Mar 11 Haydn Wood, English violinist, and composer of light classical music (Roses of Picardy), dies at 76
Mar 15 Lester Young, American jazz musician, dies at 49
Mar 17 Raffaele d'Alessandro, Swiss pianist, organist, and composer, dies of a ruptured aorta on his 48th birthday
Mar 25 Billy Mayerl, British pianist, music hall songwriter, theatre composer (Marigold), music publisher, and teacher (School of Syncopation), dies of a heart attack at 55
Mar 29 Sara Wennerberg-Reuter, Swedish composer, dies at 84