- Mar 2 David Ackles, American singer-songwriter (American Gothic), dies of lung cancer at 62
- Mar 2 Dusty Springfield [Mary O'Brien], English vocalist (Growing Pains), dies at 59
- Mar 3 Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian chemist (1971 Nobel Prize), dies at 94
- Mar 3 Lee Philips, American actor and director (Peyton Place, Ellery Queen), dies of progressive supranuclear palsy at 72
- Mar 4 Del Close, American actor (b. 1934)
Harry Blackmun (1908-1999)
Mar 4 American lawyer, jurist and 100th Supreme Court Justice (1970-94) who authored the Court's opinion in Roe v. Wade, dies at 90
- Mar 4 Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (b. 1921)
- Mar 5 Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (Kismet; Man of La Mancha; Endless Love), dies at 76
- Mar 6 Dennis Viollet, English soccer inside forward (2 caps; Manchester United 293 games, Stoke City), dies at 65
- Mar 6 Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, 1st emir of Bahrain (1961-1999), dies of a heart attack at 65
- Mar 7 Lowell Fulson, Choctaw-Cherokee-American blues guitarist and songwriter (“3 O’Clock Blues”; “Reconsider Baby”), dies at 77
- Mar 7 Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official, dies at 80
Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999)
Mar 7 American film director (2001 A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange), dies at 70
- Mar 8 Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinean writer (b.1914)
- Mar 8 Hans Eklund, Swedish composer, dies at 71
Joe DiMaggio (1914-1999)
Mar 8 American Baseball Hall of Fame center fielder (13 × MLB All-Star; 9 x World Series; 3 x AL MVP; MLB record 56-game hitting streak; NY Yankees), dies of lung cancer at 84
- Mar 8 Mary Margaret "Peggy" Cass, American actress, comedian, game show panelist and announcer (To Tell The Truth), dies at 74
- Mar 8 William Wrigley III, American chewing gum mogul (Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company), dies of pneumonia at 66
- Mar 9 Harry Somers, Canadian composer, dies at 73
- Mar 10 Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian master painter and sculptor, dies at 79
- Mar 11 Camille Laurin, Quebec psychiatrist and politician (Parti Québécois), dies at 76
- Mar 11 Herbert Jasper, Canadian physiologist and neurologist, dies at 92
- Mar 11 Stefan Schnabel, German actor (Anna, Dracula's Widow, Firefox), dies from a heart attack at 87
- Mar 12 Yehudi Menuhin, American-British violinist, conductor and teacher (Bartok's Sonata), dies at 82
- Mar 13 Bidu Sayão, Brazilian born soprano (b. 1902)
- Mar 13 Garson Kanin, American playwright, director, and producer (Double Life; Born Yesterday), dies at 96
- Mar 13 Lee Falk, American comic strip writer (The Phantom), dies at 87
- Mar 14 Kirk Alyn [John Feggo Jr], American actor (Superman), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 88
- Mar 15 Sid Green, British screenwriter, with Dick Hills (Two Of A Kind; The Strange World of Gurney Slade), and comedian (Those Two Fellers), dies at 71
- Mar 16 Eric Norman Stokes, American composer, dies in an auto accident at 68
- Mar 16 Gratien Gélinas, Quebec playwright and director (b. 1909)
- Mar 16 Theo Joekes, Dutch journalist, writer, and politician (VVD), dies at 75
- Mar 17 Ernest Gold, Austrian-born American film composer (Exodus), dies at 77
- Mar 17 Rod Hull, British comedian (Emu), dies after falling off a roof at 63
- Mar 18 Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator, dies at 93
- Mar 18 Lillian McMurry (née Shedd), American blues producer, audio engineer, and record label owner (Trumpet Records - Sonny Boy Williamson II; Elmore James), dies of a heart attack at 77 [1]
- Mar 19 Bob Cato, American photographer, graphic artist and Grammy Award-winning album cover designer (Columbia Records; United Artists), of complications of Alzheimer's disease at 75
- Mar 19 Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (Tarumba, Maltiempes), dies at 72
- Mar 19 Joseph DePietro, American weightlifter (Olympic gold -56kg 1948), dies at 84
- Mar 19 Tofilau Eti Alesana, former Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1924)
- Mar 20 Patrick Heron, British abstract painter, dies at 79
- Mar 20 Roy L. Johnson, American admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean, commanded Seventh Fleet 1960s), dies at 93
- Mar 21 Edward Playfair, British senior civil servant, dies at 89
- Mar 21 Ernie Wise, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise), dies at 73
- Mar 22 David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969)
- Mar 23 Luis María Argaña, Paraguayan politician and high court judge, Vice President of Paraguay, assassinated by armed gunmen at 66
- Mar 24 Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)
- Mar 24 Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's activist (b. 1902)
- Mar 24 Henry Brandon [Lord Brandon of Oakbrook], British judge (Lord of Appeal - Ordinary) and probable spy (Military Cross), dies at 78
- Mar 25 Cal Ripken Sr, American baseball manager (Baltimore Orioles 1987-88; World Series 1983 [coach]), dies of lung cancer at 63
- Mar 28 Freaky Tah, American rapper (Lost Boyz) (b. 1971)
- Mar 29 Joe Williams [Goreed], American jazz singer (Everyday I Have The Blues), dies of natural causes at 80
- Mar 30 Gary Morton [Morton Goldaper], American comedian, television producer, studio executive (Desilu), and second husband of Lucille Ball, dies of lung cancer at 74
- Mar 30 Terry Wilson, American actor (Wagon Train; Escape to Witch Mountain), dies at 75
- Mar 31 Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist and epigrapher (major role indeciphering Mayan script), dies at 77
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