- Mar 1 Carolyn Cudone, American golfer (US Senior Women's Amateur 1968-72; most consecutive wins in any USGA championship), dies at 90
- Mar 1 Ken Henry, American speed skater (Olympic gold 500m, 1952), dies at 80
- Mar 2 Chris Finnegan, British boxer (Olympic gold middleweight 1968), dies of pneumonia at 64
- Mar 2 João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira, Bissau-Guinean politician (President of Guinea-Bissau, 1980-99 & 2005-09), killed by army after his military rival's death in a bombing at 69
- Mar 3 Sydney Chaplin, American actor and son of Charlie Chaplin (Limelight, Adding Machine), dies at 82
- Mar 4 George McAfee, American College-Pro Football HOF utility (Duke University; NFL C'ship 1940, 41, 46; First-team All-Pro & NFL All-Star 1941; Chicago Bears), dies at 90
- Mar 4 Harry Parkes, English soccer fullback (Aston Villa 320 games), dies at 89
- Mar 4 Horton Foote, American screenwriter (To Kill a Mockingbird; Tender Mercies), and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (The Young Man from Atlanta), dies at 92
- Mar 4 John Cephas, American Piedmont blues guitarist (Cephas & Wiggins), dies of pulmonary at 78
- Mar 4 Joseph Bloch, American concert pianist and professor of piano literature (b. 1917)
- Mar 4 Patricia De Martelaere, Flemish writer (b. 1957)
- Mar 4 Salvatore Samperi, Italian film director (b 1944)
- Mar 4 Triztán Vindtorn, Norwegian poet and performance artist (b. 1942)
- Mar 6 David Williams, American R&B, pop and rock session and touring guitarist (Michael Jackson; Madonna; Rod Stewart; Bryan Ferry), dies of cardiac arrest following a stroke at 58
- Mar 6 Francis Magalona, Filipino Pinoy hip-hop rapper, songwriter, and television personality (Eat Bulaga!, 1995-2009), dies of leukemia at 44
- Mar 6 Henri Pousseur, Belgian composer (Votre Faust), dies of bronchial pneumonia at 79
- Mar 6 Susan Tsvangirai, wife of Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, dies in a car crash at 50
- Mar 7 Jang Ja-yeon, South Korean actress, commits suicide at 29
- Mar 8 Ali Bongo [William Oliver Wallace], British comedy musician and magician (President of The Magic Circle - Shriek of Araby), dies at 79
- Mar 8 Zbigniew Religa, Minister of Health of the Republic of Poland (b. 1938)
- Mar 10 Denis Begbie, South African cricketer (South African batsman in five Tests 1948-50), dies at 94
- Mar 11 Charles Lewis, Jr., American businessman, promoter and entertainer
- Mar 12 Leonore Annenberg, American diplomat and philanthropist (Chief of protocol for Ronald Reagan), dies at 91
- Mar 13 Betsy Blair [Elizabeth Boger], American actress (Marty, A Double Life), dies at 85
- Mar 13 James Purdy, American author (Malcolm), dies at 94
- Mar 13 Test [Andrew Martin], Canadian professional wrestler (WWF/WWE), dies of an accidental overdose of the prescription pain medication oxycodone at 33
- Mar 14 Alain Bashung, French singer, songwriter, comedian and actor, dies of cancer at 61
- Mar 14 Altovise Davis [née Gore], American entertainer, best known as Sammy Davis Jr.'s third wife, dies from stroke complications at 65
- Mar 15 Ron Silver, American actor (Reversal of Fortune, Timecop), dies of cancer at 62
- Mar 16 Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton, American Appalachian moonshiner, bootlegger, and how-to book author (Me and My Likker), takes his own life at 62
- Mar 17 Clodovil Hernandes, Brazilian politician and TV host (b. 1937)
- Mar 17 Whitey Lockman, American baseball player, dies at 82
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Mar 18 English actress (Gothic, Handmaid's Tale), dies of a traumatic brain injury at 45
- Mar 19 Gertrud Fussenegger, Austrian writer (Mohrenlegende), dies at 96
- Mar 19 Ion Dolănescu, Romanian singer and politician (b. 1944)
- Mar 20 Mel Brown, American-Canadian blues guitarist and singer (Eighteen Pounds of Unclean Chitlings), dies of complications from emphysema at 69
- Mar 21 Walt Poddubny, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1960)
- Mar 22 Howard Komives, American NBA star (NY Knicks, Buffalo Braves), dies at 67
- Mar 22 Jade Goody, English reality TV Star and Entrepreneur, dies of cancer at 27
- Mar 22 Leon Walker, Wakefield Wildcats Rugby Player (b. 1988)
- Mar 23 Raúl Macías, A famous Mexican boxer (b. 1934)
- Mar 24 George Kell, American Baseball HOF third baseman (10 x MLB All-Star; AL batting champion 1949; Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox), dies at 86
- Mar 24 Martin Brozius, Dutch actor (Goede Tijden Slechte Tijden), dies at 67
- Mar 24 Uriel Jones, American jazz and session drummer (Motown's Funk Brothers), dies from complications of a heart attack at 74
- Mar 25 "England" Dan [Seals], American pop and country singer (England Dan & John Ford Coley - "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight"), dies of cancer at 61
- Mar 25 Gábor Ocskay, Hungarian hockey player (b. 1975)
- Mar 25 Giovanni Parisi, Italian boxer (b. 1967)
- Mar 25 John Hope Franklin, American historian (From Slavery to Freedom, 1995 Presidential Medal of Freedom), dies at 94
- Mar 25 Johnny Blanchard, American baseball player (b. 1933)
- Mar 25 Kosuke Koyama, Japanese theologian (b. 1929)
- Mar 25 Yukio Endo, Japanese gymnast (4 Olympic gold 1960, 64), dies of Esophageal cancer at 72
- Mar 27 Irving R. Levine, American journalist (NBC News), dies at 86
- Mar 27 Jack Dreyfus, American businessman (b. 1913)
- Mar 29 Andy Hallett, American actor and singer (b.1975)
- Mar 29 Gerrit Viljoen, South African politician (Chair of the Broederbond), dies at 82
- Mar 29 Maurice Jarre, French Academy and Grammy Award-winning film composer (Lawrence Of Arabia; Doctor Zhivago; Witness; Fatal Attraction), dies at 84
- Mar 30 Andrea Mead-Lawrence, American alpine skier (Olympic gold slalom, giant slalom 1952), dies of leiomyosarcoma at 76
- Mar 30 Herman Franks, American baseball manager (SF Giants 1965–68, Chicago Cubs 1977–79) and coach (World Series 1954 NY Giants), dies at 95
- Mar 31 Jarl Alfredius, Swedish news anchor (b. 1943)
- Mar 31 Raúl Alfonsín, President of Argentina (1983-89), dies of lung cancer at 82
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