| 23191 | March 2 | Event | 2004 – War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500. |
| 23192 | March 2 | Event | 2012 – A tornado outbreak occurred over a large section of the Southern United States and into the Ohio Valley region, resulting in 40 tornado-related fatalities. |
| 23193 | March 2 | Birth | 1409 – Jean II, Duke of Alençon (d. 1476) |
| 23194 | March 2 | Birth | 1459 – Pope Adrian VI (d. 1523) |
| 23195 | March 2 | Birth | 1545 – Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and scholar, founded the Bodleian Library (d. 1613) |
| 23196 | March 2 | Birth | 1578 – George Sandys, English poet (d. 1644) |
| 23197 | March 2 | Birth | 1705 – William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish lawyer, judge, and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1793) |
| 23198 | March 2 | Birth | 1760 – Camille Desmoulins, French journalist and politician (d. 1794) |
| 23199 | March 2 | Birth | 1769 – DeWitt Clinton, American politician, 6th Governor of New York (d. 1828) |
| 23200 | March 2 | Birth | 1770 – Louis-Gabriel Suchet, French general (d. 1826) |
| 23201 | March 2 | Birth | 1779 – Joel Roberts Poinsett, American physician and politician, 15th United States Secretary of War (d. 1851) |
| 23202 | March 2 | Birth | 1793 – Sam Houston, American soldier and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Texas (d. 1863) |
| 23203 | March 2 | Birth | 1800 – Yevgeny Baratynsky, Russian-Italian poet and philosopher (d. 1844) |
| 23204 | March 2 | Birth | 1810 – Pope Leo XIII (d. 1903) |
| 23205 | March 2 | Birth | 1816 – Alexander Bullock, American lawyer and politician, 26th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1882) |
| 23206 | March 2 | Birth | 1817 – János Arany, Hungarian journalist and poet (d. 1882) |
| 23207 | March 2 | Birth | 1820 – Multatuli, Dutch-German author (d. 1887) |
| 23208 | March 2 | Birth | 1824 – Bedřich Smetana, Czech pianist and composer (d. 1884) |
| 23209 | March 2 | Birth | 1829 – Carl Schurz, German-American general, lawyer, and politician, 13th United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1906) |
| 23210 | March 2 | Birth | 1836 – Henry Billings Brown, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1913) |
| 23211 | March 2 | Birth | 1842 – Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer, art collector, and philanthropist (d. 1914) |
| 23212 | March 2 | Birth | 1843 – Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy (d. 1911) |
| 23213 | March 2 | Birth | 1846 – Marie Roze, French soprano (d. 1926) |
| 23214 | March 2 | Birth | 1849 – Robert Means Thompson, American commander, lawyer, and businessman (d. 1930) |
| 23215 | March 2 | Birth | 1859 – Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright (d. 1916) |
| 23216 | March 2 | Birth | 1860 – Susanna M. Salter, American politician (d. 1961) |
| 23217 | March 2 | Birth | 1862 – John Jay Chapman, American lawyer, author, and poet (d. 1933) |
| 23218 | March 2 | Birth | 1862 – Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Russian physicist and seismologist (d. 1916) |
| 23219 | March 2 | Birth | 1876 – Pope Pius XII (d. 1958) |
| 23220 | March 2 | Birth | 1878 – William Kissam Vanderbilt II, American sailor and race car driver (d. 1944) |