| 23641 | March 3 | Birth | 1923 – Doc Watson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012) |
| 23642 | March 3 | Birth | 1924 – Lys Assia, Swiss singer and dancer |
| 23643 | March 3 | Birth | 1924 – Tomiichi Murayama, Japanese soldier and politician, 52nd Prime Minister of Japan |
| 23644 | March 3 | Birth | 1924 – Lilian Velez, Filipino actress and singer (d. 1948) |
| 23645 | March 3 | Birth | 1926 – James Merrill, American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1995) |
| 23646 | March 3 | Birth | 1927 – Pierre Aubert, Swiss lawyer and politician |
| 23647 | March 3 | Birth | 1927 – Nicolas Freeling, English author (d. 2003) |
| 23648 | March 3 | Birth | 1928 – Joe Conley, American actor (d. 2013) |
| 23649 | March 3 | Birth | 1928 – Pierre Michelot, French bassist (Play Bach Trio) (d. 2005) |
| 23650 | March 3 | Birth | 1930 – Alfredo Alcón, Argentinian actor (d. 2014) |
| 23651 | March 3 | Birth | 1930 – Heiner Geißler, German lawyer and politician |
| 23652 | March 3 | Birth | 1930 – Ion Iliescu, Romanian engineer and politician, 2nd President of Romania |
| 23653 | March 3 | Birth | 1930 – K. S. Rajah, Singaporean lawyer and politician (d. 2010) |
| 23654 | March 3 | Birth | 1933 – Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor and singer (d. 2013) |
| 23655 | March 3 | Birth | 1933 – Marco Antonio Muñiz, Mexican singer and actor |
| 23656 | March 3 | Birth | 1933 – Lee Radziwill, American socialite |
| 23657 | March 3 | Birth | 1934 – Peter Brooke, Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, English politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland |
| 23658 | March 3 | Birth | 1934 – Jimmy Garrison, American bassist and educator (d. 1976) |
| 23659 | March 3 | Birth | 1935 – Michael Walzer, American philosopher and academic |
| 23660 | March 3 | Birth | 1935 – Zhelyu Zhelev, Bulgarian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of Bulgaria (d. 2015) |
| 23661 | March 3 | Birth | 1936 – Preston King, American activist and academic |
| 23662 | March 3 | Birth | 1937 – Bobby Driscoll, American actor and singer (d. 1968) |
| 23663 | March 3 | Birth | 1939 – Larry Burkett, American author and radio host (d. 2003) |
| 23664 | March 3 | Birth | 1940 – Germán Castro Caycedo, Colombian author and journalist |
| 23665 | March 3 | Birth | 1940 – Perry Ellis, American fashion designer, founded Perry Ellis (d. 1986) |
| 23666 | March 3 | Birth | 1940 – Jean-Paul Proust, French-Monacan police officer and politician, 21st Minister of State of Monaco (d. 2010) |
| 23667 | March 3 | Birth | 1940 – Owen Spencer-Thomas, English minister and journalist |
| 23668 | March 3 | Birth | 1942 – Mike Pender, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Searchers and Mike Pender's Searchers) |
| 23669 | March 3 | Birth | 1944 – Lee Holdridge, Haitian-American composer and conductor |
| 23670 | March 3 | Birth | 1945 – George Miller, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter |