- Mar 1 Jean Le Poulain, French actor (Divine), dies at 63
- Mar 1 Joe Besser, American actor and comedian (The Three Stooges, Let's Make Love, Africa Screams), dies from heart failure at 80
- Mar 3 Lois Wilson, American silent and sound screen actress (Miss Lulu Bett; The Great Gatsby; The Covered Wagon: Bright Eyes), dies of pneumonia at 72
- Mar 3 Sewall Wright, US geneticist (evolution model), dies at 98
- Mar 5 Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian (b. 1933)
- Mar 6 Dick Ricketts Jr., American basketball center (# 1 overall pick 1955 NBA draft St. Louis Hawks) and baseball pitcher (St. Louis Cardinals), dies from leukemia at 54
- Mar 6 Konstantin Iliev, Bulgarian composer, dies at 63
- Mar 7 Divine [Harris Glenn Milstead], American actress, drag queen and international icon of bad taste cinema (Pink Flamingos), dies of natural causes at 42
- Mar 7 Robert Livingston, American actor (Three Mesquiteers, The Lone Ranger and Zorro), dies at 83 of emphysema
- Mar 8 Amar Singh Chamkila [Dhanni Ram], Punjabi folk singer "The Elvis of Punjab" killed by unknown gunmen as he arrived for concert at age 26 [1]
- Mar 8 Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (b. 1918)
- Mar 8 Ken Colyer, British New Orleans jazz devotee trumpeter, cornetist, and bandleader, dies at 79
- Mar 8 Lala Abdul Rashid, Pakistani field hockey goalkeeper (Olympic gold 1960), dies at 65
- Mar 8 Werner Hartmann, German physicist (b. 1912)
- Mar 9 Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German politician and author (Chancellor of West Germany 1966-69), dies at 83
Andy Gibb (1958-1988)
Mar 10 British singer-songwriter, performer and teen idol (Bee Gees - "I Just Want to Be Your Everything"), dies of myocarditis at 30
- Mar 10 William Brocklesby Wordsworth, English composer, dies at 79
- Mar 11 Pham Hung, premier of Vietnam, dies at about 74
- Mar 12 Billie Rhodes, American silent film actress, dies at 93
- Mar 13 Olive Carey, American actress (Affairs With a Stranger), dies at 92
- Mar 14 Willi Apel, German-American musicologist (Harvard Dictionary of Music), dies at 94
Dmitri Polyakov (1921-1988)
Mar 15 Soviet Major General and spy for the CIA, executed at 66
- Mar 15 Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, Uruguayan politician ad human rights activist, dies of cancer at 69
- Mar 16 Dorothy Adams Foulger, actress (Laura, Devil Commands), dies at 88
- Mar 17 Nikolas Asimos, Greek counter-culture composer and singer, dies at 38
- Mar 20 Gil Evans, Canadian-American jazz pianist, composer and arranger (Miles Davis; Absolute Beginners, Out of the Cool), dies at 75
- Mar 21 Edd Roush, American Baseball HOF outfielder (World Series 1919; NL batting champion 1917, 19; Cincinnati Reds), dies at 94
- Mar 23 Dayton Lummis, American character actor (The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell; The Wrong Man; Moonfire), dies at 84
- Mar 23 Judith Somogi, American conductor (Utica Symphony, 1977-80; Frankfurt Opera, 1982-87), dies of cancer at 50
- Mar 25 James J. Howard, American educator and Democratic Party politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey), dies at 60
- Mar 25 Robert Joffrey [Abdullah Jaffa Anver Bey Khan], American dancer, teacher, and choreographer (co-founder of Joffrey Ballet), dies of AIDS at 59
- Mar 26 Musa Kaleem [Orlando Wright], American jazz saxophonist, dies at 67
- Mar 27 Jan van den Weghe, Flemish writer, dies at about 67
- Mar 29 Dulcie September, South African teacher and anti-apartheid political activist, assassinated in Paris, France at 62
- Mar 29 Ted Kluszewski, American baseball 1st baseman (MLB All Star 1953-56; NL HR & RBI leader 1954; Cincinnati Reds), dies of a heart attack at 63
- Mar 30 Edgar Faure, Prime Minister of France (1952, 52-56) and writer, dies at 79
- Mar 30 Taneli Kuusisto, Finnish organist and composer (Suomalainen rukous - Finnish Prayer), dies at 82
- Mar 31 Talib Rasul Hakim [Stephen Chambers], American composer (Visions of Ishwara; Az-Zaahir-Al Batin (The Outward-The Inward)), dies at 48
- Mar 31 William McMahon, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (Liberal: 1971-72), dies in his sleep at 80
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