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.

17

• John Backus, 82, American computer scientist who led the IBM team that developed Fortran.
• Joseph C. Casdin, American businessman and politician, Mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts
• Crazy Ray, 76, American cheerleading fan of the Dallas Cowboys, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
• Jim Cronin, 55, American conservationist who founded Monkey World, liver cancer.
• Freddie Francis, 89, English cinematographer and film director, Oscar winner, stroke.
• Homer Harris, 91, American athlete, first black captain of a Big Ten Conference team, Alzheimer's disease.
• Ernst Haefliger, 87, Swiss operatic tenor, heart failure.
• Tanya Reinhart, 63, Israeli linguist and peace activist, stroke.
• János Szántay, 84, Romanian Olympic fencer.
• John C. Williams, 65, New Zealand cricketer.

18

• Jim Fung, 62, Hong Kong Chinese martial artist and businessman, nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
• Ovidiu Maitec, 81, Romanian sculptor.
• Annemiek Padt-Jansen, 85, Dutch harpist and politician.
• William N. Panzer, 64, American television and film producer, fall.
• Bob Woolmer, 58, British cricketer for England and Pakistan cricket team coach, heart failure.

19

• Lloyd Best, 73, Trinidadian economist, politician and columnist, prostate cancer.
• Giampaolo Calanchini, 70, Italian Olympic fencer.
• Calvert DeForest, 85, American actor and comedian.
• Robert Dickson, 62, Canadian writer and poet, cancer.
• Luther Ingram, 69, American R&B singer and songwriter, kidney failure.
• Elaine Shore, 79, American actress, tongue cancer.
• Bill Stevenson, 55, Canadian football player, injuries from a fall.
• Shimon Tzabar, 81, Israeli artist, author, poet and former Haaretz columnist, pneumonia.
• Gemunu Wijesuriya, 72, Sri Lankan broadcaster and comedian.

20

• Francis Agu, 42, Nigerian actor, complications from peptic ulcer.
• Albert Baez, 94, American physicist and father of Joan Baez and Mimi Fariña, natural causes.
• Olcott Deming, 98, American diplomat and first Ambassador to Uganda, sepsis.
• Raynald Fréchette, 73, Canadian lawyer, Quebec Superior Court judge, National Assembly of Quebec member, cancer.
• Rita Joe, 75, Canadian Mi'kmaq poet, Parkinson's disease.
• Gilbert E. Patterson, 67, American bishop of Church of God in Christ, heart failure.
• Taha Yassin Ramadan, 69, Iraqi politician and vice-president, execution by hanging.
• John P. Ryan, 70, American actor, stroke.
• Ernie Wright, 67, American football offensive lineman in the 1960s, cancer.
• Hawa Yakubu, 59, Ghanaian politician, cancer.

21

• Drew Hayes, 37, American comic book writer/artist, heart attack.
• Sven O. Høiby, 70, Norwegian journalist and father of Mette Marit, Crown Princess of Norway, lung cancer.
• Mohd. Ayub Khan, 83-84, Indian politician.
• Dustin J. Lee, 20, United States Marine Corps corporal.
• Catherine Seipp, 49, American conservative columnist, lung cancer.

22

• Nisar Bazmi, 83, Pakistani composer, kidney failure.
• George R. Bolling, 86, American pilot.
• Oriol de Bolòs, 83, Spanish botanist, pteridologist, and phytosociologist.
• Don Dennis, 65, American pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1960s, cancer.
• U. G. Krishnamurti, 88, Indian philosopher.
• Daniel Díaz Maynard, 73, Uruguayan politician, Deputy.
• César Peñaranda, 91, Peruvian Olympic cyclist.
• Jay Zeamer Jr., 88, American World War II veteran and Medal of Honor recipient.

23

• Ed Bailey, 75, American baseball player and Knoxville, Tennessee city councilman, throat cancer.
• Paul Cohen, 72, American mathematician, professor of mathematics at Stanford University.
• Attila Kaszás, 47, Hungarian actor, stroke.
• Mao Anqing, 83, Chinese author and son of Mao Zedong.
• Damian McDonald, 34, Australian Olympic cyclist, traffic accident.
• Eric Medlen, 33, American NHRA driver, diffuse axonal injury from car accident.
• Chase Nielsen, 90, American Air Force officer, participant in the Doolittle raid.
• Robert E. Petersen, 80, American publisher of auto industry and enthusiast magazines, neuroendocrine cancer.
• Walter Turnbull, 62, American founder of the Boys Choir of Harlem, stroke.

24

• Jun Bernardino, 59, Philippine Basketball Association commissioner and sports executive, heart attack.
• Henson Cargill, 66, American country singer, complications from surgery.
• Mary Dent Crisp, 83, American Republican leader.
• Maurice Flitcroft, 77, British amateur golfer and hoaxer, lung infection.
• Martin Studach, 62, Swiss Olympic rower, heart failure.

25

• George Kingsley Acquah, 65, Ghanaian Chief Justice from June 2003, cancer.
• Robert Austrian, 90, American epidemiologist, stroke.
• Jerry Girard, 74, American sports anchor for WPIX television in New York City, esophageal cancer.
• Andranik Margaryan, 55, Armenian Prime Minister since 2000, heart attack.
• Marshall Rogers, 57, American comic book artist, heart attack.

26

• Beniamino Andreatta, 78, Italian economist and politician.
• Cha Burns, 50, Scottish guitarist, lung cancer.
• David Green, 85, American political adviser.
• Lindsay Hawker, 22, British teacher, murder victim.
• Heinz Schiller, 77, Swiss racing driver.
• Mikhail Ulyanov, 79, Russian actor, intestinal disease.

27

• Hans Hedberg, 89, Swedish sculptor, kidney failure.
• Paul Lauterbur, 77, American chemist and 2003 Nobel Prize Laureate.
• Ransom A. Myers, 54, American-born Canadian fisheries biologist, declining fish stocks expert, brain tumour.
• Raúl Meza Ontiveros, 40, Mexican suspected drug lord and high-ranking leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, shot.
• Faustino Oramas, 95, Cuban singer, cancer.
• Aileen Plant, 52, Australian authority on infectious diseases, investigated first official case of SARS in Vietnam.
• Joe Sentieri, 82, Italian singer and actor.
• Hitoshi Ueki, 80, Japanese actor and comedian, emphysema.
• Charlotte Winters, 109, American veteran, last surviving American female veteran of World War I.

28

• Cha Chi Ming, 93, Hong Kong businessman, founder and non-executive chairman of HKR International.
• Abe Coleman, 101, Polish-born American professional wrestler during the Great Depression era.
• Bill Fisk, 90, American football player and coach.
• Sir Thomas Hetherington, 80, British lawyer, Director of Public Prosecutions.
• Tony Scott, 85, American jazz clarinetist.
• James Thorpe, 79, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives.

29

• Adebayo Adefarati, 76, Nigerian presidential candidate for the Alliance for Democracy party.
• Bangla Bhai, 37, Bangladeshi militant, execution by hanging.
• Lloyd Brown, 105, American last known surviving World War I Navy veteran.
• Howard Goorney, 85, English actor.
• Juan Joya, 73, Peruvian footballer.
• Mimi Lerner, 61, Polish-born American operatic mezzo-soprano, complications of a heart tumor.
• Calvin Lockhart, 72, Bahamian actor, stroke.
• Myokyo-ni, 86, Austrian Buddhist nun, head of the Zen Centre in London.
• Tosiwo Nakayama, 75, Micronesian politician, first President of the Federated States of Micronesia.
• Shaykh Abdur Rahman, Bangladeshi Islamist militant leader until his capture by the RAB, execution by hanging.
• Leslie Waller, 83, American author.

30

• Basil Catterns, 89, Australian WWII Army leader of the Kokoda Track campaign, father of broadcaster Angela Catterns.
• Chrisye, 57, Indonesian musician, lung cancer.
• Fay Coyle, 73, British footballer for Derry City, Nottingham Forest and Northern Ireland.
• Michael Dibdin, 60, British crime writer.
• Alfréd Fehérvári, 81, Hungarian football player and coach.
• María Julia Hernández, 68, Salvadoran human rights activist, heart attack.
• Ilias Kelesidis, 53, Greek Olympic cyclist.
• Dave Martin, 72, British television writer for Doctor Who and Z-Cars, lung cancer.
• John Roberts, 74, Canadian politician, heart attack.
• DeForest Wheeler Trimingham, 87, Bermudian Olympic sailor.

31

• Patricia Barringer, 82, American baseball player
• Phil Cordell, 59, British musician, 1971 hit as Springwater.
• Thomas W. Moore, 88, American producer and president of ABC, heart failure.
• Clarence Peaks, 71, American football player.
• Lito Sisnorio, 24, Filipino boxer, heart failure after surgery following a knockout.
• Paul Watzlawick, 85, Austrian-born American psychologist and philosopher.