- Mar 1 Freddie Green, American jazz guitarist (Duke Ellington Orchestra, 1937-87), dies of a heart attack at 75
- Mar 4 Siro Cisilino, Italian composer and musicologist, dies at 83
- Mar 6 Eddie Durham, American pioneering jazz electric guitarist, trombonist (Count Basie; Jimmie Luceford), composer ("Topsy"; "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire"), and bandleader (All-Star Girl Orchestra), dies at 80
- Mar 13 Fela Sowande, Nigerian musician and composer, dies at 81
- Mar 13 Finn Videro, Danish organist and composer, dies at 80
- Mar 13 Gerald Moore, English pianist (Am I Too Loud), dies at 87
- Mar 20 Norman Harris, American soul, R&B, and disco session guitarist (Philadelphia International; O'Jays; Salsoul Orchestra), dies of cardiovascular disease at 39
- Mar 20 Rita Streich, Russian-German soprano, dies at 66
- Mar 21 Dean Paul Martin, Jr, American singer (Dino, Desi & Billy), and actor (Misfits of Science), dies in a military aircraft crash at 35
- Mar 21 Robert Preston [Meservey], American stage and screen actor and singer (The Music Man; Mame; The Last Starfighter), dies of lung cancer at 68
- Mar 26 Eugen Jochum, German conductor (Hamburg Orchestra), dies at 84
- Mar 27 Bruno Kiefer, German-born Brazilian composer, dies at 63
- Mar 28 Maria Augusta von Trapp, Austrian singer who inspired the "Sound of Music" (Trapp Family Singers), dies of heart failure at 82
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