page_title: 1912
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 1912 / Births / March
caption_attribution_description: English: Autographed publicity photo of Karl Malden
context_page_description: 1912 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1912th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 912th year of the 2nd millennium, the 12th year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1912, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: March 1 – Boris Chertok, Polish-born Russian rocket designer (d. 2011)
  March 3 – Wally Cassell, Italian-born American actor (d. 2015)
  March 4
  Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (d. 1976)
  Judith Furse, British character actress (d. 1974)
  Carl Marzani, American documentarian (d. 1994)
  March 5
  David Astor, British newspaper publisher (d. 2001)
  Jack Marshall, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1988)
  March 6 – George Webb, British actor (d. 1998)
  March 8
  Joachim Schepke, German submarine commander (d. 1941)
  Geoffrey Alexander Rowley-Conwy, British peer (d. 2017)
  Preston Smith, American politician, Governor of Texas (d. 2003)
  March 9 – Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow, British peer and diplomat (d. 2013)
  March 12 – Irving Layton, Canadian poet (d. 2006)
  March 13 – Charles Schepens, Belgian-American ophthalmologist (d. 2006)
  March 14
  Les Brown, American band leader (d. 2001)
  W. Graham Claytor Jr., American railroad executive (d. 1994)
  W. Willard Wirtz, American administrator (d. 2010)
  March 15 – Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (d. 1982)
  March 16 – Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (d. 1993)
  March 17 – Bayard Rustin, African-American civil rights activist (d. 1987)
  March 18
  Lucien Laurin, Canadian horse trainer (d. 2000)
  Art Gilmore, American radio, television announcer (d. 2010)
  March 19
  Adolf Galland, German general, World War II fighter ace (d. 1996)
  William Frankland, British immunologist (d. 2020)
  March 20 – Ralph Hauenstein, American philanthropist and businessman (d. 2016)
  March 22
  Karl Malden, American actor (d. 2009)
  Alfred Schwarzmann, German artistic gymnast (d. 2000)
  March 23 – Wernher von Braun, German-born American physicist, engineer (d. 1977)
  March 24 – Dorothy Height, American civil rights activist (d. 2010)
  March 25 – Jean Vilar, French stage actor (d. 1971)
  March 27 – James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
  March 29 – Hanna Reitsch, German aviator (d. 1979)
  March 31 – William Lederer, American writer (d. 2009)
caption: Karl Malden
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