- Mar 5 Daniel Brink Towner, American hymn composer (d. 1919)
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Mar 7 Tomáš Masaryk, Czech philosopher and 1st President of Czechoslovakia (1918-35), born in Hodonín, Austrian Empire (d. 1937)
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
- Mar 7 Champ Clark, American politician (d. 1921)
- Mar 9 Alexandre Luigini, French composer (Ballet égyptien), born in Lyon, France (d. 1906)
- Mar 10 Mary Mills Patrick, American author and 1st President of Istanbul Woman's College, born in Canterbury, New Hampshire (d. 1940)
- Mar 10 Spencer Gore, British tennis player (1st Wimbledon winner 1877), born in Wimbledon, England (d. 1906)
- Mar 13 Emilio Serrano y Ruiz, Spanish composer, born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain (d. 1939)
- Mar 24 Silas Hocking, British novelist and preacher (d. 1935)
- Mar 26 Edward Bellamy, American author (Looking Backward) and socialist, born in Chicopee, Massachusetts (d. 1898)