Deaths in March 2000

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

March 2000

1

• Raymond Badin, 71, French gymnast and Olympian.
• Odell Barnes, 31, American convict, execution by lethal injection.
• Jesper Høm, 68, Danish photographer and film director.
• Vlastimir Peričić, 72, Serbian composer.
• Lionel Salter, 85, English pianist, conductor, and writer.
• Sumie Tanaka, 91, Japanese screenwriter and playwright.

2

• John Calvin Aker, 60, American judge.
• Audun Boysen, 70, Norwegian middle distance runner and Olympic medalist.
• Jimmy Lewis, 81, American double bassist.
• Jack Robinson, 79, American baseball player.
• Sandra Schmirler, 36, Canadian curling champion, cancer.
• Charles E. Wiggins, 72, American politician and judge, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, cardiac arrest.

3

• Ranjana Deshmukh, 45, Indian actress, heart attack.
• Paul Doguereau, 91, French pianist and piano teacher.
• Toni Ortelli, 95, Italian composer and alpinist.
• Nicole Van Goethem, 58, Belgian animator and illustrator.

4

• Hermann Brück, 94, German astronomer.
• Władysław Daniłowski, 97, Polish-American pianist, composer and singer.
• Kyi Kyi Htay, 75, Burmese actress.
• Geeta Mukherjee, 76, Indian politician and social worker.
• Julian Ritter, 90, American painter.
• Donn J. Robertson, 83, United States Marine Corps officer.
• Alphons Silbermann, 90, German Jewish sociologist, musicologist, and publicist.
• Ta-You Wu, 92, Chinese theoretical physicist.
• Xie Xide, 78, Chinese physicist, breast cancer.

5

• Jon Barwise, 57, American mathematician, philosopher and logician, colon cancer.
• Lolo Ferrari, 37, French dancer, pornographic actress, actress and singer, suicide.
• Franklin Garrett, 93, American historian.
• Roma Mitchell, 86, Australian lawyer and Governor of South Australia, bone cancer.
• Todd Thomas, 40, American gridiron football player, cancer.
• Daniel Abraham Yanofsky, 74, Canadian chess grandmaster, writer, and arbiter.
• Mikola Yermalovich, 78, Belarusian writer and historian.
• Alexander Young, 79, British operatic tenor.

6

• S. Arumugam, 94, Sri Lankan Tamil engineer and writer.
• Chris Balderstone, 59, English professional in cricket and football, prostate cancer.
• John Colicos, 71, Canadian actor, heart attack.
• Jean-Pascal Curtillet, 57, French freestyle swimmer and Olympian.
• Mirko Grmek, 76, Croatian and French historian of medicine, writer and scientist.
• Ole Jacob Hansen, 59, Norwegian jazz musician.
• Abraham Waligo, 71, Ugandan politician, Prime Minister.

7

• Bill Daniels, 79, American cable television executive.
• Eileen Fowler, 93, English physical exercise instructor.
• Charles Gray, 71, English actor, cancer.
• W. D. Hamilton, 63, British evolutionary biologist, organ dysfunction.
• Robert Hart, 86, English gardening pioneer.
• Pee Wee King, 86, American singer-songwriter, heart attack.
• Edward H. Levi, 88, American lawyer and politician, Attorney General, Alzheimer's disease.
• Hirokazu Ninomiya, 82, Japanese football player and manager, pneumonia.
• Alimineti Madhava Reddy, 51, Indian politician, homicide.
• Jack Sanford, 70, American baseball player, brain cancer.
• Kazuto Tsuruoka, 83, Japanese baseball player and manager.
• Byron M. Tunnell, 74, American politician.
• Nicolas Walter, 65, British anarchist and atheist writer, speaker and activist.
• Masami Yoshida, 41, Japanese javelin thrower.

8

• Gertrude Sanford Legendre, 97, American socialite, heart attack.
• Earle Gorton Linsley, 89, American entomologist.
• Joe Mullaney, 75, American basketball player and coach, cancer.
• Vilho Ylönen, 81, Finnish cross-country skier, rifle shooter and Olympic medalist.

9

• Artyom Borovik, 39, Russian journalist and media magnate, plane crash.
• Ziya Bazhayev, 39, Russian businessman, plane crash.
• Jean Coulthard, 92, Canadian composer and music educator.
• Miguel Cruz, 89, Salvadoran football player.
• Jim Egan, 79, Canadian LGBT rights activist, lung cancer.
• Pierre Ghestem, 78, French bridge and checkers player.
• Peter Hauser, 65, British football player and manager.
• Pathanay Khan, Pakistan folk singer.
• Usha Kiran, 70, Indian actress.
• Robert Parry, 67, British politician.
• Ivo Robić, 77, Croatian singer-songwriter.

10

• Judith Barrett, 91, American film actress.
• Barbara Cooney, 82, American author and illustrator.
• Ivan Hirst, 84, British Army officer and engineer.
• William Porter, 73, American track and field athlete and Olympic champion.
• John Sladek, 62, American science fiction author.

11

• Kazimierz Brandys, 83, Polish essayist and script writer.
• Alex Dreier, 83, American news reporter and commentator, heart failure.
• HB Jassin, 82, Indonesian literary critic and documentarian.
• Noel Mulligan, 73, Australian rugby player.
• Edgar Charles Polomé, 79, Belgian-American philologist and religious studies scholar.
• Will Roberts, 92, Welsh painter.
• Laureano López Rodó, 79, Spanish lawyer, diplomat and politician.
• Alfred Schwarzmann, 87, German Olympic gymnast.

12

• Billy Ivison, 79, British football and rugby player.
• Aleksandar Nikolić, 75, Serbian basketball player and coach.
• Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei, 98, Chinese Catholic Bishop of Shanghai, stomach cancer.
• Mack Robinson, 85, American track and field athlete, pneumonia.

13

• Harry Bright, 70, American baseball player.
• Rex Everhart, 79, American actor and singer, lung cancer.
• Hamid Gada, Indian commander in the militant organisation Hizbul Mujahideen, K.I.A.
• Cab Kaye, 78, Ghanaian-English jazz singer and pianist.
• Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam, 86, Indian Army general.
• Carlo Tagnin, 67, Italian football player and manager, cancer.
• Malcolm Wilson, 86, American politician and Governor of New York.

14

• Kovai Chezhiyan, 68, Indian film producer and Kongu community leader.
• Tommy Collins, 69, American country musician.
• C. Jérôme, 53, French singer, cancer.
• Paul Smith, 54, American gridiron football player, pancreatic cancer.
• Anne Wibble, 56, Swedish politician, cancer.
• Ponchai Wilkerson, 28, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

15

• Jaime García Añoveros, 68, Spanish politician.
• Timothy Gribble, 36, American convicted murderer and suspected serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
• Clement L. Hirsch, 85, American businessman and racehorse owner, cancer.
• Tomio Hora, 93, Japanese historian and academic.
• Durward Kirby, 88, American television host and announcer.
• Bobb McKittrick, 64, American gridiron football coach, cancer.
• Darrell Keith Rich, 45, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
• Rolf Römer, 64, German actor.
• Idris Abdul Wakil, 74, Zanzibari politician, President.
• Robert Welch, 70, English designer and silversmith.

16

• Morris Berthold Abram, 81, American lawyer, civil rights activist and university president.
• Ibrahim Mahmud Alfa, 53, Nigerian air marshal.
• Herta Bothe, 79, German nazi concentration camp guard during World War II and war criminal.
• Thomas Ferebee, 81, U.S. Army Air Forces bombardier aboard the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
• Roy Henderson, 100, British opera singer.
• Pavel Prudnikau, 88, Belarusian writer.
• Ivo Rinkel, 79, Dutch tennis and field hockey player.
• Stanley Ralph Ross, 64, American writer and actor, lung cancer.
• Michael Starr, 89, Canadian politician.
• Phil Terranova, 80, American boxer.
• Carlos Velázquez, 51, Puerto Rican baseball player.

17

• Jack Davis, 83, Australian playwright.
• Lonia Dvorin, 82, Israeli football player and coach.
• Sonny Hine, 69, American thoroughbred horse trainer.
• Charlie Holt, 77, American ice hockey coach, cancer.
• Edward F. Knipling, 90, American entomologist.
• Pete Mangum, 69, American football player.

18

• Tom Ah Chee, 72, New Zealand businessman, liver cancer.
• Eberhard Bethge, 90, German Protestant theologian.
• Pei Lisheng, 93, Chinese politician.
• Glen Mervyn, 63, Canadian rower, Olympic medalist and Olympic coach, colorectal cancer.
• Herman B Wells, 97, American academic.
• Robert Wynn, 78, American officer with Easy Company, in the 101st Airborne Division.
• Assaf Yaguri, 69, Israeli soldier and politician.

19

• Graham Balcombe, 93, British cave diver.
• Li Huanzhi, 81, Chinese classical composer.
• Egon Jönsson, 78, Swedish football player.
• Giovanni Linscheer, 27, Surinamese swimmer, car accident.
• Jayne Regan, 90, American film actress.
• Dewey Williams, 84, American baseball player.
• Mikhail Yefremov, 88, Soviet politician and diplomat.

20

• Johan Anthierens, 62, Belgian journalist, columnist, and writer, Hodgkin's disease.
• Zayd Mutee' Dammaj, 57, Yemeni author and politician.
• Gene Eugene, 38, Canadian actor, record producer, composer and musician.
• Michael Ferris, 68, Irish politician.
• Vivian Fine, 86, American composer, car collision.
• Jean Howard, 89, American actress and photographer.
• Ruth Kirk, 77, New Zealand anti-abortion campaigner, cancer.
• Ramon Mitra, Jr., 72, Filipino statesman, diplomat, and pro-democracy activist.
• Ādolfs Skulte, 90, Latvian composer and pedagogue.

21

• Johan Haanes, 87, Norwegian sportsman.
• Seumas McNally, 21, Canadian computer programmer and founder of DX Ball 2, Hodgkin's lymphoma.
• Bai Shouyi, 91, Chinese ethnologist, historian, social activist, and writer.
• Mircea Zaciu, 71, Romanian critic, literary historian and prose writer.

22

• John Morrison, 2nd Viscount Dunrossil, 73, British diplomat.
• Polita Grau, 84, Cuban political prisoner, First Lady.
• Mark Lombardi, 48, American neo-conceptual artist, suicide by hanging.
• Wayne McAllister, 92, American architect, head injury.
• Carlo Parola, 78, Italian football player and coach.
• Vamüzo Phesao, 62, Naga politician.
• Godwin Samararatne, 67, Sri Lankan meditation teacher.

23

• Stig Emanuel Andersson, 85, Swedish ice hockey, football and bandy player.
• John Andrews, 65, British cyclist.
• Ed McCurdy, 81, American folk singer, songwriter and actor.
• Antony Padiyara, 79, Indian Syro Malabar prelate.
• Carl Shoup, 97, American economist and public finance expert.
• Udham Singh, 71, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.
• Gert Willner, 59, German politician.
• Romeo B. Garrett 90, American professor

24

• Albert Duncanson, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Robert Hugo Dunlap, 79, United States Marine Corps major.
• Al Grey, 74, American jazz trombonist.
• George Kirby, 66, British football player.
• Kazuo Komatsubara, 56, Japanese animator, animation director and character designer.
• Juan Zurita, 82, Mexican lightweight boxing world champion.

25

• Jim Cash, 59, American film writer, intestinal disorders.
• Paul Călinescu, 97, Romanian film director and screenwriter.
• Daphne Le Breton, 67, New Zealand international lawn bowler.
• Helen Martin, 90, American actress, heart attack.
• Eduardo Enrique Rodríguez, 82, Argentine football player.
• Sandy Sanford, 83, American gridiron football player and coach.

26

• Alfredo Bruniera, 93, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
• Alex Comfort, 80, British scientist, physician and author, cerebral haemorrhage.
• Karel Thole, 85, Dutch-Italian painter and illustrator.
• Len Younce, 83, American football player and coach.
• Werner Zeyer, 70, German politician.

27

• George Allen, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Sue Wah Chin, 99, Chinese-born Australian entrepreneur.
• Ian Dury, 57, British actor and rock and roll singer, cancer.
• Yrjö Lehtilä, 83, Finnish Olympic shot putter.
• Priya Rajvansh, 63, Indian film actress, murdered.

28

• Kanti Abdurakhmanov, 83-84, Soviet Chechen soldier.
• Pat Bishop, 53, Northern Irish-Australian actress.
• Bill Christiansen, 86, American politician.
• Christian Norberg-Schulz, 73, Norwegian architect and author.
• Frances Gray Patton, 94, American short story writer and novelist.
• George Petersen, 78, Australian politician.
• Anthony Powell, 94, British author.
• Grover C. Robinson III, 56, American real estate developer and politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives, helicopter crash.
• Yuri Tarasov, 39, Soviet and Ukrainian football player.
• Adam Ulam, 77, Polish-American historian and political scientist, lung cancer.

29

• Yevgeny Feofanov, 62, Soviet boxer and Olympic medalist.
• Hans Gustav Güterbock, 91, German-American Hittitologist ang linguist.
• Shirley Palmer, 91, American film actress, fall.
• Anna Sokolow, 90, American dancer and choreographer.

30

• George Batchelor, 80, Australian mathematician.
• Salvador Abascal Infante, 90, Mexican politician.
• Jean E. Karl, 72, American book publisher.
• Rudolf Kirchschläger, 85, Austrian politician, President, cardiovascular disease.
• Beryl McBurnie, 86, Trinidadian dancer.
• Mihrimah Sultan, 77, Ottoman princess, granddaughter of Mehmed V.

31

• Hardev Bahri, 93, Indian linguist, literary critic, and lexicographer.
• Hjalmar Bergström, 93, Swedish world champion cross-country skier and Olympian.
• Adrian Fisher, 47, British guitarist, myocardial infarction.
• Gisèle Freund, 91, German-French photographer and photojournalist.