- Mar 1 Istvan Lang, Hungarian composer, born in Budapest
- Mar 1 Joan Hackett, NY, actress (Will Penny, One Stone Pony)
- Mar 1 Myrlie Evers, American politician and commissioner (LA Board of Public works)
- Mar 3 Lee Radziwell Ross, American princess (Jackie O's sister), born in NYC, New York
- Mar 3 Marco Antonio Munoz, Mexican spanish singer (Murmullos)
- Mar 3 Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor
- Mar 4 Ann Burton [Anna Rafalowicz], Dutch singer
- Mar 4 John W Mills, British sculptor
- Mar 5 Norbert Linke, German composer
- Mar 6 Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins, English folk musician and composer
- Mar 6 Heiko Wierenga, Dutch soc-dem mayor of Enschede (1977-94)
- Mar 6 Kim Elgie, South African cricketer (South African bat v NZ 1961-62, Scotland RU intl)
- Mar 6 William Davis, author/broadcaster (Battle at Bull Run)
- Mar 6 Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (d. 2004)
- Mar 7 Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1998)
- Mar 8 Johnny Dollar, American country and rockabilly singer, born in Kilgore, Texas (d. 1986)
- Mar 9 Lloyd Price, American R&B singer (Just Because), born in Kenner, Louisiana
- Mar 9 W. Francis McBeth, American composer, born in Ropesville, Texas (d. 2012)
- Mar 9 Mel Lastman, Canadian businessman and politician, born in Toronto, Ontario
- Mar 10 Bernadetta Matuszczak, Polish composer
- Mar 11 Terry J Hatter Jr, US judge in California
- Mar 12 Barbara Feldon, American actress (Agent 99-Get Smart), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Mar 13 Frank H. Murkowski, American politician, U.S. Senator from Alaska (1981-2002), born in Seattle, Washington
- Mar 13 Mike Stoller, American composer (Lieber & Stoller-Hound Dog, Charlie Brown), born in Belle Harbor, Queens, New York
- Mar 13 Donald Henry "Pee Wee" Gaskins, American serial killer (claimed to have murdered over 100 people), born in Florence County, South Carolina (d. 1991)
Michael Caine
Mar 14 Michael Caine [Maurice J Micklewhite], English actor (Alfie), born in London, England
Michael Caine
Quincy Jones Jr
Mar 14 Quincy Jones Jr, American composer and singer (We Are The World), born in Chicago, Illinois
Quincy Jones Jr
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Mar 15 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, born in Brooklyn, New York
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Philippe de Broca
Mar 15 Philippe de Broca, French film director, born in Paris, France
Philippe de Broca
- Mar 16 Sandy Weill, American financier and philanthropist
- Mar 17 Penelope Lively, British writer (Moon Tiger, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe), born in Cairo, Egypt
- Mar 17 Myrlie Evers-Williams, American civil rights activist (NAACP chair), born in Vicksburg, Mississippi
- Mar 18 Unita Blackwell, 1st African American mayor in Mississippi
- Mar 19 Philip Roth, American novelist (Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint), born in Newark, New Jersey
- Mar 19 Renee Taylor [Wexler], American actress (Jack Paar Show, Mary Hartman, The Nanny), born in NYC, New York
- Mar 20 David James Moore, educationalist
- Mar 20 Jacquez Guyonnet, Swiss composer, born in Geneva, Switzerland
- Mar 20 George Altman, American baseball player
- Mar 20 Alexander Gorodnitsky, Russian geologist and poet
- Mar 21 John Hall, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
- Mar 21 Michael Heseltine, UK Secretary of State for Defence (1986)/MP
- Mar 22 Buddy MacKay, (Rep-D-FL, 1983- )
- Mar 22 Chris Duckworth, South African cricketer (South African batsman v England 1956-57)
- Mar 22 Abolhassan Banisadr, former President of Iran
- Mar 23 Geoffrey Leigh, CEO (Allied London Properties)
- Mar 23 Monique van Vooren, Belgian actress (Andy Warhol's Frankenstein)
- Mar 23 Norman Bailey, British bass-baritone (Flying Dutchman)
- Mar 23 Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist, known for the Stanford prison experiment
- Mar 24 David Harries, composer
- Mar 27 Frank Taylor, Chief Constable (Durham)
- Mar 28 Tete Montoliu, Catalonian jazz pianist, born in Barcelona (d. 1997)
- Mar 29 Jacques Brault, French Canadian poet (Quand nous serons heureux), born in Montreal, Canada
- Mar 30 Jean-Claude Brialy, Algerian actor (Circle of Love, Cousins), born in Aumale, Algeria
- Mar 31 Bob Simmons, Fulham England, stuntman (double for James Bond)
- Mar 31 Shirley Jones, American actress (Partridge Family, Elmer Gantry), born in Smithton, Pennsylvania
- Mar 31 Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet (d. 1983)