Millard Fillmore (1800-1874)
Mar 8 13th President of the United States (Whig: 1850-53), dies at 74
- Mar 11 Charles Sumner, American politician, Senator Massachusetts (1851-74) and anti-slavery advocate, dies at 63
- Mar 14 Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer (published the most complete map of the Moon of the time, Mappa Selenographica, 4 vol. with Wilhelm Beer), dies at 79
- Mar 20 Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish waltz composer, and musical director (Tivoli Gardens, 1843-72), dies at 63
- Mar 28 Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish-German astronomer (Hansen hypothesis), dies at 78
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