| 24901 | March 5 | Birth | 1326 – Louis I of Hungary (d. 1382) |
| 24902 | March 5 | Birth | 1512 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher (d. 1594) |
| 24903 | March 5 | Birth | 1563 – John Coke, English politician (d. 1644) |
| 24904 | March 5 | Birth | 1575 – William Oughtred, English minister and mathematician (d. 1660) |
| 24905 | March 5 | Birth | 1585 – John George I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1656) |
| 24906 | March 5 | Birth | 1585 – Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (d. 1638) |
| 24907 | March 5 | Birth | 1658 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, French explorer and politician, 3rd Colonial Governor of Louisiana (d. 1730) |
| 24908 | March 5 | Birth | 1693 – Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian and scholar (d. 1754) |
| 24909 | March 5 | Birth | 1696 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770) |
| 24910 | March 5 | Birth | 1703 – Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet and playwright (d. 1768) |
| 24911 | March 5 | Birth | 1713 – Edward Cornwallis, English general and politician, Governor of Gibraltar (d. 1776) |
| 24912 | March 5 | Birth | 1713 – Frederick Cornwallis, English archbishop (d. 1783) |
| 24913 | March 5 | Birth | 1723 – Princess Mary of Great Britain (d. 1773) |
| 24914 | March 5 | Birth | 1739 – Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American colonel and physician (d. 1819) |
| 24915 | March 5 | Birth | 1748 – Jonas Carlsson Dryander, Swedish botanist and biologist (d. 1810) |
| 24916 | March 5 | Birth | 1748 – William Shield, English violinist and composer (d. 1829) |
| 24917 | March 5 | Birth | 1750 – Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison, French scholar and academic (d. 1805) |
| 24918 | March 5 | Birth | 1751 – Jan Křtitel Kuchař, Czech organist, composer, and educator (d. 1829) |
| 24919 | March 5 | Birth | 1794 – Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (d. 1872) |
| 24920 | March 5 | Birth | 1794 – Robert Cooper Grier, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1870) |
| 24921 | March 5 | Birth | 1814 – Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian and academic (d. 1889) |
| 24922 | March 5 | Birth | 1815 – John Wentworth, American journalist and politician, 19th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1888) |
| 24923 | March 5 | Birth | 1817 – Austen Henry Layard, English archaeologist, academic, and politician, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (d. 1894) |
| 24924 | March 5 | Birth | 1836 – Charles Goodnight, American rancher and soldier (d. 1929) |
| 24925 | March 5 | Birth | 1853 – Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (d. 1911) |
| 24926 | March 5 | Birth | 1862 – Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (d. 1934) |
| 24927 | March 5 | Birth | 1867 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th Premier of Quebec (d. 1952) |
| 24928 | March 5 | Birth | 1869 – Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal (d. 1952) |
| 24929 | March 5 | Birth | 1870 – Frank Norris, American journalist and author (d. 1902) |
| 24930 | March 5 | Birth | 1871 – Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-Russian economist and philosopher (d. 1919) |