- Mar 8 Franco Alfano, Italian opera composer (Puccini's Turandot), born in Posillipo, Italy (d. 1954)
- Mar 11 Carl Ruggles, American composer (Evocations), born in Marion, Massachusetts (d. 1971)
- Mar 17 Frederic Ayers, American composer, born in Binghamton, New York (d. 1926)