- Mar 1 Abe Iso, Japanese politician (d. 1949)
- Mar 2 Théophile "Théo" Ysaÿe, Belgian composer and pianist, born in Verviers, Belgium (d. 1918)
- Mar 3 Alexander Winkler, Russian composer, born in Kharkiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1935)
- Mar 8 Frederick William Goudy, American printer and type designer, born in Bloomington, Illinois (d. 1947)
- Mar 9 Margaret Murray Washington, Wife of Booker T. Washington and Lady Principal of Tuskegee, born in Macon, Mississippi (d. 1925)
- Mar 10 Pim Mulier, Dutch sports organizer, founded the Dutch Football and Athletics Association, Koninklijke HFC, established hockey in the Netherlands and President of the International Skating Union (1892-94), born in Witmarsum, Netherlands (d. 1954)
- Mar 16 Patsy Donovan, Irish-American baseball outfielder (Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals) and manager (Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Washington Sens, Brooklyn Superbas, Boston RS), born in Queenstown, Ireland (d. 1953)
- Mar 19 William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, pioneer in ethology (d. 1937)
- Mar 21 Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, English historian and politician, born in London (d. 1940)
- Mar 25 Pierre Weiss, French physicist (theory of ferromagnetism), born in Mulhouse, France (d. 1940)
- Mar 31 Heinrich Rubens, German physicist (black-body rdiation), born in Wiesbaden (d. 1922)
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