- Mar 2 Jim Lightbody, American athlete (Olympic gold 800m, 1500m, 2590m Steeplechase 1904), dies at 70
- Mar 5 Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (b. 1897)
Joseph Stalin (1878-1953)
Mar 5 Dictator and General Secretary of the Soviet Union (1922-53), dies of a stroke at 73
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Mar 5 Russian composer (Peter and the Wolf; Alexander Nevsky), dies at 61
- Mar 7 Edward Sedgwick, American film director (The Flaming Frontier, Let 'er Buck), dies of a heart attack at 63
- Mar 10 Charles Gordon Curtis, American inventor (Curtis-steam turbine), dies at 92
- Mar 14 Klement Gottwald, Czech Communist politician, Premier and President of Czechoslovakia, dies at 56
- Mar 15 Arthur Berry, English football player (Olympic gold 1908, 12), dies at 65
- Mar 17 Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, Spanish composer and violinist, dies at 73
- Mar 20 Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian author (Vidas Secas), dies at 60
- Mar 23 Raoul Dufy, painter, Forcalquier, France
- Mar 24 Felix M Abel, French dominican/biblical scholar, dies at 74
- Mar 24 Mary of Teck, Queen of Great Britain and consort of George V, dies at 85
- Mar 27 Narciso Garay, Panamanian composer, dies at 76
Jim Thorpe (1887-1953)
Mar 28 American all-round athlete (Olympic gold decathlon, pentathlon 1912; College & Pro Football Hall of Fame), dies of heart failure at 65
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