Deaths in March 2004

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2004.

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

 * Eric Cross, 101, English cinematographer.
 * Augusto da Costa, 83, Brazilian football player and manager.
 * Barbara Frawley, 68, Australian actress (Dot and the Kangaroo).
 * Mian Ghulam Jilani, 91, Pakistan Army officer, pneumonia.
 * Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde, 70, Comorian politician.
 * Kostas Montis, 90, Cypriot poet, novelist, and playwright, tuberculosis.
 * Gilbert Plass, 83, Canadian physicist.
 * Nina Sazonova, 87, Soviet and Russian actress.

2

 * Berndt Egerbladh, 71, Swedish jazz pianist, composer and television personality.
 * Tony Lee, 69, British jazz pianist, cancer.
 * Mercedes McCambridge, 87, American actress (All the King's Men, Giant, The Exorcist), Oscar winner (1950).
 * Marge Schott, 75, American primary owner of the Cincinnati Reds.

3

 * Cecily Adams, 46, American casting director (That '70s Show, 3rd Rock from the Sun) and actress (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), lung cancer.
 * Sumantra Ghoshal, 55, Indian scholar and educator, founding dean of Indian School of Business, brain hemorrhage..
 * Susan Moller Okin, 57, New Zealand feminist and political philosopher.
 * Pedro Pietri, 59, Puerto Rican-American Nuyorican poet and playwright, stomach cancer.
 * Muniswamy Rajgopal, 77, Indian Olympic field hockey player (gold medal winner in men's field hockey at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
 * Drake Sather, 44, American Emmy nominated television writer (Dennis Miller Show, The Larry Sanders Show, Saturday Night Live, Zoolander), suicide.
 * Miriam Waddington, 86, Canadian poet, short story writer and translator.
 * Russell Weigley, 73, American professor and military historian.

4

 * Fernando Lázaro Carreter, 80, Spanish linguist, journalist and literary critic, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
 * Tooker Gomberg, 48, Canadian politician and environmental activist, suicide.
 * Walter Gómez, 76, Uruguayan football player.
 * David Charles Harvey, 57, British historian and author.
 * Dale Ishimoto, 80, American actor.
 * Arthur Kinsella, 86, New Zealand politician, Minister of Education (1963–1969).
 * Roberto Lerici, 79, Italian football player and coach.
 * John McGeoch, 48, British guitarist (Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees and PiL), SUDEP.
 * Claude Nougaro, 74, French songwriter and singer, pancreatic cancer.
 * George Pake, 79, American physicist and computer research executive, known for founding Xerox PARC.
 * Malcolm Pasley, 77, British literary scholar.
 * Jeremi Przybora, 88, Polish poet, writer, actor and singer.
 * Stephen Sprouse, 50, American artist and fashion designer, heart failure.

5

 * Thorkild Bjørnvig, 86, Danish author and poet.
 * Nicholas C. Dattilo, 71, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Walt Gorney, 91, Austrian-American actor (Friday the 13th, Trading Places).
 * Pierre Lévêque, 82, French historian of ancient and Hellenistic Greece.
 * Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, 84, Ecuadorian politician, President (1961–1963).
 * Stanisław Musiał, 65, Polish priest.
 * Mike O'Callaghan, 74, American politician, Governor of Nevada (1971–1979), heart attack.
 * Masanori Tokita, 78, Japanese football player, esophageal cancer.

6

 * Eugene Theodore Booth Jr., 91, American nuclear physicist.
 * Frances Dee, 94, American actress, stroke.
 * Ray Fernandez, 47, American professional wrestler best known as "Hercules Hernandez", heart disease.
 * Sandy Glen, 91, Scottish explorer and businessman.
 * Alan Short, 83, American legislator, co-author of the Short-Doyle Mental Health Act.
 * André Weingand, 88, French Olympic gymnast.
 * John Henry Williams, 35, American controversial son of baseball player Ted Williams, leukemia.

7

 * Ewald W. Busse, 86, American psychiatrist, gerontologist, and author.
 * Nicolae Cajal, 84, Romanian physician and politician.
 * Bengt Fahlqvist, 81, Swedish wrestler and Olympic medalist.
 * Jack Holden, 96, English Olympic long-distance runner.
 * Michael Stringer, 79, British production designer and art director (Casino Royale, Fiddler on the Roof, 633 Squadron).
 * Román Arrieta Villalobos, 79, Costa Rican Catholic archbishop, brain tumor.
 * Paul Winfield, 62, American actor (Sounder, The Terminator, 227), Emmy winner (1995), heart attack.

8

 * János Bognár, 89, Hungarian Olympic cyclist.
 * Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar, 73, Indian physicist.
 * Keith Hopkins, 69, British ancient historian and sociologist.
 * Robin Hunter, 74, British actor, pulmonary emphysema.
 * Duan Junyi, 93, Chinese politician.
 * Alfons Lütke-Westhues, 73, German equestrian and Olympic champion.
 * Frank Mooney, 82, New Zealand cricketer.
 * Robert Pastorelli, 49, American actor (Murphy Brown, Eraser, Michael), drug overdose.
 * Ehrenfried Patzel, 89, Czechoslovakian football player.
 * Siddharth Ray, 40, Indian actor, heart attack.
 * Yavuz Selekman, 67, Turkish wrestler and film actor.
 * Muhammad Zaidan, (aka Abu Abbas), 55, Palestinian nationalist, founder of Palestine Liberation Front, cardiovascular disease.

9

 * Rust Epique, 35, American songwriter and guitarist, heart attack.
 * Marshall Frady, 64, American journalist, cancer.
 * John Mayer, 73, Indian composer, traffic collision.
 * Albert Mol, 87, Dutch author, dancer, cabaret performer, actor, TV personality, aneurysm.
 * Gearóid Mac Niocaill, 71, British academic and historian.
 * Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, 71, American composer, conductor and pianist.
 * Don Smith, 52, American professional basketball player (Philadelphia 76ers), heart problems.

10

 * Olle Adolphson, 69, Swedish writer, singer and songwriter.
 * Boryslav Brondukov, 66, Ukrainian film actor, stroke.
 * Jack Creley, 78, American-Canadian actor.
 * Norbert Grupe, 63, German boxer and actor (Die Hard, Stroszek, Ghostbusters II), prostate cancer.
 * Robert D. Orr, 86, American politician, former Governor of Indiana, surgical complications.
 * James Parrish, 35, American NFL player (San Francisco 49ers, Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Jets), cancer.
 * Hansjörg Schlager, 74, German Olympic alpine skier (men's downhill and men's slalom at the 1972 Winter Olympics).
 * David Shoenberg, 93, British physicist (solid-state electronics, magnetic resonance imaging, superconductivity).
 * Nasiba Zeynalova, 87, Soviet and Azerbaijani actress.

11

 * Philip Arthur Fisher, 96, American stock investor and author of Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits.
 * Seymour Geisser, 74, American statistician, DNA-evidence expert.
 * Richard Kinon, 79, American television director.
 * Aleksey Mazurenko, 86, Russian major general during World War II.
 * Edmund Sylvers, 47, American lead singer of The Sylvers, lung cancer.

12

 * Finn Carling, 78, Norwegian author and playwright with cerebral palsy.
 * Cid Corman, 79, Japan-based American poet and translator, heart attack.
 * Karel Kachyňa, 79, Czech film director and screenwriter.
 * William Moritz, 63, American film historian, cancer.
 * Milton Resnick, 87, Ukrainian-American artist, suicide.
 * Sylvi Saimo, 89, Finnish Olympic canoer (women's K-1 500 metre canoeing: 1948, 1952 gold medal winner).
 * Natan Yonatan, 80, Israeli poet.

13

 * Guttorm Berge, 74, Norwegian alpine skier and Olympic medalist.
 * Sydney Carter, 88, British musician and poet.
 * Harold Goldsmith, 73, American Olympic foil and epee fencer.
 * Chen Hansheng, 107, Chinese sociologist.
 * Max Harris, 85, British film and television composer and arranger.
 * Vilayat Khan, 75, Indian classical sitar player, lung cancer.
 * Franz König, 98, Austrian cardinal.
 * Thomas Adeoye Lambo, 80, Nigerian scholar, administrator and psychiatrist.
 * Blessing Makunike, 27, Zimbabwean football player, traffic collision.
 * Dullah Omar, 69, South African cabinet minister, cancer.
 * Vernon Wilcox, 84, Australian politician.

14

 * Siradiou Diallo, 67, Guinean journalist and politician, cardiac arrest.
 * Martin Emond, 34, New Zealand cartoon illustrator and painter, suicide by hanging.
 * Genevieve, 83, American comedian, actress, and singer.
 * Norb Hecker, 76, American football player and coach, cancer.
 * Jurijs Rubenis, 78, Latvian communist politician.

15

 * John Hobhouse, Baron Hobhouse of Woodborough, 72, British barrister and judge.
 * Václav Kozák, 66, Czech rower and Olympic champion.
 * René Laloux, 74, French animator, screenwriter and film director, heart attack.
 * Philippe Lemaire, 77, French actor, suicide.
 * Alfred Mansfeld, 92, Israeli architect.
 * Chuck Niles, 76, American Southern California jazz radio disc jockey.
 * Patrick Nuttgens, 74, British architect.
 * Bill Pickering, 93, New Zealand engineer, head of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, pneumonia.
 * John Pople, 78, British theoretical chemist and Nobel Prize winner, liver cancer.
 * Ivan Ryzhov, 91, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.
 * Vicki Shiran, 57, Israeli criminologist, sociologist, poet, film director, and activist, breast cancer.
 * John Vallone, 50, American production designer (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Predator, 48 Hrs.).

16

 * Brian Bianchini, 25, American fashion model, suicide.
 * Hank Marr, 77, American jazz musician.
 * Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi, 61, Iranian Olympic wrestler (bronze medal winner in men's freestyle featherweight wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics).
 * Vilém Tauský, 94, Czech conductor and composer.

17

 * J.J. Jackson, 62, American radio and television personality, heart attack.
 * Monique Laederach, 65, Swiss writer.
 * Michael Mellinger, 74, German actor.
 * Bernie Scherer, 91, American gridiron football player (University of Nebraska, Green Bay Packers, Pittsburgh Pirates).

18

 * Gene Bearden, 83, American baseball player with the Cleveland Indians.
 * Vytas Brenner, 57, Venezuelan musician, keyboardist and composer, heart attack.
 * Wallace Davenport, 78, American jazz trumpeter.
 * Louisette Hautecoeur, 89, French film editor.
 * Richard Marner, 82, Russian-British actor.
 * Harrison McCain, 76, Canadian businessman, founder of McCain Foods, kidney failure.
 * Raquel Rodrigo, 89, Cuban actress and singer.
 * Abdujalil Samadov, 54, Tajik politician.
 * Erna Spoorenberg, 77, Dutch soprano.

19

 * Roy Abbott, 76, Australian politician.
 * Bert Barlow, 87, English football player.
 * Guillermo Rivas «el Borras», 76, Mexican comedy actor, pneumonia.
 * Magool, 55, Somali singer, breast cancer.
 * Brian Maxwell, 51, Canadian long-distance runner and founder of energy bar brand PowerBar, heart attack.
 * Horace Phillips, 86, British diplomat.
 * Mitchell Sharp, 92, Canadian cabinet minister (member of Parliament, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Finance), prostate cancer].
 * Chris Timms, 56, New Zealand yachtsman and Olympic champion, plane crash.
 * Ted Walker, 69, British poet and dramatist.

20

 * Bernhard Christensen, 98, Danish composer and organist.
 * Charles Harold Haden II, 66, American jurist.
 * Chōsuke Ikariya, 72, Japanese comedian, actor and leader of comedic group The Drifters, lymphoma.
 * Juliana of the Netherlands, 94, Dutch Royal, former Queen of the Netherlands, complications of pneumonia.
 * Joakim Segedi, 99, Serbian-Croatian Greek-Catholic hierarch, Auxiliary Bishop of Križevci (1963–1984)
 * Pierre Sévigny, 86, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Longueuil—Saint-Hubert, Quebec), known for Munsinger Affair.

21

 * Adeline Akufo-Addo, 86, First Lady in the second republic of Ghana as the wife of Edward Akufo-Addo.
 * Johnny Bristol, 65, American musician.
 * C. West Churchman, 90, American philosopher and systems scientist.
 * Matt Gribble, 41, American swimmer, Olympic athlete, and world champion, traffic collision.
 * Nurnaningsih, 78, Indonesian actress.
 * Mirwais Sadiq, Afghan politician, homicide.
 * Robert Snyder, 88, American documentary filmmaker (winner of Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for The Titan: Story of Michelangelo).
 * Ludmilla Tchérina, 79, French ballerina], actress and writer.
 * John C. West, 81, American politician and diplomat.

22

 * Mirko Braun, 61, Croatian football player.
 * Lisa Ferraday, 83, Romanian-American model and actress.
 * Peter Jackson, 73, British rugby union player.
 * Pete Kelly, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Slobodan Kovačević, 57, Yugoslavian/Bosnia and Herzegovina rock guitarists, liver cancer.
 * Janet Akyüz Mattei, 61, Turkish-American astronomer, leukemia.
 * V. M. Tarkunde, 94, Indian lawyer, civil rights activist, and humanist leader.
 * Ahmed Yassin, 67, Palestinian spiritual leader and founder of Hamas, military operation.

23

 * Lorand Fenyves, 86, Canadian violinist and professor.
 * Rupert Hamer, 87, Australian politician, heart failure.
 * Otto Kumm, 94, German divisional commander in the Waffen-SS during World War II.
 * L. S. Stavrianos, 91, Greek-Canadian historian.

24

 * Dominic Agostino, 44, Canadian politician, Ontario Liberal MPP, liver cancer.
 * Joshua Eilberg, 83, American politician.
 * Michael Garrison, 47, American ambient musician, liver failure.
 * Mildred Jeffrey, 93, American political and social activist.
 * Richard Leech, 81, Irish actor.

25

 * Robert Arden, 81, British-American film, television and radio actor.
 * Katherine Lawrence, 49, American screenwriter and author, suicide.
 * Kristine Vetulani-Belfoure, 79, Polish teacher and writer, heart failure.
 * Tom Wilson, 52, Scottish radio disc jockey, heart attack.

26

 * Takeshi Kamo, 89, Japanese footballer.
 * Fred Karlin, 67, American composer of feature films and television movie scores, cancer.
 * Stelvio Massi, 75, Italian director, screenwriter and cinematographer.
 * Victor J. Nickerson, 75, American thoroughbred horse racing trainer.
 * J. Edward Roush, 83, American politician (U.S. Representative for Indiana's 5th congressional district and Indiana's 4th congressional district).
 * Jan Sterling, 82, American actress (The High and the Mighty, Ace in the Hole, Pony Express), stroke, diabetes.

27

 * Bob Cremins, 98, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).
 * Peter Diamond, 74, English actor, stroke.
 * Richard Lancelyn Green, 50, British scholar of Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes.
 * Gerome Kamrowski, 90, American surrealist and abstract expressionist artist.
 * Miriam Lichtheim, 89, Turkish-American-Israeli egyptologist.
 * H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins, 80, British scholar and teacher.
 * Einar Magnussen, 72, Norwegian economist and politician.
 * Robert Merle, 95, French author, heart attack.
 * John Sack, 74, American journalist and war correspondent, prostate cancer.
 * Adán Sánchez, 19, Mexican singer, car accident.
 * Larry Trask, 59, American–British linguist and expert on the Basques, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * James Wapakhabulo, 59, Ugandan politician, foreign minister of Uganda.

28

 * Percy Beames, 92, Australian sportsman and journalist.
 * Albert Brülls, 67, German footballer.
 * Erich Hauser, 73, German sculptor.
 * Art James, 74, American game show host and announcer.
 * Ljubiša Spajić, 78, Yugoslavian football player and manager.
 * Peter Ustinov, 82, British actor (Spartacus, Topkapi, Death on the Nile), Oscar winner (1961, 1965), heart failure.

29

 * Al Cuccinello, 89, American baseball player (New York Giants).
 * Lise de Baissac, 98, Mauritian-British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during World War II.
 * Denny Dent, 55, American speed painter, heart attack.
 * Joel Feinberg, 77, American political and legal philosopher.
 * Hubert Gregg, 89, British BBC broadcaster, writer and actor.
 * Charles Grenzbach, 80, American sound engineer, diabetes.
 * George Heard Hamilton, 93, American art historian, educator, and curator.
 * Simone Renant, 93, French film actress, Alzheimer's disease.

30

 * Salvatore Burruni, 70, Italian flyweight and bantamweight boxer.
 * Alistair Cooke, 95, British-American BBC broadcaster and commentator, cancer.
 * Robert Dados, 27, Polish speedway rider, suicide.
 * Erick Friedman, 64, American concert violinist and academic.
 * Michael King, 58, New Zealand historian, traffic collision.
 * Willy Tröger, 75, German football player, stomach cancer.
 * Timi Yuro, 63, American singer-songwriter, throat cancer.

31

 * René Gruau, 95, Italian fashion illustrator.
 * Hedi Lang, 72, Swiss politician, first woman to preside over the Swiss National Council.
 * Ivan Kostov Nikolov, 90, Bulgarian geologist, mineralogist and crystallographer.
 * Sir John Paul, 88, British colonial administrator.
 * Haim Zafrani, 81, Scholar of Moroccan history.