- Mar 2 Antonio Buzzolla, Italia composer, born in Adria (d. 1871)
- Mar 4 Mykhailo Verbytsky, Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and composer (Prostachka; The State Anthem of Ukraine), born in Nadsyannia, Russian Empire (now Poland) (d. 1870)
- Mar 5 John Wentworth, American politician (d. 1888)
- Mar 9 David Davis, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, born in Cecil County, Maryland (d. 1886)
- Mar 13 James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist, born in Milton, Pennsylvania (d. 1911)
- Mar 14 Josephine Lang, German composer, born in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria (now Germany) (d. 1880)
- Mar 28 Arsène Houssaye, French novelist and poet, born in Bruyères, France (d. 1896)
- Mar 30 Wincenty Studzinski, Polish violinist and composer, born in Kraków (d. 1854)