- Mar 1 Henk van Stipriaan, Dutch journalist and VARA radio host, dies at 64
- Mar 1 Josephine van Gasteren, Dutch actress and director (Bluejackets, De kleine zielen), dies at 71
- Mar 4 James A. Parsons, American metallurgist and inventor (stainless steel), dies at 88 [1]
- Mar 4 Lloyd "Tiny" Grimes, American jazz and R&B guitarist (Art Tatum), dies of meningitis at 72
- Mar 6 Harry Andrews, English actor (Equus, Helen of Troy, Hill), dies at 77
- Mar 8 Stuart Hamblen, American singer and composer (This Ole House), dies at 80
- Mar 9 Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer, dies at 42
- Mar 10 Doc Green, American pop baritone vocalist (The Drifters - "Under the Boardwalk"; "Up on the Roof"), dies of cancer at 54
- Mar 11 James Kee, American politician (US Representatives for West Virginia, 1965-73), dies at 71
- Mar 11 Johan Fleerackers, Flemish civil servant and cultural attaché (Minister of Cutlure, 1965-77), dies at 57
- Mar 11 John Jay McCloy, American lawyer and banker (Secretary of War 1941-45, Chairman Chase Manhattan Bank, President of World Bank 1947-49), dies at 93
- Mar 11 William Challee, American stage and screen actor (Desperate; Five Easy Pieces; Moonchild), dies at 84
- Mar 12 Maurice Evans, British actor (Planet of the Apes; Bewitched), dies at 87
- Mar 14 Edward Abbey American environmental author (The Monkey Wrench Gang), dies after surgery at 62
- Mar 14 Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, dies at 96
- Mar 15 Muhammad Jameel Didi, Maldivian poet (b. 1915)
- Mar 17 Marek Bliziński, Polish jazz guitarist and composer, dies of skin cancer at 41
- Mar 17 Merritt Butrick, American actor (Shy People, Square Pegs), dies of AIDS at 29
- Mar 18 Harold Jeffreys, English mathematician (Theory of Probability) and geophysicist, dies at 97
- Mar 18 Piet Kruiver, Dutch soccer player, dies at 51
- Mar 19 Alan Civil, British horn player (played solo on Beatles "For No One"), dies of liver and kidney failure at 59
- Mar 20 Alan Gifford [John Lennox], American actor (Time Lock, 2001: A Space Odyssey), dies at 78
- Mar 20 Archie Bleyer, American orchestra leader (Arthur Godfrey), dies at 79
- Mar 21 Milton Frome, actor (Family Jewels), dies
- Mar 24 Arnett Cobb, American jazz tenor saxophonist (Lionel Hampton), dies at 70
- Mar 27 May Allison, American actress (Youth for Salem Men of Steel), dies of respiratory failure at 98
- Mar 29 Bernard Blier, French character actor (Les Miserables; Women & War), dies at 73
- Mar 31 Bill Chappell Jr., American politician (Rep-D-FL, 1969-89), dies at 67
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