| 23611 | March 3 | Birth | 1887 – Lincoln J. Beachey, American pilot (d. 1915) |
| 23612 | March 3 | Birth | 1890 – Edmund Lowe, American actor and singer (d. 1971) |
| 23613 | March 3 | Birth | 1891 – Damaskinos of Athens, Greek archbishop (d. 1949) |
| 23614 | March 3 | Birth | 1891 – Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish guitarist and composer (d. 1982) |
| 23615 | March 3 | Birth | 1893 – Beatrice Wood, American illustrator and potter (d. 1998) |
| 23616 | March 3 | Birth | 1894 – Ethel Grandin, American actress (d. 1988) |
| 23617 | March 3 | Birth | 1895 – Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973) |
| 23618 | March 3 | Birth | 1895 – Matthew Ridgway, American general (d. 1993) |
| 23619 | March 3 | Birth | 1896 – Roy Franklin Nichols, American historian and academic (d. 1973) |
| 23620 | March 3 | Birth | 1898 – Emil Artin, Austrian-German mathematician and academic (d. 1962) |
| 23621 | March 3 | Birth | 1901 – Claude Choules, English-Australian soldier (d. 2011) |
| 23622 | March 3 | Birth | 1903 – Vasily Kozlov, Belarusian general and politician (d. 1967) |
| 23623 | March 3 | Birth | 1906 – Artur Lundkvist, Swedish poet and critic (d. 1991) |
| 23624 | March 3 | Birth | 1910 – Kittens Reichert, American actress (d. 1990) |
| 23625 | March 3 | Birth | 1911 – Jean Harlow, American actress and singer (d. 1937) |
| 23626 | March 3 | Birth | 1911 – Hugues Lapointe, Canadian lawyer and politician, 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1982) |
| 23627 | March 3 | Birth | 1913 – Margaret Bonds, American pianist and composer (d. 1972) |
| 23628 | March 3 | Birth | 1913 – Harold J. Stone, American actor (d. 2005) |
| 23629 | March 3 | Birth | 1914 – Asger Jorn, Danish painter and sculptor (d. 1973) |
| 23630 | March 3 | Birth | 1917 – Sameera Moussa, Egyptian physicist and academic (d. 1952) |
| 23631 | March 3 | Birth | 1917 – Albrecht Fleckenstein, German pharmacologist and physiologist (d. 1992) |
| 23632 | March 3 | Birth | 1918 – John Bunting, Australian public servant and diplomat (d. 1995) |
| 23633 | March 3 | Birth | 1918 – Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007) |
| 23634 | March 3 | Birth | 1920 – Julius Boros, American golfer and accountant (d. 1994) |
| 23635 | March 3 | Birth | 1920 – James Doohan, Canadian-American actor (d. 2005) |
| 23636 | March 3 | Birth | 1920 – Ronald Searle, English-French illustrator (d. 2011) |
| 23637 | March 3 | Birth | 1921 – Diana Barrymore, American actress (d. 1960) |
| 23638 | March 3 | Birth | 1921 – Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz, American surfer and physician (d. 2014) |
| 23639 | March 3 | Birth | 1922 – Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 2002) |
| 23640 | March 3 | Birth | 1923 – Barney Martin, American actor (d. 2005) |