| 29341 | March 16 | Birth | 1909 – Nubar Terziyan, Turkish actor (d. 1994) |
| 29342 | March 16 | Birth | 1911 – Pierre Harmel, Belgian lawyer and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2009) |
| 29343 | March 16 | Birth | 1911 – Josef Mengele, German physician and SS officer (d. 1979) |
| 29344 | March 16 | Birth | 1912 – Pat Nixon, American educator, 39th First Lady of the United States (d. 1993) |
| 29345 | March 16 | Birth | 1915 – Kunihiko Kodaira, Japanese mathematician and academic (d. 1997) |
| 29346 | March 16 | Birth | 1915 – Haldun Taner, Turkish playwright and author (d. 1986) |
| 29347 | March 16 | Birth | 1916 – Sapru, Indian actor (d. 1979) |
| 29348 | March 16 | Birth | 1916 – Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (d. 2004) |
| 29349 | March 16 | Birth | 1916 – Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese engineer and businessman (d. 2010) |
| 29350 | March 16 | Birth | 1917 – Louis C. Wyman, American lawyer and politician (d. 2002) |
| 29351 | March 16 | Birth | 1918 – Frederick Reines, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) |
| 29352 | March 16 | Birth | 1920 – John Addison, English-American soldier and composer (d. 1998) |
| 29353 | March 16 | Birth | 1920 – Dorothea Binz, German SS officer (d. 1947) |
| 29354 | March 16 | Birth | 1920 – Sid Fleischman, American author and screenwriter (d. 2010) |
| 29355 | March 16 | Birth | 1920 – Traudl Junge, German secretary and journalist (d. 2002) |
| 29356 | March 16 | Birth | 1920 – Leo McKern, Australian-English actor (d. 2002) |
| 29357 | March 16 | Birth | 1921 – Grover Klemmer, American sprinter |
| 29358 | March 16 | Birth | 1922 – Harding Lemay, American screenwriter and playwright |
| 29359 | March 16 | Birth | 1924 – Beryl Davis, English-American singer (d. 2011) |
| 29360 | March 16 | Birth | 1925 – Cornell Borchers, Lithuanian-German actress and singer (d. 2014) |
| 29361 | March 16 | Birth | 1925 – Mary Hinkson, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2014) |
| 29362 | March 16 | Birth | 1925 – Ervin Kassai, Hungarian basketball player and referee (d. 2012) |
| 29363 | March 16 | Birth | 1925 – Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist and engineer (d. 2004) |
| 29364 | March 16 | Birth | 1926 – Charles Goodell, American lawyer and politician (d. 1987) |
| 29365 | March 16 | Birth | 1926 – Jerry Lewis, American actor, singer, director, producer, and screenwriter |
| 29366 | March 16 | Birth | 1927 – Ruby Braff, American trumpet player and cornet player (d. 2003) |
| 29367 | March 16 | Birth | 1927 – Vladimir Komarov, Russian pilot, engineer, and astronaut (d. 1967) |
| 29368 | March 16 | Birth | 1927 – Daniel Patrick Moynihan, American sociologist and politician, 12th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2003) |
| 29369 | March 16 | Birth | 1927 – Olga San Juan, American actress and dancer (d. 2009) |
| 29370 | March 16 | Birth | 1928 – Karlheinz Böhm, German-Austrian actor (d. 2014) |