- Mar 1 Dixie Dean, English soccer striker (16 caps; Everton), dies from a heart attack at 73
- Mar 1 Emmett Ashford, American baseball umpire (first certified black umpire), dies from a heart attack at 65
- Mar 1 John Jacob Niles, American composer and singer, dies at 87
- Mar 1 Wilhelmina Cooper, Dutch-American model and founder of Wilhelmina Models, dies at 40
- Mar 5 Jay Silverheels [Harold J. Smith], Canadian actor (The Lone Ranger, Key Largo), dies from a stroke at 67
- Mar 5 Winifred Wagner, English-German daughter-in-law of Richard Wagner and friend of Adolf Hitler (ran Bayreuth Festival), dies at 82
- Mar 9 Olga Chekova, actress (Moulin Rouge, Pawns of Possession), dies at 82
- Mar 10 Herman Tarnower, American doctor (Scarsdale Diet), shot and killed by girlfriend Jean Harris at 69
- Mar 10 Melville Henry Cane, American lawyer and poet (Making a Poem), dies at 100
- Mar 12 Arthur Charles Dobson, British racing driver (b. 1914)
- Mar 13 Tauno Pylkkänen, Finnish opera composer dies at 61
- Mar 14 Allard Lowenstein, American writer (A Brutal Mandate), politician (US Representative from New York, 1969-71), and human rights activist, shot to death in his office by an associate at 51
- Mar 14 Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician (b. 1902)
- Mar 15 Gerald Abrahams, English author (Teach Yourself Chess), dies at 72
- Mar 16 Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (b. 1898)
- Mar 17 Rudolf George Escher, Dutch composer (Vrai Visage de la Paix), dies at 68
- Mar 18 "Grishata" Grigor Vachkov, Bulgarian actor (At Each Kilometer), dies at 47
- Mar 18 Erich Fromm, German psychologist and psychoanalyst (Sane Society), dies at 79
- Mar 18 Herman Griffith, West Indian cricket fast bowler (13 Tests; 44 wickets; best 6-103), dies at 86
- Mar 18 Ludwig Guttmann, German-British neurologist, founder of the Stoke Mandeville Games (now the Paralympics), dies at 80
- Mar 21 Gideon Fagan, South African conductor and composer, dies at 75
- Mar 21 Peter Stoner, American mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist, dies at 92
- Mar 23 Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist (Misery Index), dies of a heart attack at 51
- Mar 24 Oscar Romero, El Salvador Roman Catholic priest, murdered during mass at 62
- Mar 25 Ioan Dumitru Chirescu, Romanian composer and conductor, dies at 91
- Mar 25 James Wright, American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (The Branch Will Not Break), dies of cancer at 52
- Mar 25 Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist and psychologist, dies at 78
- Mar 25 Roland Barthes, French writer (Mythologies), literary critic (The Death of the Author), and academic theorist, dies of injuries after being struck by a vehicle while walking at 64
- Mar 25 Walter Susskind, Czech conductor and pianist, dies at 66
- Mar 26 Jon-Jon Poulos, American drummer (Buckinghams), dies at 32
- Mar 28 John Poulos, American drummer (The Buckinghams - "Kind Of A Drag"), dies of heart failure at 32
- Mar 28 Richard "Dick" Haymes, Argentine-American actor and singer (State Fair, Real Life, Betrayal), dies of lung cancer at 61
- Mar 29 Annunzio Mantovani, Italian orchestra leader (Mantovani), dies at 74
Jesse Owens (1913-1980)
Mar 31 American athlete (4 Olympic gold 100/200m, long jump, 4x100m relay 1936), dies of lung cancer at 66
- Mar 31 Vladimír Holan, Czech poet, dies at 74
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