- Mar 1 George Bruce Malleson, English officer in India and author, dies at 72
- Mar 10 George Müller, Prussian Christian evangelist and orphanage builder, dies at 92
- Mar 11 William Rosecrans, American Civil War Union general (b. 1819)
- Mar 12 Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish writer (b. 1818)
- Mar 15 Henry Bessemer, English inventor (Bessemer converter - revolutionised steel making), dies at 85
- Mar 16 Aubrey (Vincent) Beardsley, English illustrator (Salome), dies at 23
- Mar 16 Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator and author (Salome), dies at 25
- Mar 17 Blanche Kelso Bruce, American politician (Senator-Mississippi, 1875-1881), dies at 57
- Mar 18 Matilda Joslyn Gage, American suffragist (b. 1826)
- Mar 19 João da Cruz, Brazilian poet, dies at 26
- Mar 27 Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual and one of the founding fathers of the Pakistan movement, dies at 80
- Mar 31 Edward Noyes Westcott, US attorney/writer (David Harum), dies
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