- Mar 1 Gabriele dell' Addolorata [Francesco Possenti], Italian priest
- Mar 2 David Duffle Wood, composer
- Mar 3 George William Hill, US astronomer (calculated Moon's orbit)
- Mar 4 Paul Lacôme, French composer, born in Le Houga, Gascony (d. 1920)
- Mar 12 William Perkin, inventor (1st artificial dye)
- Mar 15 Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist (Stranger in Her Native Land)
- Mar 15 Karl Davydov, Russian cellist (d. 1889)
- Mar 18 Jan B Stobbaerts, Flemish painter
- Mar 18 Randal Cremer, Britain, trade unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903)
- Mar 31 Leon Dierx, French poet