- Mar 1 Minnie Miñoso, Cuban Baseball HOF left-fielder (9 x MLB All Star; Gold Glove Award 1957, 59, 60; Chicago White Sox), dies of heart disease at 92
- Mar 1 Orrin Keepnews, American jazz producer and founder of Riverside Records and Milestone Records labels, dies at 91
- Mar 2 Bettina Graziani [Simone Bodin] French model, one of the first supermodels, Givenchy muse, dies at 89
- Mar 2 Mal Peet, British children's author, dies at 67
- Mar 8 Lew Soloff, American jazz trumpeter (Blood, Sweat and Tears), dies at 71
- Mar 9 James Molyneaux [Baron Molyneaux of Killead], MP (Ulster unionist), dies at 94
- Mar 9 Norman Adams, British painter, costume designer and ceramics artist, dies at 78 [1]
- Mar 11 Jimmy Greenspoon, American session and touring rock organist (Three Dog Night - "Joy to the World"), dies of metastatic melanoma at 67
- Mar 11 Ralph Taeger, American actor (Klondike, Acapulco, Hondo), dies at 78
Michael Graves (1934-2015)
Mar 12 American postmodernist architect and designer, dies at 80
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015)
Mar 12 English author of fantasy novels (Discworld), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 66
- Mar 13 Al Rosen, American baseball third baseman (MLB All-Star 1952–55; World Series 1948; AL MVP 1953; Cleveland Indians) and executive (NL Executive of the Year 1989), dies at 91
- Mar 13 Daevid Allen [Christopher David], Australian musician and performance artist (Soft Machine, Gong), dies of cancer at 77
- Mar 14 Valentin Rasputin, Russian writer (To Live and Remember), dies at 77
- Mar 15 Mike Porcaro, American rock bassist (Toto, 1982-2007 "Stranger In Town"), dies from Lou Gehrig’s disease at 59
- Mar 15 Robert Clatworthy, English sculptor, dies at 87
- Mar 16 Andy Fraser, English bass guitarist (Free), dies at 62
- Mar 16 Jack Haley, American NBA basketball center, 1988-98 (Chicago Bulls, New Jersey Nets, and 2 other teams), dies of heart disease at 51
- Mar 17 Bob Appleyard, English cricketer (superb England off-spinner, brief career), dies at 90
- Mar 17 Shaw Taylor, British actor and television presenter (Police 5), dies at 90
- Mar 19 Michael Brown, American rock keyboardist and songwriter (Left Banke - Walk Away Renee; Pretty Ballerina), dies of heart failure at 65
- Mar 19 Peter Katin, British concert pianist, dies at 84
- Mar 20 A.J. Pero, American drummer (Twisted Sister - "We're Not Gonna Take It"), dies of a heart attack at 55
- Mar 20 Eva Burrows, Austrian Salvation Army officer, 13th General of The Salvation Army, dies at 85
- Mar 20 Gregory Walcott, American actor (Plan 9 from Outer Space, 87th Precinct), dies at 87
- Mar 20 Jim Berry, American cartoonist (Berry's World), dies at 83
Malcolm Fraser (1930-2015)
Mar 20 Australian Prime Minister (Liberal, 1975-83), dies at 84
- Mar 20 Perro Aguayo, Jr., Mexican wrestler (CMLL), dies of cardiac arrest in the ring at 35
- Mar 20 Robert Kastenmeier, American politician (Rep-D-WI, 1959-91), dies at 91
- Mar 21 Chuck Bednarik, Pro/College Football HOF center/linebacker (Uni of Pennsylvania; NFL C'ship 1949, 60; 10 × First-team All-Pro; 8 × Pro Bowl; Philadelphia Eagles), dies of Alzheimer's disease and dementia at 89
- Mar 21 Jackie Trent, English singer-songwriter (Neighbours theme) and actress, dies at 74
- Mar 21 Jørgen Ingmann, Danish jazz and pop guitarist ("Apache"; "Dansevise"), dies at 89
- Mar 22 Norman Scribner, American organist, conductor, choral director (St. Alban's, 1960-2007; Choral Arts Society of Washington, 1965-2012), and composer (Song for St. Cecilia), dies at 79
Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015)
Mar 23 Founding father of modern Singapore and 1st Prime Minister of Singapore (1959-90), dies of pneumonia at 91
- Mar 23 Lil' Chris [Hardman], British rock singer (Checkin' It Out), takes his own life at 24 [1]
- Mar 23 Nick Peters, American Baseball Hall of Fame writer (Oakland Tribune, Sacramento Bee, Berkeley Gazette, San Francisco Chronicle), dies at 75
- Mar 23 Roy Douglas, English composer and arranger (Tomorrow We Live - At Dawn We Die), dies at 107
- Mar 24 Maria Radner, German operatic contralto, specializing in Wagner, dies in a plane crash at 33
- Mar 24 Oleg Bryjak, Kazakhstani-German bass-baritone opera singer (Deutsche Oper am Rhein), dies in plane crash at 54
- Mar 26 John Renbourn, British jazz and folk guitarist and songwriter (Pentangle), dies of a heart attack at 70
- Mar 26 Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet (Nobel Prize for Literature - 2011), dies at 83
- Mar 28 Douglas Leedy, American composer, dies at 77
- Mar 28 Gene Saks, American actor and director (One & Only, Prisoner of 2nd Ave), dies at 93
- Mar 28 Richard L. Bare, American TV and film director (Green Acres), dies at 101
- Mar 28 Ronald Stevenson, Scottish-Welsh composer (9 Haiku; Ben Dorain Symphony), pianist, and educator, dies at 87
- Mar 31 Philip Potter, Dominica Methodist church leader (Secretary-General World Council of Churches), dies at 93
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