# Deaths in March 2007
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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2007.
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 2007
### 1

* Manuel Bento, 58, Portuguese football goalkeeper (Portugal, S.L. Benfica), cardiac arrest.
* Otto Brandenburg, 72, Danish singer and actor.
* Colette Brosset, 85, French actress.
* Eddie Firestone, 86, American actor (Gunsmoke, Dallas, Duel), heart and respiratory failure.
* George Gabb, 79, Belizean artist, sculptor and writer, cardiac arrest.
* Sir Sydney Gun-Munro, 90, Vincentian politician, Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1979–1985), after long illness.
* Harold Michelson, 87, American production designer (Terms of Endearment, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Planes, Trains & Automobiles).
* Tinos Rusere, 61, Zimbabwean Deputy Minister for Mines and Environment, kidney failure.
* Bobby Speight, 76, American basketball player (NC State) and businessman, cancer.

### 2

* Doris Anderson, 85, Canadian feminist, writer and editor of Chatelaine, pulmonary fibrosis.
* Thomas S. Kleppe, 87, American Secretary of Interior (1975–1977), Representative from North Dakota, Alzheimer's disease.
* Clem Labine, 80, American baseball pitcher (Brooklyn and LA Dodgers), complications of brain surgery.
* Mike Mooney, 37, American football player with Georgia Tech and the 1993 San Diego Chargers.
* Ivan Safronov, 51, Russian defence correspondent for Kommersant, fall from building.
* William C. Sturtevant, 80, American Smithsonian Institution curator, emphysema.
* Henri Troyat, 95, French writer and historian, member of the Académie française.

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* Osvaldo Cavandoli, 87, Italian cartoonist.
* Jim Kaldis, 74, Australian politician.
* Benito Lorenzi, 81, Italian football striker (Italy, Inter Milan).
* Gene Oliver, 71, American baseball player in the 1960s, complications from lung surgery.
* Türkan Rado, 91, Turkish writer, educator and jurist.
* Saul Swimmer, 70, American documentary filmmaker (The Concert for Bangladesh), heart failure.
* Marjabelle Young Stewart, 82, American etiquette authority and author, pneumonia.

### 4

* Natalie Bodanya, 98, American operatic soprano.
* H. E. Carter, 96, American biochemist.
* Thomas Eagleton, 77, American Senator for Missouri (1969–1987), heart and respiratory complications.
* Bob Hattoy, 56, American President of California Fish & Game Commission, AIDS activist, complications from AIDS.
* Richard Joseph, 53, British video games soundtrack composer, lung cancer.
* Sunil Kumar Mahato, 41, Indian parliamentarian, shot.
* Tadeusz Nalepa, 63, Polish blues and rock singer, after long illness.
* Robert Prince, 77, American composer.
* John Thow, 57, American composer.
* Renee Williams, 29, American heaviest woman in the world, heart attack.
* Ian Wooldridge, 75, British sports journalist, cancer.

### 5

* Alan Black, 64, British disc jockey.
* Joseph H. Conlin, 79, American impresario and opera director.
* Yvan Delporte, 78, Belgian editor-in-chief of Spirou magazine (1956–1968).
* Milton N. Hopkins, 80, American ornithologist and farmer.
* Ivo Lorscheiter, 79, Brazilian Catholic Bishop and advocate of liberation theology, multiple organ failure.
* Ivan Supek, 91, Croatian scientist, philosopher and writer.

### 6

* Jean Baudrillard, 77, French postmodernist philosopher and sociologist.
* Allen Coage, 63, American-born Olympic judo bronze medalist and professional wrestler known as "Bad News Brown".
* Ernest Gallo, 97, American co-founder of E & J Gallo Winery.
* Pierre Moinot, 86, French novelist elected to Académie française.
* Ray Stern, 74, American professional wrestler, complications from heart surgery.

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* Bill Chinnock, 59, American singer-songwriter.
* Shane Cross, 20, Australian professional skateboarder, motorcycle collision.
* Paul deLay, 55, American blues harmonica player, leukemia.
* Frigyes Hidas, 78, Hungarian composer.
* Emil Mailho, 97, American baseball player.
* Morgan Mellish, 36, Australian Walkley Award-winning journalist for The Australian Financial Review, aircraft crash.
* Neil North, 74, British actor.
* Andy Sidaris, 76, American film director, throat cancer.
* John Simpson, 79, British army officer, Director Special Forces.
* Paul Sykes, 60, English heavyweight boxer.
* Carla Thorneycroft, Baroness Thorneycroft, 93, Italian–born British philanthropist.
* Billy Walkabout, 57, Cherokee-American highly decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, pneumonia and renal failure.

### 8

* Taufik Cotran, 80, Palestinian-born British judge, Chief Justice of Belize (1986–1990).
* Alejandro Cruz, 82, Mexican professional wrestler known as "The Black Shadow", pneumonia.
* John Inman, 71, British actor (Are You Being Served?), hepatitis A.
* Tom Moldvay, 58, American writer of Dungeons & Dragons books and modules (revised version of Palace of the Silver Princess).
* Harold M. Ryan, 96, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1961–1965), congestive heart failure.
* Richard Trexler, 74, American historian of the Florentine Renaissance, complications from a kidney transplant.
* Viky Vanita, 59, Greek actress.
* John Vukovich, 59, American baseball player and coach, brain tumor complications.
* Christopher Barrios, Jr., 6, American murder victim, murder.

### 9

* Rosy Afsari, 60, Bangladeshi film actress, kidney failure.
* Brad Delp, 55, American lead singer of 1970s AOR band Boston, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
* Ron Evans, 67, Australian chairman of the AFL Commission, former Essendon chairman and player, abdominal cancer.
* Glen Harmon, 86, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Jack Kirby, 84, American football player.
* Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, 71, American politician, first black woman to serve in the Senate of North Carolina.
* Thomas B. Mason, 88, American attorney.
* Ulpio Minucci, 89, Italian-born composer best known for work on Robotech, natural causes.
* Juan Carlos Portantiero, 73, Argentine sociologist, renal failure.
* Malaetasi Togafau, American Samoan Attorney General, judge and legislator, cancer.

### 10

* Buddy Allin, 62, American golfer, winner of five PGA Tour events, cancer.
* Francis Clark Howell, 82, American anthropologist.
* Richard Jeni, 49, American comedian and actor (The Mask, Bird, Dad's Week Off), suicide by gunshot.
* Ernie Ladd, 68, American football player (San Diego Chargers, Kansas City Chiefs) and professional wrestler (NWA), cancer.
* Lanna Saunders, 65, American soap opera actress (Days of Our Lives), multiple sclerosis.
* Angela Webber, 52, Australian comedian and writer, cancer.

### 11

* Dave Creedon, 87, Irish hurler (Cork), All-Ireland Champions (1952–1954), natural causes.
* René Duhamel, 72, French Olympic rower.
* Martha Sosman, 56, American judge, member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, breast cancer.

### 12

* Arnold Drake, 83, American comic book writer (Doom Patrol, Deadman, Guardians of the Galaxy), pneumonia and septic shock.
* Vilma Ebsen, 96, American actress, sister and dancing partner of Buddy Ebsen.
* Jack Gaster, 99, British communist politician and solicitor.
* Preah Maha Ghosananda, 77, Cambodian Buddhist Sangharaja and Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
* Betty Hutton, 86, American singer/actress (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek), complications from colon cancer.
* Norm Larker, 76, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers).
* Juan Enrique Lira, 79, Chilean Olympic shooter.
* Antonio Ortiz Mena, 99, Mexican Finance Secretary (1958–1970), IDB President (1971–1987), complications from a fall.
* Yeap Ghim Guan, 66, Malaysian lawyer and politician, founding member of the DAP, complications from a stroke.

### 13

* Herbert Fux, 79, Austrian actor and politician.
* Terry Major-Ball, 74, British banker and author, brother of former Prime Minister John Major, cancer.
* Wendy Russell Reves, 90, American philanthropist.
* John Sinclair, 73, British English language scholar, cancer.
* Arnold Skaaland, 82, American professional wrestler.
* Nicole Stéphane, 83, French actress (Le Silence de la mer).

### 14

* Lucie Aubrac, 94, French member of the Resistance during World War II.
* Roger Beaufrand, 98, French Olympian, oldest Olympic champion at time of death.
* Tommy Cavanagh, 78, British football player and manager of Burnley.
* Lloyd Eaton, 88, American college football coach.
* Sa'dun Hammadi, 76, Iraqi Prime Minister (1991), leukemia.
* Fitzgerald "Mighty Terror" Henry, 86, Trinidadian calypso musician.
* Gareth Hunt, 65, British actor (The New Avengers), pancreatic cancer.
* Ron McEwin, 79, Australian footballer.
* Birk Sproxton, 63, Canadian author (Phantom Lake: North of 54) and educator, heart attack.

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* Blanquita Amaro, 83, Cuban-born actress and dancer, heart attack.
* Bonaventure Luo Juan, 89, Chinese Catholic priest and bishop, renal failure and heart and lung weakness.
* Alice Backes, 83, American actress (Bachelor Father).
* Sally Clark, 42, British solicitor wrongly convicted of killing two of her sons.
* Charles Harrelson, 68, American convicted murderer, heart attack.
* Jay Kennedy, 50, American editor-in-chief of King Features Syndicate, drowning.
* Bowie Kuhn, 80, American Major League Baseball commissioner (1969–1984), respiratory failure.
* Orlando "Marty" Martínez, 65, Cuban-born American baseball player and manager.
* Jack Metcalf, 79, American Republican Representative from Washington (1995–2001), complications of Alzheimer's disease.
* Datuk Wira Poh Ah Tiam, 55, Malaysian politician, cancer and renal failure.
* Stuart Rosenberg, 79, American film director (Cool Hand Luke, The Amityville Horror, The Pope of Greenwich Village), heart attack.
* Herman Stein, 91, American film and television composer, heart failure.
* Jean Talairach, 96, French psychiatrist and neurosurgeon.
* William Watson, 89, British sinologist.
* Dirk Wayenberg, 51, Belgian cyclist.
* Ivan Welsh, 67, Australian politician, NSW MLA (1988–1991).

### 16

* Sajjadul Hasan, 28, Bangladeshi domestic cricketer, motorcycle accident.
* Pablo Emilio Madero, 85, Mexican politician, president of the National Action Party (1984–1987).
* Sir Arthur Marshall, 103, British aviation engineer.
* Steve McCooke, 88, British Olympic athlete.
* Mou Zuoyun, 94, Chinese basketball player and coach (national team), President of the Chinese Basketball Association.
* Raymond Nasher, 85, American art collector, founder of Nasher Sculpture Center, Nasher Museum of Art and NorthPark Center.
* Manjural Islam Rana, 22, Bangladeshi national cricketer, motorcycle accident.
* Carol Richards, 84, American singer and actress.
* Tupper Saussy, 70, American composer, musician, author, and artist, heart attack.

### 17

* John Backus, 82, American computer scientist who led the IBM team that developed Fortran.
* Joseph C. Casdin, American businessman and politician, Mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts (1962–1963)
* Crazy Ray, 76, American cheerleading fan of the Dallas Cowboys, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
* Jim Cronin, 55, American conservationist who founded Monkey World, liver cancer.
* Freddie Francis, 89, English cinematographer (Sons and Lovers, Glory, The Elephant Man) and film director, Oscar winner (1961, 1990), stroke.
* Homer Harris, 91, American athlete, first black captain of a Big Ten Conference team, Alzheimer's disease.
* Ernst Haefliger, 87, Swiss operatic tenor, heart failure.
* Tanya Reinhart, 63, Israeli linguist and peace activist, stroke.
* Ion Santo, 84, Romanian Olympic fencer.
* John C. Williams, 65, New Zealand cricketer.

### 18

* Jim Fung, 62, Hong Kong Chinese martial artist and businessman, nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
* Ovidiu Maitec, 81, Romanian sculptor.
* Annemiek Padt-Jansen, 85, Dutch harpist and politician.
* William N. Panzer, 64, American television and film producer, fall.
* Bob Woolmer, 58, British cricketer for England (1975–1981) and Pakistan cricket team coach, heart failure.

### 19

* Lloyd Best, 73, Trinidadian economist, politician and columnist, prostate cancer.
* Giampaolo Calanchini, 70, Italian Olympic fencer.
* Calvert DeForest, 85, American actor and comedian.
* Robert Dickson, 62, Canadian writer and poet, cancer.
* Luther Ingram, 69, American R&B singer and songwriter ("(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right"), kidney failure.
* Elaine Shore, 79, American actress, tongue cancer.
* Bill Stevenson, 55, Canadian football player, injuries from a fall.
* Shimon Tzabar, 81, Israeli artist, author, poet and former Haaretz columnist, pneumonia.
* Gemunu Wijesuriya, 72, Sri Lankan broadcaster and comedian.

### 20

* Francis Agu, 42, Nigerian actor, complications from peptic ulcer.
* Albert Baez, 94, American physicist and father of Joan Baez and Mimi Fariña, natural causes.
* Olcott Deming, 98, American diplomat and first Ambassador to Uganda, sepsis.
* Raynald Fréchette, 73, Canadian lawyer, Quebec Superior Court judge, National Assembly of Quebec member, cancer.
* Rita Joe, 75, Canadian Mi'kmaq poet, Parkinson's disease.
* Gilbert E. Patterson, 67, American bishop of Church of God in Christ, heart failure.
* Taha Yassin Ramadan, 69, Iraqi politician and vice-president (1991–2003), execution by hanging.
* John P. Ryan, 70, American actor (Runaway Train, Five Easy Pieces, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm), stroke.
* Ernie Wright, 67, American football offensive lineman in the 1960s, cancer.
* Hawa Yakubu, 59, Ghanaian politician, cancer.

### 21

* Drew Hayes, 37, American comic book writer/artist (Poison Elves), heart attack.
* Sven O. Høiby, 70, Norwegian journalist and father of Mette Marit, Crown Princess of Norway, lung cancer.
* Mohd. Ayub Khan, 83-84, Indian politician.
* Dustin J. Lee, 20, United States Marine Corps corporal.
* Catherine Seipp, 49, American conservative columnist, lung cancer.

### 22

* Nisar Bazmi, 83, Pakistani composer, kidney failure.
* George R. Bolling, 86, American pilot.
* Oriol de Bolòs, 83, Spanish botanist, pteridologist, and phytosociologist.
* Don Dennis, 65, American pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1960s, cancer.
* U. G. Krishnamurti, 88, Indian philosopher.
* Daniel Díaz Maynard, 73, Uruguayan politician, Deputy (1990–2005).
* César Peñaranda, 91, Peruvian Olympic cyclist.
* Jay Zeamer, Jr., 88, American World War II veteran and Medal of Honor recipient.

### 23

* Ed Bailey, 75, American baseball player (1953–1966) and Knoxville, Tennessee city councilman (1983–1995), throat cancer.
* Paul Cohen, 72, American mathematician, professor of mathematics at Stanford University.
* Attila Kaszás, 47, Hungarian actor, stroke.
* Mao Anqing, 83, Chinese author and son of Mao Zedong.
* Damian McDonald, 34, Australian Olympic cyclist, traffic accident.
* Eric Medlen, 33, American NHRA driver, diffuse axonal injury from car accident.
* Chase Nielsen, 90, American Air Force officer, participant in the Doolittle raid.
* Robert E. Petersen, 80, American publisher of auto industry and enthusiast magazines, neuroendocrine cancer.
* Walter Turnbull, 62, American founder of the Boys Choir of Harlem, stroke.

### 24

* Jun Bernardino, 59, Philippine Basketball Association commissioner (1993–2002) and sports executive, heart attack.
* Henson Cargill, 66, American country singer, complications from surgery.
* Mary D. Crisp, 83, American Republican leader.
* Maurice Flitcroft, 77, British amateur golfer and hoaxer, lung infection.
* Jean Schwinden, 81, American former First Lady of Montana, wife of Ted Schwinden, cancer.
* Martin Studach, 62, Swiss Olympic rower, heart failure.

### 25

* George Kingsley Acquah, 65, Ghanaian Chief Justice from June 2003, cancer.
* Robert Austrian, 90, American epidemiologist, stroke.
* Jerry Girard, 74, American sports anchor for WPIX television in New York City, esophageal cancer.
* Andranik Margaryan, 55, Armenian Prime Minister since 2000, heart attack.
* Marshall Rogers, 57, American comic book artist (Batman, Doctor Strange, Silver Surfer), heart attack.

### 26

* Beniamino Andreatta, 78, Italian economist and politician (Christian Democracy, Italian People's Party).
* Cha Burns, 50, Scottish guitarist, lung cancer.
* David Green, 85, American political adviser.
* Lindsay Hawker, 22, British teacher, murder victim.
* Heinz Schiller, 77, Swiss racing driver.
* Sylvia Straus, 94, American pianist and widow of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.
* Mikhail Ulyanov, 79, Russian actor, intestinal disease.

### 27

* Hans Hedberg, 89, Swedish sculptor, kidney failure.
* Paul Lauterbur, 77, American chemist and 2003 Nobel Prize Laureate.
* Ransom A. Myers, 54, American-born Canadian fisheries biologist, declining fish stocks expert, brain tumour.
* Raúl Meza Ontiveros, 40, Mexican suspected drug lord and high-ranking leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, shot.
* Faustino Oramas, 95, Cuban singer (Buena Vista Social Club), cancer.
* Aileen Plant, 52, Australian authority on infectious diseases, investigated first official case of SARS in Vietnam.
* Joe Sentieri, 82, Italian singer and actor.
* Hitoshi Ueki, 80, Japanese actor (Ran, Big Joys, Small Sorrows) and comedian, emphysema.
* Charlotte Winters, 109, American veteran, last surviving American female veteran of World War I.

### 28

* Cha Chi Ming, 93, Hong Kong businessman, founder and non-executive chairman of HKR International.
* Abe Coleman, 101, Polish-born American professional wrestler during the Great Depression era.
* Bill Fisk, 90, American football player and coach.
* Sir Thomas Hetherington, 80, British lawyer, Director of Public Prosecutions (1977–1987).
* Tony Scott, 85, American jazz clarinetist.
* James Thorpe, 79, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1967–1974).

### 29

* Adebayo Adefarati, 76, Nigerian presidential candidate for the Alliance for Democracy party.
* Bangla Bhai, 37, Bangladeshi militant, execution by hanging.
* Lloyd Brown, 105, American last known surviving World War I Navy veteran.
* Howard Goorney, 85, English actor (Fiddler on the Roof, Bedazzled, Little Dorrit).
* Juan Joya, 73, Peruvian footballer.
* Mimi Lerner, 61, Polish-born American operatic mezzo-soprano, complications of a heart tumor.
* Calvin Lockhart, 72, Bahamian actor (Wild at Heart, Coming to America, Predator 2), stroke.
* Myokyo-ni, 86, Austrian Buddhist nun, head of the Zen Centre in London.
* Tosiwo Nakayama, 75, Micronesian politician, first President of the Federated States of Micronesia (1979–1987).
* Shaykh Abdur Rahman, Bangladeshi Islamist militant leader (JMB) until his capture by the RAB, execution by hanging.
* Leslie Waller, 83, American author.

### 30

* Basil Catterns, 89, Australian WWII Army leader of the Kokoda Track campaign, father of broadcaster Angela Catterns.
* Chrisye, 57, Indonesian musician, lung cancer.
* Fay Coyle, 73, British footballer for Derry City, Nottingham Forest and Northern Ireland.
* Michael Dibdin, 60, British crime writer.
* Alfréd Fehérvári, 81, Hungarian football player and coach.
* María Julia Hernández, 68, Salvadoran human rights activist, heart attack.
* Ilias Kelesidis, 53, Greek Olympic cyclist.
* Dave Martin, 72, British television writer for Doctor Who and Z-Cars, lung cancer.
* John Roberts, 74, Canadian politician, heart attack.
* DeForest Wheeler Trimingham, 87, Bermudian Olympic sailor

### 31

* Patricia Barringer, 82, American baseball player (AAGPBL)
* Phil Cordell, 59, British musician, 1971 hit as Springwater.
* Thomas W. Moore, 88, American producer and president of ABC, heart failure.
* Clarence Peaks, 71, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers).
* Lito Sisnorio, 24, Filipino boxer, heart failure after surgery following a knockout.
* Paul Watzlawick, 85, Austrian-born American psychologist and philosopher.