| 29581 | March 16 | Death | 1914 – Gaston Calmette, French journalist (b. 1858) |
| 29582 | March 16 | Death | 1914 – Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss lawyer and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843) |
| 29583 | March 16 | Death | 1914 – John Murray, Scottish oceanographer, biologist, and limnologist (b. 1841) |
| 29584 | March 16 | Death | 1925 – August von Wassermann, German bacteriologist and hygienist (b. 1866) |
| 29585 | March 16 | Death | 1926 – Sergeant Stubby, American dog (b. 1916) |
| 29586 | March 16 | Death | 1927 – William Exshaw, French-English sailor (b. 1866) |
| 29587 | March 16 | Death | 1930 – Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1870) |
| 29588 | March 16 | Death | 1935 – John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876) |
| 29589 | March 16 | Death | 1935 – Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-Danish chess player (b. 1886) |
| 29590 | March 16 | Death | 1936 – Marguerite Durand, French journalist and activist (b. 1864) |
| 29591 | March 16 | Death | 1937 – Alexander von Staël-Holstein, Estonian orientalist and sinologist (b. 1877) |
| 29592 | March 16 | Death | 1940 – Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858) |
| 29593 | March 16 | Death | 1945 – Simeon Price, American golfer (b. 1882) |
| 29594 | March 16 | Death | 1945 – Börries von Münchhausen, German poet and activist (b. 1874) |
| 29595 | March 16 | Death | 1955 – Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter (b. 1914) |
| 29596 | March 16 | Death | 1957 – Constantin Brâncuși, Romanian-French sculptor, painter, and photographer (b. 1876) |
| 29597 | March 16 | Death | 1961 – Chen Geng, Chinese general and politician (b. 1903) |
| 29598 | March 16 | Death | 1961 – Václav Talich, Czech violinist and conductor (b. 1883) |
| 29599 | March 16 | Death | 1963 – Laura Adams Armer, American author and photographer (b. 1874) |
| 29600 | March 16 | Death | 1968 – Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian-American pianist and composer (b. 1895) |
| 29601 | March 16 | Death | 1968 – Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and translator (b. 1907) |
| 29602 | March 16 | Death | 1970 – Tammi Terrell, American singer-songwriter (b. 1946) |
| 29603 | March 16 | Death | 1971 – Thomas E. Dewey, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of New York (b. 1902) |
| 29604 | March 16 | Death | 1975 – Richard W. DeKorte, American lawyer and politician (b. 1936) |
| 29605 | March 16 | Death | 1975 – T-Bone Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1910) |
| 29606 | March 16 | Death | 1977 – Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese lawyer and politician (b. 1917) |
| 29607 | March 16 | Death | 1979 – Jean-Guy Cardinal, Canadian politician (b. 1925) |
| 29608 | March 16 | Death | 1979 – Lucien Démanet, French gymnast (b. 1874) |
| 29609 | March 16 | Death | 1979 – Jean Monnet, French economist and politician (b. 1888) |
| 29610 | March 16 | Death | 1979 – Carmen de Icaza, Spanish writer (b. 1899) |