Historical Events
- Mar 1 Steven Holcomb pilots USA-1 sled to victory in the 4-man competition at the World Bobsled Championships at Mt Van Hoevenberg, NY; first American win in the event in 50 years
- Mar 3 The building of the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln (Historical Archives) in Cologne, Germany, collapses.
- Mar 3 The Sri Lankan cricket team is attacked by terrorists while on their way to the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore for 2nd Test against Pakistan; match abandoned
Event of Interest
Mar 4 International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur becoming the first sitting head of state to be indicted
- Mar 4 Malaysia has a 50% chance of slipping into the recession as growth is expected to reach just 0.5% for the year, announces the executive director Datuk Mohamed Ariff Abdul Kareem of the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research
- Mar 4 U.S. Steel announce the closure of the Stelco Lake Erie Works in Nanticoke, Ontario due to the increasingly worsening effects of the global economic slowdown
Billy Corgan Testifies
Mar 10 Billy Corgan testifies in front of Congress, on behalf of the musicFIRST Coalition, in support of H.R. 848, the Performance Rights Act
- Mar 11 Winnenden school shooting - 17 people are killed at a school in Germany.
- Mar 13 30th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: #5 Louisville beats #10 Villanova, 69-55
- Mar 14 Canterbury winger Hazem El Masri becomes highest point scorer in Australian Rugby League history; 33rd minute penalty in Bulldogs' 34-12 win over Manly at ANZ Stadium, Sydney takes him to 2,178; Andrew Johns, 2,176
- Mar 15 50th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Mississippi State beats Tennessee, 64-61
- Mar 15 56th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #9 Duke beats #22 Florida State, 79-69
- Mar 21 Ireland completes a Grand Slam with a 17-15 win over Wales at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to win the Six Nations Rugby Championship
- Mar 22 Cricket Women's World Cup: England defeats New Zealand by 4 wickets
- Mar 22 Mount Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska began erupting after a prolonged period of unrest
- Mar 25 Gay dating site Grindr launched by Joel Simkhai, first ever dating application to combine dating information and location
- Mar 27 Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails killing at least 99 people.
Swine Flu Pandemic
Mar 28 The first cases of H1N1 swine flu in the United States occur in two people in California
- Mar 31 "Boom Boom Pow" single released by The Black Eyed Peas (Grammy Award for Best Music Video 2010, Billboard Song of the Year 2009)
Famous Weddings
Mandy Moore
Mar 11 Actress and singer Mandy Moore (28) weds alt-country/rock singer-songwriter Ryan Adams (37) in Savannah, Georgia; divorce in 2016
Mike Dirnt
Mar 14 Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt (36) weds Brittney Cade at a private ceremony in Ojai, California
David Letterman
Mar 19 Talk show host David Letterman (61) weds longtime girlfriend Regina Lasko (48) at a civil ceremony in Choteau, Montana
- Mar 21 British songbird who soared to the top of the charts with her hit "Unwritten" Natasha Bedingfield (27) weds California businessman Matthew Robinson at Church Estate Vineyard's in Malibu, California
Bruce Willis
Mar 21 Star of Die Hard film Bruce Willis (52) weds model and actress Emma Heming (29) in Turks and Caicos Islands
- Mar 22 "The Wonder Years" actress Danica McKellar (36) weds composer Mike Verta (36) at St. James by the Sea Episcopal Church in La Jolla, California
Famous Divorces
- Mar 20 "Dawson's Creek" actor Kerr Smith (37) divorces actress Harmoni Everett (34) due to irreconcilable differences after 6 years of marriage
Famous Deaths
- 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
Natasha Richardson (1963-2009)
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
