Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
Mar 3 Scottish-born British-American inventor (telephone), born in Edinburgh, Scotland
Kate Sheppard (1847-1934)
Mar 10 New Zealand suffragette and the most prominent member of New Zealand's women's suffrage movement, born in Liverpool, England
- Mar 14 Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (Espumas Flutuantes), born in Muritiba, Brazil (d. 1871)
- Mar 19 Constantin Dimitrescu, Romanian composer (Dans ţănănesc), born in Blejoi, Romania (d. 1928)
- Mar 20 Gavriil Musicescu, Romainian composer, born in Izmail, Bessarabia Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1903)
- Mar 23 Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol, Romania, historian, born in Iaşi (d. 1920)
- Mar 27 Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel 1910), born in Königsberg, Germany (d. 1931)
- Mar 31 Jarolslaw Zielinski, Polish-American concert pianist, teacher, and composer, born in Lubycza Królewska, Poland (d. 1922)
- Mar 31 Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (analysis and number theory), born in St Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1878) [1]
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