Deaths in March 2005

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2005.

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

 * Cissy van Bennekom, 93, Dutch film actress.
 * Reverend Walter Halloran, 83, American priest who participated in the exorcism on which The Exorcist was based.
 * Henry Johannessen, 81, Norwegian football player.
 * Brian Luckhurst, 66, English cricketer, cancer.
 * Peter Malkin, 77, Israeli Mossad agent, the man who captured Adolf Eichmann.
 * Holger Nurmela, 84, Swedish ice hockey, football and bandy player and manager.
 * Jiří Trnka, 78, Czechoslovak football player.

2

 * Martin Denny, 93, American founder of exotica musical genre, bandleader.
 * Hermann Dörnemann, 111, German supercentenarian and World War I veteran, heart failure.
 * Tillie K. Fowler, 62, American politician, four-term Florida congresswoman.
 * Elmar Huseynov, 37, Azerbaijani journalist, homicide.
 * Viktor Kapitonov, 71, Russian road cyclist.
 * Rick Mahler, 51, American baseball pitcher, heart attack.
 * Mario Moreno, 69, Chilean football player, cancer.
 * Corrado Pani, 68, Italian actor and voice actor, cancer.

3

 * George Atkinson, 69, American businessman, inventor of the video rental.
 * James Corbett, 96, Australian politician.
 * Max Fisher, 96, American millionaire philanthropist, listed in Forbes 400.
 * Rinus Michels, 77, Dutch football player and coach, former Netherlands national football team coach.
 * Raveendran, 61, Indian composer and playback singer, lung cancer.
 * Guylaine St-Onge, 39, Canadian actress (Earth: Final Conflict, Fast Track, Angel Eyes), cancer.

4

 * Mihai Brediceanu, 84, Romanian musician.
 * Nicola Calipari, 51, Italian intelligence officer, shot by the US Army in Iraq.
 * Jan Kasper, 72, Czech ice hockey player.
 * Yuriy Kravchenko, 53, Ukrainian statesman, former interior minister of Ukraine, suicide.
 * Tony Romano, 89, American jazz guitarist and singer.
 * Carlos Sherman, 70, Uruguayan-born Belarusian translator and writer.

5

 * George Worsley Adamson, 92, American-born British illustrator.
 * Sergiu Comissiona, 76, Romanian orchestra conductor, heart attack.
 * Morris Engel, 86, American photographer, cinematographer and filmmaker.
 * Vance Gerry, 75, American animator and screenwriter (The Aristocats, Hercules, The Fox and the Hound), cancer.
 * David Sheppard, 75, English cricketer and Church of England bishop, cancer.
 * Leo Winters, 82, American lawyer and the 11th State treasurer for the American state of Oklahoma.

6

 * Larned B. Asprey, 85, American chemist.
 * Hans Bethe, 98, German-born American Nobel Laureate in Physics, discover of stellar fusion.
 * Danny Gardella, 85, American baseball player, New York Giants outfielder, heart attack.
 * Hans von der Groeben, 97, German diplomat, lawyer and journalist.
 * Russ Marin, 70, American film and television actor.
 * Gladys Marín, 63, Chilean communist politician, cancer.
 * Chuck Thompson, 83, American Baltimore Orioles broadcaster, complications following a stroke.
 * Tommy Vance, 64, British radio DJ and TV host, stroke.
 * Sandy Ward, 78, American film and television actor.
 * Teresa Wright, 86, American actress (Mrs. Miniver, Shadow of a Doubt, The Best Years of Our Lives), heart attack.

7

 * Walter Arendt, 80, German politician.
 * John Box, 85, British production designer (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Oliver!), 4-time Oscar winner.
 * Willis Hall, 75, English playwright and radio, television and film writer.
 * Debra Hill, 54, American screenwriter and film producer (Halloween, Escape from New York, The Fisher King), cancer.
 * Bildad Kaggia, 82, Kenyan politician.
 * Philip Lamantia, 77, American surrealist poet.
 * Sir Peregrine Rhodes, 79, British diplomat, Ambassador to Greece (1982–1985)

8

 * Ross Benson, 56, British journalist for the Daily Mail and award-winning foreign correspondent.
 * Larry Bunker, 76, American jazz drummer.
 * Alice Thomas Ellis, 72, English writer, lung cancer.
 * Gordon Kay, 88, American film producer.
 * Peter Keetman, 88, German photographer.
 * Zulfiqar Ali Khan, 74, Pakistan Air Force officer and later a diplomat, heart attack.
 * César Lattes, 80, Brazilian physicist, contributed to the physics of elementary particles.
 * Aslan Maskhadov, 53, Chechen separatist leader, killed by Russian troops.
 * Brigitte Mira, 94, German theatrical actress.

9

 * Meredith Davies, 82, British conductor.
 * Glenn Davis, 80, American football player, Heisman Trophy winner, prostate cancer.
 * Sheila Gish, 62, English actress (Company, Highlander, Mansfield Park), cancer.
 * Chris LeDoux, 56, American country music and rodeo star, complications from liver cancer.
 * William Murray, 78, American mystery novelist.
 * István Nyers, 80, Hungarian footballer.
 * Michael O'Higgins, 87, Irish Fine Gael politician.
 * Jeanette Schmid, 80, German-Austrian professional transsexual whistler.
 * Redmond A. Simonsen, 62, American game designer.

10

 * Dave Allen, 68, Irish comedian, sudden arrhythmic death syndrome.
 * Debbi Besserglick, 49, Israeli actress and voice actress, cancer.
 * Ery Bos, 96, German dancer and film actress.
 * Danny Joe Brown, 53, American singer (Molly Hatchet), kidney failure.
 * Shawqi Daif, 95, Arabic literary critic and historian.
 * Kent Hadley, 70, American baseball player.
 * Mindy Jostyn, 48, American singer and multi-instrumentalist, cancer.
 * Bruno Manser, 45, Swiss environmental activist.
 * Jacqueline Pierreux, 82, French film and television actress.
 * Zilka Salaberry, 87, Brazilian actress, pulmonary emphysema.

11

 * Aurelio Fierro, 81, Italian actor and singer, specialising in songs in the Neapolitan dialect.
 * Karen Wynn Fonstad, 59, American cartographer and academic, author of atlases of fictional worlds, breast cancer.
 * Humphrey Spender, 94, British photojournalist, notably for Picture Post.
 * Cherry Drummond, 16th Baroness Strange, 76, British biographer and hereditary peer in the House of Lords.
 * Herbert Arthur Strauss, 86, German- American historian.

12

 * Aleksandar Atanacković, 84, Serbian footballer.
 * Norbert Callens, 80, Belgian cyclist.
 * Bill Cameron, 62, Canadian journalist, cancer.
 * Amir Drori, 67, Israeli general and founder of the Israel Antiquities Authority, heart attack.
 * Douglas Elliot, 81, Scottish international rugby union player.
 * Lisa Fittko, 95, German resistance member during World War II, pneumonia.
 * Stanley Grenz, 55, American hristian theologian, intracranial aneurysm.
 * Amanullah Khan, 71, Pakistani test cricket umpire.
 * Stavros Kouyioumtzis, 73, Greek music composer.
 * Zbigniew Kuźmiński, 83, Polish film director and screenwriter.

13

 * Lyn Collins, 56, American soul singer, aka "Female Preacher", heart attack.
 * Ahmed Hassan Diria, 67, Tanzanian politician and diplomat, foreign minister (1990-1993).
 * Jason Evers, 83, American actor (The Brain That Wouldn't Die)., heart attack.
 * Frank House, 75, American baseball player and Alabama legislator.
 * Hal Seeger, 87, American animated cartoon producer and director.
 * Yoshihisa Taira, 67, Japanese-born French composer.

14

 * Stan Campbell, 74, American NFL gridiron football player.
 * Jerome Frank, 95, American psychiatrist.
 * Janet Reger, 69, British designer of women's lingerie.
 * Donald Thompson, 73, British politician.
 * Simon Webb, 55, British chess grandmaster living in Sweden, stabbed.
 * Akira Yoshizawa, 94, Japanese origami master, pneumonia.

15

 * Renzo Alverà, 72, Italian bobsledder and Olympic silver medalist.
 * Audrey Callaghan, Baroness Callaghan of Cardiff, 89, First Lady (1976–1979), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Loe de Jong, 90, Dutch historian.
 * Don Durant, 82, American actor (Johnny Ringo) and singer, lymphoma.
 * Otar Korkia, 81, Georgian basketball player.
 * Miklós Kretzoi, 98, Hungarian geologist, paleontologist and paleoanthropologist.
 * Bill McGarry, 77, English football manager.
 * Shoji Nishio, 77, Japanese aikido teacher holding the rank of 8th dan shihan from the Aikikai, cancer.
 * Bert Pronk, 54, Dutch road cyclist, cancer.
 * Judith Scott, 61, American fiber sculptor and outsider artist.

16

 * Arciso Artesiani, 83, Italian motorcycle racer.
 * Todd Bell, 47, American gridiron football player (Chicago Bears), heart attack.
 * Bijeh, 30, Iranian serial killer, suicide.
 * William Brown, 76, British structural engineer and bridge designer.
 * Sergiu Cunescu, 82, Romanian politician, leader of the Social Democratic Party of Romania (PSDR) (1990-2001).
 * Timofei Dokshizer, 83, Soviet Russian trumpeter and music teacher.
 * Ralph Erskine, 91, British architect (Byker Wall).
 * Jean-Pierre Genet, 64, French road bicycle racer.
 * Anthony George, 84, American actor, pulmonary emphysema.
 * Allan Hendrickse, 77, South African politician, heart attack.
 * Justin Hinds, 62, Jamaican vocalist and songwriter, lung cancer.
 * Chris van der Klaauw, 80, Dutch politician and diplomat.
 * William Lehman, 91, American politician, represented Dade County, Florida in U.S. Congress.
 * Dick Radatz, 67, American baseball player, suicide from height.
 * John Tojeiro, 81, Engineer and racing car designer.

17

 * Gary Bertini, 77, Israeli conductor and composer.
 * Jeremy Blacker, 65, British army general.
 * Mike Campbell-Lamerton, 71, British army officer and rugby player, prostate cancer.
 * Ernest Childers, 87, U.S Army officer and a recipient of the Medal of Honor, for his actions during World War II.
 * Klaus Dierks, 69, German-Namibian deputy government minister and civil engineer.
 * Royce Frith, 81, Canadian senator.
 * Prentice Gautt, 67, American NFL gridiron football player.
 * Lalo Guerrero, 88, American father of Chicano music.
 * Sverre Holm, 73, Norwegian actor, cancer.
 * George F. Kennan, 101, American diplomat and historian.
 * David Little, 46, American gridiron football player, (Pittsburgh Steelers), accidental death.
 * Norm Mager, 78, American basketball player, cancer.
 * Jean M. Muller, 79, French bridge engineer.
 * Andre Norton, 93, American science fiction and fantasy author.
 * Czesław Słania, 83, Polish postage stamp and banknote engraver.
 * László Fejes Tóth, 90, Hungarian mathematician.
 * Theodor Uppman, 85, American operatic baritone.

18

 * Ömer Diler, 60, Turkish numismatist specializing in Islamic coins, lung cancer.
 * Encarnación Cabré Herreros, 93, Spanish archaeologist.
 * Sol Linowitz, 91, American diplomat and entrepreneur.
 * Maria Rosseels, 88, Belgian writer and journalist.

19

 * John DeLorean, 80, American car designer and manufacturer, stroke.
 * Wim van der Gijp, 76, Dutch football player and manager.
 * John H. Pickering, 89, American lawyer.
 * Knox Ramsey, 79, American gridiron football player (Chicago Cardinals, Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Redskins).

20

 * Ronnie Bird, 63, English footballer (Bradford Park Avenue F.C., Birmingham City F.C.).
 * Ted Brown, 80, American radio personality, stroke.
 * Edmund Clowney, 87, American theologian, educator, and pastor.
 * Walter Hopps, 72, American art dealer and gallery owner.
 * Armand Lohikoski, 93, Finnish movie director and writer.
 * Maynard Jack Ramsay, 90, American entomologist, pneumonia.
 * Walter Reuter, 99, Mexican photojournalist of German origin.

21

 * Fred Blair, 98, American communist politician.
 * Vekoslav Grmič, 81, Slovenian Roman Catholic bishop and theologian.
 * Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, 58, Spanish antipope self-proclaimed Gregory XVII in 1978.
 * Barney Martin, 82, American actor (Seinfeld, The Producers, Arthur), lung cancer.
 * Stanley Sadie, 74, English musicologist and critic, Lou Gehrig's disease.
 * Bobby Short, 80, American cabaret singer and pianist, leukemia.

22

 * Vernon Carrington, 68, Jamaican rastafarian and founder of the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
 * Gemini Ganesan, 84, Indian actor, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
 * Lars Leiro, 90, Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.
 * Rod Price, 57, English guitarist (Foghat), heart attack.
 * Kenzō Tange, 91, Japanese architect, heart failure.

23

 * Rizvan Chitigov, 40, Chechen rebel field commander, K.I.A..
 * John Good, 72, English football player.
 * Naftali Halberstam, 74, Polish-American Grand Rabbi of the Bobover Hasidim.
 * David Kossoff, 85, British actor, father of Free guitarist Paul Kossoff, liver cancer.

24

 * Gilles Aillaud, 76, French painter, set decorator, and scenographer.
 * David P. Bushnell, 91, American entrepreneur, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
 * Mare Kandre, 42, Swedish writer of Estonian descent, unintentional prescription drug overdose.
 * Shelley Mann, 67, American swimmer and Olympic medalist.
 * Mercedes Pardo, 83, Venezuelan painter.

25

 * Wilbur Howard Duncan, 94, American professor of botany.
 * Hasan Elsifi, 78, Egyptian film director, film producer, and screenplay writer.
 * Greg Garrison, 81, American television producer and director (The Dean Martin Show, Your Show of Shows), pneumonia.
 * Paul Henning, 93, American television producer (Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, Green Acres).
 * Davis McCaughey, 90, Australian politician, Governor of Victoria, Australia.
 * Ken Suttle, 76, English cricket player.

26

 * Achiam, 89, Israeli sculptor.
 * Melihate Ajeti, 69, Kosovar actress, heart attack.
 * David Boone, 53, Canadian football player, suicide.
 * Einar Bragi, 83, Icelandic poet and publisher.
 * James Callaghan, 92, British politician, Prime Minister (1976–1979), MP (1945–1987), pneumonia.
 * Harold Cruse, 89, American academic and social critic, heart failure.
 * Gérard Filion, 95, Canadian businessman and journalist.
 * Allison Green, 93, American politician.
 * Billy Grimes, 77, American gridiron football player.
 * Paul Hester, 46, Australian drummer (Crowded House, Split Enz), suicide.
 * Georgeanna Seegar Jones, 92, American scientist and endocrinologist.
 * Klara Luchko, 79, Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian actress, pulmonary embolism.
 * Marius Russo, 90, American baseball pitcher (New York Yankees).
 * Frederick Rotimi Williams, 84, Nigerian lawyer.

27

 * Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, 91, Canadian heart surgeon and heart surgery pioneer, heart failure.
 * Grant Johannesen, 83, American classical pianist and composer.
 * Rigo Tovar, 58, Mexican singer and composer, complications from diabetes.
 * Ahmad Zaki, 56, Egyptian actor, lung cancer.

28

 * Raffaello Baldini, 80, Italian writer and poet.
 * Tom Bevill, 84, American politician, former US Congressman from Alabama.
 * Dave Freeman, 82, British scriptwriter (Benny Hill, Carry On films, etc.).
 * Hermann Lause, 66, German film actor, cancer.
 * Pál Losonczi, 85, Hungarian communist politician, head of state of Hungary (1967-1987).
 * Moura Lympany, 89, British classical pianist.
 * Robin Spry, 65, Canadian film and television producer and screenwriter, road accident.

29

 * Johnnie Cochran, 67, American lawyer, defended O. J. Simpson, brain cancer.
 * Edward D. Head, 85, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Buffalo (1973–1995).
 * Howell Heflin, 83, American politician, U.S. Senator from Alabama, heart attack.
 * Miltos Sachtouris, 85, Greek poet.

30

 * Robert Creeley, 78, American poet, complications from respiratory disease.
 * Emil Dimitrov, 64, Bulgarian singer and musician.
 * Alan Dundes, 70, American folklorist and teacher, heart attack.
 * Felicitas Goodman, 91, American linguist and anthropologist.
 * Milton Green, 91, American record holder in hurdling, boycotted the nazi's 1936 Summer Olympics.
 * Gulkhar Hasanova, 86, Azerbaijani mugham opera singer.
 * Mitch Hedberg, 37, American comedian, multiple drug intoxication.
 * Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden, 97, British economist, public servant and banker.
 * Fred Korematsu, 86, Japanese-American civil rights leader, respiratory illness, respiratory failure.
 * Derrick Plourde, 33, American drummer (Lagwagon, the Ataris), suicide.
 * O. V. Vijayan, 74, Indian author and cartoonist.

31

 * O. P. Jindal, 74, Indian politician.
 * Yeiki Kobashigawa, 87, United States Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
 * Stanley J. Korsmeyer, 54, American research scientist, lung cancer.
 * Justiniano Montano, 99, Filipino politician and lawyer.
 * Charles Palmer, 85, English cricketer.
 * Frank Perdue, 84, American poultry magnate.
 * Terri Schiavo, 41, American persistent vegetative state patient.