Deaths in March 2004

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

  March 2004

1

• Eric Cross, 101, English cinematographer.
• Augusto da Costa, 83, Brazilian football player and manager.
• Barbara Frawley, 68, Australian actress.
• Mian Ghulam Jilani, 91, Pakistan Army officer, pneumonia.
• Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde, 70, Comorian politician.
• Kostas Montis, 90, Cypriot poet, novelist, and playwright, tuberculosis.
• Gilbert Plass, 83, Canadian physicist.
• Nina Sazonova, 87, Soviet and Russian actress.

  2

• Berndt Egerbladh, 71, Swedish jazz pianist, composer and television personality.
• Tony Lee, 69, British jazz pianist, cancer.
• Mercedes McCambridge, 87, American actress, Oscar winner.
• Marge Schott, 75, American primary owner of the Cincinnati Reds.

  3

• Cecily Adams, 46, American casting director and actress, lung cancer.
• Sumantra Ghoshal, 55, Indian scholar and educator, founding dean of Indian School of Business, brain hemorrhage..
• Susan Moller Okin, 57, New Zealand feminist and political philosopher.
• Pedro Pietri, 59, Puerto Rican-American Nuyorican poet and playwright, stomach cancer.
• Muniswamy Rajgopal, 77, Indian Olympic field hockey player.
• Drake Sather, 44, American Emmy nominated television writer, suicide.
• Miriam Waddington, 86, Canadian poet, short story writer and translator.
• Russell Weigley, 73, American professor and military historian.

  4

• Fernando Lázaro Carreter, 80, Spanish linguist, journalist and literary critic, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
• Tooker Gomberg, 48, Canadian politician and environmental activist, suicide by jumping.
• Walter Gómez, 76, Uruguayan football player.
• David Charles Harvey, 57, British historian and author.
• Dale Ishimoto, 80, American actor.
• Arthur Kinsella, 86, New Zealand politician, Minister of Education.
• Roberto Lerici, 79, Italian football player and coach.
• John McGeoch, 48, British guitarist, SUDEP.
• Claude Nougaro, 74, French songwriter and singer, pancreatic cancer.
• George Pake, 79, American physicist and computer research executive, known for founding Xerox PARC.
• Malcolm Pasley, 77, British literary scholar.
• Jeremi Przybora, 88, Polish poet, writer, actor and singer.
• Stephen Sprouse, 50, American artist and fashion designer, heart failure.

  5

• Thorkild Bjørnvig, 86, Danish author and poet.
• Nicholas C. Dattilo, 71, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Walt Gorney, 91, Austrian-American actor.
• Pierre Lévêque, 82, French historian of ancient and Hellenistic Greece.
• Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, 84, Ecuadorian politician, President.
• Stanisław Musiał, 65, Polish priest.
• Mike O'Callaghan, 74, American politician, Governor of Nevada, heart attack.
• Masanori Tokita, 78, Japanese football player, esophageal cancer.

  6

• Eugene Theodore Booth Jr., 91, American nuclear physicist.
• Frances Dee, 94, American actress, stroke.
• Ray Fernandez, 47, American professional wrestler best known as "Hercules Hernandez", heart disease.
• Sandy Glen, 91, Scottish explorer and businessman.
• Alan Short, 83, American legislator, co-author of the Short-Doyle Mental Health Act.
• André Weingand, 88, French Olympic gymnast.
• John Henry Williams, 35, American controversial son of baseball player Ted Williams, leukemia.

  7

• Ewald W. Busse, 86, American psychiatrist, gerontologist, and author.
• Nicolae Cajal, 84, Romanian physician and politician.
• Bengt Fahlqvist, 81, Swedish wrestler and Olympic medalist.
• Jack Holden, 96, English Olympic long-distance runner.
• Michael Stringer, 79, British production designer and art director.
• Román Arrieta Villalobos, 79, Costa Rican Catholic archbishop, brain tumor.
• Paul Winfield, 64, American actor, Emmy winner, heart attack.

  8

• János Bognár, 89, Hungarian Olympic cyclist.
• Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar, 73, Indian physicist.
• Keith Hopkins, 69, British ancient historian and sociologist.
• Robin Hunter, 74, British actor, pulmonary emphysema.
• Duan Junyi, 93, Chinese politician.
• Alfons Lütke-Westhues, 73, German equestrian and Olympic champion.
• Frank Mooney, 82, New Zealand cricketer.
• Robert Pastorelli, 49, American actor, drug overdose.
• Ehrenfried Patzel, 89, Czechoslovak football player.
• Siddharth Ray, 40, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Yavuz Selekman, 67, Turkish wrestler and film actor.
• Muhammad Zaidan,, 55, Palestinian nationalist, founder of the Palestinian Liberation Front, cardiovascular disease.

  9

• Rust Epique, 35, American songwriter and guitarist, heart attack.
• Marshall Frady, 64, American journalist, cancer.
• John Mayer, 73, Indian composer, traffic collision.
• Albert Mol, 87, Dutch author, dancer, cabaret performer, actor, TV personality, aneurysm.
• Gearóid Mac Niocaill, 71, British academic and historian.
• Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, 71, American composer, conductor and pianist.
• Don Smith, 52, American professional basketball player, heart problems.

  10

• Olle Adolphson, 69, Swedish writer, singer and songwriter.
• Boryslav Brondukov, 66, Ukrainian film actor, stroke.
• Jack Creley, 78, American-Canadian actor.
• Norbert Grupe, 63, German boxer and actor, prostate cancer.
• Robert D. Orr, 86, American politician, former Governor of Indiana, surgical complications.
• James Parrish, 35, American NFL player, cancer.
• Hansjörg Schlager, 74, German Olympic alpine skier.
• David Shoenberg, 93, British physicist.
• Nasiba Zeynalova, 87, Soviet and Azerbaijani actress.

  11

• Philip Arthur Fisher, 96, American stock investor and author of Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits.
• Seymour Geisser, 74, American statistician, DNA-evidence expert.
• Richard Kinon, 79, American television director.
• Aleksey Mazurenko, 86, Russian major general during World War II.
• Edmund Sylvers, 47, American lead singer of The Sylvers, lung cancer.

  12

• Finn Carling, 78, Norwegian author and playwright with cerebral palsy.
• Cid Corman, 79, Japan-based American poet and translator, heart attack.
• Karel Kachyňa, 79, Czech film director and screenwriter.
• William Moritz, 63, American film historian, cancer.
• Milton Resnick, 87, Ukrainian-American artist, suicide.
• Sylvi Saimo, 89, Finnish Olympic canoer.
• Natan Yonatan, 80, Israeli poet.

  13

• Guttorm Berge, 74, Norwegian alpine skier and Olympic medalist.
• Sydney Carter, 88, British musician and poet.
• Harold Goldsmith, 73, American Olympic foil and epee fencer.
• Chen Hansheng, 107, Chinese sociologist.
• Max Harris, 85, British film and television composer and arranger.
• Vilayat Khan, 75, Indian classical sitar player, lung cancer.
• Franz König, 98, Austrian cardinal.
• Thomas Adeoye Lambo, 80, Nigerian scholar, administrator and psychiatrist.
• Blessing Makunike, 27, Zimbabwean football player, traffic collision.
• Dullah Omar, 69, South African cabinet minister, cancer.
• Vernon Wilcox, 84, Australian politician.

  14

• Siradiou Diallo, 67, Guinean journalist and politician, cardiac arrest.
• Martin Emond, 34, New Zealand cartoon illustrator and painter, suicide by hanging.
• Genevieve, 83, American comedian, actress, and singer.
• Norb Hecker, 76, American football player and coach, cancer.
• Jurijs Rubenis, 78, Latvian communist politician.

  15

• John Hobhouse, Baron Hobhouse of Woodborough, 72, British barrister and judge.
• Václav Kozák, 66, Czech rower and Olympic champion.
• René Laloux, 74, French animator, screenwriter and film director, heart attack.
• Philippe Lemaire, 77, French actor, suicide.
• Alfred Mansfeld, 92, Israeli architect.
• Chuck Niles, 76, American Southern California jazz radio disc jockey.
• Patrick Nuttgens, 74, British architect.
• Bill Pickering, 93, New Zealand engineer, head of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, pneumonia.
• John Pople, 78, British theoretical chemist and Nobel Prize winner, liver cancer.
• Ivan Ryzhov, 91, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.
• Vicki Shiran, 57, Israeli criminologist, sociologist, poet, film director, and activist, breast cancer.
• John Vallone, 50, American production designer.

  16

• Brian Bianchini, 25, American fashion model, suicide by hanging.
• Hank Marr, 77, American jazz musician.
• Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi, 61, Iranian Olympic wrestler.
• Vilém Tauský, 94, Czech conductor and composer.

  17

• J.J. Jackson, 62, American radio and television personality, heart attack.
• Monique Laederach, 65, Swiss writer.
• Michael Mellinger, 74, German actor.
• Bernie Scherer, 91, American gridiron football player.

  18

• Gene Bearden, 83, American baseball player with the Cleveland Indians.
• Vytas Brenner, 57, Venezuelan musician, keyboardist and composer, heart attack.
• Wallace Davenport, 78, American jazz trumpeter.
• Louisette Hautecoeur, 89, French film editor.
• Richard Marner, 82, Russian-British actor.
• Harrison McCain, 76, Canadian businessman, founder of McCain Foods, kidney failure.
• Raquel Rodrigo, 89, Cuban actress and singer.
• Abdujalil Samadov, 54, Tajik politician.
• Erna Spoorenberg, 77, Dutch soprano.

  19

• Roy Abbott, 76, Australian politician.
• Bert Barlow, 87, English football player.
• Guillermo Rivas «el Borras», 76, Mexican comedy actor, pneumonia.
• Magool, 55, Somali singer, breast cancer.
• Brian Maxwell, 51, Canadian long-distance runner and founder of energy bar brand PowerBar, heart attack.
• Horace Phillips, 86, British diplomat.
• Mitchell Sharp, 92, Canadian cabinet minister, prostate cancer.
• Chris Timms, 56, New Zealand yachtsman and Olympic champion, plane crash.
• Ted Walker, 69, British poet and dramatist.