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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 3rd of March 1284 | EVENT | The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England. |
| 3rd of March 1575 | EVENT | Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi. |
| 3rd of March 1585 | EVENT | The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza. |
| 3rd of March 1776 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau. |
| 3rd of March 1779 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia. |
| 3rd of March 1820 | EVENT | The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise. |
| 3rd of March 1845 | EVENT | Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state. |
| 3rd of March 1857 | EVENT | Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China. |
| 3rd of March 1861 | EVENT | Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs. |
| 3rd of March 1865 | EVENT | Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group. |
| 3rd of March 1873 | EVENT | Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail. |
| 3rd of March 1875 | EVENT | The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in The Montreal Gazette. |
| 3rd of March 1875 | EVENT | Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its premiere at the Opera Comique in Paris. |
| 3rd of March 1878 | EVENT | Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano; shortly after Congress of Berlin stripped its status to an autonomous state of the Ottoman Empire. |
| 3rd of March 1885 | EVENT | The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York. |
| 3rd of March 1904 | EVENT | Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's phonograph cylinder. |
| 3rd of March 1905 | EVENT | Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly, the Duma. |
| 3rd of March 1910 | EVENT | Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy. |
| 3rd of March 1915 | EVENT | NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded. |
| 3rd of March 1918 | EVENT | Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in World War I, and leading to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. |
| 3rd of March 1923 | EVENT | TIME magazine is published for the first time. |
| 3rd of March 1924 | EVENT | The 1400-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdul Mejid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Ataturk. |
| 3rd of March 1924 | EVENT | The Free State of Fiume is annexed by Kingdom of Italy. |
| 3rd of March 1931 | EVENT | The United States officially adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem. |
| 3rd of March 1938 | EVENT | Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia. |
| 3rd of March 1939 | EVENT | In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest at the autocratic rule in India. |
| 3rd of March 1940 | EVENT | Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Norrskensflamman in Lulea, Sweden. |
| 3rd of March 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people. |
| 3rd of March 1943 | EVENT | World War II: In London, England, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station. |
| 3rd of March 1944 | EVENT | The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards. |
| 3rd of March 1945 | EVENT | World War II: American and Filipino troops recapture Manila in the Philippines. |
| 3rd of March 1945 | EVENT | World War II: A former Armia Krajowa unit massacres at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Paw?okoma, Poland. |
| 3rd of March 1951 | EVENT | Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips' recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee. |
| 3rd of March 1953 | EVENT | A Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11. |
| 3rd of March 1958 | EVENT | Nuri as-Said becomes the prime minister of Iraq for the 14th time. |
| 3rd of March 1969 | EVENT | Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module. |
| 3rd of March 1972 | EVENT | Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures. |
| 3rd of March 1974 | EVENT | Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard. |
| 3rd of March 1980 | EVENT | The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register. |
| 3rd of March 1985 | EVENT | Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures. |
| 3rd of March 1985 | EVENT | A magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck the Valparaiso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless. |
| 3rd of March 1991 | EVENT | An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers. |
| 3rd of March 1991 | EVENT | In concurrent referenda, 74% of the population of Latvia votes for independence from the Soviet Union, and 83% in Estonia. |
| 3rd of March 1991 | EVENT | United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on approach into Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing 25. |
| 3rd of March 1997 | EVENT | The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction. |
| 3rd of March 2002 | EVENT | Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favor of their country becoming a member of the United Nations. |
| 3rd of March 2004 | EVENT | Belgian brewer Interbrew and Brazilian rival AmBev agree to merge in a $11.2 billion deal that forms InBev, the world's largest brewer. |
| 3rd of March 2005 | EVENT | Mayerthorpe Incident: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. It is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion. |
| 3rd of March 2005 | EVENT | Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling. |
| 3rd of March 2009 | EVENT | The building of the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Koln (Historical Archives) in Cologne, Germany, collapses. |
| 3rd of March 1455 | BIRTHDAY | King John II of Portugal (d. 1495) |
| 3rd of March 1520 | BIRTHDAY | Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (d. 1575) |
| 3rd of March 1583 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (d. 1648) |
| 3rd of March 1589 | BIRTHDAY | Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (d. 1676) |
| 3rd of March 1606 | BIRTHDAY | Edmund Waller, British poet (d. 1687) |
| 3rd of March 1652 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Otway, British dramatist (d. 1685) |
| 3rd of March 1678 | BIRTHDAY | Madeleine de Vercheres, French Canadian heroine (d. 1747) |
| 3rd of March 1756 | BIRTHDAY | William Godwin, English journalist, political philosopher and novelist (d. 1836) |
| 3rd of March 1778 | BIRTHDAY | Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Hanover (d. 1841) |
| 3rd of March 1793 | BIRTHDAY | William Charles Macready, English actor (d. 1873) |
| 3rd of March 1800 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (d. 1862) |
| 3rd of March 1805 | BIRTHDAY | Jonas Furrer, first President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1861) |
| 3rd of March 1816 | BIRTHDAY | William James Blacklock, British landscape painter (d. 1858) |
| 3rd of March 1825 | BIRTHDAY | Shiranui Koemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 11th Yokozuna (d. 1879) |
| 3rd of March 1831 | BIRTHDAY | George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (d. 1897) |
| 3rd of March 1839 | BIRTHDAY | Jamsetji Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1904) |
| 3rd of March 1845 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1918) |
| 3rd of March 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-Canadian inventor (d. 1922) |
| 3rd of March 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Adelaide Neilson, English actress (d. 1880) |
| 3rd of March 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (d. 1911) |
| 3rd of March 1860 | BIRTHDAY | John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (d. 1925) |
| 3rd of March 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Machen, Welsh-born author (d. 1947) |
| 3rd of March 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Fred A. Busse, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1914) |
| 3rd of March 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Emile Chartier, French philosopher, journalist and pacifist (d. 1951) |
| 3rd of March 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Joseph Wood, English conductor (d. 1944) |
| 3rd of March 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Garin, French cyclist (d. 1957) |
| 3rd of March 1873 | BIRTHDAY | William Green, American labor union leader (d. 1952) |
| 3rd of March 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Florence Auer, American actress (d. 1962) |
| 3rd of March 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Yosuke Matsuoka, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan (d. 1946) |
| 3rd of March 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Robert Chapman, British soldier and politician (d. 1963) |
| 3rd of March 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Ponzi, Italian fraud convict (d. 1949) |
| 3rd of March 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Cyril Burt, educational psychologist (d. 1971) |
| 3rd of March 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Tore ?rjasaeter, Norwegian poet (d. 1968) |
| 3rd of March 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Lincoln J. Beachey, American aviator (d. 1915) |
| 3rd of March 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Edmund Lowe, American silent and early talkie film actor (d. 1971) |
| 3rd of March 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (d. 1939) |
| 3rd of March 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Damaskinos, Archbishop of Athens and Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1949) |
| 3rd of March 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer (d. 1982) |
| 3rd of March 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (d. 1998) |
| 3rd of March 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Ethel Grandin, silent film actress (d. 1988) |
| 3rd of March 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Ridgway, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, U.S. Army Chief of Staff (d. 1993) |
| 3rd of March 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973) |
| 3rd of March 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Leontios, Archbishop of Cyprus (d. 1947) |
| 3rd of March 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Choules, One of two surviving British veterans of World War I |
| 3rd of March 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Kittens Reichert, American silent screen child actor (d. 1990) |
| 3rd of March 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Harlow, American actress (d. 1937) |
| 3rd of March 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Hugues Lapointe, Canadian politician and Lieutenant governor of Quebec (d. 1982) |
| 3rd of March 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Harold J. Stone, American actor (d. 2005) |
| 3rd of March 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Asger Jorn, Danish painter (d. 1973) |
| 3rd of March 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (d. 1952) |
| 3rd of March 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrian (d. 2000) |
| 3rd of March 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007) |
| 3rd of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (d. 2005) |
| 3rd of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Julius Boros, American golfer (d. 1994) |
| 3rd of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Ronald Searle, British illustrator |
| 3rd of March 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Diana Barrymore, stage & film actress (d. 1960) |
| 3rd of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Nandor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2002) |
| 3rd of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Barney Martin, American actor (d. 2005) |
| 3rd of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Doc Watson, American musician |
| 3rd of March 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Lilian Velez, Filipno actress (d. 1948) |
| 3rd of March 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Ali Faik Zaghloul, Egyptian radio presenter (d. 1995) |
| 3rd of March 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Tomiichi Murayama, former Prime Minister of Japan |
| 3rd of March 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Lys Assia, Swiss singer |
| 3rd of March 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Anthony Ferrario, American Catholic prelate (d. 2003) |
| 3rd of March 1926 | BIRTHDAY | James Merrill, American poet (d. 1995) |
| 3rd of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Aubert, member of the Swiss Federal Council |
| 3rd of March 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Gudrun Pausewang, German writer |
| 3rd of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Heiner Geissler, German politician |
| 3rd of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | K. S. Rajah, Senior Counsel and former Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Singapore (d. 2010) |
| 3rd of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Ion Iliescu, former President of Romania |
| 3rd of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Fink, Australian film producer |
| 3rd of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor |
| 3rd of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Antonio Muniz, Mexican singer (Los Tres Aces) |
| 3rd of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Radziwill, American fashion executive |
| 3rd of March 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Driscoll, American actor (d. 1968) |
| 3rd of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | German Castro Caycedo, Colombian writer and journalist |
| 3rd of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Paul Proust, French-born Minister of State of Monaco (d. 2010) |
| 3rd of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Perry Ellis, fashion designer (d. 1986) |
| 3rd of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Owen Spencer-Thomas, English broadcaster, journalist and Anglican clergyman |
| 3rd of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Pender, English singer and guitarist (The Searchers) |
| 3rd of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Holdridge, Haitian-American composer |
| 3rd of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | George Miller, Australian film director |
| 3rd of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | John Virgo, English snooker player |
| 3rd of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Stuppacher, Austrian racing driver (d. 2001) |
| 3rd of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Clifton Snider, American poet and writer |
| 3rd of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Warnes, American singer and songwriter |
| 3rd of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Snowy White, British guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Pink Floyd) |
| 3rd of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Gloria Hendry, American actress |
| 3rd of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Jefferson, American baseball player |
| 3rd of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Juri Allik, Estonian psychologist |
| 3rd of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Kazurinsky, American actor and comedian |
| 3rd of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Heizo Takenaka, Japanese economist and retired politician |
| 3rd of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Lindsay Cooper, English musician and composer (Henry Cow, News from Babel) |
| 3rd of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Rudy Fernandez, Filipino actor (d. 2008) |
| 3rd of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Robyn Hitchcock, British musician |
| 3rd of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Zico, Brazilian footballer |
| 3rd of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Edouard Lock, Canadian dance choreographer (La La La Human Steps) |
| 3rd of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Jorge Jose Emiliano dos Santos Brazilian football referee (d. 1995) |
| 3rd of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Breckman, American comedian and radio personality |
| 3rd of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Zbigniew Boniek, Polish footballer |
| 3rd of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Thom Hoffman, Dutch actor and photographer |
| 3rd of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Miranda Richardson, British actress |
| 3rd of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Ira Glass, American radio host |
| 3rd of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Dusko Vujosevic, Montenegrin basketball coach |
| 3rd of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Neal Heaton, American baseball player coach |
| 3rd of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Wells, English cricketer |
| 3rd of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Page Keller, American actress |
| 3rd of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Perry McCarthy, English racing driver |
| 3rd of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Knut Naerum, Norwegian comedian |
| 3rd of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | John Matteson, American biographer |
| 3rd of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Fatima Whitbread, English javelin thrower |
| 3rd of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jackie Joyner-Kersee, American athlete |
| 3rd of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Glen E. Friedman, American photographer and artist |
| 3rd of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Herschel Walker, American football player |
| 3rd of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Sophia Aliberti, Greek actress and TV presenter |
| 3rd of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Duncan Phillips, Australian drummer (Newsboys) |
| 3rd of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Harring, Mexican-born American actress |
| 3rd of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Raul Alcala, Mexican cyclist |
| 3rd of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Dragan Stojkovic, Serbian footballer |
| 3rd of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Colunga, Mexican actor |
| 3rd of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Timo Tolkki, Finnish musician (Stratovarius) |
| 3rd of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Tone Loc, American rapper and actor |
| 3rd of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Go Mi-Young, South Korean female mountaineer (d. 2009) |
| 3rd of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Cox, British physicist and television presenter |
| 3rd of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Leetch, American ice hockey player |
| 3rd of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Radinsky, American musician (Pulley, Ten Foot Pole) |
| 3rd of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Whitlock, Australian darts player |
| 3rd of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Inzamam-ul-Haq, Pakistani cricketer |
| 3rd of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Bowen, American actress |
| 3rd of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Tyler Florence, chef, television personality and cookbook author |
| 3rd of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Brooker, English comedian, writer and broadcaster |
| 3rd of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Anderton, English footballer |
| 3rd of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Romans Vainsteins, Latvian cyclist |
| 3rd of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Marsden, English actor and singer |
| 3rd of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Victoria Zdrok, Ukrainian model |
| 3rd of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | David Faustino, American actor |
| 3rd of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Paula Malai Ali, Malaysian-Bruneian TV presenter and actress |
| 3rd of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Fraser Gehrig, Australian Rules footballer |
| 3rd of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ronan Keating, Irish singer |
| 3rd of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Stephane Robidas, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 3rd of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Diaz, American baseball player |
| 3rd of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ilias Anastasakos, Greek footballer |
| 3rd of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Seomoon Tak, Korean singer |
| 3rd of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel Benthin, German footballer |
| 3rd of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Jorquera, Spanish footballer |
| 3rd of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Zane, English comedian |
| 3rd of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Renna, American actor |
| 3rd of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Mason Unck, American football player |
| 3rd of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Lil' Flip, American rapper |
| 3rd of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Dusty Dvoracek, American football player |
| 3rd of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Yoo-Jin (Eugene), South Korean singer and actress |
| 3rd of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Emmanuel Pappoe, Ghanaian footballer |
| 3rd of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Sung Yu Ri, South Korean singer and actress |
| 3rd of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Julius Malema, South African politician |
| 3rd of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Lloyd, Jr., South African professional wrestler |
| 3rd of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Biel, American actress |
| 3rd of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Hauswald, German footballer |
| 3rd of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Colton Orr, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 3rd of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Derreck Robinson, American football player |
| 3rd of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Poewe, South African swimmer |
| 3rd of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Ashley Hansen, Australian Rules footballer |
| 3rd of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Roberson, American football player |
| 3rd of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Valerio Bernabo, Italian rugby player |
| 3rd of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Semin, Russian ice hockey player |
| 3rd of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Hayley Marie Norman. American actress |
| 3rd of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Santonio Holmes, American football player |
| 3rd of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Morrow, Northern Irish footballer |
| 3rd of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jed Collins, American football player |
| 3rd of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Stacie Orrico, American singer |
| 3rd of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Riccardo Bocchino, Italian rugby player |
| 3rd of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Christa-Elizabeth Goulakos, Greek-Canadian ice dancer |
| 3rd of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Jan-Arie van der Heijden, Dutch footballer |
| 3rd of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Morrison, English footballer |
| 3rd of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Jankovic, Greek-Serbian basketball player |
| 3rd of March 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Jordy Lucas, Australian actress |
| 3rd of March 1111 | DEATH | Bohemund I, Prince of Antioch |
| 3rd of March 1239 | DEATH | Vladimir III Rurikovich, Grand Prince of Kiev (Born 1187) |
| 3rd of March 1459 | DEATH | Ausias March, Catalan poet (Born 1397) |
| 3rd of March 1554 | DEATH | John Frederick, Elector of Saxony (Born 1503) |
| 3rd of March 1703 | DEATH | Robert Hooke, English scientist (Born 1635) |
| 3rd of March 1706 | DEATH | Johann Pachelbel, German composer (Born 1653) |
| 3rd of March 1707 | DEATH | Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India (Born 1618) |
| 3rd of March 1717 | DEATH | Pierre Allix, French Protestant pastor (Born 1641) |
| 3rd of March 1744 | DEATH | Jean Barbeyrac, French jurist (Born 1674) |
| 3rd of March 1765 | DEATH | William Stukeley, English archaeologist (Born 1687) |
| 3rd of March 1768 | DEATH | Nicola Porpora, Italian composer (Born 1686) |
| 3rd of March 1792 | DEATH | Robert Adam, Scottish architect (Born 1728) |
| 3rd of March 1850 | DEATH | Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (Born 1806) |
| 3rd of March 1894 | DEATH | Ned Williamson, American baseball player (Born 1857) |
| 3rd of March 1899 | DEATH | William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (Born 1827) |
| 3rd of March 1920 | DEATH | Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (Born 1840) |
| 3rd of March 1927 | DEATH | J.G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh motor-racing driver (Born 1884) |
| 3rd of March 1927 | DEATH | Mikhail Artsybashev, Russian writer (Born 1878) |
| 3rd of March 1929 | DEATH | Katharine Wright, teacher, sister of the Wright Brothers (Born 1874) |
| 3rd of March 1932 | DEATH | Eugen d'Albert, German composer (Born 1864) |
| 3rd of March 1943 | DEATH | George Thompson, English cricketer (Born 1877) |
| 3rd of March 1953 | DEATH | James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer (Born 1875) |
| 3rd of March 1959 | DEATH | Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (Born 1906) |
| 3rd of March 1961 | DEATH | Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (Born 1887) |
| 3rd of March 1966 | DEATH | William Frawley, American actor (Born 1887) |
| 3rd of March 1966 | DEATH | Alice Pearce, American actress (Born 1917) |
| 3rd of March 1966 | DEATH | Joseph Fields, American playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, and film producer (Born 1895) |
| 3rd of March 1977 | DEATH | Percy Marmont, British/American actor (Born 1883) |
| 3rd of March 1982 | DEATH | Georges Perec, French writer (Born 1936) |
| 3rd of March 1983 | DEATH | Herge, Belgian comics creator (Born 1907) |
| 3rd of March 1983 | DEATH | Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer (Born 1905) |
| 3rd of March 1987 | DEATH | Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and comedian (Born 1913) |
| 3rd of March 1988 | DEATH | Sewall Wright, American biologist (Born 1889) |
| 3rd of March 1990 | DEATH | Gerard Blitz, Belgian waterpoloist and entrepreneur (Born 1912) |
| 3rd of March 1991 | DEATH | Arthur Murray, American dancer and dance instructor (Born 1895) |
| 3rd of March 1993 | DEATH | Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (Born 1910) |
| 3rd of March 1993 | DEATH | Albert Sabin, Polish-born medical researcher (Born 1906) |
| 3rd of March 1993 | DEATH | Carlos Montoya, flamenco guitarist (Born 1903) |
| 3rd of March 1993 | DEATH | Mel Bradford, American literary critic (Born 1934) |
| 3rd of March 1995 | DEATH | Howard W. Hunter, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Born 1907) |
| 3rd of March 1996 | DEATH | Marguerite Duras, French writer (Born 1914) |
| 3rd of March 1996 | DEATH | John Krol, American cardinal (Born 1910) |
| 3rd of March 1998 | DEATH | Fred Friendly, American broadcast executive (Born 1915) |
| 3rd of March 1999 | DEATH | Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1904) |
| 3rd of March 2000 | DEATH | Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (Born 1904) |
| 3rd of March 2001 | DEATH | Eugene Sledge, U.S. Marine and American author (Born 1923) |
| 3rd of March 2001 | DEATH | Louis Edmonds, American actor (Born 1923) |
| 3rd of March 2002 | DEATH | Harlan Howard, American musician (Born 1927) |
| 3rd of March 2003 | DEATH | Horst Buchholz, German actor (Born 1933) |
| 3rd of March 2003 | DEATH | Luis Marden, American photojournalist (Born 1913) |
| 3rd of March 2003 | DEATH | Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer (Born 1904) |
| 3rd of March 2003 | DEATH | Peter Smithson, English architect (Born 1923) |
| 3rd of March 2004 | DEATH | Cecily Adams, American actress and casting director (Born 1958) |
| 3rd of March 2005 | DEATH | Max M. Fisher, American philanthropist (Born 1928) |
| 3rd of March 2006 | DEATH | Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (Born 1923) |
| 3rd of March 2006 | DEATH | William Herskovic, Holocaust hero and philanthropist (Born 1914) |
| 3rd of March 2007 | DEATH | Osvaldo Cavandoli, Italian cartoonist, creator of La Linea (Born 1920) |
| 3rd of March 2008 | DEATH | Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor (Born 1921) |
| 3rd of March 2010 | DEATH | Michael Foot, British politician (Born 1913) |
| 3rd of March 2010 | DEATH | Keith Alexander, British football manager (Born 1956) |
| 3rd of March 2011 | DEATH | May Cutler, Canadian politician and publisher (Born 1923) |