- Mar 6 Konstantin Iliev, Bulgarian composer, dies at 63
- Mar 8 Amar Singh Chamkila [Dhanni Ram], Punjabi folk singer "The Elvis of Punjab" killed by unknown gunmen as he arrived for concert at age 26 [1]
- Mar 8 Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (b. 1918)
- Mar 8 Ken Colyer, British New Orleans jazz devotee trumpeter, cornetist, and bandleader, dies at 79
Andy Gibb (1958-1988)
Mar 10 British singer-songwriter, performer and teen idol (Bee Gees - "I Just Want to Be Your Everything"), dies of myocarditis at 30
- Mar 10 William Brocklesby Wordsworth, English composer, dies at 79
- Mar 14 Willi Apel, German-American musicologist (Harvard Dictionary of Music), dies at 94
- Mar 17 Nikolas Asimos, Greek counter-culture composer and singer, dies at 38
- Mar 20 Gil Evans, Canadian-American jazz pianist, composer and arranger (Miles Davis; Absolute Beginners, Out of the Cool), dies at 75
- Mar 26 Musa Kaleem [Orlando Wright], American jazz saxophonist, dies at 67
- Mar 30 Taneli Kuusisto, Finnish organist and composer (Suomalainen rukous - Finnish Prayer), dies at 82
- Mar 31 Talib Rasul Hakim [Stephen Chambers], American composer (Visions of Ishwara; Az-Zaahir-Al Batin (The Outward-The Inward)), dies at 48
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