- Mar 1 Eliseo Diego, Cuban poet, dies at 74
- Mar 1 Manmohan Desai, Indian filmmaker (Amar Akbar Anthony, Suhaag), dies at 57
- Mar 1 Timothy Andrew James Souster, British composer, dies at 51
- Mar 1 Walter Kent, American composer (I'll Be Home for Christmas), dies at 82
- Mar 1 Sandro Fuga, Italian composer & pianist, dies at 87
- Mar 1 Dallas Shirley, American Basketball Hall of Fame referee (officiated 2,000+ games in 33-year career), dies at 80
- Mar 2 Donald M. MacKinnon, Scottish philosopher, dies at 80
- Mar 2 Tengiz Abuladze, filmmaker, dies at 70
- Mar 2 Charles Brink, German-born British classical scholar (Horace), dies at 86
- Mar 3 Anita Morris, actress (Nine), dies of cancer at 50
- Mar 3 Bob Crisp, South African cricket fast bowler (9 Tests, 20 wickets; Rhodesia, Western Province, Worcestershire), dies at 82
- Mar 3 Karel Kryl, Czechoslovak folk singer, dies at 49
- Mar 3 Ezra Stone [Chaim Feinstone], American director, actor and producer (My Living Doll, Henry Aldrich), dies in a road accident at 76
- Mar 3 Mauritius van Haegendoren, Flemish historian and senator, dies at 90
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Mar 4 John Candy, actor (SCTV, Uncle Buck), dies from a heart attack at 43
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- Mar 5 Abdullah Al-Sallal, President of Yemen (1962-67), dies
- Mar 5 Joe Daley, American jazz tenor, clarinet and flute player, dies at 75
- Mar 5 Paul Vincze, Jewish-Hungarian designer of coins and medal, dies at 86
- Mar 6 Leighton Noble, singer/Bandleader, dies at 81
- Mar 6 Max Schubert, winemaker, dies at 89
- Mar 6 Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, activist and politician, dies of lung cancer at 73
- Mar 6 Moses Rascoe, American blues singer, dies at 77
- Mar 6 Tengis Abuladze, Georgia SSR MP (Penalty), dies at 71
- Mar 8 John Ewart, Sydney Australia, dies of cancer at 55
- Mar 8 Joop C Swart, publisher/founder (World Press Photo), dies at 69
- Mar 8 Knut Haukelid, Norway/US resistance fighter (Rjukan 1943), dies at 82
- Mar 9 Fernando Rey [Arambillet], Spanish actor (The French Connection, Matter of Time), dies of bladder cancer at 76
- Mar 9 John Harrison, South African correspondent (BBC), dies at 48
- Mar 9 Lawrence E. Spivak, American news panelist (Meet the Press), dies at 93
- Mar 9 Louis Freeman, Scottish band leader, dies at 100
- Mar 9 Maurice "Moe" Purtill, American jazz drummer, dies at 77
- Mar 9 Eddie Creatchman, Canadian wrestler manager (b. 1928)
- Mar 9 Charles Bukowski, German-born American columnist (Notes of a Dirty Old Man) and writer (Hollywood: A Novel) who was described as a "laureate of American lowlife", dies of leukemia at 73
- Mar 10 Cecil Rolph Hewitt, English journalist and policeman, dies at 92
- Mar 10 Robert Shea, American author (Illuminatus!), dies of cancer at 61
- Mar 11 Jacques Doucet, French painter (Mostar Sarajevo), dies at 69
- Mar 12 Sandra Paretti, German/Swiss author (Drums of Winter), dies at 59
- Mar 13 Danny Barker, US banjo player/guitarist (Bourbon St Black), dies at 85
- Mar 13 Murt [Edward James] O'Donoghue, New Zealand snooker player (1st witnessed 147 break), dies at 93
- Mar 13 Sandra Paretti, German romantic novelist, dies at 59
- Mar 13 James Cecil "Humpy" Parker, American disgraced ex-Sheriff convicted of violating inmates civil rights and of torture, dies at 58
- Mar 14 Abdelkader Alloula, Algerian playwright, murdered
- Mar 14 Sally Mary Caroline Belfrage, writer, dies at 57
- Mar 15 Mae Zetterling, Swedish actress (Night Games), dies at 68
- Mar 15 Gundaris Poné, Latvian-American violinist, composer, and educator (NYU-New Paltz, 1964-94), dies of cancer at 61
- Mar 16 (Charles) Russell Woolen, American classical keyboardist and composer (In Martyrum Memoriam), dies at 71
- Mar 17 Arthur C. Jacobs, Scottish poet, dies at 57
- Mar 17 Harold Myers, film journalist, dies at 81
- Mar 17 Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and film director (Witches, Offbeat, Jet Storm), dies of cancer at 68
- Mar 17 Walter Janka, German writer (Troubles with Truth), dies at 79
- Mar 17 Charlotte Auerbach, German-Born British geneticist and zoologist, dies at 94
- Mar 17 Ellsworth Vines, American tennis player (US Open 1931-32; Wimbledon 1932), golfer (3 PGA Tour titles), dies at 82
- Mar 19 Giuseppe Diana, Italian anti-mafia priest, murdered
- Mar 19 Jose Coronel Urtecho, poet, dies at 87
- Mar 20 Lewis Grizzard, American humorist (b. 1946)
- Mar 20 Don Goddard, American news anchor (ABC Evening News 1958-59), dies at 89
- Mar 21 Dack Rambo, American actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas), dies from AIDs at 52
- Mar 21 Lili Damita [Liliane Carré], French actress and wife of Errol Flynn (Bridge of San Luis Rey), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 89
- Mar 21 Macdonald Carey, American actor (Days of Our Lives, Lock Up), dies of cancer at 81
- Mar 22 Dan Hartman, American singer-songwriter (Love Sensation), dies of an AIDS-related brain tumor at 43
- Mar 22 Igor Aleinikov, Russian director (tractors, air crash), dies at 32
- Mar 22 Luther Diamond, radio Personality, dies at 89
- Mar 22 Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker's creator), dies at 93
- Mar 23 Alvara del Portillo, Spanish Opus Dei bishop, dies at 80
- Mar 23 Giulietta Masina, Italian actress, (La Strada, Swindle, White Sheik) and wife of director Federico Fellini, dies at 73
- Mar 23 Jim Moloney, American actor and writer, dies of Parkinson's disease at 64
- Mar 23 Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican presidential candidate, assassinated at 44
- Mar 24 Edith Porada, Austrian art historian and archaeologist, dies at 81
- Mar 24 Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician, assassinated
- Mar 24 Tommy Benford, American jazz drummer, dies at 88
- Mar 24 David Van Vactor, American classical composer, dies at 87
- Mar 25 David Miles Bensusan-Butt, English economist, dies at 79
- Mar 25 Michel R Vassallucci, French/Neth publisher (Arena), dies at 32
- Mar 26 Constantine Koukouchkine, Russ diplomat. murdered in Algeria at 41
- Mar 26 Jan Bor, Dutch violinist/painter, dies at 83
- Mar 27 Dennis Hartas, flier, dies at 69
- Mar 28 Albert Goldman, US rock biographer (Lives of John Lennon, Elvis), dies at 66
- Mar 28 Eugene Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright (Rhinoceros, Bald Soprano), dies at 84
- Mar 28 John Logan Gorlay, journalist, dies at 74
- Mar 29 Bill Travers [William Inge Lindon-Travers], British actor, director, officer and animal rights activist (Born Free, Gorgo), dies at 72
- Mar 29 Paul Grimault, animator, dies at 89
- Mar 29 William Natcher, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky 1953-94), dies at 84
- Mar 30 Sid Weiss, American jazz bassist, dies at 79
- Mar 31 Leon J Ramirez Reine [Degrelle], Belg/Spanish nazi (Rex), dies at 87