| 23581 | March 3 | Birth | 1678 – Madeleine de Verchères, Canadian rebel leader (d. 1747) |
| 23582 | March 3 | Birth | 1756 – William Godwin, English journalist and author (d. 1836) |
| 23583 | March 3 | Birth | 1778 – Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1841) |
| 23584 | March 3 | Birth | 1793 – William Macready, English actor and manager (d. 1873) |
| 23585 | March 3 | Birth | 1800 – Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist and paleontologist (d. 1862) |
| 23586 | March 3 | Birth | 1805 – Jonas Furrer, Swiss politician (d. 1861) |
| 23587 | March 3 | Birth | 1816 – William James Blacklock, English-Scottish painter (d. 1858) |
| 23588 | March 3 | Birth | 1816 – Henry Norris, English civil engineer (d. 1878) |
| 23589 | March 3 | Birth | 1819 – Gustave de Molinari, Dutch-Belgian economist and theorist (d. 1912) |
| 23590 | March 3 | Birth | 1825 – Shiranui Kōemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1879) |
| 23591 | March 3 | Birth | 1831 – George Pullman, American engineer and businessman, founded the Pullman Company (d. 1897) |
| 23592 | March 3 | Birth | 1839 – Jamsetji Tata, Indian businessman, founded Tata Group (d. 1904) |
| 23593 | March 3 | Birth | 1841 – John Murray, Canadian-Scottish oceanographer and biologist (d. 1914) |
| 23594 | March 3 | Birth | 1845 – Georg Cantor, Russian-German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1918) |
| 23595 | March 3 | Birth | 1847 – Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-American engineer, invented the Telephone (d. 1922) |
| 23596 | March 3 | Birth | 1848 – Adelaide Neilson, English actress (d. 1880) |
| 23597 | March 3 | Birth | 1860 – John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player and manager (d. 1925) |
| 23598 | March 3 | Birth | 1863 – Arthur Machen, Welsh actor and author (d. 1947) |
| 23599 | March 3 | Birth | 1866 – Fred A. Busse, American lawyer and politician, 39th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1914) |
| 23600 | March 3 | Birth | 1868 – Émile Chartier, French philosopher and journalist (d. 1951) |
| 23601 | March 3 | Birth | 1869 – Henry Wood, English conductor (d. 1944) |
| 23602 | March 3 | Birth | 1871 – Maurice Garin, Italian-French cyclist (d. 1957) |
| 23603 | March 3 | Birth | 1873 – William Green, American union leader and politician (d. 1952) |
| 23604 | March 3 | Birth | 1878 – Leopold Jessner, German director and producer (d. 1945) |
| 23605 | March 3 | Birth | 1879 – József Klekl, Slovene-Hungarian journalist and priest (d. 1936) |
| 23606 | March 3 | Birth | 1880 – Florence Auer, American actress and screenwriter (d. 1962) |
| 23607 | March 3 | Birth | 1880 – Yōsuke Matsuoka, Japanese politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Japan (d. 1946) |
| 23608 | March 3 | Birth | 1882 – Charles Ponzi, Italian businessman (d. 1949) |
| 23609 | March 3 | Birth | 1883 – Cyril Burt, English psychologist and geneticist (d. 1971) |
| 23610 | March 3 | Birth | 1886 – Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (d. 1968) |