- Mar 11 Claude François, French pop singer-songwriter ("Comme d'habitude"), electrocuted in a home mishap at 39
- Mar 12 Tolchard Evans, British pop pianist, songwriter ("Lady of Spain"; "If"), and bandleader, dies at 76
- Mar 13 David McKinley Williams, Welsh born American church composer, dies at 91
- Mar 21 Louis Cottrell Jr., Creole-American jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist (Heritage Hall Jazz Band), dies at 67
- Mar 23 Bill Kenny, American singer, dies at 63
- Mar 26 Alix Combelle, French swing saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader (Quintette du Hot Club de France), dies at 65
- Mar 30 Larry Young [aka Khalid Yasin], American hard-bop and jazz-fusion Hammond B-3 organist (Unity), dies from several untreated illnesses, including pneumonia, at 37
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