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.
March 2000
1
- Odell Barnes, 31, American convict, execution by lethal injection.
- Joseph Lawson Hodges, Jr., 77, American statistician.
- Vlastimir Peričić, 72, Serbian composer.
- Mark Yevtyukhin, 35, Russian Lieutenant-Colonel, K.I.A..
2
- Peter Graham, 79, British cricket player.
- Danny Musser, 94, American baseball player.[1]
- Jack Robinson, 79, American baseball player.[2]
- Sandra Schmirler, 36, Canadian curling champion, cancer.[3]
- Charles E. Wiggins, 72, American politician and judge, cardiac arrest.[4]
3
- Ranjana Deshmukh, 45, Indian actress, heart attack.
- Paul Doguereau, 91, French pianist and piano teacher.[5]
- Joseph Kayll, 85, British World War II flying ace.
- Barin Mazumder, 79, Bangladeshi classical musician.
- Beryl McBurnie, 86, Trinidadian dancer.
- Toni Ortelli, 95, Italian composer and alpinist.
4
- Władysław Daniłowski, 97, Polish and American pianist, composer and singer.[6]
- Kyi Kyi Htay, 75, Burmese actress.
- Michael Noonan, 78, Australian-New Zealand novelist and radio script writer.
- Julian Ritter, 90, American painter.
- Donn J. Robertson, 83, US Marine Corps officer.
- Wu Ta-You, 92, Chinese theoretical physicist.
- Xie Xide, 78, Chinese physicist.
5
- King Ernest Baker, 60, American blues and soul singer, car crash.
- Rena Dor, 83, Greek actress and a singer.
- Lolo Ferrari, 37, French dancer, sex star, pornographic actress, actress and singer.[7]
- Bill Kendall, 76, British trade unionist.[8]
- Dame Roma Mitchell, 86, Australian lawyer and Governor of South Australia.[9]
- Todd Thomas, 40, American gridiron football player, cancer.
- Alexander Young, 79, British operatic tenor.[10]
- Daniel Yanofsky, 74, Canadian chess grandmaster, writer, and arbiter.[11]
6
- S. Arumugam, 94, Ceylon Tamil irrigation engineer and writer.
- Chris Balderstone, 59, English professional in cricket and football, prostate cancer.
- John Colicos, 71, Canadian actor (Star Trek: The Original Series, Battlestar Galactica).[12]
- Roderick Walcott, 70, St Lucian playwright, screenwriter, painter, theatre director, and lyricist.
7
- Josephine Batson, 71, English cricketer.
- John Foster, 78, British Anglican priest.
- Charles Gray, 71, English actor.[13]
- W. D. Hamilton, 63, British evolutionary biologist.[14]
- Margaret Rosezarian Harris, 56, American musician, conductor, composer.[15]
- Pee Wee King, 86, American singer-songwriter (co-wrote "Tennessee Waltz").[16]
- Edward H. Levi, 88, American lawyer and politician, Attorney General (1975–1977).[17]
- Alimineti Madhava Reddy, 51, Indian politician.
- Jack Sanford, 70, American baseball player.[18]
- Nicolas Walter, 65, British anarchist and atheist writer, speaker and activist.[19]
8
- Gertrude Sanford Legendre, 97, American socialite, heart attack.[20]
- Joe Mullaney, 75, American basketball player and coach, cancer.[21]
- Jack O'Keefe, 84, Australian footballer.
- Stoffel du Plessis, 67, South African boxer, lymphoma.
9
- Artyom Borovik, 39, Russian journalist and media magnate, plane crash.
- Peter Hauser, 65, British football player and manager.
- Pathanay Khan, Pakistan folk singer.
- Usha Kiran, 70, Indian actress.[22]
- Ivo Robić, 77, Croatian singer-songwriter.
10
- Judith Barrett, 91, American film actress.
- Barbara Cooney, 82, American author and illustrator.[23]
- Tony Flaim, 51, Canadian blues singer, heart attack.
- Martyn Godfrey, 50, English-born Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer.
- Ivan Hirst, 84, British Army officer and engineer.[24]
- William Porter, 73, American Olympic athlete (gold medal winner of the 110-meter hurdles at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[25]
- John Sladek, 62, American science fiction author.
11
- Bob Bax, 74, Australian rugby footballer and coach.
- Alex Dreier, 83, American news reporter and commentator.
- Pierre Ghestem, 78, French bridge and checkers player.
- HB Jassin, 82, Indonesian literary critic and documentarian.
- Edgar C. Polomé, 79, Belgian-American philologist and religious studies scholar.
- Will Roberts, 92, Welsh painter.[26]
- Alfred Schwarzmann, 87, German Olympic gymnast.[27]
12
- Billy Ivison, 79, British football and rugby league player.
- Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei, 98, Chinese Catholic Bishop of Shanghai.[28]
- Raymond Normand, 80, French painter.
- Sir John Jardine Paterson, 80, Scottish businessman.
- Mack Robinson, 85, American track and field athlete.[29]
13
- Harry Bright, 70, American baseball player.[30]
- Rex Everhart, 79, American film and musical theatre actor and singer.[31]
- Hamid Gada, Indian commander in the militant organisation Hizbul Mujahideen, K.I.A.
- Lois Jones, 65, American geochemist.
- Cab Kaye, 78, Ghanaian-English jazz singer and pianist.
- Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam, 86, Indian Army general.
- Carlo Tagnin, 67, Italian football player and manager.
- 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.[32]
- C. Jérôme, 53, French singer, cancer.
- Wilhelm Schilling, 85, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.
15
- William J. Crawford, 81, United States Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
- Clement L. Hirsch, 85, American businessman and racehorse owner, cancer.
- Durward Kirby, 88, American television host and announcer.
- Robert Welch, 70, British designer.[33]
16
- Morris B. Abram, 81, American lawyer, civil rights activist and president of Brandeis University.[34]
- Ibrahim Mahmud Alfa, 53, Nigerian air marshal.
- Thomas Ferebee, 81, U.S. Army Air Forces bombardier aboard the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.[35]
- Roy Henderson, 100, British opera singer.[36]
- Michael Starr, 89, Canadian politician.
- Carlos Velázquez, 51, Puerto Rican baseball player.[37]
17
- Jack Davis, 83, Australian playwright.[38]
- Charlie Holt, 77, American ice hockey coach, cancer.
- Edward F. Knipling, 90, American entomologist.[39]
18
- Eberhard Bethge, 90, German Protestant theologian.[40]
- Bob Blackman, 81, American football player and coach.
- Herman B Wells, 97, American academic.[41]
- Robert Wynn, 78, American officer with Easy Company, in the 101st Airborne Division.
19
- Graham Balcombe, 93, British cave diver.
- Li Huanzhi, 81, Chinese classical composer.
- Giovanni Linscheer, 27, Surinamese swimmer, car accident.
- Shafiq-ur-Rahman, 79, Pakistani humorist.
- Joanne Weaver, 64, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player.[42]
- Dewey Williams, 84, American baseball player.[43]
- Mikhail Yefremov, 88, Soviet politician and diplomat.
20
- Johan Anthierens, 62, Belgian journalist, columnist, publicist, and writer, Hodgkin's disease.
- Zayd Mutee' Dammaj, 57, Yemeni author and politician.
- Vivian Fine, 86, American composer.[44]
- Michael Ferris, 68, Irish politician.
- Gerald Kingsland, 70, British journalist and adventurer.
- Dame Ruth Kirk, 77, New Zealand anti-abortion campaigner.
- William Lumpkins, 90, American artist and architect.
- Ramon Mitra Jr., 72, Filipino statesman, diplomat, and pro-democracy activist.[45]
21
- James Gleeson, 79, Australian clergyman, heart attack.
- Seumas McNally, 21, Computer programmer and founder of DX Ball 2, Hodgkin's lymphoma.
- Joseph C. Palczynski, 31, American spree killer, shot 27 times.
- Heinz Zöger, 84, German political journalist.
22
- John Morrison, 2nd Viscount Dunrossil, 73, British diplomat.
- Mark Lombardi, 48, American neo-conceptual artist, suicide by hanging.
- Wayne McAllister, 92, American architect, head injury.
- Carlo Parola, 78, Italian footballer and coach.
- Godwin Samararatne, 67, Sri Lankan meditation teacher.
23
- Stig Emanuel Andersson, 85, Swedish ice hockey, football and bandy player.
- Ed McCurdy, 81, American folk singer, songwriter and actor.
- Antony Padiyara, 79, Indian Syro Malabar archbishop and cardinal.
- Udham Singh, 71, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.
- Juan Zurita, 82, Mexican boxer.
24
- Bles Bridges, 53, South African singer.
- Robert Hugo Dunlap, 79, United States Marine Corps major.
- Al Grey, 74, American jazz trombonist.[46]
- George Kirby, 66, British footballer.
25
- Morton A. Brody, 66, American jurist.[47]
- Jim Cash, 59, American film writer (Top Gun, The Secret of My Success), intestinal disorders.
- Paolo Farinella, 47, Italian astronomer, heart failure.
- Helen Martin, 90, American actress of stage and television.[48]
26
- Alex Comfort, 80, British scientist, physician and author (The Joy of Sex), cerebral haemorrhage.[49]
- John Paul Scott, 90, American behavior geneticist and psychologist.
- Len Younce, 83, American football player and coach.
27
- George Allen, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Sue Wah Chin, 99, Chinese entrepreneur in Darwin, Australia.
- Ian Dury, 57, British actor and rock and roll singer (Kilburn and the High Roads, Ian Dury and the Blockheads), cancer.[50]
- Geoffrey Hebden, 81, English cricketer.
- Priya Rajvansh, 63, Indian film actress, murdered.
28
- John Hosier, 71, British musical educator.[51]
- Marsal Maun, 86, Chief Minister of Brunei.
- Frances Gray Patton, 94, American short story writer and novelist.[52]
- George Petersen, 78, Australian politician.
- Anthony Powell, 94, British author.[53]
- Adam Ulam, 77, Polish-American historian and political scientist, lung cancer.[54]
29
- Hans Gustav Güterbock, 91, German-American Hittitologist ang linguist.[55]
- Ross Mewburn Elliott, 71, Australian journalist and politician.
- Hank Miklos, 89, American baseball player.[56]
- Shirley Palmer, 91, American (silent) film actress.
- Anna Sokolow, 90, American dancer and choreographer.[57]
- Agnes Nebo von Ballmoos, 62, Liberian folk music, conductor, composer, and scholar.
30
- George Batchelor, 80, Australian mathematician.[58]
- Hjalmar Bergström, 93, Swedish cross-country skier.
- Mary Flaherty, 74, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[59]
- Jean E. Karl, 72, American book publisher.
- Rudolf Kirchschläger, 85, Austrian politician.[60]
- Beryl McBurnie, 86, Trinidadian dancer (Little Carib Theatre).[61]
- Valiano Natali, 81, Italian operatic tenor, heart attack.
- Mihrimah Sultan, 77, Ottoman princess, granddaughter of Mehmed V.
31
- Adrian Fisher, 47, British guitarist, myocardial infarction.
- Gisèle Freund, 91, German-born French photographer and photojournalist.
- Leo Lieberman, 84, American film screenwriter.
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