- Mar 4 Raphaelle Peale, American painter (After the Rain, 1823), dies at 51
- Mar 9 Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet and writer of hymns (Life! I Know Not What Thou Art), dies at 81
- Mar 24 Giovanni Domenico Perotti, Italian composer, dies at 64
- Mar 25 Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, Dutch politician (Grand Pensionary of Batavian Commonwealth), and diplomat. dies at 63