mar 23 Felix Yussupov, Russian aristocrat, best known for participating in the assassination of Grigori Rasputin, born in Moika Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1967)
- Mar 23 Juan Gris, Spanish cubist painter (Still Life Before an Open Window), born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1927)
- Mar 23 Sidney Hillman, Lithuanian-American union leader (Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union; Congress of Industrial Organizations), born in Žagarė, Russian Empire (now Lithuania) (d. 1946)
- Mar 24 Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (The Bell Boy, Moonshine, Keystone comedies), born in Smith Center, Kansas (d. 1933)
- Mar 28 Rudolf Frederik Willem Boskaljon, musician and composer, born in Curacao, Portugal (d. 1969)
- Mar 30 Albert Termote, Flemish-Dutch sculptor of equestrian bronzes (Charles the Great), born in Lichtervelde, Belgium (d. 1978)
- Mar 31 Jose Maria Usandizaga, Spanish Basque composer (Mendi Mendiyan - High in the Mountains), born in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain (d. 1915)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 2 August W. Eichler, German botanist (developed a new system of classification of plants to reflect the concept of evolution), dies at 47
- Mar 2 Wilhelm Troszel, Polish operatic bass, composer, and voice teacher, dies at 63
- Mar 8 Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman (b. 1813)
- Mar 8 James Buchanan Eads, American engineer and inventor (Eads Bridge-St Louis), dies at 66
- Mar 8 Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian/critic, dies at 73 (b. 1813)
- Mar 16 Emanuel Kania, Polish composer, dies at 59
- Mar 24 Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic, dies at 49
- Mar 28 Ditler Monrad, Danish politician and bishop (Council President of Denmark 1863-64), dies at 75
