- Mar 1 Florimond Fonteyne, Belgian priest and politician (Volkseeuw), born in Houtem (d. 1923)
- Mar 4 Alfred William Rich, English painter (d. 1921)
- Mar 4 Toru Dutt, English and French poet and author (d. 1877)
- Mar 7 Matilde Serao, Italian writer and journalist (Land of Cockayne, 1st woman to edit Italian newspaper), born in Patras, Greece (d. 1927)
- Mar 8 Bramwell Booth, 2nd General of The Salvation Army, born in Halifax, England (d. 1929)
- Mar 8 Tom Roberts, British-Australian artist (Shearing the Rams), born in Dorchester, Dorset, England (d. 1931)
- Mar 9 Eddie Foy Sr. [Edwin Fitzgerald], Irish-American actor, singer and dancer (A Favorite Fool), born in Manhattan, New York (d. 1928)
- Mar 16 Napoléon IV, Prince Imperial, Head of the House of Bonaparte (1873-79), born in Paris, French Empire (d. 1879)
- Mar 17 Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (d. 1910)
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915)
Mar 20 American mechanical engineer and the father of scientific management, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Mar 20 Sir John Lavery, Irish artist (d. 1941)
Henry Ossian Flipper (1856-1940)
Mar 21 American soldier, former slave and first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1877, born in Thomasville, Georgia [1]
- Mar 26 David Alfred Thomas, 1st Viscount Rhondda, Welsh coal-mining entrepreneur, born in Ysgyborwen, Wales (d. 1918)
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