- Mar 1 Joel Brodsky, American photographer, credited with photographing over 400 album covers, dies of a heart attack at 67 [1]
- Mar 4 Natalie Bodanya [Bodanskaya], American soprano, dies at 98
- Mar 4 Richard Joseph, British computer and video game soundtrack composer, dies of lung cancer at 53
- Mar 4 Tadeusz Nalepa, Polish rock and blues composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist, dies at 63
- Mar 7 Frigyes Hidas, Hungarian composer, and musical director (Hungarian National Theater, 1951-66; Budapest Operetta, 1974-79). dies at 78
- Mar 9 Brad Delp, American rock musician (lead singer of Boston and RTZ), commits suicide at 55
- Mar 11 Betty Hutton [Elizabeth June Thornburg], American actress, dancer, singer and comedian (Greatest Show on Earth), dies of colon cancer a 86
- Mar 17 Roger Bennett, American Southern Gospel performer (b. 1959)
- Mar 18 Alec Wyton, English-born American composer, dies at 85
- Mar 19 Luther Ingram, American R&B singer-songwriter ("(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right"; "I'll Be Your Shelter"), dies of diabetes related heart failure at 69
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