- Mar 22 Hamish MacCunn, Scottish composer (The Land of the Mountain and the Flood), and teacher, born in Greenock, Scotland (d. 1916)
- Mar 27 Patty Smith Hill, American composer, teacher and songwriter ("Happy Birthday To You"), born in Anchorage, Kentucky (d. 1946)
- Mar 28 Wojciech GawroĊski, Polish pianist and composer, born in Sejmany, Russian Empire (now Lithuania) (d. 1910)