- Mar 1 Pieter Valck, Dutch artist and sculptor (d. 1783)
- Mar 18 Joseph Schmitt, German-Dutch composer, born in Gernsheim, Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1791)
- Mar 19 Thomas McKean, American attorney and politician (signed US Declaration of Independence), born in New London, Pennsylvania (d. 1817)
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