- Mar 3 Isaac Dignus France van de Putte, Dutch politician (Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1866), dies at 79
- Mar 7 James "Pud" Galvin, American Baseball HOF pitcher (MLB's first 300-game winner; no-hitters 1880, 84; Buffalo Bisons), dies at 45
- Mar 9 Hermann Allmers, German poet (Feldeinsamkeit), dies at 81
- Mar 12 John Peter Altgeld, German-American politician (Governor of Illinois, 1893-97), known for pardoning of Haymarket anarchists, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage, while delivering a speech, at 54
- Mar 14 Daniel H. Reynolds, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 69
- Mar 17 George William Warren, American hymn composer, dies at 73
Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902)
Mar 26 British businessman, diamond merchant and imperialist politician who was Prime Minister of the Cape Colony (1890-96), dies of heart failure at 48
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