René Descartes (; Latinized form: Renatus Cartesius ; adjectival form: " Cartesian "; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650 ) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic.

* March 14 – René Bull, Irish illustrator ( b. 1872 )

* March 17 – René Clément, French film director ( b. 1913 )

* March 15 – René Clair, French film director ( b. 1898 )

* March 14 – René Le Bossu, French critic ( b. 1631 )

* March 29 – Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer ( b. 1714 )

* March 31 – René Descartes, French philosopher and Mathematician ( d. 1650 )

* March 16 – René Le Bossu, French critic ( d. 1680 )

* March 27 – In North America ( Canada ), explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle is released from the Society of Jesus ( Jesuits ).

René Dumont ( March 13, 1904 – June 18, 2001 ) was a French engineer in agronomy, a sociologist, and an environmental politician.

No certain records of his movements exist for the period from March 1478 until 1483, but if he remained in the employ of René he would have transferred to Paris in 1481 along with the rest of the chapel.

# René of Savoy ( 1468-31 March 1525 ), served as Governor of Nice and Provence, known as the Grand Bastard of Savoy and father-in-law of Anne, 1st Duc de Montmorency

René Felber ( born 14 March 1933 ) is a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council ( 1987-1993 ).

René Daumal ( 16 March 1908 – 21 May 1944 ) was a French spiritual para-surrealist writer and poet.

The Death of René Lévesque, Talonbooks, March 10, 72 pages ISBN 0-88922-480-3

Charles Forbes René de Montalembert ( March 18, 1810 London-March 13, 1870 Paris ) was a French publicist and historian.

Under the Parti Québécois ( PQ ) government of René Lévesque, he served as Minister of State of Economic Development from February 2, 1977 to March 12, 1981.

On March 10, 2011 Judge René A. Chouteau rejected the Non-Industrial Timber Management Plan ( NTMP ) that Cal-Fire had approved.

On March 19, 2004, Quebec became the third province in Canada to legally perform a same-sex marriage, following a court challenge brought by Michael Hendricks and René Leboeuf.

* Photograph of Nauruan President René Harris ( at right ) at a meeting with South African President Thabo Mbeki, 4 March 2002.

* 17 March 1914 – René Renoult succeeds Caillaux as Finance Minister.

René Jules Gustave Coty (; 20 March 188222 November 1962 ) was President of France from 1954 to 1959.

* René Chartrand, French Fortresses in North America 1535 – 1763: Québec, Montréal, Louisbourg and New Orleans ( Fortress 27 ); Osprey Publishing, March 20, 2005.

* S03 E03 René Descartes ( 9 March 2006 )

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (; 17 September 1743 – 28 March 1794 ), known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist whose Condorcet method in voting tally selects the candidate who would beat each of the other candidates in a run-off election.

Nicolas Fouquet, marquis de Belle-Île, vicomte de Melun et Vaux ( January 27, 1615 – March 23, 1680 ) was the Superintendent of Finances in France from 1653 until 1661 under King Louis XIV.

Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (; 23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827 ) was a French mathematician and astronomer whose work was pivotal to the development of mathematical astronomy and statistics.

Louis-Marcelin, marquis de Fontanes ( 6 March 1757 – 17 March 1821 ) was a French poet and politician.

Marc René, marquis de Montalembert ( 16 July 1714 – 29 March 1800 ) was a French military engineer and writer, known for his work on fortifications.

When Dumouriez delivered up to the Austrians the minister of war, the marquis de Beurnonville, in April 1793, Bouchotte, who had bravely defended Cambrai, was called by the Convention to be minister of war, where he remained until 31 March 1794.

José Bernardo de Tagle y Portocarrero, marquis de Torre Tagle and marquis of Trujillo ( 21 March 1779, Lima – 26 September 1825 El Callao ) was a Peruvian soldier and politician, occupying the Peruvian presidency from 1823 to 1824.

Thomas de Mahy, marquis de Favras ( March 26, 1744 – February 19, 1790 ) was a French aristocrat and supporter of the House of Bourbon during the French Revolution.

Charles Louis Huguet, marquis de Sémonville ( 9 March 1759 – 11 August 1839 ) was a French diplomat and politician.

Trophime-Gérard, marquis de Lally-Tollendal ( 5 March 1751 – 11 March 1830 ) was a French politician.

In practice, the Articles were in use beginning in 1777 ; the final draft of the Articles served as the de facto system of government used by the Congress (" the United States in Congress assembled ") until it became de jure by final ratification on March 1, 1781 ; at which point Congress became the Congress of the Confederation.

La Longue Marche à travers la théorie de Galois Long March Through Galois Theory is an approximately 1600-page handwritten manuscript produced by Grothendieck during the years 1980 – 1981, containing many of the ideas leading to the Esquisse d ' un programme ( see below, and also a more detailed entry ), and in particular studying the Teichmüller theory.

He married secondly at Çubuklu, Bosphorus, on 1 March 1910 and divorced in 1913 Hungarian Noblewoman Marianne Török de Szendrö, who took the name Zübeyde Cavidan Hanım ( Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, 8 January 1874-aft.

# Maria Ludovika Auguste Fredericka Therese Franziska Johanna Aloysia Nepomucena Ignatia Anna Josepha Xaveria Franziska de Paula Barbara ( b. Dresden, 14 March 1795-d. Dresden, 25 April 1796 ).

The first three C-295s, designated C-105A Amazonas in Brazilian service, were commissioned into service in a formal ceremony at Base Aérea de Manaus on March 31, 2007.

Berthe Morisot died of pneumonia contracted while attending to her daughter Julie's similar illness on March 2, 1895, in Paris and was interred in the Cimetière de Passy.

In the celebrations marking the return of democracy in March 1990 at Santiago's Estadio Nacional de Chile, the anthem was played in its present melody, raised to F Major ( the Royal Musical Official Version of the anthem ) which is the original melody of the second anthem by Carnicer, but using the 1847 lyrics as text, save for the original chorus.

One of the most significant was the Conspiración de La Escalera ( Ladder Conspiracy ), which started in March 1843 and continued until 1844.

Charles Farrar Browne ( April 26, 1834 – March 6, 1867 ) was a United States humor writer, better known under his nom de plume, Artemus Ward.

When Stalin died on 5 March 1953, Georgy Malenkov, a Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers succeeded him as Chairman and as the de facto leading figure of the Presidium ( the renamed Politburo ).

Desi Arnaz was born Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III in Santiago de Cuba to Desiderio Alberto Arnaz II ( March 8, 1894-May 31, 1973 ) and his wife Dolores de Acha ( April 2, 1896-October 24, 1988 ).

On 4 March 2004, at a gala ceremony in London, to mark the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association ( FIFA ), the international governing body of football revealed the FIFA 100.

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828 ) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns.

Frederik Willem de Klerk ( born 18 March 1936 ), often known as F. W. de Klerk, was the seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994. de Klerk was also leader of the National Party ( which later became the New National Party ) from February 1989 to September 1997.

* 1705 31 March – The Count de Tessé gave up the siege and retired.

On 17 March 1649 a French expedition of 203 men from Martinique, led by Jacques Dyel du Parquet who had been the Governor of Martinique on behalf of the Compagnie des Iles de l ' Amerique ( Company of the Isles of America ) since 1637, landed at St. Georges Harbour and constructed a fortified settlement, which they named Fort Annunciation.

* Faul, Michel ( 2009 ), Les aventures militaires, littéraires et autres d ' Étienne de Jouy, Editions Seguier, France, March 2009, ISBN 978-2-84049-556-7

Gustave de Molinari ( 3 March 1819 – 28 January 1912 ) was an economist born in Belgium associated with French laissez-faire liberal economists such as Frédéric Bastiat and Hippolyte Castille.

Puccini completed the score of La rondine, to a libretto by Giuseppe Adami in 1916 after two years of work, and it was premiered at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo on 27 March 1917.

Through the efforts of a group called Société d ' Amis des Noirs, of which Raimond and Ogé were prominent leaders, in March 1790 the National Assembly granted full civic rights to the gens de couleur.