Birthdays in Music
- Mar 1 Gabriel Édouard Xavier Dupont, French composer, born in Caen, France (d. 1914)
- Mar 4 Egbert Van Alstyne, American popular music songwriter and ragtime pianist ("In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree"; "For Your Boy and My Boy"), born in Marengo, Illinois (d. 1951) [1]
- Mar 12 Joseph Gustav Mraczek, German violinist, conductor, composer (Max und Moritz) and pedagogue, born in Brno, Bohemia (d. 1944)
- Mar 21 Thurlow Lieurance, American composer (By the Waters of Minnetonka; Sad Moon on Falling Leaf), ethno-musicologist (Indigenous peoples), and educator, born in Oskaloosa, Iowa (d. 1963)
- Mar 23 Franz Schreker [Schrecker], Austrian conductor, composer (Die Gezeichneten; Der ferne Klang), teacher, and administrator born in Monaco (d. 1934)
- Mar 25 Theodore Samuel Holland, British composer and pedagogue, born in Wimbledon (d. 1947)
Deaths in Music
- Mar 24 Albin Masek, Czech composer, dies at 73