- Mar 1 Anna Paulowna Romanova, great monarch of Russia, dies at 70
- Mar 2 Carl Sylvius Völkner, German missionary to New Zealand (b. 1819)
- Mar 10 William Henry "Little Billy" Chase Whiting, American Confederate Major General, dies in a prison camp at 48
- Mar 20 Keisuke Yamanami, Japanese samurai (b. 1833)
- Mar 26 Thomas Hancock, pioneer of rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies
- Mar 27 Petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar (b. 1786)
- Mar 28 Albert G Bilders, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 26