- Mar 1 Pauline Musters, Dutch world's smallest woman at 24 inches (61 cm), dies at 19
Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)
Mar 2 French Impressionist painter who helped start the Impressionist movement, dies of pneumonia at 54
- Mar 2 Ismail Pasha, kedive of Egypt (1863-79), dies at 64
- Mar 5 Henry Rawlinson, British army officer and oriental scholar (major role in deciphering cuneiform), dies at 84
- Mar 5 Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), and playwright, dies at 64
- Mar 6 Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (b. 1813)
- Mar 8 Frederick Ellsworth Sickels, American inventor of a valve for steam engines, dies at 75 [1]
- Mar 9 Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (word masochism derived from his name), dies at 59
- Mar 9 Rebecca Lee Crumpler, American physician and medical writer (first African American woman to receive a medical degree), dies at 64 [1]
- Mar 10 Charles Frederick Worth, British fashion designer (House of Worth - Paris), dies of pneumonia at 69
- Mar 12 Henry Eustace McCulloch, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 78
- Mar 12 John H. Balsley, American carpenter and inventor (a practical folding wooden stepladder), dies at 71
- Mar 13 Louise Otto-Peters, German suffragist, women's rights movement activist and author (The Wandering Star), dies at 75
- Mar 17 Adolphe Nibelle, French composer (Le Loup-Garou (The Werewolf)), dies at 69
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