- Mar 1 Augustus Pugin, English-born architect (d. 1852)
- Mar 6 Aaron Lufkin Dennison 'Father of American watchmaking', American watch manufacturer and businessman (Tremont Watch Company), born in Freeport, Maine (d. 1895)
- Mar 9 Jakob Eduard Schmolzer, Austrian composer, born in Graz, Austria (d. 1886)
- Mar 10 Victor Tesch, Belgian industrialist and politician, born in Messancy, Belgium (d. 1892)
- Mar 11 James Speed, Atty Gen (Union), (d. 1887)
- Mar 11 William Vincent Wallace, Irish-American violinist (known as the 'Australian Paganini'), and composer (Maritana), born in Waterford, Ireland (d. 1865)
- Mar 16 Henry Dwight Terry, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 1869)
- Mar 20 George Bibb Crittenden, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1880)
- Mar 22 Stephen Pearl Andrews, American abolitionist, writer, and individualist anarchist, born in Templeton, Massachusetts (d. 1886)
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