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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2007.
March 2007
31
- Thomas W. Moore, 88, American producer and president of ABC, congestive heart failure.[1]
- Lito Sisnorio, 24, Filipino boxer, heart failure after surgery following a knockout. [2]
- Paul Watzlawick, 85, Austrian-born American psychologist and philosopher. [3]
30
- Basil Catterns MC, 89, Australian WWII Army leader of the Kokoda Track campaign, father of broadcaster Angela Catterns. [4]
- Chrisye, 56, Indonesian musician, lung cancer. [5]
- Fay Coyle, 73, British footballer for Derry City, Nottingham Forest and Northern Ireland. [6] [7]
- Michael Dibdin, 60, British crime writer. [8]
- María Julia Hernández, 68, Salvadoran human rights activist, heart attack. [9]
- Dave Martin, 72, British television writer for Doctor Who and Z-Cars, lung cancer. [10]
- John Roberts, 74, Canadian politician, heart attack. [11]
29
- Adebayo Adefarati, 76, Nigerian presidential candidate for the Alliance for Democracy party. [12]
- Bangla Bhai, 37, Bangladeshi militant, execution by hanging. [13]
- Lloyd Brown, 105, American last known surviving World War I Navy veteran. [14]
- Mimi Lerner, 61, Polish-born American operatic mezzo-soprano, complications of a heart tumor. [15]
- Calvin Lockhart, 72, Bahamian actor, stroke [16]
- Myokyo-ni, 86, Austrian Buddhist nun, head of the Zen Centre in London. [17].
- Tosiwo Nakayama, 75, first President of the Federated States of Micronesia (1979-87). [18]
- Shaykh Abdur Rahman, Bangladeshi Islamist militant leader (JMB) until his capture by the RAB, execution by hanging. [19]
- Leslie Waller, 83, American author. [20]
28
- Cha Chi Ming, 93, Hong Kong businessman, founder and non-executive chairman of HKR International. [21]
- Abe Coleman, 101, Polish-born American professional wrestler during the Great Depression era. [22]
- Bill Fisk, 90, American football player and coach. [23]
- Sir Thomas Hetherington, 80, British lawyer, Director of Public Prosecutions (1977–1987). [24]
- Tony Scott, 85, American jazz clarinetist. [25]
27
- Hans Hedberg, 89, Swedish sculptor, kidney failure. [26]
- Paul Lauterbur, 77, American chemist and 2003 Nobel Prize Laureate. [27]
- Ransom A. Myers, 54, American-born Canadian fisheries biologist, declining fish stocks expert, brain tumour. [28]
- Faustino Oramas, 95, Cuban singer (Buena Vista Social Club), cancer. [29]
- Aileen Plant, 52, Australian authority on infectious diseases, investigated first official case of SARS in Vietnam. [30]
- Joe Sentieri, 82, Italian singer and actor. [31] (Italian)
- Charlotte Winters, 109, last surviving American female veteran of World War I. [32]
26
- Beniamino Andreatta, 78, Italian economist and politician (Christian Democracy, Italian People's Party). [33] (Italian)
- Heinz Schiller, 77, Swiss racing driver. [34]
- Sylvia Straus, 94, American pianist and widow of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. [35]
- Mikhail Ulyanov, 79, Russian actor, intestinal disease. [36]
25
- George Kingsley Acquah, 65, Ghanaian Chief Justice since July 4, 2003, cancer.[37]
- Robert Austrian, 90, American epidemiologist, stroke. [38]
- Jerry Girard, 74, American sports anchor for WPIX television in New York City, esophageal cancer. [39]
- Andranik Margaryan, 55, Armenian Prime Minister since 2000, heart attack. [40]
- Marshall Rogers, 57, American comic book artist, heart attack. [41]
24
- Jun Bernardino, 59, Philippine Basketball Association commissioner (1993–2002) and sports executive, heart attack. [42]
- Henson Cargill, 66, American country singer, complications from surgery. [43]
- Mary D. Crisp, 83, American Republican leader. [44]
- Maurice Flitcroft, 77, British amateur golfer and hoaxer, lung infection. [45]
- Jean Schwinden, 81, American former First Lady of Montana, wife of Ted Schwinden, cancer. [46]
23
- Ed Bailey, 75, American baseball player (1953–1966) and Knoxville, Tennessee city councilman (1983–1995), throat cancer. [47]
- Paul Cohen, 72, American mathematician, professor of mathematics at Stanford University. [48]
- Mao Anqing, 83, Chinese author and son of Mao Zedong. [49]
- Damian McDonald, 34, Australian Olympic cyclist, traffic accident. [50]
- Eric Medlen, 33, American NHRA driver, diffuse axonal injury from car accident. [51]
- Chase Neilsen, 90, American Air Force officer, participant in the Doolittle raid. [52]
- Robert E. Petersen, 80, American publisher of auto industry and enthusiast magazines, neuroendocrine cancer. [53]
- Walter Turnbull, 62, American founder of the Boys Choir of Harlem, stroke. [54]
22
- Nisar Bazmi, 83, Pakistani composer, kidney failure. [55]
- Don Dennis, 65, American pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1960s. [56]
- U. G. Krishnamurti, 88, Indian philosopher. [57]
- Daniel Díaz Maynard, 73, Uruguayan politician, Deputy (1990–2005). [58] [59] (Spanish)
- Jay Zeamer, Jr., 88, American World War II veteran and Medal of Honor recipient. [60]*
21
- Drew Hayes, 37, American comic book writer/artist (Poison Elves), heart attack. [61]
- Sven O. Høiby, 70, Norwegian journalist and father of Mette Marit, Crown Princess of Norway, lung cancer. [62] (Norwegian)
- Mohd. Ayub Khan, c. 75, Indian politician. [63]
- Catherine Seipp, 49, American conservative columnist, lung cancer. [64]
20
- Francis Agu, 42, Nigerian actor, complications from peptic ulcer. [65]
- Albert Baez, 94, American physicist and father of Joan Baez and Mimi Fariña, natural causes. [66]
- Olcott Deming, 98, American diplomat and first Ambassador to Uganda, septicemia. [67]
- Raynald Fréchette, 73, Canadian lawyer, Quebec Superior Court judge, National Assembly of Quebec member, cancer. [68] (French)
- Rita Joe, 75, Canadian Mi'kmaq poet, Parkinson's disease. [69]
- Gilbert E. Patterson, 67, American bishop of Church of God in Christ, heart failure. [70]
- Taha Yassin Ramadan, 69, Iraqi vice-president (1991–2003), execution by hanging. [71]
- John P. Ryan, 70, American character actor. [72]
- Ernie Wright, 67, American football offensive lineman in the 1960s, cancer. [73].
- Hawa Yakubu, 59, Ghanaian politician. [74]
19
- Lloyd Best, 73, Trinidadian economist, politician and columnist, prostate cancer. [75]
- Calvert DeForest, 85, American actor, comedian and David Letterman sidekick known as Larry "Bud" Melman. [76]
- Robert Dickson, 62, Canadian professor, award-winning Franco-Ontarian writer and poet, cancer. [77]
- Luther Ingram, 69, American R&B singer and songwriter ("(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right"), kidney failure. [78] [79]
- Bill Stevenson, 55, Canadian football player, injuries from a fall. [80]
- Shimon Tzabar, 81, Israeli artist, author, poet and former Haaretz columnist, pneumonia. [81].
18
- Jim Fung, 62, Hong Kong Chinese martial artist and businessman, nasopharyngeal carcinoma. [82]
- John G. (Jack) Samson, 84, American author, editor of Field and Stream magazine, complications of Alzheimer's disease. [83]
- Bob Woolmer, 58, British cricketer for England (1975–1981) and Pakistan cricket team coach, heart failure. [84]
17
- John Backus, 82, American computer scientist who led the IBM team that developed Fortran. [85]
- Roger Bennett, 48, American Southern Gospel pianist (The Cathedrals, Legacy Five), complications of leukemia. [86]
- Jim Cronin, 55, American conservationist who founded Monkey World, liver cancer. [87]
- Freddie Francis, 89, British film director and two-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer, stroke. [88]
- Homer Harris, 91, American athlete, first black captain of a Big Ten Conference team, Alzheimer's disease. [89].
- Ernst Haefliger, 87, Swiss operatic tenor, heart failure. [90]
- Wilford "Crazy Ray" Jones, 76, American cheerleading fan of the Dallas Cowboys, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. [91]
- Tanya Reinhart, 63, Israeli linguist and peace activist, stroke. [92]
16
- Sajjadul Hasan, 28, Bangladeshi domestic cricketer, motorcycle accident. [93]
- Sir Arthur Marshall, 103, British aviation engineer. [94]
- Raymond Nasher, 85, American art collector, founder of Nasher Sculpture Center, Nasher Museum of Art and NorthPark Center. [95]
- Manjural Islam Rana, 22, Bangladeshi national cricketer, motorcycle accident. [96]
- Tupper Saussy, 70, American composer, musician, author, and artist, heart attack. [97]
15
- Blanquita Amaro, 83, Cuban-born actress and dancer, heart attack. [98]
- Sally Clark, 42, British solicitor wrongly convicted of killing two of her sons. [99]
- Charles Harrelson, 69, American convicted murderer, father of actor Woody Harrelson, heart attack. [100]
- Jay Kennedy, 50, American editor-in-chief of King Features Syndicate, drowning. [101]
- Bowie Kuhn, 80, American Major League Baseball commissioner (1969–1984), respiratory failure. [102]
- Orlando Martinez, 65, Cuban-born American baseball player and manager. [103]
- Jack Metcalf, 79, American Republican Representative from Washington (1995–2001), complications of Alzheimer's disease. [104]
- Datuk Wira Poh Ah Tiam, 55, Malaysian politician, cancer and renal failure. [105] [106]
- Stuart Rosenberg, 79, American TV and film director (Cool Hand Luke), heart attack. [107]
- Herman Stein, 91, American film and television composer, heart failure. [108]
- Jean Talairach, 96, French psychiatrist and neurosurgeon. [109] (French)
- Ivan Welsh, 67, Australian politician, NSW MLA (1988–1991). [110]
14
- Lucie Aubrac, 94, French member of the Resistance during World War II. [111]
- Roger Beaufrand, 98, French Olympian, oldest Olympic champion at time of death. [112] [113]
- Tommy Cavanagh, 78, British football player and manager of Burnley. [114]
- Lloyd Eaton, 88, American college football coach. [115]
- Sa'dun Hammadi, 76, Iraqi Prime Minister (1991), leukemia. [116]
- Fitzgerald "Mighty Terror" Henry, 86, Trinidadian calypso musician. [117]
- Gareth Hunt, 65, British actor (The New Avengers), pancreatic cancer. [118]
- Birk Sproxton, 63, Canadian author (Phantom Lake: North of 54) and educator, heart attack. [119]
13
- Terry Major-Ball, 74, British banker and author, brother of former Prime Minister John Major, cancer. [120]
- Wendy Russell Reves, 90, American philanthropist. [121]
- John Sinclair, 73, British English language scholar, cancer. [122]
- Arnold Skaaland, 82, American professional wrestler. [123]
- Nicole Stéphane, 83, French actress (Le Silence de la mer). [124] (French)
12
- Arnold Drake, 83, American comic book writer (Doom Patrol), pneumonia and septic shock. [125]
- Vilma Ebsen, 96, American actress, sister and dancing partner of Buddy Ebsen. [126]
- Preah Maha Ghosananda, 77, Cambodian Buddhist Sangharaja and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. [127]
- Antonio Ortiz Mena, 99, Mexican Finance Secretary (1958–70), IDB President (1971–87), complications from a fall. [128] (Spanish)
- Yeap Ghim Guan, 66, Malaysian lawyer and politician, founding member of the DAP, complications from a stroke. [129]
11
- Dave Creedon, 87, Irish hurler (Cork), All-Ireland Champions (1952–1954), natural causes. [130]
- Betty Hutton, 86, American singer/actress (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek), complications from colon cancer. [131]
- Martha Sosman, 56, American judge, member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, breast cancer. [132]
10
- Buddy Allin, 62, American golfer, winner of five PGA Tour events, cancer. [133]
- Richard Jeni, 49, American comedian, apparent suicide by gunshot. [134]
- Ernie Ladd, 68, American NFL player and wrestler, cancer. [135]
- Lanna Saunders, 65, American soap opera actress (Days of our Lives), multiple sclerosis. [136]
- Angela Webber, 52, Australian comedienne and writer, cancer. [137]
9
- Rosy Afsari, 60, Bangladeshi film actress, kidney failure. [138]
- Brad Delp, 55, American lead singer of 1970s AOR band Boston, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. [139] [140] [141]
- Ron Evans, 67, Australian chairman of the AFL Commission, former Essendon chairman and player, abdominal cancer. [142]
- Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, 71, American politician, first black woman to serve in the Senate of North Carolina. [143]
- Thomas Mason, 88, American attorney. [144]
- Ulpio Minucci, 87, Italian-born composer best known for work on Robotech, natural causes. [145]
- Juan Carlos Portantiero, 73, Argentine sociologist, renal failure. [146] [147] (Spanish).
- Malaetasi Togafau, American Samoan Attorney General, judge and legislator, cancer. [148]
8
- Alejandro Cruz, 82, Mexican professional wrestler known as "The Black Shadow", pneumonia. [149]
- Cruz Hernández, 128?, Salvadoran claimant to the title of world's oldest person. [150]
- John Inman, 71, British actor (Are You Being Served?), liver disease. [151] [152]
- Tom Moldvay, 58, American writer of Dungeons & Dragons books and modules (revised version of Palace of the Silver Princess). [153]
- Harold M. Ryan, 96, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1961-1965), congestive heart failure. [154]
- Richard Trexler, 74, American historian of the Florentine Renaissance, complications from a kidney transplant. [155].
- Viky Vanita, 59, Greek actress. [156] (Greek)
- John Vukovich, 59, American baseball player and coach, brain tumor complications. [157]
7
- Bill Chinnock, 59, American singer-songwriter. [158]
- Paul deLay, 55, American blues harmonica player, leukemia. [159]
- Frigyes Hidas, 78, Hungarian composer. [160]
- Emil Mailho, 97, American baseball player. [161]
- Morgan Mellish, 36, Australian Walkley Award-winning journalist for the Australian Financial Review, plane crash. [162]
- Andy Sidaris, 76, American film director, throat cancer. [163]
- Carla Thorneycroft, Baroness Thorneycroft, 93, Italian–born British philanthropist. [164]
- Billy Walkabout, 57, Cherokee-American highly decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, pneumonia and renal failure. [165] [166]
6
- Jean Baudrillard, 77, French postmodernist philosopher and sociologist. [167]
- Allen Coage, 63, American-born Olympic judo bronze medalist and professional wrestler known as "Bad News Brown". [168] [169]
- Ernest Gallo, 97, American co-founder of E & J Gallo Winery. [170]
- Pierre Moinot, 86, French novelist elected to Académie française. [171] (French)
- Ray Stern, 74, American professional wrestler, complications from heart surgery. [172]
5
- Wilfred Baker, 106, British World War I veteran believed to be second oldest man in Scotland. [173]
- Yvan Delporte, 78, Belgian editor-in-chief of Spirou magazine (1956–1968). [174] (French)
- Ivo Lorscheiter, 79, Brazilian Catholic Bishop and advocate of liberation theology, multiple organ failure. [175] [176]
- Ivan Supek, 91, Croatian scientist, philosopher and writer. [177] (Croatian)
4
- Natalie Bodanya, 98, American operatic soprano. [178]
- Thomas Eagleton, 77, United States Senator for Missouri (1969–1987), heart and respiratory complications. [179]
- Bob Hattoy, 56, American President of California Fish & Game Commission, AIDS activist, complications from AIDS. [180]
- Richard Joseph, 53, British video games soundtrack composer, lung cancer. [181]
- Sunil Kumar Mahato, 41, Indian parliamentarian, shot. [182]
- Tadeusz Nalepa, 63, Polish blues and rock singer, after long illness. [183] (Polish)
- Ian Wooldridge, 75, British sports journalist, cancer. [184]
3
- Osvaldo Cavandoli, 87, Italian cartoonist. [185] (Italian)
- Jim Kaldis, 74, Australian politician. [186]
- Benito Lorenzi, 81, Italian football striker (Italy, Inter Milan). [187]
- Gene Oliver, 71, American baseball player in the 1960s, complications from lung surgery. [188]
- Saul Swimmer, 70, American documentary filmmaker (The Concert for Bangladesh), heart failure. [189]
- Marjabelle Young Stewart, 82, American etiquette authority and author, pneumonia. [190]
2
- Doris Anderson, 85, Canadian feminist, writer and editor of Chatelaine, pulmonary fibrosis. [191]
- Thomas Kleppe, 87, American Secretary of Interior (1975–1977), Representative from North Dakota, Alzheimer's disease. [192]
- Clem Labine, 80, American baseball pitcher (Brooklyn and LA Dodgers), complications of brain surgery. [193] [194]
- Harold Michelson, 87, American production designer twice nominated for an Academy Award. [195]
- Mike Mooney, 37, American football player with Georgia Tech and the 1993 San Diego Chargers. [196]
- Ivan Safronov, 51, Russian defence correspondent for Kommersant, fall from building. [197]
- William C. Sturtevant, 80, American Smithsonian Institution curator, emphysema. [198]
- Henri Troyat, 95, French writer and historian, member of the Académie française. [199] [200]
1
- Manuel Bento, 58, Portuguese football goalkeeper (Portugal, SL Benfica), cardiac arrest. [201]
- Otto Brandenburg, 72, Danish singer and actor. [202] (Danish)
- Colette Brosset, 85, French actress. [203] (French)
- George Gabb, 79, Belizean artist, sculptor and writer, cardiac arrest. [204]
- Sir Sydney Gun-Munro, 90, Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1979–1985), after long illness. [205]
- Tinos Rusere, 61, Zimbabwean Deputy Minister for Mines and Environment, kidney failure. [206]
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