- Mar 1 Rafael Moreno Aranzadi [Pichichi], Spanish soccer forward (5 caps; Athletic Bilbao), dies from typhus at 29
- Mar 4 Bert Williams, African American comedian and entertainer, dies at 46
- Mar 10 Arthur Hervey, Irish orchestral and operatic composer, and musicologist, dies at 67
- Mar 10 Horace Wadham Nicholl, composer, dies at 73
- Mar 22 Louis-Antoine Ranvier, French anatomist and historian, dies at 86
- Mar 27 Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, Russian composer, dies at 63