- Mar 3 Barbara Ruick, American actress (Carousel; Fearless Fagan), and singer (Jerry Colonna Show), dies of an aneurysm at 43
- Mar 3 Frank Wilcox, American actor (Beverly Hillbillies), dies from a heart attack at 66
- Mar 5 Billy De Wolfe, American character actor (Good Morning World), dies of lung cancer at 67
- Mar 7 Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (b. 1906)
- Mar 10 June Harrison, actress (Land of the Lawless), dies at 48
- Mar 13 Howard St John, American actor (Investigator, Dr Lewis-Hank), dies from a heart attack at 68
- Mar 13 Janos Prohaska, Hungarian actor (Andy Williams Show), dies at 54
- Mar 18 David Imboden, American silent film actor (King of Kings), muralist, and theater director, dies at 87
- Mar 19 Edward Platt, American actor (Get Smart - "The Chief'; North By Northwest), dies of a heart attack at 58
- Mar 20 Chet Huntley, American newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report), dies at 62
- Mar 21 Candy Darling [James Slattery], American transgender actress (Flesh, Women in Revolt), dies at 29
- Mar 24 Doris Deane [Dibble], American silent film actress (Stupid, But Brave), dies at 74
- Mar 25 Otto Waldis, Austrian actor (Unknown World; Whip Hand), dies at 72
- Mar 28 Francoise Rosay, actress (Interlude, Women in Prison), dies at 82
- Mar 29 Andrea Checchi, Italian actor (The Lady Without Camelias, Two Anonymous Letters), dies of periarthritis at 57
- Mar 29 Seton I. Miller, Hollywood screenwriter (Pete's Dragon, Istanbul), dies at 71
- Mar 31 Andrea Checci, actress (2 Women, Assassin, Black Sunday), dies at 57
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