# Deaths in March 2005
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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.

## March 2005
### 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.

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* 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 by gunshot.
* 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.

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* 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 transgender 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, Egyptian 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

* Clinton Benjamin, 53, Nauruan politician.
* 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.

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* 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.

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* Renzo Alverà, 72, Italian bobsledder and Olympic silver medalist.
* Audrey Callaghan, Baroness Callaghan of Cardiff, 89, First Lady as wife of James Callaghan, Alzheimer's disease.
* Loe de Jong, 90, Dutch historian.
* Don Durant, 72, 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, 46, American gridiron football player (Chicago Bears), heart attack.
* Bijeh, 30, Iranian serial killer, execution by hanging.
* 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 jumping.
* 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, US 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.
* Charles Kent, 51, English rugly player.
* 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 by hanging.
* 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.