Deaths in March 2000

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2000.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
 * Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

1

 * Raymond Badin, 71, French gymnast and Olympian.
 * Odell Barnes, 31, American convict, execution by lethal injection.
 * Jesper Høm, 68, Danish photographer and film director.
 * Vlastimir Peričić, 72, Serbian composer.
 * Lionel Salter, 85, English pianist, conductor, and writer.
 * Sumie Tanaka, 91, Japanese screenwriter and playwright.

2

 * Audun Boysen, 70, Norwegian middle distance runner and Olympic medalist.
 * Jimmy Lewis, 81, American double bassist.
 * Jack Robinson, 79, American baseball player.
 * Sandra Schmirler, 36, Canadian curling champion, cancer.
 * Charles E. Wiggins, 72, American politician and judge, cardiac arrest.

3

 * Ranjana Deshmukh, 45, Indian actress, heart attack.
 * Paul Doguereau, 91, French pianist and piano teacher.
 * Toni Ortelli, 95, Italian composer and alpinist.
 * Nicole Van Goethem, 58, Belgian animator and illustrator.

4

 * Hermann Brück, 94, German astronomer.
 * Władysław Daniłowski, 97, Polish-American pianist, composer and singer.
 * Kyi Kyi Htay, 75, Burmese actress.
 * Geeta Mukherjee, 76, Indian politician and social worker.
 * Julian Ritter, 90, American painter.
 * Donn J. Robertson, 83, United States Marine Corps officer.
 * Alphons Silbermann, 90, German Jewish sociologist, musicologist, and publicist.
 * Ta-You Wu, 92, Chinese theoretical physicist.
 * Xie Xide, 78, Chinese physicist, breast cancer.

5

 * Jon Barwise, 57, American mathematician, philosopher and logician, colon cancer.
 * Lolo Ferrari, 37, French dancer, pornographic actress, actress and singer, suicide.
 * Franklin Garrett, 93, American historian.
 * Roma Mitchell, 86, Australian lawyer and Governor of South Australia, bone cancer.
 * Todd Thomas, 40, American gridiron football player, cancer.
 * Daniel Abraham Yanofsky, 74, Canadian chess grandmaster, writer, and arbiter.
 * Mikola Yermalovich, 78, Belarusian writer and historian.
 * Alexander Young, 79, British operatic tenor.

6

 * S. Arumugam, 94, Ceylon Tamil engineer and writer.
 * Chris Balderstone, 59, English professional in cricket and football, prostate cancer.
 * John Colicos, 71, Canadian actor (Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, X-Men), heart attack.
 * Jean-Pascal Curtillet, 57, French freestyle swimmer and Olympian.
 * Mirko Grmek, 76, Croatian and French historian of medicine, writer and scientist.
 * Ole Jacob Hansen, 59, Norwegian jazz musician (drums).
 * Abraham Waligo, 71, Ugandan politician, Prime Minister (1985-1986).

7

 * Bill Daniels, 79, American cable television executive.
 * Eileen Fowler, 93, English physical exercise instructor.
 * Charles Gray, 71, English actor (Diamonds Are Forever, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Mirror Crack'd), cancer.
 * W. D. Hamilton, 63, British evolutionary biologist, organ dysfunction.
 * Robert Hart, 86, English gardening pioneer.
 * Pee Wee King, 86, American singer-songwriter (co-wrote "Tennessee Waltz"), heart attack.
 * Edward H. Levi, 88, American lawyer and politician, Attorney General (1975–1977), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Hirokazu Ninomiya, 82, Japanese football player and manager, pneumonia.
 * Alimineti Madhava Reddy, 51, Indian politician, homicide.
 * Jack Sanford, 70, American baseball player, brain cancer.
 * Kazuto Tsuruoka, 83, Japanese baseball player and manager.
 * Byron M. Tunnell, 74, American politician.
 * Nicolas Walter, 65, British anarchist and atheist writer, speaker and activist.
 * Masami Yoshida, 41, Japanese javelin thrower.

8

 * Gertrude Sanford Legendre, 97, American socialite, heart attack.
 * Earle Gorton Linsley, 89, American entomologist.
 * Joe Mullaney, 75, American basketball player and coach, cancer.
 * Vilho Ylönen, 81, Finnish cross-country skier, rifle shooter and Olympic medalist.

9

 * Artyom Borovik, 39, Russian journalist and media magnate, plane crash.
 * Jean Coulthard, 92, Canadian composer and music educator.
 * Miguel Cruz, 89, Salvadoran football player.
 * Jim Egan, 79, Canadian LGBT rights activist, lung cancer.
 * Pierre Ghestem, 78, French bridge and checkers player.
 * Peter Hauser, 65, British football player and manager.
 * Pathanay Khan, Pakistan folk singer.
 * Usha Kiran, 70, Indian actress.
 * Robert Parry, 67, British politician.
 * Ivo Robić, 77, Croatian singer-songwriter.

10

 * Judith Barrett, 91, American film actress.
 * Barbara Cooney, 82, American author and illustrator.
 * Ivan Hirst, 84, British Army officer and engineer.
 * William Porter, 73, American track and field athlete and Olympic champion.
 * John Sladek, 62, American science fiction author.

11

 * Kazimierz Brandys, 83, Polish essayist and script writer.
 * Alex Dreier, 83, American news reporter and commentator, heart failure.
 * HB Jassin, 82, Indonesian literary critic and documentarian.
 * Noel Mulligan, 73, Australian rugby player.
 * Edgar Charles Polomé, 79, Belgian-American philologist and religious studies scholar.
 * Will Roberts, 92, Welsh painter.
 * Laureano López Rodó, 79, Spanish lawyer, diplomat and politician.
 * Alfred Schwarzmann, 87, German Olympic gymnast.

12

 * Billy Ivison, 79, British football and rugby player.
 * Aleksandar Nikolić, 75, Serbian basketball player and coach.
 * Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei, 98, Chinese Catholic Bishop of Shanghai, stomach cancer.
 * Mack Robinson, 85, American track and field athlete, pneumonia.

13

 * Harry Bright, 70, American baseball player.
 * Rex Everhart, 79, American actor (Beauty and the Beast, Friday the 13th, Family Business) and singer, lung cancer.
 * Hamid Gada, Indian commander in the militant organisation Hizbul Mujahideen, K.I.A.
 * Cab Kaye, 78, Ghanaian-English jazz singer and pianist.
 * Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam, 86, Indian Army general.
 * Carlo Tagnin, 67, Italian football player and manager, cancer.
 * Malcolm Wilson, 86, American politician and Governor of New York.

14

 * Kovai Chezhiyan, 68, Indian film producer and Kongu community leader.
 * Tommy Collins, 69, American country musician.
 * C. Jérôme, 53, French singer, cancer.
 * Paul Smith, 54, American gridiron football player, pancreatic cancer.
 * Anne Wibble, 56, Swedish politician, cancer.
 * Ponchai Wilkerson, 28, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

15

 * Jaime García Añoveros, 68, American politician.
 * Timothy Gribble, 36, American convicted murderer and suspected serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Clement L. Hirsch, 85, American businessman and racehorse owner, cancer.
 * Tomio Hora, 93, Japanese historian and academic.
 * Adarsh Pandey, 93, Indian Politician and academic.
 * Durward Kirby, 88, American television host and announcer.
 * Bobb McKittrick, 64, American gridiron football coach, cancer.
 * Darrell Keith Rich, 45, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Rolf Römer, 64, German actor.
 * Idris Abdul Wakil, 74, Zanzibari politician, President (1985-1990).
 * Robert Welch, 70, English designer and silversmith.

16

 * Morris Berthold Abram, 81, American lawyer, civil rights activist and university president.
 * Ibrahim Mahmud Alfa, 53, Nigerian air marshal.
 * Herta Bothe, 79, German nazi concentration camp guard during World War II and war criminal.
 * Thomas Ferebee, 81, U.S. Army Air Forces bombardier aboard the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
 * Roy Henderson, 100, British opera singer.
 * Pavel Prudnikau, 88, Belarusian writer.
 * Ivo Rinkel, 79, Dutch tennis and field hockey player.
 * Stanley Ralph Ross, 64, American writer and actor, lung cancer.
 * Michael Starr, 89, Canadian politician.
 * Phil Terranova, 80, American boxer.
 * Carlos Velázquez, 51, Puerto Rican baseball player.

17

 * Jack Davis, 83, Australian playwright.
 * Lonia Dvorin, 82, Israeli football player and coach.
 * Sonny Hine, 69, American thoroughbred horse trainer.
 * Charlie Holt, 77, American ice hockey coach, cancer.
 * Edward F. Knipling, 90, American entomologist.
 * Pete Mangum, 69, American football player.

18

 * Eberhard Bethge, 90, German Protestant theologian.
 * Pei Lisheng, 93, Chinese politician.
 * Glen Mervyn, 63, Canadian rower, Olympic medalist and Olympic coach, colorectal cancer.
 * Herman B Wells, 97, American academic.
 * Robert Wynn, 78, American officer with Easy Company, in the 101st Airborne Division.
 * Assaf Yaguri, 69, Israeli soldier and politician.

19

 * Graham Balcombe, 93, British cave diver.
 * Li Huanzhi, 81, Chinese classical composer.
 * Egon Jönsson, 78, Swedish football player.
 * Giovanni Linscheer, 27, Surinamese swimmer, car accident.
 * Jayne Regan, 90, American film actress.
 * Dewey Williams, 84, American baseball player.
 * Mikhail Yefremov, 88, Soviet politician and diplomat.

20

 * Johan Anthierens, 62, Belgian journalist, columnist, and writer, Hodgkin's disease.
 * Zayd Mutee' Dammaj, 57, Yemeni author and politician.
 * Gene Eugene, 38, Canadian actor, record producer, composer and musician.
 * Michael Ferris, 68, Irish politician.
 * Vivian Fine, 86, American composer, car collision.
 * Jean Howard, 89, American actress and photographer.
 * Ruth Kirk, 77, New Zealand anti-abortion campaigner, cancer.
 * Ramon Mitra, Jr., 72, Filipino statesman, diplomat, and pro-democracy activist.
 * Ādolfs Skulte, 90, Latvian composer and pedagogue.

21

 * Johan Haanes, 87, Norwegian sportsman.
 * Seumas McNally, 21, Canadian computer programmer and founder of DX Ball 2, Hodgkin's lymphoma.
 * Bai Shouyi, 91, Chinese ethnologist, historian, social activist, and writer.
 * Mircea Zaciu, 71, Romanian critic, literary historian and prose writer.

22

 * John Morrison, 2nd Viscount Dunrossil, 73, British diplomat.
 * Polita Grau, 84, Cuban political prisoner, First Lady.
 * Mark Lombardi, 48, American neo-conceptual artist, suicide by hanging.
 * Wayne McAllister, 92, American architect, head injury.
 * Carlo Parola, 78, Italian football player and coach.
 * Vamüzo Phesao, 62, Naga politician.
 * Godwin Samararatne, 67, Sri Lankan meditation teacher.

23

 * Ed McCurdy, 81, American folk singer, songwriter and actor.
 * Antony Padiyara, 79, Indian Syro Malabar prelate.
 * Carl Shoup, 97, American economist and public finance expert.
 * Udham Singh, 71, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.
 * Gert Willner, 59, German politician.

24

 * Albert Duncanson, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Robert Hugo Dunlap, 79, United States Marine Corps major.
 * Al Grey, 74, American jazz trombonist.
 * George Kirby, 66, British football player.
 * Kazuo Komatsubara, 56, Japanese animator, animation director and character designer.
 * Juan Zurita, 82, Mexican lightweight boxing world champion.

25

 * Jim Cash, 59, American film writer (Top Gun, Dick Tracy, Turner & Hooch), intestinal disorders.
 * Paul Călinescu, 97, Romanian film director and screenwriter.
 * Daphne Le Breton, 67, New Zealand international lawn bowler.
 * Helen Martin, 90, American actress, heart attack.
 * Eduardo Enrique Rodríguez, 81, Argentine football player.
 * Sandy Sanford, 83, American gridiron football player and coach.

26

 * Alfredo Bruniera, 93, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
 * Alex Comfort, 80, British scientist, physician and author (The Joy of Sex), cerebral haemorrhage.
 * Karel Thole, 85, Dutch-Italian painter and illustrator.
 * Len Younce, 83, American football player and coach.
 * Werner Zeyer, 70, German politician.

27

 * George Allen, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Ian Dury, 57, British actor and rock and roll singer (Kilburn and the High Roads, Ian Dury and the Blockheads), cancer.
 * Yrjö Lehtilä, 83, Finnish shot putter and Olympian.
 * Priya Rajvansh, 63, Indian film actress, murdered.

28

 * Pat Bishop, 53, Northern Irish-Australian actress.
 * Bill Christiansen, 86, American politician.
 * Christian Norberg-Schulz, 73, Norwegian architect and author.
 * Frances Gray Patton, 94, American short story writer and novelist.
 * George Petersen, 78, Australian politician.
 * Anthony Powell, 94, British author.
 * Yuri Tarasov, 39, Soviet and Ukrainian football player.
 * Adam Ulam, 77, Polish-American historian and political scientist, lung cancer.

29

 * Yevgeny Feofanov, 62, Soviet boxer and Olympic medalist.
 * Hans Gustav Güterbock, 91, German-American Hittitologist ang linguist.
 * Shirley Palmer, 91, American (silent) film actress, fall.
 * Anna Sokolow, 90, American dancer and choreographer.

30

 * George Batchelor, 80, Australian mathematician.
 * Salvador Abascal Infante, 90, Mexican politician.
 * Jean E. Karl, 72, American book publisher.
 * Rudolf Kirchschläger, 85, Austrian politician, President (1974-1986), cardiovascular disease.
 * Beryl McBurnie, 86, Trinidadian dancer.
 * Mihrimah Sultan, 77, Ottoman princess, granddaughter of Mehmed V.

31

 * Hardev Bahri, 93, Indian linguist, literary critic, and lexicographer.
 * Hjalmar Bergström, 93, Swedish world champion cross-country skier and Olympian.
 * Adrian Fisher, 47, British guitarist, myocardial infarction.
 * Gisèle Freund, 91, German-French photographer and photojournalist.