- Mar 2 David Ackles, American singer-songwriter (American Gothic), dies of lung cancer at 62
- Mar 2 Dusty Springfield [Mary O'Brien], English vocalist (Growing Pains), dies at 59
- Mar 5 Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (Kismet; Man of La Mancha; Endless Love), dies at 76
- Mar 7 Lowell Fulson, Choctaw-Cherokee-American blues guitarist and songwriter (“3 O’Clock Blues”; “Reconsider Baby”), dies at 77
- Mar 8 Hans Eklund, Swedish composer, dies at 71
- Mar 9 Harry Somers, Canadian composer, dies at 73
- Mar 12 Yehudi Menuhin, American-British violinist, conductor and teacher (Bartok's Sonata), dies at 82
- Mar 13 Bidu Sayão, Brazilian born soprano (b. 1902)
- Mar 16 Eric Norman Stokes, American composer, dies in an auto accident at 68
- Mar 17 Ernest Gold, Austrian-born American film composer (Exodus), dies at 77
- Mar 18 Lillian McMurry (née Shedd), American blues producer, audio engineer, and record label owner (Trumpet Records - Sonny Boy Williamson II; Elmore James), dies of a heart attack at 77 [1]
- Mar 19 Bob Cato, American photographer, graphic artist and Grammy Award-winning album cover designer (Columbia Records; United Artists), of complications of Alzheimer's disease at 75
- Mar 28 Freaky Tah, American rapper (Lost Boyz) (b. 1971)
- Mar 29 Joe Williams [Goreed], American jazz singer (Everyday I Have The Blues), dies of natural causes at 80
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