- Mar 1 Camille E Baly, St Maartens poet (Sonny)
- Mar 1 Jean-Edern Hallier, writer
- Mar 1 Marion Farouk-Sluglett, political scientist
- Mar 1 Monique Bégin, French-Canadian politician
- Mar 2 Henny Boskamp, [Hoelscher], actor (Troeleke)
- Mar 4 Aribert Reimann, composer
- Mar 4 David Thompson, British food magnate/multi-millionaire
- Mar 4 Eric Allandale, rocker (Foundations)
- Mar 5 Dale Douglass, Wewoka OK, PGA golfer (1970 Phoenix Open)
- Mar 5 Dean Stockwell, California, actor (Werewolf of Washington, Blue Velvet)
- Mar 5 Canaan Banana, 1st President of Zimbabwe (1980-87), born in Essexvale, Southern Rhodesia (d. 2003)
- Mar 6 A "Bram" Stemerdink, Dutch minister of Defense (PvdA)
- Mar 6 Marion S Barry, (Mayor-D-Washington, D.C., 1979-90, 95- ), drug indictment
- Mar 7 Georges Perec, French writer (Seire Noire, Retour a la bien-aimee)
- Mar 8 Gabor Szabo, Hungarian jazz guitarist (Perfect Circle)
- Mar 8 Sue Ane Langdon, actress (Bachelor Father, Arnie), born in Paterson, New Jersey
- Mar 9 Marty Ingels, American comedian (I'm Dickens He's Fenster), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2015)
- Mar 9 Mickey Gilley, American country singer (Urban Cowboy), born in Natchez, Mississippi
- Mar 9 Elina Salo, Finnish actress (Hamlet Goes Business), born in Sipoo, Finland
- Mar 10 Juda Bar-Norwegian, Israeli/Dutch mime/actor (King)
- Mar 10 Sepp Blatter, Swiss ice hockey and football official
- Mar 10 Alfredo Zitarrosa, Uruguayan Vocals and journalist (d. 1989)
- Mar 11 Antonin Scalia, 105th Supreme Court Justice (1986-2016), born in Trenton, New Jersey (d. 2016)
- Mar 12 Anthony Loehnis, vice chairman (S G Warburg & Co)
- Mar 12 Keith Slater, cricketer (one Test for Australia 1958-59 series)
- Mar 12 Lloyd Dobbins, newscaster (NBC News Overnight), born in Newport News, Virginia
- Mar 12 Patrick Procktor, painter
- Mar 14 Bob Charles, Carterton, New Zealand, PGA golfer (1963 Houston Open)
- Mar 15 Donald K Sundquist, (Rep-R-Tennessee, 1983- )
- Mar 15 David Andrews, Irish politician
- Mar 16 Thelma Hopkins, England, high jumper (Olympic silver 1956)
- Mar 16 Frederick Neil, American folk singer-songwriter and dolphin conservationist (Everybody's Talkin'), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2001)
- Mar 17 Ladislaw Kupkovic, composer
- Mar 17 Thomas K Mattingly II, Chic, Capt USN/astro (Apollo 16, STS-4, 51C)
- Mar 17 Ken Mattingly, American astronaut
- Mar 17 Robert Daniel, republican Congressman for Virginia (1972-1983), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 2012)
- Mar 18 Hans Peter Bleuel, writer
- Mar 18 Robert Lee Smith, US singer (Tams, You Lied to Your Daddy)
- Mar 18 Tony Nash, England, bobsled (Olympic gold 1964)
- Mar 19 Amancio D'Silva, musician
- Mar 19 Ursula Andress, Swiss model, actress and sex symbol (Dr. No, Casino Royale, She, Sensuous Nurse), born in Ostermundigen, Switzerland
- Mar 19 Ben Lexcen, Australian yacht designer (Australia II 1983 America's Cup), born in Boggabri, Australia (d. 1988)
- Mar 19 Birthe Wilke, Danish singer
- Mar 20 Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican Reggae artist
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Mar 20 Vaughn Meader, American comedian and musician, born in Waterville, Maine (d. 2004)
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- Mar 21 Marek Stachowski, composer
- Mar 21 Ed Broadbent, Canadian politician
- Mar 22 Philip Ely, president (British Law Society)
- Mar 22 Roger Whittaker, country singer (Durham Town), born in Nairobi, Kenya
- Mar 22 Ron Carey, American labor leader (International Brotherhood of Teamsters), born in NYC, New York (d. 2008)
- Mar 24 Fredrick Kaufmamn, composer
- Mar 24 David Suzuki, Canadian scientist and environmentalist
- Mar 24 Don Covay [Donald Randolph], American R & B musician and songwriter (Chain of Fools), born in Orangeburg, South Carolina (d. 2015)
- Mar 25 Lawrence Bernard "Larry" Gales, bassist
- Mar 26 Erich Urbanner, composer
- Mar 26 Fred Paris, rocker (Five Satins)
- Mar 27 Jerry Lacy, American actor (Play it Again Sam), born in Sioux City, Iowa
- Mar 27 Malcolm Goldstein, American composer, born in Brooklyn, New York
- Mar 28 Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, poet, journalist, presidential candidate and Nobel Prize Laureate (Aunt Julia), born in Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru
- Mar 28 Amancio Ortega, Spanish businessman and one of the wealthiest people in the world, (founder of the Inditex fashion group), born in Busdongo de Arbás, Spain
- Mar 29 Richard Rodney Bennett, English composer, born in Kent, England (d. 2012)
- Mar 29 Mogens Camre, Danish politician andMember of the European Parliament, born in Randers, Denmark (d. 2016)
- Mar 30 Mark Burns, British director (Juggernaut)
- Mar 30 Richard Baker, Santa Fe NM, Zen teacher (Dharma Sangha)
- Mar 31 Marge Piercy, author (Small Changes, Gone for Soldiers)
- Mar 31 Dokumamushi Sandayu, Japanese actor