| 29281 | March 16 | Birth | 1751 – James Madison, American academic and politician, 4th President of the United States (d. 1836) |
| 29282 | March 16 | Birth | 1771 – Antoine-Jean Gros, French painter (d. 1835) |
| 29283 | March 16 | Birth | 1773 – Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentinian general and politician, 6th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (d. 1836) |
| 29284 | March 16 | Birth | 1774 – Matthew Flinders, English navigator and cartographer (d. 1814) |
| 29285 | March 16 | Birth | 1789 – Francis Chesney, English general and explorer (d. 1872) |
| 29286 | March 16 | Birth | 1789 – Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician (d. 1854) |
| 29287 | March 16 | Birth | 1794 – Ami Boué, Austrian geologist and ethnographer (d. 1881) |
| 29288 | March 16 | Birth | 1797 – Alaric Alexander Watts, English poet and journalist (d. 1864) |
| 29289 | March 16 | Birth | 1799 – Anna Atkins, English botanist and photographer (d. 1871) |
| 29290 | March 16 | Birth | 1800 – Emperor Ninkō of Japan (d. 1846) |
| 29291 | March 16 | Birth | 1805 – Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philologist and politician (d. 1861) |
| 29292 | March 16 | Birth | 1821 – Eduard Heine, German mathematician and academic (d. 1881) |
| 29293 | March 16 | Birth | 1822 – Rosa Bonheur, French painter and sculptor (d. 1899) |
| 29294 | March 16 | Birth | 1822 – John Pope, American general (d. 1892) |
| 29295 | March 16 | Birth | 1823 – William Henry Monk, English organist and composer (d. 1889) |
| 29296 | March 16 | Birth | 1834 – James Hector, Scottish geologist and surgeon (d. 1907) |
| 29297 | March 16 | Birth | 1836 – Andrew Smith Hallidie, English-American engineer and businessman (d. 1900) |
| 29298 | March 16 | Birth | 1839 – Sully Prudhomme, French poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907) |
| 29299 | March 16 | Birth | 1839 – John Butler Yeats, Irish painter (d. 1922) |
| 29300 | March 16 | Birth | 1840 – Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese businessman (d. 1931) |
| 29301 | March 16 | Birth | 1845 – Umegatani Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (d. 1928) |
| 29302 | March 16 | Birth | 1846 – Jurgis Bielinis, Lithuanian book smuggler (d. 1918) |
| 29303 | March 16 | Birth | 1846 – Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician and academic (d. 1927) |
| 29304 | March 16 | Birth | 1848 – Axel Heiberg, Norwegian financier and diplomat (d. 1932) |
| 29305 | March 16 | Birth | 1851 – Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931) |
| 29306 | March 16 | Birth | 1853 – Heinrich Kayser, German physicist and spectroscopist (d. 1940) |
| 29307 | March 16 | Birth | 1856 – Napoléon, Prince Imperial of France (d. 1879) |
| 29308 | March 16 | Birth | 1857 – Charles Harding Firth, English historian and academic (d. 1936) |
| 29309 | March 16 | Birth | 1859 – Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1906) |
| 29310 | March 16 | Birth | 1865 – Patsy Donovan, Irish-American baseball player and manager (d. 1953) |