Born: March 01, 1904

Died: December 15, 1944

Immensely popular Big Band-era swing and jazz composer, bandleader, trombonist and movie actor, wrote dozens of popular swing hits, including "In The Mood" (#1, 1940), "Pennsylvania 6-5000" (Top 5, 1940) and "Chattanooga Choo Choo" (#1, 1941), died during a tour of Western Europe to entertain U.S. troops when the transport plane in which he was flying disappeared over the English Channel during bad weather on 12/15/1944, age 40

Born: March 01, 1927

Died: April 25, 2023

Songwriter, actor, social activist and beloved 50s-60s pop and adult contemporary singer best known as the "King of Calypso" for popularizing Caribbean ethnic music globally through "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" (#5, UK #2, 1956) and five other Top 25 hits plus three successive Top 5 albums in the U.S. in 1956-57, switched to an MOR sound in the 60s, appeared in numerous films and recorded into the 70s, endorsed the Kennedy Presidency in 1960 and followed with a long, outspoken and respected career supporting various civil rights, humanitarian and liberal political issues worldwide from the 60s through the 10s, died at home in New York City from congestive heart failure on 4/25/2023, age 96.

Born: March 01, 1939

Died: 0000-00-00

Vocals for one hit wonder R&B/doo wop sextet The Monotones, "(Who Wrote) The Book Of Love" (#5, 1958)

Born: March 01, 1942

Died: 0000-00-00

Blue-eyed soul and blues vocalist as a solo artist on the club circuit in the Southwest US in the 60s, joined jazz-rock/pop-rock fusion band Blood, Sweat & Tears ("Spinning Wheel," #2, 1969) as lead singer for 1971, left in 1976 and became a restaurateur on the Mississippi coast, sold his property five months before Hurricane Katrina devastated the area in 2005.

Born: March 01, 1944

Died: 0000-00-00

Singer, songwriter and vocals for British Invasion pop-rock Manfred Mann, "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" (#1, 1964), wrote The Foundations' "Build Me Up Buttercup" (#3, 1969) and Rod Stewart's "Handbags & Gladrags" (#42, 1972)

Born: March 01, 1944

Died: 0000-00-00

Lead singer for venerable hard rock The Who, "Who Are You" (#14, 1978) and solo, "After The Fire" (Mainstream Rock #3, 1985)

Born: March 01, 1946

Died: May 28, 2001

Vocals and keyboards in 60s Merseybeat quintet The Remo Four, backed George Harrison on his Wonderwall Music soundtrack album (1968), co-founded early 70s art rock Ashton, Gardner & Dyke ("Resurrection Shuffle," #40, UK #3, 1971), briefly joined prog rock Family and collaborated with Deep Purple'sJon Lord on a number of projects, turned to art and writing in the 90s and died from cancer on 5/28/2001, age 55

Born: March 01, 1947

Died: 0000-00-00

Two-time Grammy-winning roots-reggae singer, songwriter, Rastafarian preacher and bandleader with eleven Top 20 charting world and reggae music albums

Born: March 01, 1947

Died: December 13, 2016

Canadian songwriter, stage and screen actor with multiple credits, producer and TV show host, co-wrote Bill Champlin's minor hit "Sara" (1978), composed TV theme songs, including Diff'rent Strokes (1978) and The Facts Of Life (1979), hosted The Thicke Of The Night talk show (1983-84) and starred in the sitcom Growing Pains (1985-1992), died from an aortic dissection on 12/13/2016, age 69

Born: March 01, 1950

Died: 0000-00-00

Rock music critic, magazine editor, author and radio talk show host, founding editor of music magazine Creem, wrote for The Village Voice, Rolling Stone and other music magazines, credited with coining the term "punk rock" in 1971, serves on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame selection committee

Born: March 01, 1957

Died: 0000-00-00

Singer in AM Pop one hit wonder Starland Vocal Band, "Afternoon Delight" (#1, UK #18, 1976).

Born: March 01, 1958

Died: 0000-00-00

Singer, songwriter, jazz-funk guitarist and 80s teen idol, "Wouldn't It Be Good" (#46, UK #4, 1984), producer

Born: March 01, 1962

Died: 0000-00-00

Bassist and co-founder of power-pop Gin Blossoms, "Found Out About You" (Modern Rock #1, 1994)

Born: March 01, 1962

Died: 0000-00-00

Founding member and keyboards in Scottish electronic psych/dance rock crossover band The Shamen, "Ebeneezer Goode" (UK #1, 1992)

Born: March 01, 1963

Died: 0000-00-00

Keyboards and vocals for Swedish alt rock The Wannadies, "You And Me Song" (UK #18, 1996)

Born: March 01, 1963

Died: 0000-00-00

Drummer for New Jersey-based hair metal/pop-metal Skid Row ("I Remember You," #6, 1989)

Born: March 01, 1969

Died: 0000-00-00

Drummer for Welsh electro-psych rock Super Furry Animals, "Northern Lites" (UK #11, 1999)

Born: March 01, 1973

Died: 0000-00-00

Rhythm guitar and vocals for Canadian post-grunge hard rock Nickelback, "How You Remind Me" (#1, 2001)

Born: March 01, 1987

Died: 0000-00-00

Dance-pop rapper with Flo Rida, "Right Round", (#1, 2009) and solo, "Tik Tok" (#1, 2010)

Born: March 01, 1994

Died: 0000-00-00

Canadian teen idol pop singer and the first artist to have seven songs from a debut album chart on the Billboard Hot 100, including "Baby" (#5, 2010)

Born: March 01, 1922

Died: February 23, 2019

Acclaimed composer, arranger and orchestral conductor credited with working on over 30 Top 10 hits and more than 1,500 radio and TV commercials - with four Clio Award winners - wrote his first arrangement at age 12 and spent nearly 75 years of his adult life composing and arranging pop, jazz, light rock and orchestra music, including the orchestration on the Drifters' "There Goes My Baby" (#2, R&B #1, 1959), the first R&B record to use strings, served as principal arranger and orchestrator for the New York Pops for almost 15 years and wrote for orchestras including the New York Philharmonic and the London Philharmonic, donated his archives to the New York Public Library a year before dying from unspecified causes on 2/23/2019, age 96.

Born: March 01, 1940

Died: January 18, 2026

Self-taught multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, and bandleader, virtuoso classical, twelve-string and electric guitarist, pianist, percussionist, trumpeteer, synthesizer and French horn player with a lifetime blending jazz, classical and world music, played in the Paul Winter Consort in the early 70s, co-formed long-running prog-folk-jazz Oregon in 1971 and appeared on nearly 30 albums by the group through 2017, at the same time enjoying a long and varied solo career with 27 albums of his own or as group leader, and dozens of collaborations with other modern jazz and fusion musicians, including John Abercrombie, Gary Burton, Larry Coryell, and Keith Jarrett, lived in Italy after 1995 and died in Rome for undisclosed causes on 1/18/2026, age 85.