Deaths in March 2006

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2006.

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

 * Annette von Aretin, 85, German TV personality.
 * Joëlle Aubron, 46, French member of Action Directe, lung cancer.
 * Harry Browne, 72, American libertarian writer and presidential candidate for the United States Libertarian Party, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Ronald Anthony Cross, 68, American science fiction writer.
 * Mack Easley, 89, American politician and judge in New Mexico, former Democratic lieutenant governor of New Mexico (1963—1966).
 * Alexander Fol, 72, Bulgarian historian of ancient Greece, former Minister of Education.
 * O. Milton Gossett, 80, American advertising executive, former CEO Saatchi & Saatchi Compton Worldwide.
 * Johnny Jackson, 54, American singer and musician, former drummer of The Jackson 5, stabbing.
 * Josef Muskita, 81, Indonesian Olympic sailor
 * Peter Osgood, 59, English footballer, heart attack.
 * Jenny Tamburi, 53, Italian actress in 1970s B-movies and casting director of TV-series.

2

 * Madeleine Cosman, 68, American scholar of medieval Europe.
 * Leopold Gratz, 75, Austrian politician, former Mayor of Vienna.
 * Phyllis Huffman, 61, American casting director (Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven, Mystic River).
 * Willie Kent, 70, American blues bassist, cancer.
 * Rachel Mellon Walton, 107, American philanthropist.
 * Jack Wild, 53, British actor (Oliver!, H. R. Pufnstuf, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), oral cancer.

3

 * Ivor Cutler, 83, Scottish humorist, author, singer, and poet.
 * William Herskovic, 91, Hungarian escapee from Auschwitz during World War II, cancer.
 * Charlie Hodge, 71, American guitarist and backup singer for Elvis Presley and Graceland resident, lung cancer.
 * Floyd Gass, 79, American college football coach (Oklahoma State University).
 * Paul Smith, 77, American actor.
 * Richard Vander Veen, 83, American politician, former Democratic United States Representative from Michigan (1973–1977), prostate cancer.

4

 * Ivano Corghi, 83, Italian football goalkeeper and manager.
 * John Reynolds Gardiner, 61, American children's author (Stone Fox), pancreatitis.
 * Roman Ogaza, 54, Polish football player.
 * Edgar Valter, 76, Estonian children's book illustrator and cartoonist.

5

 * Milan Babić, 50, Croatian politician, former leader of the Republic of Serbian Krajina who pleaded guilty to war crimes, suicide.
 * Richard Kuklinski, 70, American mafia hitman, natural causes.
 * John Joseph Paul, 89, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of La Crosse (1983–1994).
 * John Sandusky, 80, American former NFL player and assistant coach, complications from internal bleeding.
 * Bill Wolski, 61, American football player, melanoma.

6

 * Anne Braden, 81, American civil rights activist.
 * Gunnar Halvorsen, 60, Norwegian politician.
 * King Floyd, 61, American soul singer.
 * Mubdar Hatim al-Dulaimi, 55, Iraqi general, Major General in the Iraqi Army, shot by a sniper.
 * Mortimo Planno, 85, Cuban Rastafarian philosopher.
 * Kirby Puckett, 45, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, stroke complications.
 * Dana Reeve, 44, American activist, widow of Christopher Reeve, lung cancer.
 * Simon Ungers, 49, German-born New York-based architect and artist.
 * Ruth Weiss, 97, Austrian-Chinese journalist and member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

7

 * Howard Jackson, 54, American martial artist, leukemia.
 * John Junkin, 76, British actor (A Hard Day's Night), lung cancer.
 * Ludwik Margules, 72, Mexican theatre director, cancer.
 * John Joseph McFall, 88, American politician, former Democratic United States Representative from California (1956–1978).
 * Gordon Parks, 93, American photographer, film director (Shaft), cancer.
 * Ali Farka Touré, 66, Malian musician, cancer.

8

 * Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes, 82, New Zealand pioneering heart surgeon, complications during heart valve replacement.
 * Joseph Burchenal, 93, American oncologist, worked on leukemia treatments.
 * Teresa Ciepły, 69, Polish athlete, 1964 Olympic track champion.
 * Giordano Cottur, 91, Italian Giro d'Italia champion.
 * Ronald Faulds, 83, Australian Olympic diver
 * George Sassoon, 69, British scientist, author and radio amateur, cancer.

9

 * Hanka Bielicka, 90, Polish singer and actress.
 * Dennis Brookes, 90, English cricketer.
 * Erik Elmsäter, 86, Swedish athlete, first Swede to compete in both Summer and Winter Olympics.
 * Tom Fox (Quaker), 54, U.S. peacemaker taken hostage in Iraq
 * Péter Halász, 62, Hungarian theatre director, actor, and writer, liver cancer.
 * Doug Hamilton, 43, American general manager for the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team, heart attack aboard aircraft.
 * Steve Henderson, 61-62, American role-playing game designer.
 * Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie, 72, English cricketer and insurance executive, brain tumour.
 * Anna Moffo, 73, American singer and operatic soprano, stroke following decade long battle with breast cancer.
 * John Profumo, 91, British politician, complications following a stroke.
 * Harry Seidler, 82, Austrian-born Australian architect, leading exponent of Modernism's methodology.
 * Laura Stoica, 38, Romanian pop rock singer, traffic collision.
 * John Wilde, 86, American surrealist painter.

10

 * Rick Huckabay, 60, American basketball coach.
 * Alberto Migré, 74, Argentine TV screenwriter and producer, heart attack.
 * Ronald H. Nash, 69, American philosopher.
 * Jan Wiktor Wiśniewski, 83, Polish football player.

11

 * Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, 81, British soldier and military historian.
 * Bernie Geoffrion, 75, Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach (Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers), stomach cancer.
 * Pauline Gregg, 96, British author, historian and biographer.
 * Slobodan Milošević, 64, Yugoslav and Serbian politician, former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia standing trial for war crimes, heart attack.
 * Jesús Rollán, 37, Spanish former water polo goalkeeper, suicide.
 * Lindsay Shonteff, 70, British horror film director of the 1960s.
 * Charles M. Tanner, 85, American screenwriter, playwright and founder of Covenant Players, declining health following massive stroke.

12

 * Nick Barone, 79, American heavyweight and light heavyweight boxer.
 * Joseph Bova, 81, American actor (Once Upon a Mattress).
 * Jurij Brězan, 89, Sorbian-German writer.
 * István Gyulai, 62, Hungarian journalist, General Secretary of the International Association of Athletics Federations.
 * Jonatan Johansson, 26, Swedish snowboarder, accident during training.
 * Adi Lev, 52, Israeli actress and voice actress, cancer.
 * Victor Sokolov, 59, Russian-American former dissident Soviet journalist and Orthodox priest, lung cancer.

13

 * Robert C. Baker, 84, American agricultural scientist, developed chicken products and processes.
 * Roy Clarke, 80, Welsh footballer for Manchester City & Wales.
 * Jimmy Johnstone, 61, Scottish football player, voted Celtic's best ever, motor neurone disease.
 * Paul Pineau, 82, French cyclist.
 * Maureen Stapleton, 80, American actress (Reds, Plaza Suite, Cocoon), Oscar winner (1982), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
 * Peter Tomarken, 63, American game show host (Press Your Luck), plane crash.

14

 * Ephraim Anderson, 94, British microbiologist.
 * Ann Calvello, 76, American roller derby player, liver cancer.
 * Hamish Gray, Baron Gray of Contin, 78, Scottish politician and life peer, former British Conservative government minister.
 * Lennart Meri, 76, Estonian politician, writer, film director and statesman, former President of Estonia.
 * Art Michaluk, 82, American Hockey League hockey player and World War II veteran.

15

 * Ken Brewer, 64, American Poet Laureate of Utah, pancreatic cancer.
 * Humphrey, c. 17, British Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office, (1989–1997).
 * George Mackey, 90, American mathematician, formerly Landon T. Clay Professor of mathematics, Harvard University.
 * Charles Newman, 67, American novelist (White Jazz, The Promisekeeper: A Tephramancy) and editor (TriQuarterly).
 * Georgios Rallis, 87, Greek conservative politician, former Prime Minister of Greece (1980–1981), heart failure.
 * Mark Southern, 45, British professor of linguistics, Middlebury College.
 * Red Storey, 88, former Canadian Football League player and NHL referee.

16

 * Jonathan Delisle, 28, American Hockey League and National Hockey League hockey player, automobile accident.
 * David Feintuch, 61, American science fiction author, following cardiac trouble.
 * Paul Flaherty, 42, American computer scientist, web indexing pioneer, heart attack.
 * James "Speedy" Hill, 95, British Army officer, commander of the 3rd Parachute Brigade 1943–1945, natural causes.
 * K. Leroy Irvis, 86, American politician, Speaker of Pennsylvania House of Representatives (first African-American Speaker in any U.S. state government), cancer.
 * Moira Redmond, 77, English actress, heart attack.
 * Jade Snow Wong, 84, Chinese author and ceramicist, natural causes.

17

 * Yuan Baojing, 40, Chinese multi-millionaire, executed by lethal injection for ordering a contract killing.
 * Oleg Cassini, 92, American fashion designer.
 * Narvin Kimball, 97, American banjo player, founding member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Gentlemen of Jazz.
 * Ray Meyer, 92, American men's collegiate basketball coach, former DePaul basketball coach and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, natural causes.
 * G. William Miller, 81, United States Secretary of Treasury from 1979 - 1981 under Jimmy Carter, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

18

 * Michael Attwell, 63, British actor.
 * Bill Beutel, 75, American television reporter, journalist and WABC-TV anchorman, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Betty Jane Cornett, 73, American baseball player (AAGPBL)
 * Nelson Dantas, 78, Brazilian actor, lung cancer.
 * Anatoliy Puzach, 65, former Soviet World Cup footballer and title-winning coach of Dynamo Kiev.
 * Sir Wallace Rae, 92, Australian Queensland politician.

19

 * Mohammad Ali, 78, Pakistani actor, cardiac arrest.
 * Golap Borbora, 80, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Assam.
 * Anselmo Colzani, 87, Italian operatic baritone.
 * Nicholas R. Cozzarelli, 67, American molecular and cell biologist, science journal editor, Burkitt's lymphoma.
 * Leon Daniel, 74, American correspondent and editor for United Press International.
 * Channing Pollock, 79, American magician, complications of cancer.
 * Richard Root, 68, American epidemiologist, crocodile attack.
 * John Wyatt, 81, British writer and ranger.

20

 * Bernard Gosselin, 71, Canadian film director.
 * Gene Scott, 68, American tennis player and publisher of Tennis Week.
 * Chris Tame, 56, British political activist, bone cancer.
 * P. R. Wallace, 90, Canadian theoretical physicist.

21

 * Desmond Ackner, Baron Ackner, 85, British jurist, Lord of Appeal.
 * Bob Delegall, 60, American actor and director, prostate cancer.
 * Margaret Ewing, 60, Scottish nationalist politician, breast cancer.
 * James O. Freedman, 70, American educator and academic administrator, former president of Dartmouth College and the University of Iowa, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
 * Bernard Lacoste, 74, French clothing magnate of Lacoste, unspecified illness.
 * Leslie MacMitchell, 85, American runner, James E. Sullivan Award winner.
 * Richard Usborne, 95, British author and journalist.

22

 * Ria Beckers, 67, Dutch politician, former political leader of the Dutch political parties Politieke Partij Radicalen and GroenLinks.
 * James Chikerema, 80, Zimbabwean nationalist, co-founder of ZAPU and government co-minister in the internal settlement government of Rhodesia.
 * Pierre Clostermann, 85, French World War II flying ace.
 * Eugene Landy, 71, American psychologist, famous for treating Brian Wilson, lung cancer.
 * Britt Lomond, 80, American actor (Zorro), fencer, and World War II veteran.
 * Gergely András Molnár, 108, Hungarian World War I veteran, one of the last Hungarian World War I veterans.
 * Brian Parkyn, 82, British Labour MP for Bedford (1966–1970).
 * Stig Wennerström, 99, Swedish Air Force Colonel convicted of spying for the USSR.
 * Sir Henry Yellowlees, 86, British Chief Medical Officer (1973–1984).

23

 * Adwaita, 255 (approximate age), tortoise claimant for world's oldest animal, reputedly a former pet of General Clive, liver failure.
 * David B. Bleak, 74, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient in the Korean War.
 * Sarah Caldwell, 82, American opera conductor, impresario, and stage director, longtime conductor of the Opera Company of Boston.
 * Desmond Doss, 87, United States Army corporal, Medal of Honor recipient and conscientious objector.
 * Gerry "Tex" Ehman, 73, Canadian-born retired NHL player and executive, lung cancer.
 * Harold P. Eubank, 81, American physicist.
 * Eloy de la Iglesia, 62, Spanish film director.
 * Pío Leyva, 88, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club), heart attack.
 * Peter Shand Kydd, 80, English wallpaper heir and stepfather of Diana, Princess of Wales.
 * Cindy Walker, 87, American country-western songwriter, (Dream Baby) for Roy Orbison et al.

24

 * Jörg Bastuck, 36, German rally car co-driver, accident during the 2006 Rally Catalunya.
 * John Glenn Beall, Jr., 78, American politician, former Republican Senator from Maryland (1971–1977) and United States Representative (1969–1971).
 * Jaroslava Moserová, 76, Czech senator, ambassador, presidential candidate, doctor, and translator.
 * Lynne Perrie, 74, English actress (Coronation Street, Queenie's Castle, Kes), stroke.
 * Norman Pounds, 94, English geographer and historian
 * Carl J. Seiberlich, 84, American naval aviator.

25

 * Bob Carlos Clarke, 55, Irish photographer, suicide.
 * Gary du Plessis, 31, Zimbabwean cricketer (Mashonaland, Mashonaland A).
 * Rocío Dúrcal, 61, Spanish singer and actress, uterine cancer.
 * Richard Fleischer, 89, American film director (Tora! Tora! Tora!, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Soylent Green).
 * Danilo Lazović, 56, Serbian actor, heart attack.
 * Buck Owens, 76, American country music star (Hee Haw), heart attack.
 * Alfredo Silipigni, 74, American longtime conductor of the New Jersey State Opera, complications of pneumonia.

26

 * Angelo d'Arrigo, 44, Italian aviator, air crash.
 * Anil Biswas, 61, Indian politician, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * David Cunliffe-Lister, 2nd Earl of Swinton, 69, British peer, politician & magistrate.
 * Paul Dana, 30, American Indy Racing League driver, multiple trauma injuries sustained in accident.
 * Manar Maged, 2, Egyptian girl born with two heads, brain infection.
 * Nikki Sudden, 49, British musician, punk-blues icon, and co-founder of Swell Maps.

27

 * Al Alquist, 97, American politician, former California state senator.
 * Wayne Boden, 58, Canadian serial killer and rapist, of natural causes after a lengthy illness.
 * Dan Curtis, 77, American television producer (Dark Shadows, The Winds of War).
 * Ian Hamilton Finlay, 80, Scottish artist.
 * Ken Kaess, 51, American advertising executive, CEO of DDB Worldwide, cancer.
 * Stanisław Lem, 84, Polish science fiction writer, heart failure.
 * Ruari McLean, 88, British typographer.
 * Lyn Nofziger, 81, American journalist, conservative Republican political consultant and press secretary for Ronald Reagan.
 * Ron Schipper, 77, American football coach and college athletics administrator, College Football Hall of Fame Coach.
 * Bernard Siegan, 81, American law professor.
 * Rudolf Vrba, 82, Canadian pharmacologist, Auschwitz escapee and contributor to the Auschwitz Protocol, cancer.
 * Peter Wells, 58, Australian guitarist from rock outfit Rose Tattoo, prostate cancer.
 * Neil Williams, 43, English international Test cricketer.

28

 * Wanderley Magalhães Azevedo, 39, Brazilian cyclist.
 * Jerry Brudos, 67, American serial killer and necrophiliac, natural causes.
 * Carlos Cat, 75, Uruguayan Minister of Labour (1990–1991) and of Transport (2000–2002).
 * Pro Hart, 77, Australian outback painter, motor neurone disease.
 * Bansi Lal, 78, Indian Haryana's four time chief minister, and defence minister of India during Indian Emergency (1975–77).
 * Charles Schepens, 94, American ophthalmologist known as "the father of retinal surgery" and a Nazi resistance movement leader.
 * Caspar Weinberger, 88, U.S. Secretary of Defense 1981-1987 under Reagan, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 1973-1975 under Nixon and Ford.

29

 * Don Alias, 66, American jazz percussionist.
 * Eric Budd, 84, English administrator, the General Secretary (1987–2000) and Vice-Chairman of The Cricket Society (2000–2001).
 * Salvador Elizondo, 73, Mexican writer and member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, of cancer.
 * Henry Farrell, 85, American author and screenwriter (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte).
 * Penny Jay, 80, American country singer/songwriter ("Don't Let Me Cross Over", "Just Over the Line"), longtime companion of William Little guitarist (Even Keel) of California, USA.
 * Gretchen Rau, 66, American set decorator (Memoirs of a Geisha, The Last Samurai, Crocodile Dundee), Oscar winner (2006), brain tumor.
 * Bob Veith, 81, American racecar driver, former Indianapolis 500 racing driver.

30

 * Red Hickey, 89, American football player and coach, NFL coach of the San Francisco 49ers, inventor of shotgun formation, natural causes.
 * Philip Hyde, 84, American wildlife photographer.
 * Manohar Shyam Joshi, 73, Indian Hindi novelist and soap opera writer.
 * Harry Krantz, 86, Australian trade union official.
 * John McGahern, 71, Irish novelist and playwright, cancer.
 * Gloria Monty, 84, American television producer, executive producer of the soap opera General Hospital, cancer.
 * Pauli Tavisalo, 78, Finnish Olympic sprinter.

31

 * George L. Brown, 79, American politician, former Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, first black lieutenant governor in the US.
 * Olive McKean, 90, American swimmer, swimming coach and Olympic medalist.
 * Jackie McLean, 73, American jazz saxophonist.
 * Gerhard Potma, 38, Dutch sailor and Olympian.
 * Candice Rialson, 54, American actress, liver disease.