page_title: 1926
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 1926 / Births / March
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Dichterlesung Siegfried Lenz in der Landesvertr. Hamburg
context_page_description: 1926 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1926th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 926th year of the 2nd millennium, the 26th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1920s decade.
context_section_description: March 1
  Robert Clary, French-American actor, author and lecturer
  Pete Rozelle, American National Football League commissioner (d. 1996)
  March 2 – Murray Rothbard, American economist (d. 1995)
  March 3
  Craig Dixon, American athlete
  James Merrill, American poet (d. 1995)
  March 4
  Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma, French royal, businessman (d. 2018)
  Richard DeVos, American billionaire, co-founder of Amway (d. 2018)
  Fran Warren, American popular singer (d. 2013)
  March 5 – Joan Shawlee, American actress (d. 1987)
  March 6
  Alan Greenspan, American economist, Federal Reserve Chairman
  Yoshimi Osawa, Japanese judoka
  Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director (d. 2016)
  March 7 – Chemmanam Chacko, Indian poet (d. 2018)
  March 8 – Sultan Salahuddin of Selangor (d. 2001)
  March 10 – Aleksandr Zatsepin, Soviet and Russian composer
  March 11
  Ralph Abernathy, African-American civil rights leader (d. 1990)
  Thomas Starzl, American physician (d. 2017)
  March 12 – George Ariyoshi, American politician, lawyer
  March 13 – Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (d. 2003)
  March 14 – Carlos Heitor Cony, Brazilian journalist, writer (d. 2018)
  March 16
  Edwar al-Kharrat, Egyptian novelist, writer and critic (d. 2015)
  Jerry Lewis, American comedian, humanitarian and philanthropist (d. 2017)
  March 17
  Jaynne Bittner, American female baseball player (d. 2017)
  Siegfried Lenz, German writer (d. 2014)
  March 18
  Peter Graves, American actor (d. 2010)
  Tan Chin Nam, Malaysian businessman and racehorse owner (d. 2018)
  March 19 – Tony Collins, English football player and manager
  March 21
  Carlos Almenar Otero, Venezuelan singer, songwriter (d. 2018)
  Heikki Hasu, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier
  March 23 – Berta Loran, Brazilian-Polish actress
  March 24
  Dario Fo, Italian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
  Desmond Connell, Irish cardinal (d. 2017)
  Ventsislav Yankov, Bulgarian pianist
  March 25
  Wiesława Mazurkiewicz, Polish actress
  László Papp, Hungarian boxer (d. 2003)
  Gene Shalit, American film and book critic and television personality
  March 26 – Aldo Tarlao, Italian Olympic rower (d. 2018)
  March 27 – Harry Connick Sr., American attorney
  March 28 – Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, Spanish aristocrat (d. 2014)
  March 30
  Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman (d. 2018)
  Peter Marshall, American singer, television host (Hollywood Squares)
  Sydney Chaplin, American actor (d. 2009)
  March 31 – John Fowles, English writer (d. 2005)
caption: Siegfried Lenz
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