- Mar 3 Fred Alexander, American tennis player (Australasian C'ship 1908, 5-time US Indoor winner), dies at 88
- Mar 4 Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film empresario (b. 1881)
- Mar 6 Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (b. 1952)
- Mar 9 Riad, chief of staff (Egyptian army), dies
- Mar 9 Richard Crane, American character actor (Surfside 6, Rocky Jones, Space Ranger), dies of a heart attack at 50
- Mar 11 John Wyndham, American sci-fi author (Chrysalids), dies at 65
- Mar 13 Felix Locher, Swiss insurance salesman, mapping system inventor, and late in life actor (Frankenstein's Daughter), dies at 86
- Mar 14 Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American painter (1964 Arts & Letters), dies at 70
- Mar 15 Miles Malleson, British stage and screen actor, and writer (Kind Hearts and Coronets; Postman's Knock), dies at 80
- Mar 18 Barbara Bates, American actress (All About Eve, It's a Great Life), commits suicide at 43
- Mar 19 Theodor Schaefer, Czech composer, dies at 65
- Mar 20 Henri Longchambon, French politician, dies at 72
- Mar 21 Gerhard Fritsch, Austrian writer, dies at 44
- Mar 22 Ernst Deutsch [Dorian], Jewish-Austrian actor (3rd Man, Golem), dies at 78
- Mar 23 Rudolf Pannwitz, German writer and philosopher (Urblik), dies at 87
- Mar 24 Joseph Kasavubu, president Congo (1960-65), dies at about 55
- Mar 25 Alan Mowbray, British actor (Dante, Colonel Flack), dies at 72
- Mar 25 Max Eastman, American critic/essayist (Love and Revolution), dies at 86
- Mar 25 Norman Gallichan, cricketer (one Test for NZ, 30 & 2, 3-113), dies
- Mar 25 Billy Cotton, British bandleader and entertainer, dies at 69
- Mar 26 Günther Weisenborn, German writer and German Resistance fighter, dies at 66
- Mar 27 B[runo] Traven, writer (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre), writer whose identity is disputed, dies at possibly 87
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mar 28 Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th US President (R, 1953-61) and WWII general, dies of a congestive heart failure at 78
