- Mar 5 Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, doctor, Massachusetts militia officer, member of the Massachusetts legislature (d. 1819)
- Mar 16 George Clymer, American merchant and Founding Father (signed US Declaration of Independence and US Constitution), born in Philadelphia, British America (d. 1813)
- Mar 19 Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (d. 1824)
- Mar 20 Eligio Celestino, Italian violinist and composer, born in Rome, Papal States (d. 1812)
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