- Mar 4 David W. Taylor, U.S. Navy architect (d. 1940)
- Mar 12 W. H. R. Rivers, British psychiatrist (d. 1922)
- Mar 13 Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter, born in Torzhok, Russia (d. 1941)
- Mar 14 Casey [John] Jones, American railroad engineer who dies trying to save a train (Ballad of Casey Jones), born in Missouri (d. 1900)
- Mar 18 Karl M Lybeck, Finnish/Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten)
- Mar 19 Charles Marion Russell, American artist (d. 1926)
- Mar 30 Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist/politician