Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year.
OGDEN NASH
1 March
Shiva Balak Misra
Geologist, writer and social worker
1 March
R P Goenka
Founder of the RPG Group
1 March
C D Gopinath
Member of India's first Test-winning team
2 March
Anandji Virji Shah
One-half of the music composer duo, Kalyanji-Anandji
2 March
Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan
Violinist, composer; known for his fingering techniques
2 March
Sheila Ramani
Known for her role in Taxi Driver and other films
3 March
Jamsetji Tata
Businessman and philanthropist
3 March
Shankar Mahadevan
Singer and composer
3 March
Jaspal Bhatti
Satirist from the 80s
3 March
Harnaaz Sandhu
Miss Universe 2021
4 March
Rohan Bopanna
Tennis star; Oldest man to reach a major final
4 March
Dina Pathak
Theatre and film personality
4 March
Komal Kothari
Folklorist and ethnomusicologist
5 March
Alyque Padamsee
Film and theatre actor, ad filmmaker
5 March
Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee
First Indian chief of IAF
5 March
Neeta Lulla
Stylist, costume designer for Bollywood
6 March
Mahadeva Lal Schroff
Father of pharmacy education
6 March
Sharad Devarajan
Co-created Pavitr Prabhakar, the Indian Spider-Man
6 March
V S Mani
Expert in the field of public international law
6 March
Taranath Rao
One of the nation's premier percussionists
7 March
Nari Contractor
The youngest Test captain when he took over at age 26
7 March
Sadhana Sargam
Recipient of the National Film Award
7 March
Anupam Kher
Career spanning three decades and over 500 films
8 March
Harmanpreet Kaur
Current captain of the women's Test cricket team
8 March
Jimmy George
"God" of Indian volleyball
8 March
Sahir Ludhianvi
Poet and film song lyricist
8 March
P Lankesh
National award winning director of movies such as Pallavi, Samskara, Avva. Playwright, journalist, founder of Lankesh Patrike
9 March
Zakir Hussain
Tabla maestro; member of the band Shakti
9 March
Shashi Tharoor
Writer, Intellectual, Bureaucrat
9 March
Rina Dhaka
Fashion designer
10 March
Udupi Ramachandra Rao
Former head of ISRO
10 March
Niranjan Goswami
Mime artist, director
10 March
Bhupen Khakhar
India's first "pop" artist
11 March
Vijay Hazare
The man who led India to its first Test win
11 March
Pradeep Kar
One of the earliest of India's dotcom gurus
11 March
Vinod Dua
First journalist to get the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award for electronic media
12 March
Anish Kapoor
British-Indian sculptor
12 March
Shreya Ghoshal
Playback singer
12 March
Tony Joseph
Author of the best-seller Early Indians
13 March
Derek O'Brien
Quiz master and host of Bournvita Quiz Contest
13 March
Gangubai Hangal
Hindustani classical singer
13 March
Nimrat Kaur
Tasneem Qureshi in Homeland
13 March
Preeja Sreedharan
Long-distance runner, holds the national record in 10,000 metres and 5000 metres
14 March
Aamir Khan
Award-winning actor; "Mr. Perfectionist"
14 March
Irom Sharmila
'The longest hunger striker in the world' - 16 years
14 March
Helen Mary
Hockey goalie of the gold medal-winning team from Manchester 2002 (Commonwealth Games)
15 March
Ila Arun
Folk-pop singer
15 March
Yo Yo Honey Singh
Rapper and producer
15 March
Sunetra Gupta
Novelist; Epidemiologist
15 March
Alia Bhatt
Actor in movies such as Student of the year, Raazi, 2 States, Gully boy
16 March
A K Ramanujan
Poet, scholar, linguist
16 March
Potti Sriramulu
Instrumental in Andhra Pradesh obtaining statehood
16 March
Bhaskar Chandavarkar
Sitar player and composer
16 March
Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi
Nawab of Pataudi; captain of Indian cricket team, one among a few to have played Test cricket for two countries
16 March
Gen Bipin Rawat
First Chief of Defence Staff; former Chief of the Indian Army
17 March
Saina Nehwal
Former world No. 1 in badminton
17 March
Kalpana Chawla
The first Indian woman in space
17 March
D V Gundappa
Stalwart of modern Kannada literature
17 March
Puneeth Rajkumar
"Appu"; National award-winning actor in movies such as Bettada Hoovu, Bhakta Prahlada
18 March
Alisha Chinai
Pop singer
18 March
Dayanita Singh
First south Asian to win the Hasselblad award for photography
18 March
Shashi Kapoor
Dadasaheb Phalke Award recipient; actor in movies such as Satyam Shivam Sundaram, Shaan, Deewaar
19 March
Sai Paranjpye
Director, screenwriter
19 March
Palwankar Baloo
One of the greatest spinners from Indian cricket annals
19 March
D K Pattammal
First woman choreographer in Hindi cinema
20 March
Alka Yagnik
Playback singer
20 March
Arjun Atwal
First Indian to win on PGA Tour
20 March
Nisha Millet
First Indian woman to break the one-minute barrier in 100m freestyle swimming
21 March
Bismillah Khan
He made the Shehnai his own
21 March
Shobhana
National award winner who runs a dance school, Kalarpana
21 March
Aribam Syam Sharma
Directed the first Manipuri film to run for 100 days at the box office
22 March
T V Sundaram Iyengar
Industrialist and automobile pioneer
22 March
Surya Sen
Freedom fighter who led the Chittagong armoury raid
22 March
Amiya Bhushan Majumdar
Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Rajnagar
23 March
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Biotechnologist, entrepreneur
23 March
Ram Manohar Lohia
Political leader
23 March
T N Srinivasan
Economist; Padma Bhushan awardee
23 March
Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu
Inventor, manufacturer of India's first electric motor, referred as Edison of India
24 March
Prahlad Kakkar
Advertising mogul
24 March
Satish Acharya
Political cartoonist
24 March
T M Soundararajan
Playback singer in Tamil cinema for over six decades
25 March
S Vijayalakshmi
First Indian woman grand master in chess
25 March
Leslie Claudius
Field hockey player; one of two players to win 4 Olympics golds for field hockey
25 March
Farooq Sheikh
Film and theatre personality
26 March
Mahadevi Varma
A pillar of the Chhayavadi era in Hindi literature.
26 March
Unmukt Chand
Captained India Under-19 to victory in the 2012 Junior World Cup
26 March
Madhoo
Star of Roja and Gentleman
26 March
Prakash Raj
Movie Star
27 March
Ram Charan
One of the highest-paid Telugu film actors
27 March
Leela Dube
Renowned anthropologist
27 March
Mithu Alur
Founder chairperson of The Spastic Society of India
27 March
Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair
Kathakali exponent
28 March
Polly Umrigar
The first Indian to hit a double century in Tests
28 March
T A Sekhar
Head coach of the MRF Pace Foundation for many years
28 March
I V Sasi
Pathbreaking Malayalam film director
29 March
Aditi Ashok
First Indian woman to enter the top 50 in the LPGA tour
29 March
Utpal Dutt
Actor, director, writer-playwright
29 March
Ranjit Hoskote
Poet, art critic, cultural theorist
29 March
M Chinnaswamy
Former President of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), founder of Karnataka State Cricket Association, The cricket stadium in Bangalore is named after him
30 March
Devika Rani
First recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award
30 March
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
Creator of the Bengali detective Byomkesh Bakshi
31 March
Kamala Das
India's "Confessional Poet"
31 March
Anandi Gopal Joshi
First woman doctor of western medicine
31 March
Koneru Humpy
Chess player; youngest woman to become GM, in 2002
31 March
Meira Kumar
First woman speaker
31 March
Ajit Ninan
Known for drawing the Centrestage series of cartoons in India Today
