- Mar 3 Georges Perec, French writer (La Vie mode d'emploi (Life A User's Manual)), and filmmaker (Seire Noire), dies of lung cancer at 45
John Belushi (1949-1982)
Mar 5 American comedian (SNL, 1975-80), actor (Animal House), and singer (The Blues Brothers), dies of a drug overdose at 33
- Mar 6 Ayn Rand [Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum], Russian-American author, screenwriter and philosopher who developed the philosophical system of "Objectivism" (Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead), dies of heart failure at 77
- Mar 6 Jan Lemaire, Dutch writer and actor (Village by the River, Beautiful Juliet), dies at 97
- Mar 9 Alan Badel, British actor (Shogun, Salome, Bill Brand), dies of a heart attack at 58
- Mar 9 Rex Marshall, American TV announcer (Circuit Rider, Herman Hickman Show), dies from a heart attack at 64
- Mar 17 Koos Koster, Dutch newscaster (IKON), murdered in El Salvador
- Mar 18 George Lampe, Dutch painter and director (Free Academy), dies at 60
- Mar 21 Harry H Corbett, British actor (Steptoe & Son, Jabberwacky), dies at 57
- Mar 24 Goodman Ace, American writer, radio presenter, actor and humorist (Better of Goodman), dies at 83
- Mar 29 Rudy Bond, American stage and screen actor (A Streetcar Named Desire), dies of a heart attack at 69
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