- Mar 4 Mary Osborne, American jazz guitarist, dies of liver cancer at 70
- Mar 8 George "Red" Callender, American jazz and session string bass and tuba player, dies of thyroid cancer at 76
- Mar 10 Giorgos Zampetas, Greek composer and musician (b. 1925)
- Mar 12 Karel Poons, Jewish-Dutch ballet dancer, educator, and Holocaust survivor, dies at 79
- Mar 13 Clarence Wright, English actor and singer, dies at 84
- Mar 19 Henry Leland Clarke, American composer, dies at 85
- Mar 20 Frank Westbrook, American Broadway dancer and choreographer, dies at 82
- Mar 20 Georges Delerue, French film composer (Sword of Gideon, A Little Romance), dies of a heart attack at 67
- Mar 21 Natalie Sleeth, American composer, dies at 61
- Mar 27 Harald Sæverud, Norwegian composer (Rondo Amoroso; Sinfonia Dolorosa), dies at 94
- Mar 28 Josef Matej, Czech composer, dies at 70