- Mar 2 Sir John MacNeill, Irish civil engineer (b. 1790)
- Mar 15 Johan Karel Jakob De Jonge, Dutch historian, dies at 51
- Mar 23 Gustav Adolf Mankell, Moravian-Swedish organist and composer, dies at 67
- Mar 25 Joseph Rummel, German composer, dies at 61
- Mar 25 Ludmilla Assing, German writer, dies at 59
- Mar 26 Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras, Spanish composer, dies at 62
- Mar 28 Achille Peri, composer, dies at 67
- Mar 29 Jacob Axel Josephson, Swedish composer, dies at 62
- Mar 31 Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violinist and composer (Souv de Moscou), dies at 44