Deaths in March 2007

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

  March 2007

1

• Manuel Bento, 58, Portuguese football goalkeeper, cardiac arrest.
• Otto Brandenburg, 72, Danish singer and actor.
• Colette Brosset, 85, French actress.
• Eddie Firestone, 86, American actor, heart and respiratory failure.
• George Gabb, 79, Belizean artist, sculptor and writer, cardiac arrest.
• Sir Sydney Gun-Munro, 90, Vincentian politician, Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, after long illness.
• Harold Michelson, 87, American production designer.
• Tinos Rusere, 61, Zimbabwean Deputy Minister for Mines and Environment, kidney failure.
• Bobby Speight, 76, American basketball player and businessman, cancer.

  2

• Doris Anderson, 85, Canadian feminist, writer and editor of Chatelaine, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Thomas S. Kleppe, 87, American Secretary of Interior, Representative from North Dakota, Alzheimer's disease.
• Clem Labine, 80, American baseball pitcher, complications of brain surgery.
• Mike Mooney, 37, American football player with Georgia Tech and the 1993 San Diego Chargers.
• Ivan Safronov, 51, Russian defence correspondent for Kommersant, fall from building.
• William C. Sturtevant, 80, American Smithsonian Institution curator, emphysema.
• Henri Troyat, 95, French writer and historian, member of the Académie française.

  3

• Osvaldo Cavandoli, 87, Italian cartoonist.
• Jim Kaldis, 74, Australian politician.
• Benito Lorenzi, 81, Italian football striker.
• Gene Oliver, 71, American baseball player in the 1960s, complications from lung surgery.
• Türkan Rado, 91, Turkish writer, educator and jurist.
• Saul Swimmer, 70, American documentary filmmaker, heart failure.
• Marjabelle Young Stewart, 82, American etiquette authority and author, pneumonia.

  4

• Natalie Bodanya, 98, American operatic soprano.
• H. E. Carter, 96, American biochemist.
• Thomas Eagleton, 77, American Senator for Missouri, heart and respiratory complications.
• Bob Hattoy, 56, American President of California Fish & Game Commission, AIDS activist, complications from AIDS.
• Richard Joseph, 53, British video games soundtrack composer, lung cancer.
• Sunil Kumar Mahato, 41, Indian parliamentarian, shot.
• Tadeusz Nalepa, 63, Polish blues and rock singer, after long illness.
• Robert Prince, 77, American composer.
• John Thow, 57, American composer.
• Renee Williams, 29, American heaviest woman in the world, heart attack.
• Ian Wooldridge, 75, British sports journalist, cancer.

  5

• Alan Black, 64, British disc jockey.
• Joseph H. Conlin, 79, American impresario and opera director.
• Yvan Delporte, 78, Belgian editor-in-chief of Spirou magazine.
• Milton N. Hopkins, 80, American ornithologist and farmer.
• Ivo Lorscheiter, 79, Brazilian Catholic Bishop and advocate of liberation theology, multiple organ failure.
• Ivan Supek, 91, Croatian scientist, philosopher and writer.

  6

• Jean Baudrillard, 77, French postmodernist philosopher and sociologist.
• Allen Coage, 63, American-born Olympic judo bronze medalist and professional wrestler known as "Bad News Brown".
• Ernest Gallo, 97, American co-founder of E & J Gallo Winery.
• Pierre Moinot, 86, French novelist elected to Académie française.
• Ray Stern, 74, American professional wrestler, complications from heart surgery.

  7

• Bill Chinnock, 59, American singer-songwriter.
• Shane Cross, 20, Australian professional skateboarder, motorcycle collision.
• Paul deLay, 55, American blues harmonica player, leukemia.
• Frigyes Hidas, 78, Hungarian composer.
• Emil Mailho, 97, American baseball player.
• Neil North, 74, British actor.
• Andy Sidaris, 76, American film director, throat cancer.
• John Simpson, 79, British army officer, Director Special Forces.
• Paul Sykes, 60, English heavyweight boxer.
• Carla Thorneycroft, Lady Thorneycroft, 93, Italian–born British philanthropist.
• Billy Walkabout, 57, Cherokee-American highly decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, pneumonia and renal failure.
• Notable people killed in the crash of Garuda Indonesia Flight 200:
• *Morgan Mellish, 36, Australian Walkley Award-winning journalist for The Australian Financial Review.
• *Elizabeth O'Neill, 37, Australian diplomat.
• *Allison Sudradjat, 40-41, Australian public servant, head of AusAID in Indonesia.

  8

• Taufik Cotran, 80, Palestinian-born British judge, Chief Justice of Belize.
• Alejandro Cruz, 82, Mexican professional wrestler known as "The Black Shadow", pneumonia.
• John Inman, 71, British actor, hepatitis A.
• Tom Moldvay, 58, American writer of Dungeons & Dragons books and modules.
• Harold M. Ryan, 96, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan, congestive heart failure.
• Richard Trexler, 74, American historian of the Florentine Renaissance, complications from a kidney transplant.
• Vicky Vanita, 59, Greek actress.
• John Vukovich, 59, American baseball player and coach, brain tumor complications.
• Christopher Barrios, Jr., 6, American murder victim, murder.

  9

• Rosy Afsari, 60, Bangladeshi film actress, kidney failure.
• Brad Delp, 55, American singer, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Ron Evans, 67, Australian chairman of the AFL Commission, former Essendon chairman and player, abdominal cancer.
• Glen Harmon, 86, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Jack Kirby, 84, American football player.
• Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, 71, American politician, first black woman to serve in the Senate of North Carolina.
• Thomas B. Mason, 88, American attorney.
• Ulpio Minucci, 89, Italian-born composer best known for work on Robotech, natural causes.
• Juan Carlos Portantiero, 73, Argentine sociologist, renal failure.
• Malaetasi Togafau, American Samoan Attorney General, judge and legislator, cancer.

  10

• Buddy Allin, 62, American golfer, winner of five PGA Tour events, cancer.
• Francis Clark Howell, 82, American anthropologist.
• Richard Jeni, 49, American comedian and actor, suicide by gunshot.
• Ernie Ladd, 68, American football player and professional wrestler, cancer.
• Lanna Saunders, 65, American soap opera actress, multiple sclerosis.
• Angela Webber, 52, Australian comedian and writer, cancer.

  11

• Dave Creedon, 87, Irish hurler, All-Ireland Champions, natural causes.
• René Duhamel, 72, French Olympic rower.
• Martha B. Sosman, 56, American judge, member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, breast cancer.

  12

• Arnold Drake, 83, American comic book writer, pneumonia and septic shock.
• Vilma Ebsen, 96, American actress, sister and dancing partner of Buddy Ebsen.
• Jack Gaster, 99, British communist politician and solicitor.
• Preah Maha Ghosananda, 77, Cambodian Buddhist Sangharaja and Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
• Betty Hutton, 86, American singer/actress, complications from colon cancer.
• Norm Larker, 76, American baseball player.
• Juan Enrique Lira, 79, Chilean Olympic shooter.
• Antonio Ortiz Mena, 99, Mexican Finance Secretary, IDB President, complications from a fall.
• Yeap Ghim Guan, 66, Malaysian lawyer and politician, founding member of the DAP, complications from a stroke.

  13

• Herbert Fux, 79, Austrian actor and politician.
• Terry Major-Ball, 74, British banker and author, brother of former Prime Minister John Major, cancer.
• Wendy Russell Reves, 90, American philanthropist.
• John Sinclair, 73, British English language scholar, cancer.
• Arnold Skaaland, 82, American professional wrestler.
• Nicole Stéphane, 83, French actress.

  14

• Lucie Aubrac, 94, French member of the Resistance during World War II.
• Roger Beaufrand, 98, French Olympian, oldest Olympic champion at time of death.
• Tommy Cavanagh, 78, British football player and manager of Burnley.
• Lloyd Eaton, 88, American college football coach.
• Sa'dun Hammadi, 76, Iraqi Prime Minister, leukemia.
• Fitzgerald "Mighty Terror" Henry, 86, Trinidadian calypso musician.
• Gareth Hunt, 65, British actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Ron McEwin, 79, Australian footballer.
• Birk Sproxton, 63, Canadian author and educator, heart attack.

  15

• Blanquita Amaro, 83, Cuban-born actress and dancer, heart attack.
• Bonaventure Luo Juan, 89, Chinese Catholic priest and bishop, renal failure and heart and lung weakness.
• Alice Backes, 83, American actress.
• Sally Clark, 42, British solicitor wrongly convicted of killing two of her sons.
• Charles Harrelson, 68, American convicted murderer, heart attack.
• Jay Kennedy, 50, American editor-in-chief of King Features Syndicate, drowning.
• Bowie Kuhn, 80, American Major League Baseball commissioner, respiratory failure.
• Orlando "Marty" Martínez, 65, Cuban-born American baseball player and manager.
• Jack Metcalf, 79, American Republican Representative from Washington, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
• Datuk Wira Poh Ah Tiam, 55, Malaysian politician, cancer and renal failure.
• Stuart Rosenberg, 79, American film director, heart attack.
• Herman Stein, 91, American film and television composer, heart failure.
• Jean Talairach, 96, French psychiatrist and neurosurgeon.
• William Watson, 89, British sinologist.
• Dirk Wayenberg, 51, Belgian cyclist.
• Ivan Welsh, 67, Australian politician, NSW MLA.

  16

• Sajjadul Hasan, 28, Bangladeshi domestic cricketer, motorcycle accident.
• Pablo Emilio Madero, 85, Mexican politician, president of the National Action Party.
• Sir Arthur Marshall, 103, British aviation engineer.
• Steve McCooke, 88, British Olympic athlete.
• Mou Zuoyun, 94, Chinese basketball player and coach, President of the Chinese Basketball Association.
• Raymond Nasher, 85, American art collector, founder of Nasher Sculpture Center, Nasher Museum of Art and NorthPark Center.
• Manjural Islam Rana, 22, Bangladeshi national cricketer, motorcycle accident.
• Carol Richards, 84, American singer and actress.
• Tupper Saussy, 70, American composer, musician, author, and artist, heart attack.