Deaths in March 2007

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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2007.

March 2007

1

• Manuel Bento, 58, Portuguese football goalkeeper (Portugal, S.L. Benfica), cardiac arrest.
• Otto Brandenburg, 72, Danish singer and actor. (Danish)
• Colette Brosset, 85, French actress. (French)
• George Gabb, 79, Belizean artist, sculptor and writer, cardiac arrest.
• Sir Sydney Gun-Munro, 90, Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1979–1985), after long illness.
• Tinos Rusere, 61, Zimbabwean Deputy Minister for Mines and Environment, kidney failure.
• Bobby Speight, 76, American basketball player (NC State) and businessman, cancer.

2

• Doris Anderson, 85, Canadian feminist, writer and editor of Chatelaine, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Thomas Kleppe, 87, American Secretary of Interior (1975–1977), Representative from North Dakota, Alzheimer's disease.
• Clem Labine, 80, American baseball pitcher (Brooklyn and LA Dodgers), complications of brain surgery.
• Harold Michelson, 87, American production designer twice nominated for an Academy Award.
• 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. (Italian)
• Jim Kaldis, 74, Australian politician.
• Benito Lorenzi, 81, Italian football striker (Italy, Inter Milan).
• Gene Oliver, 71, American baseball player in the 1960s, complications from lung surgery.
• Saul Swimmer, 70, American documentary filmmaker (The Concert for Bangladesh), heart failure.
• Marjabelle Young Stewart, 82, American etiquette authority and author, pneumonia.

4

• Natalie Bodanya, 98, American operatic soprano.
• Thomas Eagleton, 77, United States Senator for Missouri (1969–1987), 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. (Polish)
• 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.
• Yvan Delporte, 78, Belgian editor-in-chief of Spirou magazine (1956–1968). (French)
• 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. (French)
• 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.
• Morgan Mellish, 36, Australian Walkley Award-winning journalist for the Australian Financial Review, plane crash.
• Neil North, 74, British actor.
• Andy Sidaris, 76, American film director, throat cancer.
• Paul Sykes, 60, English heavyweight boxer.
• Carla Thorneycroft, Baroness Thorneycroft, 93, Italian–born British philanthropist.
• Billy Walkabout, 57, Cherokee-American highly decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, pneumonia and renal failure.

8

• Taufik Cotran, 80, Palestinian-born British judge, Chief Justice of Belize (1986–1990).
• Alejandro Cruz, 82, Mexican professional wrestler known as "The Black Shadow", pneumonia.
• John Inman, 71, British actor (Are You Being Served?), hepatitis A.
• Tom Moldvay, 58, American writer of Dungeons & Dragons books and modules (revised version of Palace of the Silver Princess).
• Harold M. Ryan, 96, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1961–1965), congestive heart failure.
• Richard Trexler, 74, American historian of the Florentine Renaissance, complications from a kidney transplant. .
• Viky Vanita, 59, Greek actress. (Greek)
• John Vukovich, 59, American baseball player and coach, brain tumor complications.

9

• Rosy Afsari, 60, Bangladeshi film actress, kidney failure.
• Brad Delp, 55, American lead singer of 1970s AOR band Boston, 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, 87, Italian-born composer best known for work on Robotech, natural causes.
• Tom Moldvay, game designer and author.
• Juan Carlos Portantiero, 73, Argentine sociologist, renal failure. (Spanish).
• 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 (The Mask), apparent suicide by gunshot.
• Ernie Ladd, 68, American NFL player and wrestler, cancer.
• Lanna Saunders, 65, American soap opera actress (Days of Our Lives), multiple sclerosis.
• Angela Webber, 52, Australian comedian and writer, cancer.

11

• Dave Creedon, 87, Irish hurler (Cork), All-Ireland Champions (1952–1954), natural causes.
• Betty Hutton, 86, American singer/actress (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek), complications from colon cancer.
• Martha Sosman, 56, American judge, member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, breast cancer.

12

• Arnold Drake, 83, American comic book writer (Doom Patrol), 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.
• Antonio Ortiz Mena, 99, Mexican Finance Secretary (1958–1970), IDB President (1971–1987), complications from a fall. (Spanish)
• Juan Enrique Lira, 79, Chilean Olympic shooter.
• Yeap Ghim Guan, 66, Malaysian lawyer and politician, founding member of the DAP, complications from a stroke.

13

• Herbert Fux, 79, Austrian actor.
• 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 (Le Silence de la mer). (French)

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 (1991), leukemia.
• Fitzgerald "Mighty Terror" Henry, 86, Trinidadian calypso musician.
• Gareth Hunt, 65, British actor (The New Avengers), pancreatic cancer.
• Ron McEwin, 79, Australian footballer.
• Birk Sproxton, 63, Canadian author (Phantom Lake: North of 54) and educator, heart attack.

15

• Blanquita Amaro, 83, Cuban-born actress and dancer, heart attack.
• Sally Clark, 42, British solicitor wrongly convicted of killing two of her sons.
• Charles Harrelson, 69, American convicted murderer, father of actor Woody Harrelson, heart attack.
• Jay Kennedy, 50, American editor-in-chief of King Features Syndicate, drowning.
• Bowie Kuhn, 80, American Major League Baseball commissioner (1969–1984), respiratory failure.
• Orlando Martinez, 65, Cuban-born American baseball player and manager.
• Jack Metcalf, 79, American Republican Representative from Washington (1995–2001), complications of Alzheimer's disease.
• Datuk Wira Poh Ah Tiam, 55, Malaysian politician, cancer and renal failure.
• Stuart Rosenberg, 79, American TV and film director (Cool Hand Luke), heart attack.
• Herman Stein, 91, American film and television composer, heart failure.
• Jean Talairach, 96, French psychiatrist and neurosurgeon. (French)
• Dirk Wayenberg, 51, Belgian cyclist.
• Ivan Welsh, 67, Australian politician, NSW MLA (1988–1991).

16

• Sajjadul Hasan, 28,Bangladeshi domestic cricketer, motorcycle accident.
• Sir Arthur Marshall, 103, British aviation engineer.
• 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.
• Roger Bennett, 48, American Southern Gospel pianist (The Cathedrals, Legacy Five), complications of leukemia.
• 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, British film director and cinematographer (Sons and Lovers, Glory, Cape Fear), Oscar winner (1961, 1990), 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.
• Ion Santo, 84, Romanian Olympic fencer.
• John Williams, 65, New Zealand cricketer.

18

• Jim Fung, 62, Hong Kong Chinese martial artist and businessman, nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
• Bob Woolmer, 58, British cricketer for England (1975–1981) 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, comedian and David Letterman sidekick known as Larry "Bud" Melman.
• Robert Dickson, 62, Canadian professor, award-winning Franco-Ontarian writer and poet, cancer.
• Luther Ingram, 69, American R&B singer and songwriter ("(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right"), 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. .

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, septicemia.
• Raynald Fréchette, 73, Canadian lawyer, Quebec Superior Court judge, National Assembly of Quebec member, cancer. (French)
• 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 vice-president (1991–2003), execution by hanging.
• John P. Ryan, 70, American character 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 (Poison Elves), heart attack.
• Sven O. Høiby, 70, Norwegian journalist and father of Mette Marit, Crown Princess of Norway, lung cancer. (Norwegian)
• Mohd. Ayub Khan, c. 75, Indian politician.
• Catherine Seipp, 49, American conservative columnist, lung cancer.

22

• Nisar Bazmi, 83, Pakistani composer, kidney failure.
• 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 (1990–2005). (Spanish)
• 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 (1953–1966) and Knoxville, Tennessee city councilman (1983–1995), throat cancer.
• Paul Cohen, 72, American mathematician, professor of mathematics at Stanford University.
• 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 Neilsen, 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 (1993–2002) and sports executive, heart attack.
• Henson Cargill, 66, American country singer, complications from surgery.
• Mary D. Crisp, 83, American Republican leader.
• Maurice Flitcroft, 77, British amateur golfer and hoaxer, lung infection.
• Jean Schwinden, 81, American former First Lady of Montana, wife of Ted Schwinden, cancer.
• Martin Studach, 62, Swiss Olympic rower, heart failure.

25

• George Kingsley Acquah, 65, Ghanaian Chief Justice since July 4, 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 (Christian Democracy, Italian People's Party). (Italian)
• Cha Burns, 50, Scottish guitarist, lung cancer.
• David Green, 85, American political adviser.
• Heinz Schiller, 77, Swiss racing driver.
• Sylvia Straus, 94, American pianist and widow of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.
• 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.
• Faustino Oramas, 95, Cuban singer (Buena Vista Social Club), cancer.
• Aileen Plant, 52, Australian authority on infectious diseases, investigated first official case of SARS in Vietnam.
• Joe Sentieri, 82, Italian singer and actor. (Italian)
• Charlotte Winters, 109, 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 (1977–1987).
• Tony Scott, 85, American jazz clarinetist.
• James Thorpe, 79, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1967–1974).

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.
• 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, first President of the Federated States of Micronesia (1979–1987).
• Shaykh Abdur Rahman, Bangladeshi Islamist militant leader (JMB) 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, 56, 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, 82/83, Hungarian football player and coach. (Hungarian)
• 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.

31

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