Events in Sport
- Mar 9 Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title
Golf Tournament
Mar 16 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins her 3rd Titleholders title by 7 strokes from Betsy Rawls
- Mar 22 Wales wins Five Nations Rugby Championship, Grand Slam & Triple Crown with a 9-5 win over France at St. Helen's Ground, Swansea
- Mar 23 NY Rangers blow 6-2 lead, lose 7-6 to Chicago Black Hawks; Bill Mosienko scores fastest hat trick in NHL history, 21 seconds
- Mar 26 14th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kansas beats St. Johns, 80-63; first tournament to have a true "Final Four" format
- Mar 28 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
Birthdays in Sport
- Mar 1 Dave Barr, Canadian golfer (US Open 1985 runner-up), born in Kelowna, British Columbia
- Mar 1 Martin O'Neill, Northern Irish soccer midfielder (64 caps; Nottingham Forest) and manager (Rep of Ireland; Leicester City, Celtic, Aston Villa, Sunderland), born in Kilrea, Northern Ireland
- Mar 1 Brian Winters, American basketball guard (NBA All Star 1976, 78; Milwaukee Bucks) and coach (Vancouver Grizzlies; Golden State Warriors), born in Rockaway, New York
- Mar 7 Lynn Swann, NFL receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)/sportscaster
- Mar 7 Viv Richards, Antiguan cricketer and master blaster (West Indies), born in St. Johns, British Leeward Islands
- Mar 9 Uljana Semjonova, Soviet-Latvian basketball player (Olympic gold 1976), born in Zarasai, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union
- Mar 9 Ekkehard Fasser, Swiss bobsledder (Olympic gold, four-man 1988; World C'ship gold 1983; World Cup champion 1985-86), born in Glarus, Switzerland (d. 2021)
- Mar 18 Mike Webster, American football player (d. 2002)
- Mar 18 Pat Eddery, Irish jockey (11 x British flat racing Champion Jockey; 3 x Epsom Derby), born in Newbridge, Republic of Ireland (d. 2015)
- Mar 19 Warren Lees, NZ cricket wicket-keeper (late 70's)
- Mar 20 Anand Armitraj, India, tennis player (Brother of ViJay)
- Mar 20 Geoff Brabham, Australian auto racer (IMSA GT Championship 1988-91), born in Sydney, NSW
- Mar 22 Bob Costas, American sportscaster and talk show host (Later), born in Queens, New York
- Mar 26 Didier Pironi, French Formula One driver, born in Villecresnes, France (d. 1987)
- Mar 28 Tony Brise, English racing driver, born in Erith, Kent (d. 1975)
- Mar 29 Teofilo Stevenson, Cuban heavyweight boxer (Olympic gold 1972, 76, 80), born in Puerto Padre, Cuba (d. 2012)
- Mar 30 Peter Knights, Australian footballer and coach
- Mar 31 Mike Rafter, England Rugby Union flanker (England 17 caps), born in Bristol, England
