- Mar 1 Albin Francisco Schoepf, Polish-American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Podgórze, Kraków, Poland (d. 1886)
- Mar 1 Charles Champion Gilbert, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Zanesville, Ohio (d. 1903)
- Mar 4 Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician (d. 1880)
- Mar 7 Victor Masse, French composer, born in Lorient, France (d. 1884)
Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822-1882)
Mar 8 Polish engineer, businessman and inventor who built the 1st modern oil refinery and invented the kerosene lamp, born in Zaduszniki, Mielec, Austrian Empire [1]
- Mar 10 Willem Roelofs, Dutch painter and lithographer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1897)
- Mar 11 Allison Nelson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1862)
- Mar 13 Moritz von Strachwitz, German poet, born in Peterwitz, Silesia (d. 1847)
- Mar 14 Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Empress of Brazil (1843-89), born in Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (d. 1889)
- Mar 16 John Pope, American Major General (Union Army), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1892)
- Mar 16 Marie-Rosalie "Rosa" Bonheur, French animalière painter (The Horse Fair; Buffalo Bill), and sculptor, born in Bordeaux, France (d. 1899)
- Mar 22 Ahmed Cevdet Paşa, Turkish statesman and historian (Minister of Justice), born in Lovča, Ottoman Empire (d. 1895)
- Mar 22 Isaac Dignus Fransen van de Putte, Dutch politician (Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1866), born in Goes, Netherlands (d. 1902)
- Mar 22 Seth Williams, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Augusta, Maine (d. 1866)
- Mar 29 Joseph Quinaux, Belgian painter (landscape paintings), born in Namen, Belgium (d. 1895)
- Mar 31 Rafael Hernando, Spanish composer of zarzuelas, born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1888)
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