- Mar 3 Jonas Furrer, Swiss lawyer and politician (first president of the Swiss Confederation), born in Winterthur, Switzerland (d. 1861)
- Mar 5 Theodore Labarre, French composer and harpist, born in Paris, France (d. 1870)
- Mar 16 Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (d. 1861)
- Mar 30 Adrien de La Fage, French composer, born in Paris, France (d. 1862)
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