- Mar 1 Eddy Firestone, American radio, television, and film actor (Mixed Doubles), dies of respiratory and heart failure at 86
- Mar 1 Joel Brodsky, American photographer, credited with photographing over 400 album covers, dies of a heart attack at 67 [1]
- Mar 2 Clem Labine, American baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 1956, 57; World Series 1955, 59, 60; Brooklyn / LA Dodgers, Detroit Tigers), dies after exploratory brain surgery at 80
- Mar 2 Henri Troyat, Russian-French author and historian, dies at 95
- Mar 2 Ivan Safronov, Russian journalist (b. 1956)
- Mar 2 Thomas S. Kleppe, U.S. politician (b. 1919)
- Mar 3 Herbert Asmodi, German writer and actor, dies at 83
- Mar 3 Osvaldo Cavandoli, Italian cartoonist and creator of "La Linea" animated cartoons, dies at 87
- Mar 4 Bob Hattoy, American gay rights, AIDS, and environmental activist, dies from AIDS-related causes at 56
- Mar 4 Ian Wooldridge, British sports journalist (Daily Mail; British Sportswriter of the Year 1972, 74, 81, 89) and broadcaster (BBC), dies of cancer at 75
- Mar 4 Jorge Kolle Cueto, Bolivian Commmunist Party politician
- Mar 4 Natalie Bodanya [Bodanskaya], American soprano, dies at 98
- Mar 4 Richard Joseph, British computer and video game soundtrack composer, dies of lung cancer at 53
- Mar 4 Sunil Kumar Mahato, Indian parliamentarian, assassinated by Communist rebels at 41
- Mar 4 Tadeusz Nalepa, Polish rock and blues composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist, dies at 63
- Mar 4 Thomas Eagleton, American politician (38th Lieutenant Governor of Missouri), dies at 77
- Mar 6 Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (b. 1909)
- Mar 6 Jean Baudrillard, French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator and photographer, dies at 77
- Mar 7 Frigyes Hidas, Hungarian composer, and musical director (Hungarian National Theater, 1951-66; Budapest Operetta, 1974-79). dies at 78
- Mar 8 John Inman, English actor (Mr. Humphries-Are You Being Served?), dies at 71
- Mar 8 John Vukovich, American baseball infielder, manager (Philadelphia Phillies), dies at 59
- Mar 8 Viky Vanita, Greek actress (b. 1948)
- Mar 9 Brad Delp, American rock musician (lead singer of Boston and RTZ), commits suicide at 55
- Mar 9 Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey defenceman (Stanley Cup 1944, 46: NHL All Star 1949, 50; Montreal Canadiens), dies at 86
- Mar 9 Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, North Carolina politician (b. unknown)
- Mar 10 Buddy Allin, American golfer (5 PGA Tour titles), dies of cancer at 62
- Mar 10 Ernie Ladd, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938)
- Mar 10 Richard Jeni, American comedian (b. 1957)
- Mar 11 Betty Hutton [Elizabeth June Thornburg], American actress, dancer, singer and comedian (Greatest Show on Earth), dies of colon cancer a 86
- Mar 13 Arnold Skaaland, American professional wrestler (b. 1925)
- Mar 14 Gareth Hunt, English actor (b. 1943)
- Mar 14 Lucie Aubrac, French history teacher and member of the French Resistance (b. 1912)
Bowie Kuhn (1926-2007)
Mar 15 American Baseball HOF executive (MLB Commissioner 1969-1984), dies of pneumonia at 80
- Mar 15 Charles Harrelson, American organized crime figure, convicted hitman, and father of actor Woody Harrelson, dies in prison of a heart attack at 68
- Mar 15 Stuart Rosenberg, American film and television director (b. 1927)
- Mar 16 Manjural Islam Rana, Bangladeshi cricket all-rounder (6 Tests, 1 x 50, 5 wickets, BB 3/84; Khulna Division), dies in a road accident at 22
- Mar 17 Jim Cronin, Animal welfare campaigner and founder of Monkey World in Dorset, England. (b. 1951)
- Mar 17 John Backus, American computer scientist and inventor (FORTRAN computer language), dies at 82
- Mar 17 Roger Bennett, American Southern Gospel performer (b. 1959)
- Mar 18 Alec Wyton, English-born American composer, dies at 85
- Mar 18 Bob Woolmer, English cricket all-rounder (19 Tests, 3 x 100, HS 149, 4 wickets; Kent CCC, Natal, Western Province) and coach (Pakistan, South Africa), dies of diabetes at 58
- Mar 19 Calvert DeForest, American comedian (Larry "Bud" Melman), dies at 85
- Mar 19 Luther Ingram, American R&B singer-songwriter ("(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right"; "I'll Be Your Shelter"), dies of diabetes related heart failure at 69
- Mar 20 Gilbert E. Patterson, presiding bishop of COGIC (b. 1939)
- Mar 20 Hawa Yakubu, Ghanaian politician (b. 1948)
- Mar 20 Raynald Fréchette, Quebec politician and judge, dies at 73
- Mar 20 Taha Yassin Ramadan, Iraqi politician (b. 1938)
- Mar 21 Drew Hayes, American writer and graphic artist (b. 1969)
- Mar 21 Kevin Whitrick, first British man to commit suicide on a live chatroom (b. 1964)
- Mar 21 Sven O. Høiby, the father of Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway (b. 1936)
- Mar 22 Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (b. 1918)
- Mar 23 Eric Medlen, American NHRA drag racer, dies at 33
- Mar 23 Paul Joseph Cohen, American mathematician (Cohen forcing, Continuum hypothesis), dies at 72
- Mar 24 Florentine Rost van Tonningen (née Heubel), Dutch Nazi supporter known as "Black Widow", dies at 92
- Mar 24 Maurice Flitcroft, British golfer known as "the world's worst golfer," dies at 77
- Mar 25 Andranik Margaryan, 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (2000-07), dies at 57
- Mar 27 Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1929)
- Mar 29 Calvin Lockhart [Bert Cooper], Bahamian-American stage and actor (Cotton Goes to Harlem), dies from stroke complications at 72
- Mar 31 Paul Watzlawick, Communications & Constructivism Theorist (b. 1921)
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