- Mar 8 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer, son of J. S. Bach, born in Weimar, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar (now Germany) (d. 1788)
- Mar 24 Carlo Giovanni Testori, Italian composer (d. 1782)
- Mar 27 Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian, born in Venice (d. 1795)