- Mar 19 Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen, Flemish (court)painter
- Mar 20 Franciscus L Kersteman, Dutch lawyer/astrologist
- Mar 22 Anton Raphael Mengs, German Bohemian painter and one of the precursors to Neoclassical painting, born in Ústí nad Labem, Bohemia (d. 1779)
- Mar 22 Giacomo Insanguine, Italian organist and composer, born in Monopoli (d. 1795)