Ignacy Łukasiewicz
Mar 8 Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Polish engineer, businessman and inventor who built the 1st modern oil refinery and invented the kerosene lamp, born in Zaduszniki, Mielec, Austrian Empire (d. 1882)
- Mar 10 Willem Roelofs, Dutch painter and lithographer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1897)
- Mar 11 Allison Nelson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1862)
- Mar 13 Moritz von Strachwitz, German poet, born in Peterwitz, Silesia (d. 1847)
- Mar 14 Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Empress of Brazil (1843-89), born in Naples, Two Sicilies (d. 1889)
- Mar 16 John Pope, American Major General (Union Army), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1892)
- Mar 16 Marie-Rosalie "Rosa" Bonheur, French animalière painter (The Horse Fair; Buffalo Bill), and sculptor, born in Bordeaux, France (d. 1899)
- Mar 22 Ahmed Djevdet Pasha, Turkish minister of Education and Justice
- Mar 22 Isaac D. Fransen van de Putte, Dutch premier (1866)
- Mar 22 Seth Williams, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Augusta, Maine (d. 1866)
- Mar 29 Joseph Quinaux, Belgian painter (landscape paintings), born in Namen, Belgium (d. 1895)
- Mar 31 Rafael Hernando, Spanish composer of zarzuelas, born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1888)