- Mar 5 Harold "Hawkshaw" Hawkins, American country singer (Ozark Jubilee; "Lonesome 7-7203"), dies in a plane crash at 41
- Mar 5 Lloyd "Cowboy" Copas, American country singer ("Candy Kisses"; "Alabam"), dies in a plane crash at 49
Patsy Cline (1932-1963)
Mar 5 American country singer ("Crazy"; "I Fall To Pieces"; "Walkin' After Midnight"), dies in a plane crash at 30
- Mar 10 Irving Aaronson, American jazz pianist and big band lbandeader, dies of a heart attack at 68
- Mar 17 Lizzie Miles [Elizabeth Landreaux], Creole-American jazz, blues and gospel singer ("Man O'War"), dies of a heart attack at 68
- Mar 17 William Henry Squire, British composer and cellist, dies at 91
- Mar 28 Alec Templeton, Welsh pianist and composer (Concertino Lirico), dies at 52
- Mar 30 Alexander Gauk, Russian-Soviet composer, dies at 69
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