- Mar 3 Ned Williamson, American baseball player (Chicago White Stockings), dies at 36
- Mar 11 John Selby, England cricket batsman (6 Tests, 2 x 50; Nottinghamshire CCC), dies of paralytic stroke at 44
- Mar 12 Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (b. 1840)
- Mar 20 Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer, politician, journalist, and liberal revolutionary (Governor-President of Hungary, 1849), dies at 91
- Mar 21 Jacob Rosenhaim, Jewish-German composer, dies at 80
- Mar 24 Robert Prescott Stewart, Irish composer, organist, conductor, and teacher, dies at 68
- Mar 26 Alfred H. Colquitt, American lawyer and Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 69
- Mar 27 Verney Lovett Cameron, English explorer (Tanganyika), dies at 49
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