| 24661 | March 4 | Death | 1959 – Maxie Long, American runner (b. 1878) |
| 24662 | March 4 | Death | 1960 – Herbert O'Conor, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 51st Governor of Maryland (b. 1896) |
| 24663 | March 4 | Death | 1960 – Leonard Warren, American opera singer (b. 1911) |
| 24664 | March 4 | Death | 1962 – George Mogridge, American baseball player and manager (b. 1889) |
| 24665 | March 4 | Death | 1963 – William Carlos Williams, American poet and pediatrician (b. 1883) |
| 24666 | March 4 | Death | 1967 – Vladan Desnica, Croatian-Serbian author (b. 1905) |
| 24667 | March 4 | Death | 1967 – Michel Plancherel, Swiss mathematician and academic (b. 1885) |
| 24668 | March 4 | Death | 1969 – Nicholas Schenck, Russian-American businessman (b. 1881) |
| 24669 | March 4 | Death | 1972 – Harold Barrowclough, New Zealand military leader, lawyer and Chief Justice (b. 1894) |
| 24670 | March 4 | Death | 1972 – Charles Biro, American author and illustrator (b. 1911) |
| 24671 | March 4 | Death | 1973 – Marie-Anne Desmarest, French novelist (b. 1904) |
| 24672 | March 4 | Death | 1973 – Samuel Tolansky, English physicist and academic (b. 1907) |
| 24673 | March 4 | Death | 1974 – Adolph Gottlieb, American painter and sculptor (b. 1903) |
| 24674 | March 4 | Death | 1975 – Renée Björling, Swedish actress (b. 1898) |
| 24675 | March 4 | Death | 1976 – John Marvin Jones, American judge and politician (b. 1882) |
| 24676 | March 4 | Death | 1976 – Walter H. Schottky, Swiss-German physicist and engineer (b. 1886) |
| 24677 | March 4 | Death | 1976 – Nikolai Semashko, Russian businessman (b. 1907) |
| 24678 | March 4 | Death | 1976 – Jim Walsh, American basketball player (b. 1930) |
| 24679 | March 4 | Death | 1977 – Miles C. Allgood, American educator and politician (b. 1878) |
| 24680 | March 4 | Death | 1977 – Anatol E. Baconsky, Romanian poet, author, and critic (b. 1925) |
| 24681 | March 4 | Death | 1977 – Nancy Tyson Burbidge, Australian botanist and curator (b. 1912) |
| 24682 | March 4 | Death | 1977 – Andrés Caicedo, Colombian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1951) |
| 24683 | March 4 | Death | 1977 – Toma Caragiu, Greek-Romanian actor (b. 1925) |
| 24684 | March 4 | Death | 1977 – William Paul, American lawyer and politician (b. 1885) |
| 24685 | March 4 | Death | 1977 – Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German jurist and politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs for Germany (b. 1887) |
| 24686 | March 4 | Death | 1978 – Wesley Bolin, American businessman and politician, 15th Governor of Arizona (b. 1909) |
| 24687 | March 4 | Death | 1978 – Joe Marsala, American clarinet player and songwriter (b. 1907) |
| 24688 | March 4 | Death | 1979 – Gladys McConnell, American actress and pilot (b. 1905) |
| 24689 | March 4 | Death | 1979 – Mike Patto, English singer and keyboard player (Spooky Tooth, Boxer, Patto, and Timebox) (b. 1942) |
| 24690 | March 4 | Death | 1979 – Willi Unsoeld, American mountaineer and educator (b. 1926) |