- Mar 10 Lorenzo Da Ponte [Emanuele Conegliano], Italian-American librettist (Don Giovanni), poet, and libertine priest, born in Ceneda, Republic of Venice (now Vittorio Veneto, Italy) (d. 1838)
- Mar 23 Hugo Franz Karl Alexander von Kerpen, German composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1802)
- Mar 24 Bernard Jumentier, French composer, primarily of sacred music, born in Lèves, France (d. 1829)