- Mar 1 Alan Thicke, Canadian actor (Thicke of the Night; Growing Pains), and TV theme song composer (Doff'rent Strokes; The Facts Of Life), born in Kirkland Lake, Ontario (d. 2016)
- Mar 4 David Franzoni, American screenwriter
- Mar 4 Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic-born American actor (Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), born in Reykjavík (d. 2015)
- Mar 5 (Samuel) "Eddie" Hodges, American stage and screen actor and singer ("High Hopes", The Music Man - "Gary, Indiana"; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi
- Mar 6 Judy Loe, British actress (Singles, Meaning of Life), born in Urmston, England
- Mar 6 Rob Reiner, American Emmy Award-winning actor (All In The Family -"Mike/Meathead") and film director (Stand By Me; When Harry Met Sally; This Is Spinal Tap; The Princess Bride), born in The Bronx, New York
- Mar 7 Donna Loren, American singer and actress (Beach Blanket Bingo), born in Boston, Massachusetts
- Mar 7 Lewis J Stadlen, American stage and screen actor (Minnie's Boys - "Groucho"; Savages; Windy City; Benson), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Mar 7 Richard Lawson, American actor (Eddie-O'Neills), born in Loma Linda, California
- Mar 10 J. Víctor López, Cuban-American actor (Falcon Crest; Man From Atlantis - "Chuey"), born in Cuba (d. 1986)
- Mar 12 Jill O'Hara, American Broadway actress (Promises! Promises!), born in Warren, Pennsylvania
- Mar 14 Pam Ayres, English poet, Radio and TV presenter, born in Stanford in the Vale, England
- Mar 15 Juraj Kukura, Slovak actor (Traffik; It's Better to Be Wealthy and Healthy Than Poor and Ill), born in Prešov, Slovakia
- Mar 18 David Lloyd, English cricket batsman (9 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 214no; Lancashire CCC), coach (England 1996-99) and broadcaster (Sky Sports), born in Accrington, England
- Mar 18 Patrick Chesnais, French actor (Melodrama Habibi), born in Paris, France
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Mar 19 American actress (The Big Chill, Fatal Attraction), born in Greenwich, Connecticut
- Mar 23 Barbara Rhodes, Poughkeepsie NY, actress (Don't Just Stand There)
- Mar 23 Terry Alexander, African-American actor (Day of the Dead, One Life to Live), born in Detroit, Michigan
- Mar 24 Meiko Kaji [Masako Ohta], Japanese film actress and singer (Lady Snowblood), born in Kanda, Tokyo, Japan
- Mar 27 Tom Sullivan, blind actor (If You Could See What I Hear), born in Boston, Massachusetts
- Mar 29 Robert Gordon, American rockabilly revival singer-songwriter ("Red Hot"), and actor (The Loveless), born in Bethesda, Maryland (d. 2022)
About March 1947
How Old? 77 years old
Generation: Baby Boomer
Leap Year: No
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