- Mar 1 François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French revolutionary (d. 1794)
- Mar 2 Camille Desmoulins, French journalist, pamphleteer and revolutionary leader (his oratory led to storming of the Bastille), born in Guise, France (d. 1794)
- Mar 27 Ishmail Spicer, American publisher, music teacher, and composer, born in Bozrah, Connecticut (d. 1832)
- Mar 27 Marie-Jean Auguste Vestris, French ballet dancer, born in Paris (d. 1842)
- Mar 28 Thomas Clarkson, English abolitionist (Negro Emancipation), born in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England (d. 1846)
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