- Mar 2 Maxime Dumoulin, composer
- Mar 3 Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer and guitarist, born in Teoc, Carroll County, Mississippi (d. 1966)
- Mar 6 [Walter] Furry Lewis, father of the blues
- Mar 9 Hans Münch, Swiss conductor and composer, born in Mulhouse, France (d. 1983)
- Mar 18 Jean Goldkette, French jazz pianist & bandleader, born in Valenciennes, France (d. 1962)
- Mar 31 Clemens Krauss, conductor (Berlin State Orch-1937), born in Vienna, Austria