- Mar 5 Vicente Ascone, Italian composer, dies at 81
- Mar 7 Guiomar Novaes, Barzilain concert pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit), dies at 84
- Mar 7 Klaus Egge, Norwegian composer (Fanitullen), dies at 72
- Mar 11 Jeanne Leleu, French pianist and composer, dies at 80
- Mar 15 Leonide Massine, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, 1914-20), dies at 82
- Mar 25 Anton Heiller, Austrian organist and composer, dies at 55
- Mar 29 Ray Ventura, French jazz pianist and big band bandleader ("Tout va très bien, Madame la Marquise"), dies at 69