- Mar 1 Gabriele dell' Addolorata [Francesco Possenti], Italian priest, saint and mystic, born in Assisi (d. 1862)
- Mar 2 David Duffle Wood, American blind composer (organist and choir master St. Stephen's Episcopal Church), born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1910)
- Mar 3 George William Hill, American astronomer (calculated Moon's orbit) and considered to be the greatest master of celestial mechanics of his time, born in New York (d. 1914)
- Mar 4 Paul Lacôme, French composer, born in Le Houga, France (d. 1920)
- Mar 11 Ōkuma Shigenobu, Japanese politician (Prime Minister of Japan 1898, 1914-1916), born in Saga, Japan (d. 1922)
- Mar 12 William Perkin, English chemist (discovered aniline dyes), born in London, England (d. 1907)
- Mar 15 Alice Cunningham Fletcher, American ethnologist and anthropologist who studied native American culture (advocated for Dawes Act), born in Havana, Cuba (d. 1923)
- Mar 15 Karl Davydov, Russian cellist, and composer, born in Goldingen, Russian Empire (d. 1889)
- Mar 18 Jan Stobbaerts, Belgian painter, born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1914)
- Mar 31 Léon Dierx, French poet (Aspirations; Les Amants), born in Saint-Denis, France (d. 1912)
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