- Mar 1 Armand-Emmanuel Trial, French pianist and comic opera composer, born in Paris, France (d. 1803)
- Mar 10 Georg Friedrich Creuzer, German classical scholar (Idea und Probe), born in Marburg an der Lahn, Hesse (d. 1858)
- Mar 22 Heinrich D. Zschokke, German Swiss author (Das Goldmacherdorf), born in Magdeburg, Prussia (d. 1848)