# Deaths in March 2000
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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

* Raymond Badin, 71, French gymnast and Olympian.
* Odell Barnes, 31, American convict, execution by lethal injection.
* Jesper Høm, 68, Danish photographer and film director.
* Vlastimir Peričić, 72, Serbian composer.
* Lionel Salter, 85, English pianist, conductor, and writer.
* Sumie Tanaka, 91, Japanese screenwriter and playwright.

### 2

* John Calvin Aker, 60, American judge.
* Audun Boysen, 70, Norwegian middle distance runner and Olympic medalist.
* Jimmy Lewis, 81, American double bassist.
* Jack Robinson, 79, American baseball player.
* Sandra Schmirler, 36, Canadian curling champion, cancer.
* Charles E. Wiggins, 72, American politician and judge, cardiac arrest.

### 3

* Ranjana Deshmukh, 45, Indian actress, heart attack.
* Paul Doguereau, 91, French pianist and piano teacher.
* Toni Ortelli, 95, Italian composer and alpinist.
* Nicole Van Goethem, 58, Belgian animator and illustrator.

### 4

* Hermann Brück, 94, German astronomer.
* Władysław Daniłowski, 97, Polish-American pianist, composer and singer.
* Kyi Kyi Htay, 75, Burmese actress.
* Geeta Mukherjee, 76, Indian politician and social worker.
* Julian Ritter, 90, American painter.
* Donn J. Robertson, 83, United States Marine Corps officer.
* Alphons Silbermann, 90, German Jewish sociologist, musicologist, and publicist.
* Ta-You Wu, 92, Chinese theoretical physicist.
* Xie Xide, 78, Chinese physicist, breast cancer.

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* Jon Barwise, 57, American mathematician, philosopher and logician, colon cancer.
* Lolo Ferrari, 37, French dancer, pornographic actress, actress and singer, suicide.
* Franklin Garrett, 93, American historian.
* Roma Mitchell, 86, Australian lawyer and Governor of South Australia, bone cancer.
* Todd Thomas, 40, American gridiron football player, cancer.
* Daniel Abraham Yanofsky, 74, Canadian chess grandmaster, writer, and arbiter.
* Mikola Yermalovich, 78, Belarusian writer and historian.
* Alexander Young, 79, British operatic tenor.

### 6

* S. Arumugam, 94, Sri Lankan Tamil engineer and writer.
* Chris Balderstone, 59, English professional in cricket and football, prostate cancer.
* John Colicos, 71, Canadian actor (Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, X-Men), heart attack.
* Jean-Pascal Curtillet, 57, French freestyle swimmer and Olympian.
* Mirko Grmek, 76, Croatian and French historian of medicine, writer and scientist.
* Ole Jacob Hansen, 59, Norwegian jazz musician (drums).
* Abraham Waligo, 71, Ugandan politician, Prime Minister (1985-1986).

### 7

* Bill Daniels, 79, American cable television executive.
* Eileen Fowler, 93, English physical exercise instructor.
* Charles Gray, 71, English actor (Diamonds Are Forever, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Mirror Crack'd), cancer.
* W. D. Hamilton, 63, British evolutionary biologist, organ dysfunction.
* Robert Hart, 86, English gardening pioneer.
* Pee Wee King, 86, American singer-songwriter (co-wrote "Tennessee Waltz"), heart attack.
* Edward H. Levi, 88, American lawyer and politician, Attorney General (1975–1977), Alzheimer's disease.
* Hirokazu Ninomiya, 82, Japanese football player and manager, pneumonia.
* Alimineti Madhava Reddy, 51, Indian politician, homicide.
* Jack Sanford, 70, American baseball player, brain cancer.
* Kazuto Tsuruoka, 83, Japanese baseball player and manager.
* Byron M. Tunnell, 74, American politician.
* Nicolas Walter, 65, British anarchist and atheist writer, speaker and activist.
* Masami Yoshida, 41, Japanese javelin thrower.

### 8

* Gertrude Sanford Legendre, 97, American socialite, heart attack.
* Earle Gorton Linsley, 89, American entomologist.
* Joe Mullaney, 75, American basketball player and coach, cancer.
* Vilho Ylönen, 81, Finnish cross-country skier, rifle shooter and Olympic medalist.

### 9

* Artyom Borovik, 39, Russian journalist and media magnate, plane crash.
* Jean Coulthard, 92, Canadian composer and music educator.
* Miguel Cruz, 89, Salvadoran football player.
* Jim Egan, 79, Canadian LGBT rights activist, lung cancer.
* Pierre Ghestem, 78, French bridge and checkers player.
* Peter Hauser, 65, British football player and manager.
* Pathanay Khan, Pakistan folk singer.
* Usha Kiran, 70, Indian actress.
* Robert Parry, 67, British politician.
* Ivo Robić, 77, Croatian singer-songwriter.

### 10

* Judith Barrett, 91, American film actress.
* Barbara Cooney, 82, American author and illustrator.
* Ivan Hirst, 84, British Army officer and engineer.
* William Porter, 73, American track and field athlete and Olympic champion.
* John Sladek, 62, American science fiction author.

### 11

* Kazimierz Brandys, 83, Polish essayist and script writer.
* Alex Dreier, 83, American news reporter and commentator, heart failure.
* HB Jassin, 82, Indonesian literary critic and documentarian.
* Noel Mulligan, 73, Australian rugby player.
* Edgar Charles Polomé, 79, Belgian-American philologist and religious studies scholar.
* Will Roberts, 92, Welsh painter.
* Laureano López Rodó, 79, Spanish lawyer, diplomat and politician.
* Alfred Schwarzmann, 87, German Olympic gymnast.

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* Billy Ivison, 79, British football and rugby player.
* Aleksandar Nikolić, 75, Serbian basketball player and coach.
* Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei, 98, Chinese Catholic Bishop of Shanghai, stomach cancer.
* Mack Robinson, 85, American track and field athlete, pneumonia.

### 13

* Harry Bright, 70, American baseball player.
* Rex Everhart, 79, American actor (Beauty and the Beast, Friday the 13th, Family Business) and singer, lung cancer.
* Hamid Gada, Indian commander in the militant organisation Hizbul Mujahideen, K.I.A.
* Cab Kaye, 78, Ghanaian-English jazz singer and pianist.
* Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam, 86, Indian Army general.
* Carlo Tagnin, 67, Italian football player and manager, cancer.
* 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.
* C. Jérôme, 53, French singer, cancer.
* Paul Smith, 54, American gridiron football player, pancreatic cancer.
* Anne Wibble, 56, Swedish politician, cancer.
* Ponchai Wilkerson, 28, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

### 15

* Jaime García Añoveros, 68, American politician.
* Timothy Gribble, 36, American convicted murderer and suspected serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
* Clement L. Hirsch, 85, American businessman and racehorse owner, cancer.
* Tomio Hora, 93, Japanese historian and academic.
* Durward Kirby, 88, American television host and announcer.
* Bobb McKittrick, 64, American gridiron football coach, cancer.
* Darrell Keith Rich, 45, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
* Rolf Römer, 64, German actor.
* Idris Abdul Wakil, 74, Zanzibari politician, President (1985-1990).
* Robert Welch, 70, English designer and silversmith.

### 16

* Morris Berthold Abram, 81, American lawyer, civil rights activist and university president.
* Ibrahim Mahmud Alfa, 53, Nigerian air marshal.
* Herta Bothe, 79, German nazi concentration camp guard during World War II and war criminal.
* Thomas Ferebee, 81, U.S. Army Air Forces bombardier aboard the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
* Roy Henderson, 100, British opera singer.
* Pavel Prudnikau, 88, Belarusian writer.
* Ivo Rinkel, 79, Dutch tennis and field hockey player.
* Stanley Ralph Ross, 64, American writer and actor, lung cancer.
* Michael Starr, 89, Canadian politician.
* Phil Terranova, 80, American boxer.
* Carlos Velázquez, 51, Puerto Rican baseball player.

### 17

* Jack Davis, 83, Australian playwright.
* Lonia Dvorin, 82, Israeli football player and coach.
* Sonny Hine, 69, American thoroughbred horse trainer.
* Charlie Holt, 77, American ice hockey coach, cancer.
* Edward F. Knipling, 90, American entomologist.
* Pete Mangum, 69, American football player.

### 18

* Tom Ah Chee, 72, New Zealand businessman, liver cancer.
* Eberhard Bethge, 90, German Protestant theologian.
* Pei Lisheng, 93, Chinese politician.
* Glen Mervyn, 63, Canadian rower, Olympic medalist and Olympic coach, colorectal cancer.
* Herman B Wells, 97, American academic.
* Robert Wynn, 78, American officer with Easy Company, in the 101st Airborne Division.
* Assaf Yaguri, 69, Israeli soldier and politician.

### 19

* Graham Balcombe, 93, British cave diver.
* Li Huanzhi, 81, Chinese classical composer.
* Egon Jönsson, 78, Swedish football player.
* Giovanni Linscheer, 27, Surinamese swimmer, car accident.
* Jayne Regan, 90, American film actress.
* Dewey Williams, 84, American baseball player.
* Mikhail Yefremov, 88, Soviet politician and diplomat.

### 20

* Johan Anthierens, 62, Belgian journalist, columnist, and writer, Hodgkin's disease.
* Zayd Mutee' Dammaj, 57, Yemeni author and politician.
* Gene Eugene, 38, Canadian actor, record producer, composer and musician.
* Michael Ferris, 68, Irish politician.
* Vivian Fine, 86, American composer, car collision.
* Jean Howard, 89, American actress and photographer.
* Ruth Kirk, 77, New Zealand anti-abortion campaigner, cancer.
* Ramon Mitra, Jr., 72, Filipino statesman, diplomat, and pro-democracy activist.
* Ādolfs Skulte, 90, Latvian composer and pedagogue.

### 21

* Johan Haanes, 87, Norwegian sportsman.
* Seumas McNally, 21, Canadian computer programmer and founder of DX Ball 2, Hodgkin's lymphoma.
* Bai Shouyi, 91, Chinese ethnologist, historian, social activist, and writer.
* Mircea Zaciu, 71, Romanian critic, literary historian and prose writer.

### 22

* John Morrison, 2nd Viscount Dunrossil, 73, British diplomat.
* Polita Grau, 84, Cuban political prisoner, First Lady.
* Mark Lombardi, 48, American neo-conceptual artist, suicide by hanging.
* Wayne McAllister, 92, American architect, head injury.
* Carlo Parola, 78, Italian football player and coach.
* Vamüzo Phesao, 62, Naga politician.
* Godwin Samararatne, 67, Sri Lankan meditation teacher.

### 23

* Stig Emanuel Andersson, 85, Swedish ice hockey, football and bandy player.
* John Andrews, 65, British cyclist.
* Ed McCurdy, 81, American folk singer, songwriter and actor.
* Antony Padiyara, 79, Indian Syro Malabar prelate.
* Carl Shoup, 97, American economist and public finance expert.
* Udham Singh, 71, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.
* Gert Willner, 59, German politician.
* Romeo B. Garrett 90, American professor

### 24

* Albert Duncanson, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Robert Hugo Dunlap, 79, United States Marine Corps major.
* Al Grey, 74, American jazz trombonist.
* George Kirby, 66, British football player.
* Kazuo Komatsubara, 56, Japanese animator, animation director and character designer.
* Juan Zurita, 82, Mexican lightweight boxing world champion.

### 25

* Jim Cash, 59, American film writer (Top Gun, Dick Tracy, Turner & Hooch), intestinal disorders.
* Paul Călinescu, 97, Romanian film director and screenwriter.
* Daphne Le Breton, 67, New Zealand international lawn bowler.
* Helen Martin, 90, American actress, heart attack.
* Eduardo Enrique Rodríguez, 82, Argentine football player.
* Sandy Sanford, 83, American gridiron football player and coach.

### 26

* Alfredo Bruniera, 93, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
* Alex Comfort, 80, British scientist, physician and author (The Joy of Sex), cerebral haemorrhage.
* Karel Thole, 85, Dutch-Italian painter and illustrator.
* Len Younce, 83, American football player and coach.
* Werner Zeyer, 70, German politician.

### 27

* George Allen, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Sue Wah Chin, 99, Chinese-born Australian entrepreneur.
* Ian Dury, 57, British actor and rock and roll singer (Kilburn and the High Roads, Ian Dury and the Blockheads), cancer.
* Yrjö Lehtilä, 83, Finnish Olympic shot putter.
* Priya Rajvansh, 63, Indian film actress, murdered.

### 28

* Kanti Abdurakhmanov, 83-84, Soviet Chechen soldier.
* Pat Bishop, 53, Northern Irish-Australian actress.
* Bill Christiansen, 86, American politician.
* Christian Norberg-Schulz, 73, Norwegian architect and author.
* Frances Gray Patton, 94, American short story writer and novelist.
* George Petersen, 78, Australian politician.
* Anthony Powell, 94, British author.
* Yuri Tarasov, 39, Soviet and Ukrainian football player.
* Adam Ulam, 77, Polish-American historian and political scientist, lung cancer.

### 29

* Yevgeny Feofanov, 62, Soviet boxer and Olympic medalist.
* Hans Gustav Güterbock, 91, German-American Hittitologist ang linguist.
* Shirley Palmer, 91, American (silent) film actress, fall.
* Anna Sokolow, 90, American dancer and choreographer.

### 30

* George Batchelor, 80, Australian mathematician.
* Salvador Abascal Infante, 90, Mexican politician.
* Jean E. Karl, 72, American book publisher.
* Rudolf Kirchschläger, 85, Austrian politician, President (1974-1986), cardiovascular disease.
* Beryl McBurnie, 86, Trinidadian dancer.
* Mihrimah Sultan, 77, Ottoman princess, granddaughter of Mehmed V.

### 31

* Hardev Bahri, 93, Indian linguist, literary critic, and lexicographer.
* Hjalmar Bergström, 93, Swedish world champion cross-country skier and Olympian.
* Adrian Fisher, 47, British guitarist, myocardial infarction.
* Gisèle Freund, 91, German-French photographer and photojournalist.