- Mar 1 José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist, dies at 73
- Mar 1 Moritz Heyne, German germanist (Beowulf), dies at 68
- Mar 4 John McAllister Schofield, former U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army (b. 1831)
- Mar 10 Eugen Richter, German politician (Liberal), dies at 67
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
Mar 13 American social reformer and women's suffrage movement leader, dies of pneumonia at 86
- Mar 15 Alfred Gilpin Jones, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (1900-06), dies at 81
- Mar 22 Martin Wegelius, Finnish musicologist and composer, dies at 59
- Mar 23 Victor Barton, English cricket batsman (1 Test, HS 23; Kent CCC, Hampshire CCC) and soccer goalkeeper (Southampton), dies at 38
- Mar 29 Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (b. 1878)
- Mar 30 Betsy Perk [Christina Elizabeth], Dutch journalist, writer and pioneer of the Dutch women's movement, dies at 73