Deaths in March 2001

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

  March 2001

1

• Joseph Cyril Bamford, 84, British businessman.
• Ray Dorr, 59, American college football player and coach, ALS.
• Albert Heschong, 82, American television, film and theater production designer.
• John Painter, 112, American supercentarian, world's oldest man.
• Orlando Pantera, 33, Cape Verdean singer and composer, acute pancreatitis.
• Hannie Termeulen, 72, Dutch Olympic freestyle swimmer.
• Henry Wade, 86, American lawyer and district attorney of Dallas County, Parkinson's disease.
• Colin Webster, 68, Welsh international footballer, cancer.

  2

• John Diamond, 48, British Journalist, oesophageal cancer.
• George F. D. Duff, 74, Canadian mathematician.
• Louis Faurer, 84, American street photographer.
• Lonnie Glosson, 93, American country musician, songwriter, and radio personality.
• Wallace D. Hayes, 82, American engineer and one of the world's leading theoretical aerodynamicists.
• Mildred Brown Schrumpf, 98, American economist, food educator, and author.
• William Grant Stratton, 87, American politician, governor of Illinois.

  3

• Louis Edmonds, 77, American actor, respiratory failure.
• A. Maitland Emmet, 92, British amateur entomologist and schoolmaster.
• Maija Isola, 73, Finnish designer of printed textiles.
• Gabriel Lisette, 81, Chadian politician.
• Jay T. Robbins, 81, Career officer in the American Air Force.
• Ruhi Sarıalp, 76, Turkish track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.
• Eugene Sledge, 77, American Marine and professor, stomach cancer.

  4

• Gerardo Barbero, 39, Argentine chess grandmaster, cancer.
• Jean René Bazaine, 96, French painter, designer of stained glass windows and writer.
• Clyde Coffman, 89, American decathlon athlete and Olympian.
• Glenn Hughes, 50, American singer and member of pop group The Village People, lung cancer.
• Brian Jones, 72, British motorcycle designer.
• Fred Lasswell, 84, American cartoonist.
• Jim Rhodes, 91, American politician.
• Harold Stassen, 93, American politician.
• Kalle Tuulos, 70, Finnish figure skater and Olympian.
• Shammai Zahn, 80, Polish-born British rabbi.

  5

• Rankin Britt, 85, American football player.
• Frans De Mulder, 63, Belgian road racing cyclist.
• Ian McHarg, 80, Scottish architect.
• Leo Thomas, 77, American baseball player.

  6

• Mário Covas, 70, Brazilian engineer and politician, bladder cancer.
• Luce d'Eramo, 75, Italian author and critic.
• Nane Germon, 91, French actress.
• Balla Moussa Keïta, Malian actor and comedian, pulmonary emphysema.
• Ngọc Lan, 44, Vietnamese singer-lyricist, multiple sclerosis.
• Portia Nelson, 80, American cabaret singer, songwriter, actress, and author, cancer.
• Darrell A. Posey, 53, American anthropologist and biologist, brain tumor.
• Jim Taylor, 83, English footballer.
• Kim Walker, 32, American actress, brain tumor.

  7

• Frankie Carle, 97, American pianist, bandleader and composer.
• Inge Edler, 89, Swedish cardiologist.
• Hank Foldberg, 77, American gridiron football player and coach.
• Ebbe Nielsen, 50, Danish entomologist and lepidoptera researcher, heart attack.
• Marian Norkowski, 65, Polish football player.
• Al Palladini, 57, Canadian politician, heart attack.

  8

• Frances Adaskin, 100, Canadian pianist.
• Abe Cohen, 67, American gridiron football player.
• Ninette de Valois, 102, British ballet dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet.
• Robert Ealey, 75, American electric blues singer.
• Bent Hansen, 67, Danish Olympic football player.
• Hugh Malone, 57, American surveyor and politician, accidental death.
• Luís Rocha, 63, Brazilian politician and lawyer, diabetes.
• Bazaryn Shirendev, 88, Mongolian historian and politician.
• Edward Winter, 63, American actor, Parkinson's disease.

  9

• Vincent Alo, 96, American mobster.
• Spencer Bernard, 83, American politician.
• Soemitro Djojohadikoesoemo, 83, Indonesian economist and politician and the father of Prabowo Subianto, heart failure.
• Henry Jonsson, 88, Swedish Olympic runner.
• Hermann Kugelstadt, 89, German screenwriter and film director.
• Poldek Pfefferberg, 87, Polish-American Holocaust survivor.
• Giancarlo Prete, 58, Italian actor, brain cancer.
• Diane Sommerfield, 51, American actress.
• Richard Stone, 47, American composer and songwriter, pancreatic cancer.

  10

• Arturo Alcaraz, 84, Filipino volcanologist.
• Algodão, 76, Brazilian basketball player and Olympic medalist.
• Michael Elkins, 84, American broadcaster and journalist.
• Nikos Georgiadis, 77, Greek-British set designer for ballet, stage and film.
• Frank Marsh, 76, American politician.
• Massimo Morsello, 42, Italian fascist and political singer-songwriter, cancer.
• Jorge Recalde, 49, Argentine rally driver, heart attack while racing.
• Vladimir Voroshilov, 70, Soviet and Russian author, producer and television anchorman, heart attack.
• Michael Woodruff, 89, British surgeon and scientist, and a pioneer in organ transplant surgery.

  11

• Finn Ferner, 81, Norwegian Olympic sailor.
• Rafaela Chacón Nardi, 75, Cuban poet and educator.
• Jørn Ording, 85, Norwegian actor and screenwriter.
• Ted Schmitt, 84, American gridiron football player.

  12

• Morton Downey Jr., 67, American television personality and actor, lung cancer.
• Dave Dunaway, 56, American NFL football player.
• Alan Greene, 89, American Olympic diver.
• Sai Gwa-Pau, 82, Hong Kong film actor, diabetes.
• Sir Lancelot, 98, Trinidadian-American singer and actor.
• Henry Lee Lucas, 64, American convicted killer, natural causes, heart failure.
• Robert Ludlum, 73, American author of spy novels, burn.
• Sidney Dillon Ripley, 87, American ornithologist and conservationist.
• Victor Westhoff, 84, Dutch botanist.

  13

• John A. Alonzo, 66, American cinematographer.
• Encarnacion Alzona, 105, Filipino historian, and suffragist.
• Bill Bland, 84, British communist.
• Jean Bretonnière, 76, French actor and singer.
• Vincent Dantzer, 77, Canadian politician, heart attack.
• Walter Dukes, 70, American professional basketball player.
• Benny Martin, 72, American bluegrass fiddler.
• Cord Meyer, 80, American Central Intelligence Agency official, lymphoma.
• Cranley Onslow, 74, British politician.
• Antonia Palacios, 96, Venezuelan poet, novelist and essayist.
• Norman Rodway, 72, Irish actor.
• Jutta Rüdiger, 90, German psychologist and head of the Nazi Party League of German Girls during World War II.

  14

• Rosine Deréan, 91, French actress.
• Anne George, 73, American author and poet, complications during heart surgery.
• Lawrence Clark Powell, 94, American librarian, literary critic, and author.
• Paul Rémy, 78, French tennis player.
• Della Sehorn, 73, American competition swimmer and Olympian.

  15

• Gaetano Cozzi, 78, Italian historian.
• Durward Gorham Hall, 90, American politician.
• Ryszard Koncewicz, 89, Polish soccer player and coach.
• Henrik Schildt, 86, Finnish-Swedish film actor.
• Ann Sothern, 92, American actress, stroke.

  16

• Johannes Benzing, 88, German nazi diplomat and linguist during World War II.
• Otfried Deubner, 92, German classical archaeologist and diplomat.
• Juliette Huot, 89, Canadian actress, cancer.
• Norma MacMillan, 79, Canadian cartoon voice actress.
• Isao Okawa, 74, Japanese businessman and chairman of Sega, heart disease.
• Maria von Tasnady, 89, Hungarian singer and stage and film actress.
• Bob Wollek, 57, French race car driver, bicycle accident.

  17

• Michiyo Aratama, 71, Japanese actress, heart attack.
• Ingrid Borthen, 87, Norwegian-Swedish stage and film actress.
• Arthur Covington, 87, Canadian physicist and radio astronomer.
• Viktor Krivulin, 56, Russian poet, novelist and essayist.
• Maynard Mack, 91, American literary critic and English professor.
• Sherwin Rosen, 62, American labor economist.
• Anthony Storr, 80, English psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author.
• Ralph Thomas, 85, English film director.
• Zinaida Voronina, 53, Soviet gymnast and Olympic champion.

  18

• Vasily Abaev, 100, Ethnically Ossetian Soviet linguist specializing in Iranian.
• John Ardoin, 66, American music critic and author.
• Teófilo Borunda, 89, Mexican politician.
• John Phillips, 65, American singer, promoter and co-founder of The Mamas & the Papas, heart failure.
• Dirk Polder, 81, Dutch physicist.
• Gyula Tóth, 73, Hungarian wrestler.

  19

• Gordon Brown, 53, Scottish rugby union player, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
• Boris Gregorka, 94, Yugoslavian Olympic gymnast.
• Charles K. Johnson, 76, American flat-earther.
• Walter Ian Harewood Johnston, 71, Australian pioneer of reproductive medicine, laryngeal cancer.
• Herbie Jones, 75, American jazz trumpeter and arranger.
• Jacob Kainen, 91, American painter and printmaker.
• Norman Mitchell, 82, English actor.

  20

• Luis Alvarado, 52, Puerto Rican baseball player, heart attack.
• Jay Cameron, 72, American jazz musician.
• Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes, 81, British author, bronchial pneumonia.
• Doreen Gorsky, 88, British politician, feminist and television producer and executive.
• John J. Hennessey, 79, United States Army general, stroke.
• Frank Reynolds, 83, British and English field hockey player and Olympian.
• Ilie Verdeț, 75, Romanian communist politician, heart attack.

  21

• Dora Alonso, 90, Cuban journalist and writer.
• Maurice Arreckx, 83, French politician, cancer.
• Claus Bork Hansen, 37, Danish organized crime figure, shot.
• Virgil Hnat, 65, Romanian handball player and coach, heart failure.
• Bill Johansen, 72, Canadian professional ice hockey player.
• Jeong Ju-yung, 85, South Korean entrepreneur, businessman and founder of the Hyundai Group, pneumonia.
• Wim van der Kroft, 84, Dutch canoeist and Olympic medalist.
• Billy Ray Smith, Sr., 66, American football player.
• Anthony Steel, 80, British actor and singer, heart failure.
• Joe Winkler, 79, American gridiron football player.