| 23971 | March 4 | Birth | 1729 – Anne d'Arpajon, French wife of Philippe de Noailles (d. 1794) |
| 23972 | March 4 | Birth | 1745 – Charles Dibdin, English actor, playwright, and composer (d. 1814) |
| 23973 | March 4 | Birth | 1745 – Casimir Pulaski, Polish-American general (d. 1779) |
| 23974 | March 4 | Birth | 1756 – Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter and educator (d. 1823) |
| 23975 | March 4 | Birth | 1770 – Joseph Jacotot, French philosopher and academic (d. 1840) |
| 23976 | March 4 | Birth | 1778 – Robert Emmet, Irish commander (d. 1803) |
| 23977 | March 4 | Birth | 1781 – Rebecca Gratz, American educator and philanthropist (d. 1869) |
| 23978 | March 4 | Birth | 1782 – Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss philosopher, author, and academic (d. 1830) |
| 23979 | March 4 | Birth | 1790 – David "Robber" Lewis, American criminal (d. 1820) |
| 23980 | March 4 | Birth | 1793 – Karl Lachmann, German philologist and critic (d. 1851) |
| 23981 | March 4 | Birth | 1815 – Myrtilla Miner, American educator (d. 1864) |
| 23982 | March 4 | Birth | 1817 – Edwards Pierrepont, American lawyer and politician, 34th United States Attorney General (d. 1892) |
| 23983 | March 4 | Birth | 1820 – Francesco Bentivegna, Italian rebel leader (d. 1856) |
| 23984 | March 4 | Birth | 1822 – Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician and academic (d. 1880) |
| 23985 | March 4 | Birth | 1823 – George Caron, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1902) |
| 23986 | March 4 | Birth | 1826 – August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German linguist, ethnographer, and theologian (d. 1907) |
| 23987 | March 4 | Birth | 1826 – John Buford, American general (d. 1863) |
| 23988 | March 4 | Birth | 1826 – Elme Marie Caro, French philosopher and academic (d. 1887) |
| 23989 | March 4 | Birth | 1826 – Theodore Judah, American engineer, founded the Central Pacific Railroad (d. 1863) |
| 23990 | March 4 | Birth | 1828 – Owen Wynne Jones, Welsh clergyman and poet (d. 1870) |
| 23991 | March 4 | Birth | 1838 – Paul Lacôme, French pianist, cellist, and composer (d. 1920) |
| 23992 | March 4 | Birth | 1847 – Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (d. 1904) |
| 23993 | March 4 | Birth | 1851 – Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author and poet (d. 1911) |
| 23994 | March 4 | Birth | 1854 – Napier Shaw, English meteorologist and academic (d. 1945) |
| 23995 | March 4 | Birth | 1856 – Toru Dutt, Indian poet and translator (d. 1877) |
| 23996 | March 4 | Birth | 1856 – Alfred William Rich, English painter, author, and educator (d. 1921) |
| 23997 | March 4 | Birth | 1861 – Arthur Cushman McGiffert, American theologian and author (d. 1933) |
| 23998 | March 4 | Birth | 1862 – Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (d. 1940) |
| 23999 | March 4 | Birth | 1863 – R. I. Pocock, English zoologist and archaeologist (d. 1947) |
| 24000 | March 4 | Birth | 1863 – John Henry Wigmore, American academic and jurist (d. 1943) |