- Mar 8 João de Deus [Sao Bartolomeu de Messines], Portuguese poet (Flores do Campo), born in Algarve, Portugal (d. 1896)
- Mar 12 William Felix Brantley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1870)
- Mar 15 Élisée Reclus, French geographer (d. 1905)
- Mar 15 Paul von Heyse, German writer (Nobel Prize for Literature 1910), born in Berlin, German Federation (d. 1914)
- Mar 18 Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, French historian and sociologist (The Ancient City), born in Paris (d. 1889)
- Mar 20 Eugene Asa Carr, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Hamburg, New York (d. 1910)
- Mar 24 Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (d. 1889)
- Mar 25 Julius Caesar, English cricket batsman (first English tours to North America 1859-60, Australia & NZ 1864-5; Surrey CCC), born in Godalming. England (d. 1878)
- Mar 26 Eliza Laurillard, Dutch vicar, poet and writer, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1908)
- Mar 26 John Rogers Thomas, American composer, born in Newport, Rhode Island (d. 1896)
- Mar 30 Auguste Tolbecque, French-Belgian cellist instrument maker, and composer, born in Paris, France (d. 1919)
- Mar 30 Julius Bahnsen, German philosopher (characterology), born in Tønder, Schleswig (d. 1881)
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