| 27901 | March 12 | Death | 1979 – Nader Jahanbani, Iranian general and pilot (b. 1928) |
| 27902 | March 12 | Death | 1984 – Arnold Ridley, English actor and playwright (b. 1896) |
| 27903 | March 12 | Death | 1985 – Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1899) |
| 27904 | March 12 | Death | 1987 – Woody Hayes, American football player and coach (b. 1913) |
| 27905 | March 12 | Death | 1988 – Romare Bearden, American painter (b. 1911) |
| 27906 | March 12 | Death | 1989 – Maurice Evans, English actor and producer (b. 1901) |
| 27907 | March 12 | Death | 1991 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900) |
| 27908 | March 12 | Death | 1991 – William Heinesen, Faroese author, poet, and author (b. 1900) |
| 27909 | March 12 | Death | 1992 – Hans G. Kresse, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1921) |
| 27910 | March 12 | Death | 1995 – Juanin Clay, American actress (b. 1949) |
| 27911 | March 12 | Death | 1998 – Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (b. 1924) |
| 27912 | March 12 | Death | 1998 – Beatrice Wood, American painter and potter (b. 1893) |
| 27913 | March 12 | Death | 1999 – Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor (b. 1916) |
| 27914 | March 12 | Death | 2001 – Morton Downey, Jr., American singer-songwriter and talk show host (b. 1933) |
| 27915 | March 12 | Death | 2001 – Robert Ludlum, American author (b. 1927) |
| 27916 | March 12 | Death | 2001 – Victor Westhoff, Dutch botanist and academic (b. 1916) |
| 27917 | March 12 | Death | 2002 – Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Cyprus (b. 1932) |
| 27918 | March 12 | Death | 2002 – Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1923) |
| 27919 | March 12 | Death | 2003 – Zoran Đinđić, Serbian philosopher and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1952) |
| 27920 | March 12 | Death | 2003 – Howard Fast, American author (b. 1914) |
| 27921 | March 12 | Death | 2003 – Andrey Kivilev, Kazakh cyclist (b. 1973) |
| 27922 | March 12 | Death | 2003 – Lynne Thigpen, American actress and singer (b. 1948) |
| 27923 | March 12 | Death | 2004 – Milton Resnick, Russian-American painter (b. 1917) |
| 27924 | March 12 | Death | 2005 – Bill Cameron, Canadian journalist and producer (b. 1943) |
| 27925 | March 12 | Death | 2005 – Stavros Kouyioumtzis, Greek composer (b. 1932) |
| 27926 | March 12 | Death | 2006 – Victor Sokolov, Russian-American priest and journalist (b. 1947) |
| 27927 | March 12 | Death | 2007 – Arnold Drake, American author and screenwriter (b. 1924) |
| 27928 | March 12 | Death | 2008 – Jorge Guinzburg, Argentinian journalist and producer (b. 1949) |
| 27929 | March 12 | Death | 2008 – Lazare Ponticelli, Italian-French soldier (b. 1897) |
| 27930 | March 12 | Death | 2010 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish journalist and author (b. 1920) |