- Mar 5 Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Danish organist and composer (Ludlam’s Hule), born in Altona, Duchy of Holstein, (now Germany) (d. 1842)
Matthew Flinders (1774-1814)
Mar 16 English explorer, navigator and cartographer who was 1st to circumnavigate Australia, born in Donington, England [1]
- Mar 20 John Braham, English tenor singer and composer, born in London (d. 1856)