- Mar 1 Alan Thicke, Canadian actor, singer-songwriter (Thicke of the Night, Growing Pains), born in Kirkland Lake, Ontario (d. 2016)
- Mar 4 Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician
- Mar 5 Eddie Hodges, Miss, actor/singer (High Hopes, Adv of Huckleberry Finn)
- Mar 5 Clodagh Rodgers, Irish singer (Come Back and Shake Me), born in Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland
- Mar 6 Kiki Dee, Yorkshire England, singer (Don't Go Breaking My Heart)
- Mar 7 Donna Loren, singer/actress (Beach Blanket Bingo), born in Boston, Massachusetts
- Mar 8 Mike Allsup, Modesto Ca, rock guitarist (Three Dog Night)
- Mar 8 Carole Bayer Sager, American singer-songwriter (On My Own, That's What Friends Are For) and wife of Burt Bacharach, born in Manhattan, New York
- Mar 10 Tom Scholz, rock guitarist/keyboardist (Boston-More Than a Feeling)
- Mar 11 Mark Stein, singer/organist/keyboardist (Vanilla Fudge)
- Mar 13 Lesley Collier, English ballet dancer, born in Orpington, England
- Mar 13 Beat Richner, Swiss physician (founder of children's hospitals in Cambodia) and cellist, born in Zürich, Switzerland
- Mar 15 Ry[land] Cooder, LA, blues guitarist (Crossroads)
- Mar 15 Stomu Yamash'ta, composer
- Mar 16 Ramzan Paskayev, Chechen accordionist and folk musician, born in Taraz, Kazakhstan
- Mar 17 Ian Gomm, rock guitarist
- Mar 17 Yury Chernavsky, Russian-born Composer and Producer
- Mar 18 Barry Wilson, England, rock drummer (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale)
- Mar 18 Elliot Ray Scheiner, American Grammy winning music producer, mixer and engineer (History of the Eagles), born in the US
- Mar 20 Carl Palmer, drummer (Asia-Heat of the Moment, Emerson Lake & Palmer)
- Mar 21 Franco Mussida, Italian progressive rock musician (Premiata Forneria Marconi), born in Milan, Italy
- Mar 22 Harry Vanda [Vandenberg], Hague Neth, rock guitarist (Easybeats)
- Mar 22 Patrick Olive, percussionist (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing)
- Mar 24 Mike Kellie, rock drummer (Spooky Tooth-It's All About)
- Mar 24 Meiko Kaji, Japanese singer and actress
Elton John
Mar 25 Elton John [Reginald Kenneth Dwight], English singer (Rocketman), born in Pinner, Middlesex
Elton John