Howard Carter (1874-1939)
Mar 2 British archaeologist and Egyptologist who found King Tutankhamun's tomb, dies at 64
- Mar 6 Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician (Proving π is a transcendental number), dies at 86
- Mar 6 Miron Cristea, 1st Patriarch of All Romania, Prime Minister of Romania (1938-39), dies at 70
- Mar 7 Amadeo Roldán, Cuban composer and violinist, dies at 38
- Mar 7 John Jules Barrish, Irish writer and philosopher, dies at 53
- Mar 13 Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, French scholar and philosopher, dies at 81
- Mar 18 Henry Lunn, English humanitarian and religious leader, dies at 79
- Mar 19 Lloyd L. Gaines, American civil rights activist
- Mar 20 Percy Dean, British naval lieutenant and politician who received the Victoria Cross for saving men during the raid of Zeebrugge, dies at 61
- Mar 21 Evald Aav, Estonian composer, dies at 39
- Mar 27 Constance Lindsay Skinner, Quesnel British Columbia, Canadian author (Rivers of America), dies at 57
- Mar 28 Francis Matthew John Baker, Australian politician (b. 1903)