Birthdays in Music
- Mar 3 Nicos Mamangakis, composer
- Mar 4 Bernard Haitink, Amsterdam Neth, conductor (London Phil Orch 1969-78)
- Mar 4 Josep Mestres-Quadreny, composer
- Mar 5 J. B. Lenoir, African American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, active in the 1950s, born in Monticello, Mississippi (d. 1967)
- Mar 7 Yvonne Chouteau, Native American dancer (one of the "five Moons" of Oklahoma), born in Fort Worth, Texas (d. 2016)
- Mar 12 Francisco Pulgar Vidal, Peruvian musicologist and composer, born in Huánuco, Peru (d. 2012)
- Mar 13 Will Eisma, Dutch composer and violinist, born in Sungailiat, Indonesia
- Mar 15 Tiezo Matsumura, composer
- Mar 16 Edwin London, American composer, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2013)
- Mar 18 Ctirad Kohoutek, composer
- Mar 19 Herman van San, composer
- Mar 19 Robert Muczynski, composer
- Mar 23 Gerrit den Braber, Dutch song writer and lyricist (Ring-dinge-ding, I See a Star), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1997)
- Mar 25 Cecil Taylor, American pianist, poet, and one of the pioneers of free jazz, born in Corona, Queens, New York (d. 2018)
- Mar 26 Maurice Simon, jazz musician
About March 1929
How Old? 90 years old
Generation: Traditionalist or Silent Generation
Leap Year: No