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- Mar 10 Christian Friedrich Schale, German organist, harpsichordist, and composer, born in Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1800)
- Mar 10 Raphael Weiss, German composer and priest, born in Wangen (d. 1779)
- Mar 15 Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer who mapped the stars of the Southern Hemisphere, born in Rumigny, France (d. 1762)
- Mar 21 Francis Lewis, Welsh-American merchant and US Founding Father (signed the Declaration of Independence), born in Llandaff, Wales (d. 1802)
- Mar 25 Jean-Baptiste Canavas [Canavasso], Italian composer and cellist, born in Turin, Duchy of Savor (d. 1784)
- Mar 29 John Ponsonby, Irish politician (Speaker of the House, 1756-1771), born in Kilkenny, Ireland (d. 1789)
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