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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 2nd of March 0986 | EVENT | Louis V becomes King of the Franks. |
| 2nd of March 1127 | EVENT | Assassination of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders. |
| 2nd of March 1444 | EVENT | Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of Lezhe. |
| 2nd of March 1476 | EVENT | Burgundian Wars: The Old Swiss Confederacy hands Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, a major defeat in the Battle of Grandson in Canton of Neuchatel. |
| 2nd of March 1717 | EVENT | The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England. |
| 2nd of March 1776 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: Patriot militia units arrest the Royal Governor of Georgia James Wright and attempt to prevent capture of supply ships in the Battle of the Rice Boats. |
| 2nd of March 1791 | EVENT | Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris. |
| 2nd of March 1797 | EVENT | The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound banknotes. |
| 2nd of March 1807 | EVENT | The U.S. Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, disallowing the importation of new slaves into the country. |
| 2nd of March 1808 | EVENT | The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh. |
| 2nd of March 1811 | EVENT | Argentine War of Independence: A royalist fleet defeats a small flotilla of revolutionary ships in the Battle of San Nicolas on the River Plate. |
| 2nd of March 1815 | EVENT | Signing of the Kandyan Convention treaty by British invaders and the King of Sri Lanka. |
| 2nd of March 1825 | EVENT | Roberto Cofresi, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities. |
| 2nd of March 1836 | EVENT | Texas Revolution: Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico. |
| 2nd of March 1855 | EVENT | Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia. |
| 2nd of March 1861 | EVENT | Emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia: Tsar Alexander II signs the emancipation reform into law, abolishing Russian serfdom. |
| 2nd of March 1865 | EVENT | East Cape War: The Volkner Incident in New Zealand. |
| 2nd of March 1867 | EVENT | The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act. |
| 2nd of March 1877 | EVENT | U.S. presidential election, 1876: Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876. |
| 2nd of March 1882 | EVENT | Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor. |
| 2nd of March 1888 | EVENT | The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace. |
| 2nd of March 1901 | EVENT | The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops. |
| 2nd of March 1903 | EVENT | In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women. |
| 2nd of March 1917 | EVENT | The enactment of the Jones-Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship. |
| 2nd of March 1919 | EVENT | The first Communist International meets in Moscow. |
| 2nd of March 1933 | EVENT | The film King Kong opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall. |
| 2nd of March 1937 | EVENT | The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry. |
| 2nd of March 1939 | EVENT | Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII. |
| 2nd of March 1941 | EVENT | World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact. |
| 2nd of March 1943 | EVENT | World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea : United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships. |
| 2nd of March 1946 | EVENT | Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam. |
| 2nd of March 1949 | EVENT | The first automatic street light is installed in New Milford, Connecticut. |
| 2nd of March 1949 | EVENT | Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute. |
| 2nd of March 1953 | EVENT | The Academy Awards are first broadcast on television by NBC. |
| 2nd of March 1955 | EVENT | King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates the throne in favor of his father, King Norodom Suramarit. |
| 2nd of March 1956 | EVENT | Morocco gains its independence from France. |
| 2nd of March 1962 | EVENT | In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d'etat. |
| 2nd of March 1962 | EVENT | Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points. |
| 2nd of March 1965 | EVENT | The US and South Vietnamese Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam. |
| 2nd of March 1969 | EVENT | Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River. |
| 2nd of March 1969 | EVENT | In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted. |
| 2nd of March 1970 | EVENT | Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown. |
| 2nd of March 1972 | EVENT | The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets. |
| 2nd of March 1978 | EVENT | Czech Vladimir Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28. |
| 2nd of March 1983 | EVENT | Compact Disc players and discs are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had only been available in Japan before then. |
| 2nd of March 1989 | EVENT | Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century. |
| 2nd of March 1990 | EVENT | Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress. |
| 2nd of March 1991 | EVENT | Battle at Rumaila Oil Field brings an end to the 1991 Gulf War. |
| 2nd of March 1992 | EVENT | Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan join the United Nations. |
| 2nd of March 1995 | EVENT | Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark. |
| 2nd of March 1998 | EVENT | Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice. |
| 2nd of March 2002 | EVENT | U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, (ending on March 19 after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, with 11 Western troop fatalities). |
| 2nd of March 2004 | EVENT | War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500. |
| 2nd of March 1316 | BIRTHDAY | King Robert II of Scotland (d. 1390) |
| 2nd of March 1409 | BIRTHDAY | John II of Alencon, Duke of Alencon and Count of Perche (d. 1476) |
| 2nd of March 1459 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Adrian VI (d. 1523) |
| 2nd of March 1545 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (d. 1613) |
| 2nd of March 1578 | BIRTHDAY | George Sandys, English colonist and poet (d. 1644) |
| 2nd of March 1705 | BIRTHDAY | William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician (d. 1793) |
| 2nd of March 1760 | BIRTHDAY | Camille Desmoulins, French journalist and politician (d. 1794) |
| 2nd of March 1770 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Gabriel Suchet, French Marshal (d. 1826) |
| 2nd of March 1779 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Roberts Poinsett, American statesman and botanist (d. 1851) |
| 2nd of March 1793 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Houston, American politician, 8th Governor of Tennessee and 7th Governor of Texas (d. 1863) |
| 2nd of March 1800 | BIRTHDAY | Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (d. 1844) |
| 2nd of March 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Leo XIII (d. 1903) |
| 2nd of March 1816 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander H. Bullock, American politician and 26th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1882) |
| 2nd of March 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Janos Arany, Hungarian journalist (d. 1882) |
| 2nd of March 1820 | BIRTHDAY | Multatuli, Dutch writer (d. 1887) |
| 2nd of March 1824 | BIRTHDAY | Bedrich Smetana, Czech composer (d. 1884) |
| 2nd of March 1829 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman (d. 1906) |
| 2nd of March 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Billings Brown, American jurist (d. 1913) |
| 2nd of March 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer (d. 1914) |
| 2nd of March 1843 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy (d. 1911) |
| 2nd of March 1849 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (d. 1930) |
| 2nd of March 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Sholom Aleichem, Russian novelist (d. 1916) |
| 2nd of March 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Susanna M. Salter, American politician (d. 1961) |
| 2nd of March 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (d. 1916) |
| 2nd of March 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Pius XII (d. 1958) |
| 2nd of March 1878 | BIRTHDAY | William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1944) |
| 2nd of March 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Willis O'Brien, American animator (d. 1962) |
| 2nd of March 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Minor Hall, American jazz musician (d. 1959) |
| 2nd of March 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Weill, German composer (d. 1950) |
| 2nd of March 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy (d. 1972) |
| 2nd of March 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), American author (d. 1991) |
| 2nd of March 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Yakut-born Soviet sniper (d. 1968) |
| 2nd of March 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Bruch, German engineer (d. 1990) |
| 2nd of March 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Mel Ott, American baseball player (d. 1958) |
| 2nd of March 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Katzman, American composer and pianist (d. 2001) |
| 2nd of March 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Godfried Bomans, Flemish author and television personality (d. 1971) |
| 2nd of March 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Celedonio Romero, Spanish guitarist (d. 1996) |
| 2nd of March 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Mort Cooper, American baseball player (d. 1958) |
| 2nd of March 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Ritt, American director (d. 1990) |
| 2nd of March 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor and bandleader (d. 1986) |
| 2nd of March 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Konstanty, American baseball player (d. 1976) |
| 2nd of March 1917 | BIRTHDAY | David Goodis, American writer (d. 1967) |
| 2nd of March 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Peter O'Sullevan, Irish horse racing commentator |
| 2nd of March 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Jones, American actress (d. 2009) |
| 2nd of March 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Tamara Toumanova, Russian ballerina and actress (d. 1996) |
| 2nd of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Heinz-Ludwig Schmidt, German football manager |
| 2nd of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, American jazz tenor saxophonist (d. 1986) |
| 2nd of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Orrin Keepnews, American writer and critic |
| 2nd of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Robert H. Michel, American politician |
| 2nd of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Basil Hume, Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, England (d. 1999) |
| 2nd of March 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Cal Abrams, American major league baseball outfielder |
| 2nd of March 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Murray Rothbard, American economist (d. 1995) |
| 2nd of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Walkowiak, French cyclist and economist |
| 2nd of March 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Father John Romanides, Greek priest and professor (d. 2001) |
| 2nd of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Emma Penella, Spanish actress (d. 2007) |
| 2nd of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | John Cullum, American actor and singer |
| 2nd of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet Nobel laureate and statesman |
| 2nd of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Wolfe, American author |
| 2nd of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Dottie Rambo, American singer (d. 2008) |
| 2nd of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Al Waxman, Canadian actor (d. 2001) |
| 2nd of March 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria |
| 2nd of March 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Denny Crum, College basketball coach |
| 2nd of March 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile |
| 2nd of March 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Payton, American singer and songwriter (The Four Tops) (d. 1997) |
| 2nd of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Croatto, Italian-born composer (d. 2005) |
| 2nd of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Finch, English actor |
| 2nd of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | David Satcher, 16th United States Surgeon General |
| 2nd of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Kwang Jo Choi, Korean Choi Kwang-Do champion |
| 2nd of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | John Irving, American author |
| 2nd of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Luc Plamondon, Canadian lyricist |
| 2nd of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Last Prime Minister of Iran |
| 2nd of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Reed, American singer and guitarist |
| 2nd of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Guber, American film producer |
| 2nd of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Zygfryd Blaut, Polish footballer (d. 2005) |
| 2nd of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Larose, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 2nd of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Straub, American author |
| 2nd of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Meehan, English drummer (The Shadows) (d. 2005) |
| 2nd of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Uschi Glas, German actress |
| 2nd of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Redknapp, English football manager |
| 2nd of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Carlton, American guitarist |
| 2nd of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Rory Gallagher, Irish guitarist (d. 1995) |
| 2nd of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Kennett, Australian former politician |
| 2nd of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Alain Chamfort, French singer |
| 2nd of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Gates McFadden, American actress |
| 2nd of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | J. P. R. Williams, Welsh rugby union player |
| 2nd of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (The Carpenters) (d. 1983) |
| 2nd of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Jeffrey Chodorow, American restaurateur and financier |
| 2nd of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Evanier, American writer |
| 2nd of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Laraine Newman, American actress |
| 2nd of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Russ Feingold, American politician |
| 2nd of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Johnstone, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 2nd of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Hans-Jurgen Baake, German footballer |
| 2nd of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Osmond, American musician (The Osmonds) |
| 2nd of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Shoko Asahara, Japanese cult leader |
| 2nd of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Terrence Stone, Irish-American voice actor |
| 2nd of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Salazar, American politician, United States Senator from Colorado, 50th United States Secretary of the Interior |
| 2nd of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | John Cowsill, American musician (The Cowsills) |
| 2nd of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Evans, Australian bassist (AC/DC) |
| 2nd of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Curren, South African tennis player |
| 2nd of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Woosnam, Welsh golfer |
| 2nd of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | GX Jupitter-Larsen, American artist/writer |
| 2nd of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Hector Calma, Filipino basketball player |
| 2nd of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Debra Marshall, American professional wrestler and manager |
| 2nd of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Simone Young, Australian conductor |
| 2nd of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Bon Jovi, American musician (Bon Jovi) |
| 2nd of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Al Del Greco, American football player |
| 2nd of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Nordlie, Norwegian football coach |
| 2nd of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Morioka Hiroyuki, Japanese writer |
| 2nd of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Raimo Summanen, Finnish ice hockey player and coach |
| 2nd of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Salinger, American poet |
| 2nd of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Sterling, American musician (Scott La Rock) (d. 1987) |
| 2nd of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Tuff Hedeman, American bull rider |
| 2nd of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Tanyu Kiryakov, Bulgarian pistol shooter |
| 2nd of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Von Erich, American wrestler (d. 1987) |
| 2nd of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Megan Leigh, American porn star (d. 1990) |
| 2nd of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Gant, American baseball player |
| 2nd of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Lembit Opik, British politician |
| 2nd of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Craig, English actor |
| 2nd of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Alessandro Moscardi, Italian rugby player |
| 2nd of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Lackey, Australian actress |
| 2nd of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Amber Smith, American actress and model |
| 2nd of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Gorman, English documentary comedian |
| 2nd of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Ruccolo, American actor |
| 2nd of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Trevor Sinclair, English footballer |
| 2nd of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Dejan Bodiroga, Serbian basketball player |
| 2nd of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Monika Niederstatter, Italian athlete |
| 2nd of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Hayley Lewis, Australian swimmer |
| 2nd of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Michael G. Simpson American Computer Analyst(b. 1920) |
| 2nd of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | JJ Fernandez, Malaysian radio personality |
| 2nd of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Rubenstein, American writer and journalist |
| 2nd of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Heather McComb, American actress |
| 2nd of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Gibbons, American baseball player |
| 2nd of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Martin, English musician (Coldplay) |
| 2nd of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Dominique Canty, American basketball player |
| 2nd of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Strauss, English cricket player |
| 2nd of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Tomas Kaberle, Czech ice hockey player |
| 2nd of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Giannis Skopelitis, Greek footballer |
| 2nd of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Damien Duff, Irish footballer |
| 2nd of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Davydov, Belarusian figure skater |
| 2nd of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Ireton, American reality TV figure |
| 2nd of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Nicky Weaver, English footballer |
| 2nd of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Edson Nobre, Angolan footballer |
| 2nd of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Dominik, Polish-born actor |
| 2nd of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Lance Cade, American professional wrestler (d. 2010) |
| 2nd of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Sunny Lane, American pornographic actress |
| 2nd of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Walker, American musician (Suburban Legends) |
| 2nd of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Bryce Dallas Howard, American actress |
| 2nd of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jade Galbraith, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 2nd of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Kuranyi, German footballer |
| 2nd of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Henrik Lundqvist, Swedish ice hockey player |
| 2nd of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Roethlisberger, American football player |
| 2nd of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Corey Webster, American football player |
| 2nd of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Kolawole Agodirin, Nigerian footballer |
| 2nd of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Glen Perkins, American baseball player |
| 2nd of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jay McClement, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 2nd of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Jagger, English model and actress |
| 2nd of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Reggie Bush, American football player |
| 2nd of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Luke Pritchard, British singer (The Kooks) |
| 2nd of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Iler, American actor |
| 2nd of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Suso Santana, Spanish football player |
| 2nd of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jon D'Aversa, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 2nd of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Nicola Geuer, German tennis player |
| 2nd of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Jack, Scottish singer and actor |
| 2nd of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Mitcham, Australian diver |
| 2nd of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Nadine Samonte, Filipino actress |
| 2nd of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Toby Alderweireld, Belgian footballer |
| 2nd of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Alemao, Brazilian footballer |
| 2nd of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Shane Vereen, American college football player |
| 2nd of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Hongki, Korean singer (F.T. Island) |
| 2nd of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Choi Jong Hun, Korean guitarist, keyboardist, lyricist (F.T. Island) |
| 2nd of March 0855 | DEATH | Lothair, King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor (Born 795) |
| 2nd of March 1316 | DEATH | Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert I of Scotland (Born 1296) |
| 2nd of March 1572 | DEATH | Mem de Sa, Portuguese Governor-General of Brazil |
| 2nd of March 1589 | DEATH | Alessandro Farnese, Italian cardinal (Born 1520) |
| 2nd of March 1729 | DEATH | Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (Born 1662) |
| 2nd of March 1755 | DEATH | Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (Born 1675) |
| 2nd of March 1758 | DEATH | Pierre Guerin de Tencin, French cardinal (Born 1679) |
| 2nd of March 1791 | DEATH | John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (Born 1703) |
| 2nd of March 1793 | DEATH | Carl Gustaf Pilo, Swedish-born artist |
| 2nd of March 1797 | DEATH | Horace Walpole, English politician and writer (Born 1717) |
| 2nd of March 1829 | DEATH | Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez, conspirator and supporter of the Mexican War of Independence (Born 1768) |
| 2nd of March 1830 | DEATH | Samuel Thomas von Sommering, German physician (Born 1755) |
| 2nd of March 1835 | DEATH | Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 1768) |
| 2nd of March 1840 | DEATH | Heinrich Wilhelm Matthaus Olbers, German astronomer (Born 1758) |
| 2nd of March 1855 | DEATH | Nicholas I of Russia, Emperor of Russia (Born 1796) |
| 2nd of March 1864 | DEATH | Ulric Dahlgren, American Unionist colonel (Born 1842) |
| 2nd of March 1865 | DEATH | Carl Sylvius Volkner, German missionary to New Zealand (Born 1819) |
| 2nd of March 1880 | DEATH | Sir John MacNeill, Irish civil engineer (Born 1790) |
| 2nd of March 1895 | DEATH | Isma'il Pasha, Governor of Egypt (Born 1830) |
| 2nd of March 1895 | DEATH | Berthe Morisot, French painter (Born 1841) |
| 2nd of March 1919 | DEATH | Melchora Aquino, Filipino revolutionary hero (Born 1812) |
| 2nd of March 1921 | DEATH | Champ Clark, American politician (Born 1850) |
| 2nd of March 1921 | DEATH | King Nicholas I of Montenegro (Born 1841) |
| 2nd of March 1930 | DEATH | D. H. Lawrence, English writer (Born 1885) |
| 2nd of March 1938 | DEATH | Ben Harney, American composer and pianist (Born 1871) |
| 2nd of March 1939 | DEATH | Howard Carter, British archaeologist (Born 1874) |
| 2nd of March 1945 | DEATH | Emily Carr, Canadian artist (Born 1871) |
| 2nd of March 1946 | DEATH | Fidel Palffy, Hungarian National socialist (Born 1895) |
| 2nd of March 1946 | DEATH | George E. Stewart, American Medal of Honor recipient (Born 1872) |
| 2nd of March 1950 | DEATH | Rosli Dhobi, famous Malay Sarawakian (Born 1932) |
| 2nd of March 1953 | DEATH | Jim Lightbody, American runner (Born 1882) |
| 2nd of March 1958 | DEATH | Fred Merkle, American baseball figure (Born 1888) |
| 2nd of March 1959 | DEATH | Eric Blore, English actor (Born 1887) |
| 2nd of March 1960 | DEATH | Stanis?aw Taczak, Polish general, commander-in-chief of the Greater Poland Uprising (Born 1874) |
| 2nd of March 1962 | DEATH | Charles Jean de la Vallee-Poussin, Belgian mathematician (Born 1866) |
| 2nd of March 1967 | DEATH | Jose Martinez Ruiz, Spanish poet and writer (Born 1873) |
| 2nd of March 1970 | DEATH | Marc-Aurele Fortin, Canadian painter (Born 1888) |
| 2nd of March 1973 | DEATH | Cleo A. Noel, Jr., US Chief of Mission to Sudan (Born 1918) |
| 2nd of March 1974 | DEATH | Salvador Puig Antich, Spanish anarchist (Born 1948) |
| 2nd of March 1975 | DEATH | Josiah Mwangi Kariuki, Kenyan politician (Born 1929) |
| 2nd of March 1979 | DEATH | Christy Ring Irish hurler (Born 1920) |
| 2nd of March 1982 | DEATH | Philip K. Dick, American author (Born 1928) |
| 2nd of March 1987 | DEATH | Randolph Scott, American actor and director (Born 1898) |
| 2nd of March 1991 | DEATH | Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (Born 1928) |
| 2nd of March 1992 | DEATH | Sandy Dennis, American actress (Born 1937) |
| 2nd of March 1994 | DEATH | Anita Morris, American actress (Born 1943) |
| 2nd of March 1994 | DEATH | Maurice Bambier, French politician (Born 1925) |
| 2nd of March 1999 | DEATH | David Ackles, American singer and songwriter (Born 1937) |
| 2nd of March 1999 | DEATH | Dusty Springfield, English singer (Born 1939) |
| 2nd of March 2000 | DEATH | Sandra Schmirler, Canadian curler (Born 1963) |
| 2nd of March 2001 | DEATH | Francois Abadie, French politician (Born 1930) |
| 2nd of March 2001 | DEATH | John Diamond, British journalist (Born 1953) |
| 2nd of March 2003 | DEATH | Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer (Born 1931) |
| 2nd of March 2003 | DEATH | Hank Ballard, American musician (Born 1927) |
| 2nd of March 2004 | DEATH | Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (Born 1916) |
| 2nd of March 2004 | DEATH | Cormac McAnallen, Northern Irish Gaelic footballer (Born 1980) |
| 2nd of March 2004 | DEATH | Marge Schott, American baseball team owner (Born 1928) |
| 2nd of March 2005 | DEATH | Martin Denny, American musician (Born 1911) |
| 2nd of March 2005 | DEATH | Rick Mahler, American baseball player (Born 1953) |
| 2nd of March 2006 | DEATH | Milton Katims, American violist and conductor (Born 1909) |
| 2nd of March 2007 | DEATH | Ivan Safronov, Russian journalist (Born 1956) |
| 2nd of March 2007 | DEATH | Clem Labine, American baseball player (Born 1926) |
| 2nd of March 2007 | DEATH | Thomas S. Kleppe, U.S. politician (Born 1919) |
| 2nd of March 2007 | DEATH | Henri Troyat, French writer, dean of the Academie francaise (Born 1911) |
| 2nd of March 2008 | DEATH | Jeff Healey, Canadian musician (Born 1966) |
| 2nd of March 2009 | DEATH | Chris Finnegan, British boxer (Born 1944) |
| 2nd of March 2009 | DEATH | Joao Bernardo "Nino" Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau (Born 1939) |
| 2nd of March 2010 | DEATH | Winston Spencer-Churchill, British politician (Born 1940) |