Deaths in March 2005

The following is a list of notable people who died 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.

March 2005

1

• Edmund Adams, 90, English cricketer.
• Cissy van Bennekom, 93, Dutch film actress.
• George "Wild Child" Butler, 68, American blues musician.
• Sergio Campanato, 75, Italian mathematician.
• Reverend Walter Halloran, 83, American priest who participated in the exorcism on which The Exorcist was based.
• Brian Luckhurst, 66, English cricketer, cancer.
• Peter Malkin, 77, Israeli Mossad agent, the man who captured Adolf Eichmann.
• Stephen Anthony Mobley, 39, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
• Barry Stigler, 57, American voice actor.

2

• Bala Bredin, 88, British army general.
• Martin Denny, 93, American founder of exotica musical genre, bandleader.
• Hermann Dörnemann, 111, German supercentenarian and World War I veteran, oldest living person in Germany, heart failure.
• Tillie K. Fowler, 62, U.S. politician, former four-term Florida congresswoman.
• Rick Mahler, 51, American baseball pitcher, heart attack.

3

• George Atkinson, 69, American businessman, inventor of the video rental.
• James Corbett, 96, Australian politician.
• Max M. Fisher, 96, American millionaire philanthropist, listed in Forbes 400.
• Rinus Michels, 77, Dutch football player and coach, former Dutch national football team coach.
• Raveendran, 61, Indian composer and playback singer.
• Guylaine St. Onge, 39, Canadian actress, cancer.

4

• Mihai Brediceanu, 84, Romanian musician.
• Nicola Calipari, 51, Italian intelligence officer, shot by the US Army in Iraq.
• Douglas Dumbleton, 86, New Zealand cricket umpire.
• Una Hale, 82, Australian operatic soprano.
• Yuri Kravchenko, 53, Ukrainian General of Internal Service and statesman, former interior minister of Ukraine.
• Carlos Sherman, 70, Uruguayan-born Belarusian translator and writer.

5

• George Worsley Adamson, 92, American-born British illustrator.
• Harold Brooks-Baker, 71, American publishing director of Burke's Peerage Limited.
• Sergiu Comissiona, 76, Romanian orchestra conductor.
• Vance Gerry, 75, American storyboard artist, concept artist, and character designer.
• James McGirr Kelly, 76, American federal judge.
• David Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Liverpool, 75, English former international cricketer and Church of England bishop, cancer.

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 who challenged baseball's reserve clause in a 1947 federal lawsuit
• Gladys Marín, 63, Chilean communist politician, cancer.
• Keith Rawle, 80, Australian rules footballer.
• Chuck Thompson, 83, American Baltimore Orioles broadcaster, complications of massive stroke.
• Tommy Vance, 64, British radio DJ and TV host, stroke.
• Teresa Wright, 86, American actress, heart attack.

7

• Edwin Adams Cotto, 26, Puerto Rican drug dealer, accused in the Laura Hernandez drug case; killed during a riot in a Dominican Republic jail.
• Walter Arendt, 80, German politician.
• A. W. Baxter, 78, Canadian winemaker.
• Helon Blount, 76, American musical theatre actress, born in Texas.
• John Box, 85, British film production designer, worked closely with David Lean.
• Terry Buck, 61, Australian swimmer.
• Debra Hill, 54, American screenwriter and film producer, co-writer of Halloween.
• Bildad Kaggia, 82, Kenyan politician.
• Philip Lamantia, 77, American surrealist poet.
• Sir Peregrine Rhodes, 79, British diplomat, Ambassador to Greece (1982–1985)
• James Stuart, 76, American opera director.

8

• Ross Benson, 56, British journalist for the Daily Mail and award-winning foreign correspondent.
• Larry Bunker, 76, American jazz drummer.
• Anna Haycraft, 72, English writer, lung cancer.
• César Lattes, 80, Brazilian physicist, contributed to the physics of elementary particles and discovered the pion.
• Aslan Maskhadov, 53, Chechen separatist leader, killed by Russian troops.
• Brigitte Mira, 94, German theatrical actress.
• Fred Rice, 86, American football coach.
• Jeremy Russell, 60, American cofounding member of the band Blue Cheer.

9

• Thomas F. August, 78, American lawyer and politician.
• Meredith Davies, 82, British conductor.
• Glenn Davis, 80, American football player, Heisman Trophy winner, prostate cancer.
• Josef Fuchs, 93, German Roman Catholic theologian.
• Sheila Gish, 62, English stage actress, cancer.
• Kathie Kay, 86, Scottish big band singer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Chris LeDoux, 56, American country music and rodeo star, complications from liver cancer.
• William Murray, 78, American mystery novelist.
• István Nyers, 80, Hungarian footballer.
• Jeanette Schmid, 80, German-born professional transsexual whistler.
• Redmond A. Simonsen, 62, American game designer.

10

• Dave Allen, 68, Irish comedian.
• Debbi Besserglick, 49, Israeli actress and voice actress, cancer.
• Charles R. Baxter, 75, American physician, pneumonia, surgeon who tried to save JFK, pneumonia.
• Sir James Beament, 83, British biologist.
• Danny Joe Brown, 53, American lead singer of Molly Hatchet.
• Bruno Manser, 45, Swiss environmental activist.
• Sy Wexler, 88, American maker of educational films.

11

• Rowland Barnes, 64, American jurist, murdered in court.
• Karen Wynn Fonstad, 59, American cartographer and academic, author of atlases of fictional worlds, breast cancer.
• Len Morgan, 82, American aviator and writer.
• Humphrey Spender, 94, British photojournalist, notably for Picture Post.

12

• Tony Arena, 86, American football player.
• Aleksandar Atanacković, 84, Serbian footballer.
• Carl Beck-Friis, 83, Swedish Olympic shooter
• Joseph M. Breitenbeck, 90, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Grand Rapids (1969–1989).
• Norbert Callens, 80, Belgian cyclist.
• Bill Cameron, 62, Canadian journalist, cancer.
• Lisa Fittko, 95, German World War II dissident who led Jews over the Pyrenees to freedom.
• Stanley Grenz, 55, American Christian theologian.
• Amanullah Khan, 71, Pakistani Test cricket umpire.
• Stavros Kouyioumtzis, 73, Greek music composer
• Edward E. Simbalist, 61, American role-playing game designer

13

• Old Man Bukashkin, 66, Russian poet and artist.
• Lyn Collins, 56, American soul singer, aka "Female Preacher"
• Jason Evers, 83, American actor, star of B-movie Brain That Wouldn't Die
• Ahmed Hassan Diria, 67, Tanzanian politician and diplomat, foreign minister from 1990 to 1993.
• Frank House, 75, American baseball player, retired Major League Baseball catcher and Alabama legislator

14

• Stan Campbell, 74, American NFL player.
• Richard Cooper, 58, Australian jurist.
• Richard S. Forrest, 72, American novelist and short story writer, smoking and lung disease.
• Janet Reger, 69, British designer of women's lingerie.
• Sir Donald Thompson, 73, British politician.
• Simon Webb, 55, British chess grandmaster living in Sweden, stabbed to death by his son.
• Akira Yoshizawa, 94, Japanese origami master.

15

• Bob Bellear, 60, Australian jurist, first indigenous judge in Australia.
• Audrey Callaghan, 89, Spouse of the British Prime Minister (1976–1979).
• Don Durant, 82, American singer/actor, star of Johnny Ringo series.
• Sante Graziani, 85, American artist and art educator.
• Loe de Jong, 90, Dutch historian.
• Otar Korkiya, 81, Georgian basketball player.
• Bill McGarry, 77, English football manager.
• Judith Scott, 61, American outsider artist.
• Shoji Nishio, 77, Japanese aikido teacher holding the rank of 8th dan shihan from the Aikikai.

16

• Wanda Alston, 45, American activist.
• Arciso Artesiani, 83, Italian motorcycle racer.
• Todd Bell, 47, American football safety, former Chicago Bears player.
• Mohammed Bijeh, 30, Iranian serial killer.
• Ralph Erskine, 91, British architect (Byker Wall).
• Anthony George, 84, American actor.
• Allan Hendrickse, 77, South African politician.
• Justin Hinds, 62, Jamaican vocalist and songwriter.
• William Lehman, 91, American politician, represented Dade County, Florida in U.S. Congress.
• Dick Radatz, 67, American baseball player.

17

• Renzo Alverà, 72, Italian bobsledder.
• William J. Bakrow, 81, American academic administrator.
• Irvine Barrow, 92, Canadian accountant and senator.
• Gary Bertini, 77, Israeli conductor and composer.
• Sir Jeremy Blacker, 65, British army general.
• Mike Campbell-Lamerton, 71, British army officer and rugby player.
• Royce Frith, 81, Canadian senator.
• Prentice Gautt, 67, American former NFL player.
• Lalo Guerrero, 88, American father of Chicano music.
• Sverre Holm, 73, Norwegian actor.
• George F. Kennan, 101, U.S. diplomat and historian.
• David Little, 46, American college and professional football player, former Pittsburgh Steelers player.
• Andre Norton, 93, American science fiction and fantasy author.
• Theodor Uppman, 85, American operatic baritone.

18

• Alfred Adcock, 88, English cricketer.
• Sol Linowitz, 91, U.S. diplomat and entrepreneur.
• Maria Rosseels, 88, Belgian writer and journalist.

19

• John DeLorean, 80, American car designer and manufacturer.
• John Ebdon, 81, British author, broadcaster and director of the London Planetarium.
• Knox Ramsey, 79, American gridiron football player (Chicago Cardinals, Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins).

20

• Ronnie Bird, 63, English footballer (Bradford Park Avenue, Birmingham City).
• David Bonser, 71, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Bolton.
• Ted Brown, 80, American radio personality.
• Walter Hopps, 72, American art dealer and gallery owner.
• Sir Leslie Porter, 84, British businessman (Tesco).
• Andrew Toti, 89, American inventor of the Mae West inflatable life vest.

21

• Rodney Aller, 88, American skier and lawyer.
• Fred Blair, 98, American communist politician.
• Barney Martin, 82, American film and television actor, lung cancer.
• Stanley Sadie, 74, English musicologist and critic, Lou Gehrig's disease.
• Bobby Short, 80, American cabaret singer and pianist, leukemia.
• Jeff Weise, 16, American school shooter, suicide.

22

• Abid Azad, 52, Bangladeshi poet.
• Vernon Carrington, 68, Jamaican Rastafarian.
• Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, 58, Spanish antipope self-proclaimed Gregory XVII in 1978.
• Gemini Ganesan, 84, Indian actor.
• Theresa Kobuszewski, 84, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
• Edward Moskal, 80, American president of the Polish American Congress.
• Rod Price, 57, English guitarist and founding member of Foghat.
• Kenzo Tange, 91, Japanese architect.

23

• Naftali Halberstam, 74, Polish-born Grand Rabbi of the Bobover Hasidim
• David Kossoff, 85, British actor, father of Free guitarist Paul Kossoff
• Chen Yi-sein, Sino-Burmese scholar.

24

• Lyle Bennett, American football and track coach.
• Richard Bowman, 71, English cricketer.
• Sir Lindsay Bryson, 80, British admiral.
• David P. Bushnell, 91, American entrepreneur, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
• Elizabeth Girling, 92, English political activist and charity campaigner.
• Shelley Mann, 67, American swimmer and Olympic medalist.
• Mercedes Pardo, 83, Venezuelan painter.

25

• Sir Ronald Forrest, 82, British admiral.
• Greg Garrison, 81, American TV producer and director (The Dean Martin Show, Your Show of Shows).
• David Sanctuary Howard, 77, British expert on Chinese porcelain.
• Paul Henning, 93, American TV producer, creator of the Beverly Hillbillies.
• Davis McCaughey, 90, Australian politician, Governor of Victoria, Australia.

26

• Achiam, 89, Israeli sculptor.
• Melihate Ajeti, 69, Kosovar actress.
• David Boone, 53, Canadian football player.
• James Callaghan, 92, British politician, Prime Minister (1976–1979), MP (1945–1987).
• Gérard Filion, 95, Canadian businessman and journalist.
• Paul Hester, 46, Australian musician, former drummer of Crowded House and Split Enz, suicide.
• Marius Russo, 90, American baseball pitcher, member of 1941 and 1943 World Series New York Yankees teams.
• Georgeanna Seegar Jones, 92, American scientist and endocrinologist.
• Osias Tager, 90, British businessman.

27

• Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, 91, Canadian heart surgeon.
• Gwydion Brooke, 93, British bassoonist.
• Bob Casey, 79, American PA announcer for the Minnesota Twins.
• Grant Johannesen, 83, American classical pianist and composer.
• Antonio Tellez, 84, Spanish anarchist historian and journalist.
• Rigo Tovar, 58, Mexican singer and composer.
• Ahmad Zaki, 56, Egyptian actor, lung cancer.

28

• Tom Bevill, 84, American politician, former US Congressman from Alabama.
• Dave Freeman, 82, British scriptwriter (Benny Hill, Carry On films, etc.).
• Pál Losonczi, 85, Hungarian Communist political figure, former chairman of the Presidential Council of Hungary (head of state).
• Dame Moura Lympany, 89, British classical pianist.

29

• Johnnie Cochran, 67, American lawyer, defended O.J. Simpson, brain cancer.
• Edward D. Head, 85, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Buffalo.
• Howell Heflin, 83, American politician, U.S. Senator from Alabama.
• George Matthews, 88, British journalist and political activist.
• Clive McLean, 60, English adult photographer.

30

• Roy Askevold, 69, Norwegian boxer.
• Ivor Brown, 77, British motorcycle speedway rider and writer.
• Robert Creeley, 78, American poet, died of complications from respiratory disease.
• Emil Dimitrov, 64, Bulgarian singer and musician.
• Alan Dundes, 70, American world-renowned folklorist, who was central in establishing folklore as a discipline, apparent heart attack while teaching.
• Milton Green, 91, American former record holder in hurdles, boycotted the 1936 Summer Olympics as a protest against Adolf Hitler.
• Mitch Hedberg, 37, American comedian, intoxication.
• Fred Korematsu, 86, Japanese-American civil rights leader, respiratory illness.
• Derrick Plourde, 33, American musician and artist, former drummer of two California punk bands (Lagwagon and the Ataris), suicide.
• O. V. Vijayan, 74, Indian author, cartoonist and matchbox.

31

• Alan Bloom, 98, British horticulturist.
• Charles Palmer, 85, English cricketer.
• Frank Perdue, 84, American poultry magnate.
• Terri Schiavo, 41, American persistent vegetative state patient, died amidst much controversy after removal of gastric feeding tube.