- Mar 1 Margaret McKay, politician, dies at 85
- Mar 2 Jacobo Majluta Azar, 47th President of the Dominican Republic (1978-82), dies at 61
- Mar 3 David Bowman, trade unionist, dies at 82
- Mar 3 John Joseph Krol, cardinal, dies at 95
- Mar 3 Leo Malet, French crime novelist, dies at 86
- Mar 3 Ludwig Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord, German journalist, dies at 76
- Mar 3 Lyle Talbot [Lysle Henderson], American actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), dies at 94
- Mar 3 Marguerite Duras, French novelist and playwright (Sea Wall), dies at 81
- Mar 3 Meyer Schapiro, Lithuanian-born American art historian, dies at 91
- Mar 4 Barbara Lewis, British obituarist, dies at 55
- Mar 4 Minnie Pearl [Sarah Ophelia Colley], American country comedienne (Grand Ole Opry, Hee-Haw), dies at 84
- Mar 5 Joshua Compston, English art impressario, dies at 26
- Mar 5 Khundaqar Mushtaq Amhed, president of Bangladesh (1975), dies
- Mar 5 Nicolas Cotoner y Cotoner, spanish courtier, dies at 90
- Mar 5 Whitner "Whit" Bissell, American actor (Time Machine, Soylent Green, The Magnificent Seven), dies at 86
- Mar 6 Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, politician, dies at 88
- Mar 6 Herb Hall, American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist, dies at 88
- Mar 6 Simon Cadell, English actor (Enemy at the Door), dies at 45
- Mar 7 Aled Eames, Welsh maritime historian, dies at 74
- Mar 8 Alison McCartney, pathologist/Breast Cancer campaigner, dies at 45
- Mar 8 Jack Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, commando, dies at 89
- Mar 8 Paul Harrhy, actor and opera singer (Intelligence Park), dies at 38
- Mar 9 Alan Hugh Iliffe, psychologist, dies at 77
- Mar 9 Elman Ali Ahmed, peace campaigner, dies at 42
- Mar 9 Peter Mansfield, British political journalist and author, dies at 67
- Mar 9 George Burns, American comedian, actor and singer (Burns and Allen), dies at 100
- Mar 10 Lucius E Burch Jr, US civil rights leader, dies at 84
- Mar 10 Ross Hunter, American film producer (Airport, Madame X, Pillow Talk), dies at about 75 (date of birth disputed)
- Mar 11 Barry Appleby, British cartoonist (The Gambols), dies at 86
- Mar 11 Charles William Oatley, electrical engineer, dies at 92
- Mar 11 John Henry Pyle Pafford, librarian, dies at 96
- Mar 11 Vince Edwards, American actor, director, and singer (Ben Casey, The Devil's Brigade, Matt Lincoln, Firehouse), dies of cancer at 67
- Mar 12 Charles Bruce Perry, professor of medicine, dies at 92
- Mar 12 Gyula Kallai, Prime Minister of Hungry (1965-67), dies at 85
- Mar 12 John Anthony Bowden Cuddon, writer/teacher, dies at 67
- Mar 13 Brian Hulls, television news cameraman, dies at 48
- Mar 13 Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (The Double Life of Veronique), dies of heart attack at 54
- Mar 13 Lucio Fulci, Italian film director "Godfather of Gore", dies at 68
- Mar 13 Lucy Faithfull, children's campaigner, dies at 85
- Mar 14 Dewi Lorwerth Ellis Bebb, rugby international/journalist, dies at 57
- Mar 14 Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature, dies at 69
- Mar 14 Vic Marshall, chemist, dies at 74
- Mar 15 Helen Chadwick, artist, dies at 42
- Mar 15 Olga Rudge, American concert violinist, dies at 100
- Mar 15 Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric, lawyer/diplomat, dies at 89
- Mar 16 Joseph Lee Pope, singer, dies at 62
- Mar 16 Olive Netta Parsons, co-founder (Collet's bookshop), dies at 104
- Mar 16 Peter Clemoes, Anglo-Saxon scholar, dies at 76
- Mar 16 Charlie Barnett, American actor (b. 1954)
- Mar 17 Bela Szigeti, Hungarian theoretical physicist, dies at 83
- Mar 17 Kenneth Jameson, art educationalist, dies at 83
- Mar 17 Rene Clement, film director, dies at 83
- Mar 17 Thomas Enders, diplomat, dies at 64
- Mar 17 Terry Stafford, American singer (b. 1941)
- Mar 18 Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet (Nobel Prize 1979) dies at 84
- Mar 18 Jacquetta Hawkes, English archaeologist, dies at 85
- Mar 19 Christopher Headington, English composer, musicologist and pianist, dies at 65
- Mar 19 William Hutchinson Murray, mountaineer/author, dies at 83
- Mar 20 Alan Ridout, English composer, dies at 61
- Mar 20 Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist, dies at 86
- Mar 20 Victor Zorza, journalist/Russian specialist, dies at 71
- Mar 21 Frank Murray, police Officer, dies at 51
- Mar 22 Claude Mauriac, French writer (Le Temps immobile), dies at 81
- Mar 22 Robert Franklin Overmyer, astronaut (STS 5, STS 51-B), dies at 59
- Mar 22 Robert Mellors, gay activist, dies at 47
- Mar 22 Ron Hayward, English politician, General Secretary of the Labour Party, dies at 78
- Mar 22 Don Murray, American drummer (The Turtles), dies from post-operative complications at 50
- Mar 22 Václav Nelhýbel, Czech-American composer (Everyman), dies at 76
- Mar 23 J. D. "Jay" Miller, American record producer, dies at 73
- Mar 23 Peter Baer, German-British artist and printmaker, dies at 72
- Mar 24 Maria Lucia Beltran Alcayaga, singer, dies at 66
- Mar 25 John Snagge, British newsreader and commentator for the BBC (Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race), dies at 91
- Mar 26 (Elizabeth Cissie) Charlton, football matriarch, dies at 83
- Mar 26 David Packard, American electronic engineer and businessman, dies at 83
- Mar 26 Edmund Muskie, American politician (Sen-D-Me) and US Secretary of State (1980-81), dies at 81
- Mar 26 Tom Wakefield, British writer, dies at 60
- Mar 28 Barbara McLean, film Editor, dies at 86
- Mar 28 Roscoe [Charles Barnet] Harvey, British soldier, dies at 95
- Mar 28 David Band, British banker (BZW), dies at 53
- Mar 28 Edith Fowke, Canadian folklorist, dies at 82
- Mar 28 Hans Blumenberg, philosopher, dies at 75
- Mar 28 James Herbert Lloyd Morrell, bishop, dies at 89
- Mar 28 Ken Dibbs, Lebanese actor (Suddenly, Party Girl, High Society), dies at 78
- Mar 28 Shin Kanemaru, VP of Japan (1986-87), dies at 81
- Mar 28 Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith, British bibliophile, dies at 87
- Mar 29 Maggie Donnelly, bag lady, dies at 46
- Mar 29 Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1944)
- Mar 30 Hugh Edward Lance Falkus, filmmaker/naturalist, dies at 78
- Mar 30 Ryoei Saito, Japanese businessman (Daishowa Paper Manufacturing), dies at 79
- Mar 31 Dante Giacosa, engineer/designer, dies at 91
- Mar 31 Dario Bellezza, Italian poet, dies of AIDS at 51
- Mar 31 Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer and songwriter (The Gun Club), dies at 37
- Mar 31 Julius Young, fast food entrepreneur, dies at 73