| 24931 | March 5 | Birth | 1871 – Konstantinos Pallis, Greek general (d. 1941) |
| 24932 | March 5 | Birth | 1873 – Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian skier and explorer (d. 1961) |
| 24933 | March 5 | Birth | 1874 – Henry Travers, English-American actor (d. 1965) |
| 24934 | March 5 | Birth | 1879 – William Beveridge, Bangladeshi-English economist and academic (d. 1963) |
| 24935 | March 5 | Birth | 1879 – Andres Larka, Estonian general and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of War (d. 1943) |
| 24936 | March 5 | Birth | 1882 – Dora Marsden, English author and activist (d. 1960) |
| 24937 | March 5 | Birth | 1883 – Marius Barbeau, Canadian ethnographer and academic (d. 1969) |
| 24938 | March 5 | Birth | 1886 – Dong Biwu, Chinese judge and politician, Chairman of the People's Republic of China (d. 1975) |
| 24939 | March 5 | Birth | 1887 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian guitarist and composer (d. 1959) |
| 24940 | March 5 | Birth | 1897 – Set Persson, Swedish politician (d. 1960) |
| 24941 | March 5 | Birth | 1898 – Zhou Enlai, Chinese politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976) |
| 24942 | March 5 | Birth | 1898 – Soong May-ling, Chinese wife of Chiang Kai-shek, 2nd First Lady of China (d. 2003) |
| 24943 | March 5 | Birth | 1898 – Misao Okawa, Japanese super-centenarian (d. 2015) |
| 24944 | March 5 | Birth | 1901 – Louis Kahn, American architect and academic (d. 1974) |
| 24945 | March 5 | Birth | 1904 – Karl Rahner, German priest and theologian (d. 1984) |
| 24946 | March 5 | Birth | 1905 – William Anstruther-Gray, Baron Kilmany, Scottish soldier and politician (d. 1985) |
| 24947 | March 5 | Birth | 1908 – Irving Fiske, American author and playwright (d. 1990) |
| 24948 | March 5 | Birth | 1908 – Rex Harrison, English-American actor and singer (d. 1990) |
| 24949 | March 5 | Birth | 1910 – Momofuku Ando, Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, founded Nissin Foods (d. 2007) |
| 24950 | March 5 | Birth | 1913 – Gangubai Hangal, Indian singer (d. 2009) |
| 24951 | March 5 | Birth | 1914 – Philip Farkas, American horn player (d. 1992) |
| 24952 | March 5 | Birth | 1914 – Ursula Reit, German actress (d. 1998) |
| 24953 | March 5 | Birth | 1915 – Henry Hicks, Canadian academic and politician 16th Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 1990) |
| 24954 | March 5 | Birth | 1915 – Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician and academic (d. 2002) |
| 24955 | March 5 | Birth | 1916 – Jack Hamm, American illustrator (d. 1996) |
| 24956 | March 5 | Birth | 1918 – Tadahiko Hayashi, Japanese photographer (d. 1990) |
| 24957 | March 5 | Birth | 1918 – Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager |
| 24958 | March 5 | Birth | 1918 – Red Storey, Canadian football player, referee, and sportscaster (d. 2006) |
| 24959 | March 5 | Birth | 1918 – James Tobin, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002) |
| 24960 | March 5 | Birth | 1919 – Myron H. Bright, American captain and judge |