- Mar 1 Friedrich Grutzmacher, German cellist and composer, born in Dessau, Germany (d. 1903)
- Mar 7 Orlando Metcalfe Poe, American engineer and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Navarre, Ohio (d. 1895)
- Mar 10 William Henry Penrose, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born at Madison Barracks in Sackett's Harbor, New York (d. 1903)
- Mar 11 Franz Melde, German physicist (Melde test), born in Großenlüder (d. 1901)
- Mar 11 William Ruffin Cox, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1919)
- Mar 12 Charles Boycott, Irish estate manager (whose workers refused to work for him amid Irish rent and land issues, origin of the term "boycott"), born in Burgh St. Peter, England (d. 1897)
- Mar 13 Alberto Randegger, Italian composer, born in Trieste, Austrian Empire (d. 1911)
- Mar 16 Charles Doolittle, American general (Union volunteer), born in Burlington, Vermont (d. 1903)
- Mar 17 Moncure Daniel Conway, American minister, abolitionist and writer (Life of Thomas Paine), born in Stafford County, Virginia (d. 1907) [1]
- Mar 17 Walter Quintin Gresham, American statesman, jurist, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Lanesville, Indiana (d. 1895)
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