March 1

Pre-1600

 * 509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
 * 293 – Emperor Diocletian and Maximian appoint Constantius Chlorus and Galerius as Caesars. This is considered the beginning of the Tetrarchy, known as the Quattuor Principes Mundi ("Four Rulers of the World").
 * 350 – Vetranio proclaims himself Caesar after being encouraged to do so by Constantina, sister of Constantius II.
 * 834 – Emperor Louis the Pious is restored as sole ruler of the Frankish Empire.
 * 1476 – Forces of the Catholic Monarchs engage the combined Portuguese-Castilian armies of Afonso V and Prince John at the Battle of Toro.
 * 1562 – Sixty-three Huguenots are massacred in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion.

1601–1900

 * 1628 – Writs issued in February by Charles I of England mandate that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.
 * 1633 – Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.
 * 1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
 * 1781 – The Articles of Confederation goes into effect in the United States.
 * 1796 – The Dutch East India Company is nationalized by the Batavian Republic.
 * 1805 – Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial by the U.S. Senate.
 * 1811 – Leaders of the Mamluk dynasty are killed by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali.
 * 1815 – Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
 * 1836 – A convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico.
 * 1845 – United States President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
 * 1867 – Nebraska is admitted as the 37th U.S. state.
 * 1870 – Marshal F. S. López dies during the Battle of Cerro Corá thus marking the end of the Paraguayan War.
 * 1871 – The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris, France, after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
 * 1872 – Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.
 * 1893 – Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
 * 1896 – Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
 * 1896  – Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.

1901–present

 * 1901 – The Australian Army is formed.
 * 1910 – The deadliest avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
 * 1914 – China joins the Universal Postal Union.
 * 1917 – The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text.
 * 1919 – March 1st Movement begins in Korea under Japanese rule.
 * 1921 – The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.
 * 1921  – Following mass protests in Petrograd demanding greater freedom in the RSFSR, the Kronstadt rebellion begins, with sailors and citizens taking up arms against the Bolsheviks.
 * 1932 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh's 20-month-old son Charles Jr is kidnapped from his home in East Amwell, New Jersey. His body would not be found until May 12.
 * 1939 – An Imperial Japanese Army ammunition dump explodes at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94.
 * 1941 – World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.
 * 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces land on Java, the main island of the Dutch East Indies, at Merak and Banten Bay (Banten), Eretan Wetan (Indramayu) and Kragan (Rembang).
 * 1946 – The Bank of England is nationalised.
 * 1947 – The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
 * 1950 – Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.
 * 1953 – Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
 * 1954 – Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
 * 1954  – Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
 * 1956 – The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
 * 1956  – Formation of the East German Nationale Volksarmee.
 * 1958 – Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first U.S. member of the Roman Curia.
 * 1961 – Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
 * 1962 – American Airlines Flight 1 crashes into Jamaica Bay in New York, killing 95.
 * 1964 – Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe.
 * 1964  – Paradise Airlines Flight 901A crashes near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, killing 85.
 * 1966 – Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
 * 1966  – The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.
 * 1971 – President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
 * 1973 – Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
 * 1974 – Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
 * 1981 – Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
 * 1990 – Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
 * 1991 – Uprisings against Saddam Hussein begin in Iraq, leading to the deaths of more than 25,000 people, mostly civilians.
 * 1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
 * 1998 – Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
 * 2002 – U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
 * 2002  – The Envisat environmental satellite successfully launches aboard an Ariane 5 rocket to reach an orbit of 800 km above the Earth, which was the then-largest payload at 10.5 m long and with a diameter of 4.57 m.
 * 2002  – Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-109 to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
 * 2003 – Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
 * 2005 – In Roper v. Simmons, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of any crime is unconstitutional.
 * 2006 – English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.
 * 2007 – Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20 people, including eight at Enterprise High School.
 * 2008 – The Armenian police clash with peaceful opposition rally protesting against allegedly fraudulent presidential elections, as a result ten people are killed.
 * 2014 – Thirty-five people are killed and 143 injured in a mass stabbing at Kunming Railway Station in China.

Pre-1600

 * 1105 – Alfonso VII, king of León and Castile (d. 1157)
 * 1389 – Antoninus of Florence, Italian archbishop and saint (d. 1459)
 * 1432 – Isabella of Coimbra (d. 1455)
 * 1456 – Vladislaus II of Hungary (d. 1516)
 * 1547 – Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher and lexicographer (d. 1628)
 * 1554 – William Stafford, English courtier and conspirator (d. 1612)
 * 1577 – Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland (d. 1635)
 * 1597 – Jean-Charles della Faille, Flemish priest and mathematician (d. 1652)

1601–1900

 * 1611 – John Pell, English mathematician and linguist (d. 1685)
 * 1629 – Abraham Teniers, Flemish painter (d. 1670)
 * 1647 – John de Brito, Portuguese Jesuit missionary and martyr (d. 1693)
 * 1657 – Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian and author (d. 1740)
 * 1683 – Tsangyang Gyatso, sixth Dalai Lama (d. 1706)
 * 1683 – Caroline of Ansbach, British queen and regent (d. 1737)
 * 1724 – Manuel do Cenáculo, Portuguese prelate and antiquarian (d. 1814)
 * 1732 – William Cushing, American lawyer and judge (d. 1810)
 * 1760 – François Buzot, French lawyer and politician (d. 1794)
 * 1769 – François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (d. 1796)
 * 1807 – Wilford Woodruff, American religious leader, 4th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1898)
 * 1810 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1849)
 * 1812 – Augustus Pugin, English architect, co-designed the Palace of Westminster (d. 1852)
 * 1817 – Giovanni Duprè, Italian sculptor and educator (d. 1882)
 * 1821 – Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German bishop and academic (d. 1896)
 * 1835 – Philip Fysh, English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1919)
 * 1837 – William Dean Howells, American novelist, playwright, and critic (d. 1920)
 * 1842 – Nikolaos Gyzis, Greek painter and academic (d. 1901)
 * 1848 – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Irish-American sculptor and academic (d. 1907)
 * 1852 – Théophile Delcassé, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1923)
 * 1863 – Alexander Golovin, Russian painter and set designer (d. 1930)
 * 1870 – E. M. Antoniadi, Greek-French astronomer and academic (d. 1944)
 * 1876 – Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian businessman (d. 1942)
 * 1880 – Lytton Strachey, British writer and critic (d. 1932)
 * 1886 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian-Swiss painter, poet, and playwright (d. 1980)
 * 1888 – Ewart Astill, English cricketer and billiards player (d. 1948)
 * 1888  – Fanny Walden, English cricketer and umpire, international footballer (d. 1949)
 * 1889 – Tetsuro Watsuji, Japanese historian and philosopher (d. 1960)
 * 1890 – Theresa Bernstein, Polish-American painter and author (d. 2002)
 * 1891 – Ralph Hitz, Austrian-American hotelier (d. 1940)
 * 1892 – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese author and educator (d. 1927)
 * 1893 – Mercedes de Acosta, American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1968)
 * 1896 – Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1960)
 * 1896  – Moriz Seeler, German playwright and producer (d. 1942)
 * 1899 – Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German SS officer (d. 1972)
 * 1900 – Basil Bunting, British poet (d. 1985)

1901–present

 * 1904 – Paul Hartman, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1973)
 * 1904  – Glenn Miller, American trombonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1944)
 * 1905 – Doris Hare, Welsh-English actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2000)
 * 1906 – Phạm Văn Đồng, Vietnamese lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2000)
 * 1909 – Eugene Esmonde, English lieutenant and pilot (d. 1942)
 * 1909  – Winston Sharples, American pianist and composer (d. 1978)
 * 1910 – Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
 * 1910  – David Niven, English soldier and actor (d. 1983)
 * 1912 – Gerald Emmett Carter, Canadian cardinal (d. 2003)
 * 1912  – Boris Chertok, Polish-Russian engineer and academic (d. 2011)
 * 1914 – Harry Caray, American sportscaster (d. 1998)
 * 1914  – Ralph Ellison, American novelist and literary critic (d. 1994)
 * 1917 – Robert Lowell, American poet (d. 1977)
 * 1917  – Dinah Shore, American singer and actress (d. 1994)
 * 1918 – João Goulart, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 24th President of Brazil (d. 1976)
 * 1918  – Gladys Spellman, American educator and politician (d. 1988)
 * 1920 – Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1984)
 * 1920  – Howard Nemerov, American poet and academic (d. 1991)
 * 1921 – Cameron Argetsinger, American race car driver and lawyer (d. 2008)
 * 1921  – Terence Cooke, American cardinal (d. 1983)
 * 1921  – Richard Wilbur, American poet, translator, and essayist (d. 2017)
 * 1922 – William Gaines, American publisher (d. 1992)
 * 1922  – Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli general and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
 * 1922  – Fred Scolari, American basketball player (d. 2002)
 * 1924 – Arnold Drake, American author and screenwriter (d. 2007)
 * 1924  – Deke Slayton, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1993)
 * 1926 – Robert Clary, French-American actor and author (d. 2022)
 * 1926  – Cesare Danova, Italian-American actor (d. 1992)
 * 1926  – Pete Rozelle, American businessman and 3rd National Football League Commissioner (d. 1996)
 * 1926  – Allan Stanley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2013)
 * 1927 – George O. Abell, American astronomer, academic, and skeptic (d. 1983)
 * 1927  – Harry Belafonte, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2023)
 * 1927  – Robert Bork, American lawyer and scholar, United States Attorney General (d. 2012)
 * 1928 – Jacques Rivette, French director, screenwriter, and critic (d. 2016)
 * 1929 – Georgi Markov, Bulgarian journalist and author (d. 1978)
 * 1930  – Monu Mukhopadhyay, Indian Bengali actor (d. 2020)
 * 1930 – Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist (d. 1980)
 * 1934 – Jean-Michel Folon, Belgian painter and sculptor (d. 2005)
 * 1934  – Joan Hackett, American actress (d. 1983)
 * 1935 – Robert Conrad, American actor, radio host and stuntman (d. 2020)
 * 1936 – Jean-Edern Hallier, French author (d. 1997)
 * 1939 – Leo Brouwer, Cuban guitarist, composer, and conductor
 * 1939  – Mustansar Hussain Tarar, Pakistani author
 * 1940 – Robin Gray, Australian politician, 37th Premier of Tasmania
 * 1940  – Robert Grossman, American painter, sculptor, and author (d. 2018)
 * 1941 – Robert Hass, American poet
 * 1941  – Dave Marcis, American stock car racing driver
 * 1942 – Richard Myers, American general
 * 1943 – Gil Amelio, American businessman
 * 1943  – José Ángel Iribar, Spanish footballer and manager
 * 1943  – Rashid Sunyaev, Russian-German astronomer and physicist
 * 1944 – Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Indian politician, 7th Chief Minister of West Bengal
 * 1944  – John Breaux, American lawyer and politician
 * 1944  – Mike d'Abo, English singer
 * 1944  – Roger Daltrey, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
 * 1945 – Dirk Benedict, American actor and director
 * 1946 – Gerry Boulet, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 1990)
 * 1946  – Jim Crace, English author and academic
 * 1947 – Alan Thicke, Canadian-American actor and composer (d. 2016)
 * 1951 – Sergei Kourdakov, Russian-American KGB agent (d. 1973)
 * 1952 – Dave Barr, Canadian golfer
 * 1952  – Nevada Barr, American actress and author
 * 1952  – Leigh Matthews, Australian footballer, coach, and sportscaster
 * 1952  – Jerri Nielsen, American physician and explorer (d. 2009)
 * 1952  – Martin O'Neill, Northern Irish footballer and manager
 * 1952  – Brian Winters, American basketball player and coach
 * 1953 – Sinan Çetin, Turkish actor, director, and producer
 * 1953  – Carlos Queiroz, Portuguese footballer and manager
 * 1953  – M. K. Stalin, Indian Tamil politician, 8th and incumbent Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
 * 1954 – Catherine Bach, American actress
 * 1954  – Ron Howard, American actor, director, and producer
 * 1956 – Tim Daly, American actor, director, and producer
 * 1956  – Dalia Grybauskaitė, Lithuanian politician, 8th President of Lithuania
 * 1958 – Nik Kershaw, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
 * 1958  – Wayne B. Phillips, Australian cricketer and coach
 * 1958  – Bertrand Piccard, Swiss psychiatrist and aviator
 * 1959 – Nick Griffin, English politician
 * 1961 – Mike Rozier, American football player
 * 1963 – Bryan Batt, American actor
 * 1963  – Ron Francis, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
 * 1963  – Magnus Svensson, Swedish ice hockey player
 * 1963  – Russell Wong, American actor
 * 1965 – Booker T, American professional wrestler and sportscaster
 * 1965  – Chris Eigeman, American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer
 * 1965  – Stewart Elliott, Canadian jockey
 * 1966 – Don Lemon, American journalist
 * 1966  – Zack Snyder, American director, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1967 – George Eads, American actor
 * 1967  – Aron Winter, Surinamese-Dutch footballer and manager
 * 1969 – Javier Bardem, Spanish actor and producer
 * 1970 – Yolanda Griffith, American basketball player and coach
 * 1971 – Ma Dong-seok, South Korean-American actor
 * 1971  – Brad Falchuk, American screenwriter, director, and producer
 * 1973 – Jack Davenport, English actor
 * 1973  – Ryan Peake, Canadian musician and songwriter
 * 1973  – Chris Webber, American basketball player and sportscaster
 * 1974 – Mark-Paul Gosselaar, American actor
 * 1977 – Rens Blom, Dutch pole vaulter
 * 1978 – Jensen Ackles, American actor and musician
 * 1979 – Mikkel Kessler, Danish boxer
 * 1979  – Bruno Langlois, Canadian cyclist
 * 1980 – Shahid Afridi, Pakistani cricketer
 * 1980  – Sercan Güvenışık, German-Turkish footballer
 * 1980  – Djimi Traoré, French-Malian footballer
 * 1981 – Will Power, Australian race car driver
 * 1982 – Travis Diener, American-Italian basketball player
 * 1983 – Daniel Carvalho, Brazilian footballer
 * 1983  – Lupita Nyong'o, Kenyan-Mexican actress
 * 1984 – Alexander Steen, Canadian-Swedish ice hockey player
 * 1984  – Claudio Bieler, Argentinian footballer
 * 1985 – Andreas Ottl, German footballer
 * 1986 – Big E, American professional wrestler
 * 1986  – Jonathan Spector, American soccer player
 * 1986  – Alec Utgoff, Ukrainian-English actor
 * 1987 – Kesha, American singer-songwriter and actress
 * 1987  – Kyle O'Reilly, Canadian professional wrestler
 * 1988 – Trevor Cahill, American baseball player
 * 1988  – Jarvis Varnado, American basketball player
 * 1989 – Tenille Dashwood, Australian professional wrestler
 * 1989  – Daniella Monet, American actress
 * 1989  – Emeraude Toubia, Canadian-American actress
 * 1989  – Carlos Vela, Mexican footballer
 * 1991 – Joe Mantiply, American baseball player
 * 1992 – Édouard Mendy, Senegalese footballer
 * 1992  – Tom Walsh, New Zealand athlete
 * 1993 – Juan Bernat, Spanish footballer
 * 1993 – Michael Conforto, American baseball player
 * 1993  – Josh McEachran, English footballer
 * 1993  – Victor Rask, Swedish ice hockey player
 * 1993  – Jordan Veretout, French footballer
 * 1994 – Justin Bieber, Canadian singer-songwriter
 * 1994  – Asanoyama Hiroki, Japanese sumo wrestler
 * 1994  – Tyreek Hill, American football player
 * 1994  – Maximilian Philipp, German footballer
 * 1999 – Oswaldo Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
 * 1999  – Brogan Hay, Scottish footballer
 * 2000 – Ja'Marr Chase, American football player
 * 2001 – Wander Franco, Dominican baseball player
 * 2001  – Sapnap, American YouTuber

Pre-1600

 * 492 – Felix III, pope of the Catholic Church
 * 589 – David, Welsh bishop and saint
 * 965 – Leo VIII, pope of the Catholic Church
 * 977 – Rudesind, Galician bishop (b. 907)
 * 991 – En'yū, Japanese emperor (b. 959)
 * 1058 – Ermesinde of Carcassonne, countess and regent of Barcelona (b. 972)
 * 1131 – Stephen II, king of Hungary and Croatia (b. 1101)
 * 1233 – Thomas, count of Savoy (b. 1178)
 * 1244 – Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, Welsh noble, son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200)
 * 1320 – Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan, Chinese emperor (b. 1286)
 * 1383 – Amadeus VI, count of Savoy (b. 1334)
 * 1510 – Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier and explorer (b. 1450)
 * 1546 – George Wishart, Scottish minister and martyr (b. 1513)

1601–1900

 * 1620 – Thomas Campion, English poet and composer (b. 1567)
 * 1633 – George Herbert, English poet and orator (b. 1593)
 * 1643 – Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian keyboardist and composer (b. 1583)
 * 1661 – Richard Zouch, English judge and politician (b. 1590)
 * 1697 – Francesco Redi, Italian physician and poet (b. 1626)
 * 1734 – Roger North, English lawyer and author (b. 1653)
 * 1768 – Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and author (b. 1694)
 * 1773 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect, designed the Palace of Caserta (b. 1700)
 * 1792 – Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747)
 * 1792  – Angelo Emo, Venetian admiral and statesman (b. 1731)
 * 1841 – Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (b. 1764)
 * 1862 – Peter Barlow, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1776)
 * 1875 – Tristan Corbière, French poet and educator (b. 1845)
 * 1882 – Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1818)
 * 1884 – Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and academic (b. 1820)
 * 1889 – William Henry Monk, English organist and composer (b. 1823)

1901–present

 * 1906 – José María de Pereda, Spanish author (b. 1833)
 * 1911 – Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
 * 1914 – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, English soldier and politician, 8th Governor General of Canada (b. 1845)
 * 1920 – John H. Bankhead, American lawyer and politician (b. 1842)
 * 1922 – Pichichi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)
 * 1925 – Homer Plessy, American political activist (b. 1862 or 1863)
 * 1932 – Frank Teschemacher, American Jazz musician (b. 1906)
 * 1936 – Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian author and poet (b. 1871)
 * 1938 – Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1863)
 * 1940 – A. H. Tammsaare, Estonian author (b. 1878)
 * 1942 – George S. Rentz, American commander (b. 1882)
 * 1943 – Alexandre Yersin, Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist (b. 1863)
 * 1952 – Mariano Azuela, Mexican physician and author (b. 1873)
 * 1966 – Fritz Houtermans, Polish-German physicist and academic (b. 1903)
 * 1974 – Bobby Timmons, American pianist and composer (b. 1935)
 * 1976 – Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer (b. 1910)
 * 1978 – Paul Scott, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1920)
 * 1979 – Mustafa Barzani, Iraqi-Kurdistan politician (b. 1903)
 * 1980 – Wilhelmina Cooper, Dutch-American model and businesswoman, founded Wilhelmina Models (b. 1940)
 * 1980  – Dixie Dean, English footballer (b. 1907)
 * 1983 – Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-English journalist and author (b. 1905)
 * 1984 – Jackie Coogan, American actor (b. 1914)
 * 1988 – Joe Besser, American comedian and actor (b. 1907)
 * 1989 – Vasantdada Patil, Indian politician, 5th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1917)
 * 1991 – Edwin H. Land, American scientist and businessman, co-founded the Polaroid Corporation (b. 1909)
 * 1993 – Joseph Christopher, American schizophrenic serial killer (born 1955)
 * 1995 – César Rodríguez Álvarez, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1920)
 * 1995  – Georges J. F. Köhler, German biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1946)
 * 1998 – Archie Goodwin, American author and illustrator (b. 1937)
 * 2004 – Mian Ghulam Jilani, Pakistani general (b. 1914)
 * 2006 – Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)
 * 2006  – Jack Wild, English actor (b. 1952)
 * 2006  – Nurasyura binte Mohamed Fauzi, Singaporean rape and murder victim (b. 2003)
 * 2010 – Kristian Digby, English television host and director (b. 1977)
 * 2012 – Andrew Breitbart, American journalist and publisher (b. 1969)
 * 2012  – Germano Mosconi, Italian journalist (b. 1932)
 * 2013 – Bonnie Franklin, American actress, dancer, and singer (b. 1944)
 * 2014 – Alain Resnais, French director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
 * 2015 – Minnie Miñoso, Cuban-American baseball player and coach (b. 1922)
 * 2016 – Carole Achache, French writer, photographer and actress (b. 1952)
 * 2018 – María Rubio, Mexican television, film and stage actress (b. 1934)
 * 2019 – Mike Willesee, Australian journalist and producer (b. 1942)
 * 2023 – Just Fontaine, French footballer (b. 1933)
 * 2024 – Iris Apfel, American businesswoman, interior designer, and philanthropist (b. 1921)
 * 2024  – Akira Toriyama, Japanese manga artist (b. 1955)

Holidays and observances

 * Beer Day, marked the end of beer prohibition in 1989 (Iceland)
 * Christian feast day:
 * Agnes Tsao Kou Ying (one of the Martyr Saints of China)
 * Albin
 * Eudokia of Heliopolis
 * Pope Felix III
 * Leoluca
 * Luperculus
 * Monan
 * Rudesind
 * Saint David's Day or Dydd Gŵyl Dewi (Wales and Welsh communities)
 * Suitbert
 * March 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * Commemoration of Mustafa Barzani's Death (Iraqi Kurdistan)
 * Day of the Balearic Islands (Spain)
 * Disability Day of Mourning
 * Heroes' Day (Paraguay)
 * Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992.
 * National "Cursed Soldiers" Remembrance Day (Poland)
 * National Pig Day (United States)
 * Remembrance Day (Marshall Islands)
 * Samiljeol (South Korea)
 * Self-injury Awareness Day (international)
 * Southeastern Europe celebration of the beginning of spring:
 * Baba Marta Day (Bulgaria)
 * Mărțișor (Romania and Moldova)
 * The final day (fourth or fifth) of Ayyám-i-Há (Baháʼí Faith)
 * World Seagrass Day
 * Yap Day (Yap State)
 * Zero Discrimination Day