* March 15 – Shunzhi Emperor of China ( d. c. 1661 )

* March 31 – Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey ( b. 1661 )

* March 25 – Nicholas Hawksmoor, British architect ( b. c. 1661 )

* February 21 ( or March 2 ) Girard Desargues, French mathematician ( d. 1661 )

Mazarin died on 9 March 1661 and it was expected that Louis would appoint another chief minister, as had become the tradition, but instead he shocked the country by announcing he would rule alone.

Richard Zouch also Richard Zouche ( c. 1590 – 1 March 1661 ) was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1624.

On 4 February 1661, he was restored to his judgeship, though he died soon afterwards at his apartments in Doctors ' Commons, London, on 1 March 1661.

Nicholas Hawksmoor ( probably 1661 – 25 March 1736 ) was a British architect born in Nottinghamshire, probably in East Drayton or Ragnall.

* Myles was born about 1629 and died at sea after March 20, 1661.

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.

He was reinstated in the offices he had filled under Charles I ; was invested in 1661 with the Order of the Garter which had been bestowed upon him in 1650, and was advanced to a dukedom on 16 March 1665.

He had a reversionary grant date 5 July 1661, of the command of a troop of horse, and on 24 March 1662, he was made governor of the fort of Harbouling on the river Cork, @ six shillings a day.

* March 12-Michel Le Quien, theologian and historian ( born 1661 )

Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon ( 28 November 1661 – 31 March 1723 ), styled Viscount Cornbury between 1674 and 1709, was Governor of New York and New Jersey between 1701 and 1708, and is perhaps best known for the claims of his cross-dressing while in office.

Cowley's pamphlet on The Advancement of Experimental Philosophy, 1661, immediately preceded the foundation of the Royal Society ; to which Cowley, in March 1667, at the suggestion of John Evelyn, addressed an ode.

On 13 March 1794, the statue of the virgin, made in 1661 out of silver, was melted at the mint of Marseilles at number 22 of Rue Tapis-Vert in the old convent of Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy.

The couple signed their marriage contract at the Palais Royal on 30 March 1661.

He was the only son of Sir Philip Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire ( died 20 March 1688 ), by his first wife, whom he married in 1660, Anne, daughter of Sir William Waller, was born in December 1661 at Stanton Harcourt, and was educated at a school at Shilton, Oxfordshire and at Pembroke College, Oxford.

Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, 8th Earl of Argyll, chief of Clan Campbell, ( March 1607 – 27 May 1661 ) was the de facto head of government in Scotland during most of the conflict known as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, also known as the British Civil War.

Guru Har Rai Sahib Ji ( ; 26 February 1630 – 6 October 1661 ) was the seventh of Ten living Guru Ji ' of the Sikhs who became Guru Ji on 8 March 1644 following in the footsteps of His Grandfather, Guru Har Rai Sahib Ji, nominated Five year old Guru Har Krishan Sahib Ji, His youngest Son as the next Guru Ji of the Sikhs.

Thus, on March 3, 1661, Sorocaba became known as Vila de Nossa Senhora da Ponte de Sorocaba.

William the Conqueror. Paul de Rapin ( 25 March 1661 – 25 April 1725 ), sieur of Thoyras ( and therefore styled Thoyras de Rapin ), was a French historian writing under English patronage.

" To reduce misunderstandings on the date, it was normal in parish registers to place a new year heading after 24 March, for example 1661 had another heading at the end of the following December indicating " 1661 / 62 ".

On 15 March 44 BC, Octavius's adoptive father Julius Caesar was assassinated by a conspiracy led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus.

" He died three days later on March 4 ; Louisa May died only two days after her father.

Anne, the youngest member of the Brontë children, was born on 17 January 1820, at 74 Market Street in Thornton where her father was curate and she was baptised there on 25 March 1820.

On 8 March 1873, at the urging of his father, the twenty-eight-year-old ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá married Fátimih Nahrí of Isfahán ( 1847 – 1938 ) a twenty-five-year-old noblewoman.

Mumy also played the character of young Pip, a boy who enjoyed playing with his father but was always ignored, in the episode " In Praise of Pip " ( September 1963 ), and the character of Billy Bayles, a boy who talks to his dead grandmother through a toy telephone, in the episode " Long Distance Call " ( March 1961 ).

On 23 March 1581 Sir Francis Walsingham advised the Earl of Huntingdon that two days earlier Anne Vavasour, one of the Queen's Maids of Honour, had given birth to a son, and that " the Earl of Oxford is avowed to be the father, who hath withdrawn himself with intent, as it is thought, to pass the seas ".

In March 2001 Russian Independent Television NTV interviewed a previously unknown grandson living in Novokuznetsk, Yuri Davydov, who stated that his father had told him of his lineage, but, was told to keep quiet because of the campaign against Stalin's cult of personality.

His father, Franjo Broz ( 26 November 1860 – 16 December 1936, Zagreb, buried at Mirogoj ), was a Croat, while his mother Marija ( born Javeršek, 25 March 1864, Loka pri Podsredi – 14 January 1918, Kupinec ), was a Slovene.

Born in ` Akká in March 1897, Shoghi Effendi was related to the Báb through his father, Mírzá Hádí Shírází, and to Bahá ' u ' lláh through his mother, Ḍíyá ' íyyih Khánum, the eldest daughter of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.

* 1184: On March 24, Queen Tamar, King of Georgia, accedes to the throne as sole ruler after reigning with her father, George III, for six years.

* March 1 – The first victims of the Bosnian War are a Serb groom's father and an Orthodox Priest in a Sarajevo shooting.

* March 21 – David McCallum, Sr., British violinist and father of actor David McCallum ( b. 1897 )

* March 19 – Ambrosio O ' Higgins, Marquis of Osorno, Spanish viceroy of Peru and Governor of Chile, father of Bernardo O ' Higgins

* March 7 – Stephen Hopkins, founding father of the United States ( d. 1785 )

* March 21 – John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, whose father, the 8th Duke of Argyll, is the serving Secretary of State for India, marries Princess Louise.

* March 31 – Hermann van Pels, German-Dutch father of Peter van Pels, housemate of Anne Frank ( d. 1944 )

* March 13 – Ernest Louis, a grandson of Queen Victoria, becomes Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine on the death of his father, Grand Duke Louis IV.

* March 16 – Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia ( b. 1690 )

* March – Johann van Beethoven, German musician and father of Ludwig van Beethoven ( d. 1792 )

His father prevailed on his relative Innocent VIII to name him cardinal-deacon of Santa Maria in Domnica on 8 March 1489, although he was not allowed to wear the insignia or share in the deliberations of the college until three years later.

On 23 March 1492, he was formally admitted into the Sacred College and took up his residence at Rome, receiving a letter of advice from his father.

* March 31 – Henry II succeeds his father Francis I as King of France.

His father, Amos Mefford Hanks ( born in Glenn County, California, on March 9, 1924 – died in Alameda, California, on January 31, 1992 ), was an itinerant cook.

He subsequently married Bruttia Crispina before accompanying his father to the Danubian front once more in 178, where Marcus Aurelius died on 17 March 180, leaving the 18-year-old Commodus sole emperor.