- Mar 1 Theophile Delcasse, French statesman
- Mar 5 Isabella Gregory, Irish writer/playwright (Golden Apple)
- Mar 6 Joseph Bayer, composer
- Mar 15 Augusta, Lady Gregory, Irish playwright, poet and patron of Yates, born in Roxborough, County Galway
- Mar 22 Theodor Birt [Beatus Rhenanus], German classical/writer