| 23251 | March 2 | Birth | 1921 – Kazimierz Górski, Polish footballer and coach (d. 2006) |
| 23252 | March 2 | Birth | 1921 – Ernst Haas, Austrian-American photographer and journalist (d. 1986) |
| 23253 | March 2 | Birth | 1922 – Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, American saxophonist (d. 1986) |
| 23254 | March 2 | Birth | 1922 – Bill Quackenbush, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 1999) |
| 23255 | March 2 | Birth | 1923 – Basil Hume, English cardinal (d. 1999) |
| 23256 | March 2 | Birth | 1923 – Orrin Keepnews, American songwriter and producer (d. 2015) |
| 23257 | March 2 | Birth | 1923 – Robert H. Michel, American soldier and politician |
| 23258 | March 2 | Birth | 1923 – Dave Strack, American basketball player and coach (d. 2014) |
| 23259 | March 2 | Birth | 1924 – Cal Abrams, American baseball player (d. 1997) |
| 23260 | March 2 | Birth | 1924 – Renos Apostolidis, Greek philologist, author, and critic (d. 2004) |
| 23261 | March 2 | Birth | 1926 – Bernard Agré, Ivorian cardinal (d. 2014) |
| 23262 | March 2 | Birth | 1926 – Murray Rothbard, American economist and historian (d. 1995) |
| 23263 | March 2 | Birth | 1927 – Roger Walkowiak, French cyclist and economist |
| 23264 | March 2 | Birth | 1928 – John S. Romanides, Greek priest and author (d. 2001) |
| 23265 | March 2 | Birth | 1929 – Donald Gosling, English admiral and businessman |
| 23266 | March 2 | Birth | 1930 – John Cullum, American actor and singer |
| 23267 | March 2 | Birth | 1930 – Emma Penella, Spanish actress (d. 2007) |
| 23268 | March 2 | Birth | 1931 – Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian lawyer and politician, President of the Soviet Union, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 23269 | March 2 | Birth | 1931 – Tom Wolfe, American journalist and author |
| 23270 | March 2 | Birth | 1932 – Gun Hägglund, Swedish journalist and translator (d. 2011) |
| 23271 | March 2 | Birth | 1934 – Dottie Rambo, American singer-songwriter (The Rambos) (d. 2008) |
| 23272 | March 2 | Birth | 1935 – Gene Stallings, American football player and coach |
| 23273 | March 2 | Birth | 1935 – Al Waxman, Canadian actor and director (d. 2001) |
| 23274 | March 2 | Birth | 1936 – Haroon Ahmed, Pakistani-English engineer and academic |
| 23275 | March 2 | Birth | 1936 – John Tusa, Czech-English journalist and academic |
| 23276 | March 2 | Birth | 1937 – Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algerian soldier and politician, 5th President of Algeria |
| 23277 | March 2 | Birth | 1937 – Denny Crum, American basketball player and coach |
| 23278 | March 2 | Birth | 1938 – Ricardo Lagos, Chilean economist, lawyer, and politician, 33rd President of Chile |
| 23279 | March 2 | Birth | 1938 – Lawrence Payton, American singer-songwriter and producer (Four Tops) (d. 1997) |
| 23280 | March 2 | Birth | 1939 – Jan Howard Finder, American author and academic (d. 2013) |