Deaths in March 2023

The following is a list of **deaths that should be noted in March 2023**. For deaths that should be noted before the month that the world is in, please see "Months". Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are noted here also if it is worth noting.

Every entry must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, where they came from, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and a source.

### 1

- Ted Donaldson, 89, American actor (_A Tree Grows in Brooklyn_, _Adventures of Rusty_, _Father Knows Best_), complications from a fall.
- Just Fontaine, 89, French footballer (Nice, Reims, national team).
- Warren Saunders, 88, Australian cricketer (New South Wales).
- Irma Serrano, 89, Mexican actress (_Tiburoneros_, _El monasterio de los buitres_, _Las amantes del señor de la noche_) and singer, heart attack.

### 2

- Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi, 90, Indian jurist, chief justice (1994–1997), chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University (2003–2010).
- Steve Mackey, 56, English bassist (Pulp) and record producer.
- María Onetto, 56, Argentine actress (_Montecristo_, _The Headless Woman_, _The Heavy Hand of the Law_).
- Wayne Shorter, 89, American jazz saxophonist (The Jazz Messengers, Miles Davis Quintet, Weather Report), 12-time Grammy winner.

### 3

- Francisco J. Ayala, 88, Spanish-American evolutionary biologist and philosopher.
- Barbara Everitt Bryant, 96, American market researcher, director of the United States Census Bureau (1989–1993).
- Kenzaburō Ōe, 88, Japanese novelist (_A Personal Matter_, _The Silent Cry_), Nobel Prize laureate (1994).
- Tom Sizemore, 61, American actor (_Black Hawk Down_, _Saving Private Ryan_, _Robbery Homicide Division_), complications from a brain aneurysm.

### 4

- Phil Batt, 96, American politician, governor of Idaho (1995–1999), member of the Idaho House of Representatives (1965–1967) and twice of the Senate.
- Joseph Gabriel Fernandez, 97, Indian bishop
- John Nagenda, 84, Ugandan cricketer (East Africa, national team).
- Spot, 72, American record producer (_Damaged_, _Milo Goes to College_, _Zen Arcade_).

### 5

- Frank Griswold, 85, American clergyman, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church (1998–2006).
- Gary Rossington, 71, American Hall of Fame guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rossington Collins Band).

### 6

- Masum Babul, 60, Bangladeshi film dance director and choreographer (_Beder Meye Josna_, _Keyamat Theke Keyamat_, _Ekti Cinemar Golpo_).
- Georgina Beyer, 65, New Zealand politician, mayor of Carterton (1995–2000), MP (1999–2007), world's first openly transgender member of parliament.
- Ivana Hloužková, 62, Czech actress (_The Fortress_, _Boredom in Brno_).

### 7

- Ian Falconer, 63, American author.
- Peterson Zah, 85, American politician, president of the Navajo Nation (1991–1995).

### 8

- Marcel Amont, 93, French singer.
- Gianmarco Calleri, 81, Italian footballer
- Italo Galbiati, 85, Italian footballer
- Bert I. Gordon, 100, American film director and screenwriter (_Village of the Giants_, _Empire of the Ants_, _The Amazing Colossal Man_).
- Chaim Topol, 87, Israeli actor (_Fiddler on the Roof_, _Flash Gordon_, _For Your Eyes Only_).

### 9

- Robert Blake, 89, American actor.
- Hassan Ghafourifard, 79, Iranian academic and politician
- Chikage Oogi, 89, Japanese actress (_A Teapicker's Song of Goodbye_) and politician, president of the House of Councillors (2004–2007) and minister of land (2001–2003), esophageal cancer.
- Randhir Singh, 65, Indian cricketer (national team).

### 10

- Skip Bafalis, 93, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1973–1983), member of the Florida Senate (1966–1970) and House of Representatives (1964–1966).
- Rolland Hein, American academic

### 11

- Ignacio López Tarso, 98, Mexican actor (_Rosa Blanca_, _Esmeralda_, _Wild at Heart_).

### 12

- Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Baroness Masham of Ilton, 87, British politician, member of the House of Lords (since 1970) and Paralympic champion (1960, 1964).
- Marek Kopelent, 90, Czech composer.
- Antonio Pedro, 82, Brazilian actor.
- Costa Titch, 27, South African rapper.

### 13

- Jim Gordon, 77, American drummer (Derek and the Dominos, Traffic), songwriter ("Layla") and convicted murderer.
- Jack McLaughlin, 93, Australian cricketer (Queensland).
- Joe Pepitone, 82, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Houston Astros, Chicago Cubs), World Series champion (1962).
- Pat Schroeder, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1973–1997), complications from a stroke.

### 14

- Bobby Caldwell, 71, American singer ("What You Won't Do for Love") and songwriter ("The Next Time I Fall").
- Harvey Carignan, 95, American serial killer.
- Louisette Dussault, 82, Canadian actress (_Françoise Durocher, Waitress_, _IXE-13_, _Wedding Night_) and writer.

### 15

- Don Megson, 86, English football.

### 16

- Nani Widjaja, 78, Indonesian actress (_Cinta Pertama_, _Catatan Si Boy_, _Maling Kutang_), respiratory failure.

### 17

- Jorge Edwards, 91, Chilean novelist and diplomat.
- Fuzzy Haskins, 81, American Hall of Fame singer (Parliament-Funkadelic).
- Lance Reddick, 60, American actor (_The Wire_, _Fringe_, _John Wick_) and musician, heart disease.
- Robert W. Sennewald, 93, American army general.
- Laura Valenzuela, 92, Spanish television presenter (TVE) and actress (_Spaniards in Paris_, _Growing Leg, Diminishing Skirt_), complications from Alzheimer's disease.

### 18

- Gloria Dea, 100, American actress (_King of the Congo_, _Plan 9 from Outer Space_) and magician, coronary artery disease.

### 19

- Willie Cager, 80, American basketball player.
- Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa, 71, Tongan politician, prime minister (2019–2021), minister of finance (2018–2019) and MP (since 2014).

### 20

- Paul Grant, 56, British actor (_Return of the Jedi_, _Labyrinth_, _The Dead_) and stuntman.
- Osvaldo Héctor Cruz, 91, Argentine footballer (Independiente, Unión Española, national team).
- Vasily Reshetnikov, 103, Russian pilot and World War II veteran, Hero of the Soviet Union.

### 21

- Francesco Maselli, 92, Italian film director and screenwriter (_Time of Indifference_, _A Tale of Love_, _Abandoned_).
- Willis Reed, 80, American Hall of Fame basketball player (New York Knicks) and coach (New Jersey Nets), NBA champion (1970, 1973), heart failure.
- Peter Werner, 76, American film and television director (_In the Region of Ice_, _Moonlighting_, _Grimm_), Oscar winner (1976).

### 22

- Jirō Dan, 74, Japanese actor (_Daijōbu, My Friend_, _Return of Ultraman_, _Zero Woman_), lung cancer.
- Rebecca Jones, 65, Mexican actress (_Imperio de cristal_, _Para volver a amar_, _Que te perdone Dios_).
- Ben Shelly, 75, American politician, president of the Navajo Nation (2011–2015).

### 23

- Marion Game, 84, Moroccan-born French actress (_Scènes de ménages_, _Parking_, _Dickie-roi_).
- Dafydd Hywel, 77, Welsh actor (_Coming Up Roses_, _Off to Philadelphia in the Morning_, _The Crown_).

### 24

- Gordon Moore, 94, American businessman, engineer (Moore's law) and philanthropist, co-founder of Intel and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
- Pradeep Sarkar, 67, Idaian film director.

### 25

- Chabelo, 88, American-born Mexican actor (_The Extra_, _Escuela para solteras_) and comedian (_La Carabina de Ambrosio_).
- Nick Lloyd Webber, 43, English composer (_Love, Lies and Records_, _Fat Friends The Musical_) and songwriter, stomach cancer.
- Pascoal Mocumbi, 81, Mozambican politician, prime minister (1994–2004).
- Andrei Sison, 16, Filipino actor.

### 26

- Zvi Dershowitz, 94, Czech-born American rabbi.
- Nikolay Dupak, 101, Russian actor (_The Forty-First_, _Intervention_, _Bumbarash_).
- Ivano Marescotti, 77, Italian actor (_The Peaceful Air of the West_, _Johnny Stecchino_, _Cado dalle nubi_) and theater director.
- Karl-Josef Rauber, 88, German Roman Catholic cardinal, apostolic pro-nuncio to Uganda (1982–1990), president of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy (1990–1993) and apostolic nuncio to Hungary (1997–2003).

### 27

- Wim de Bin, 83, Dutch comedian.
- Nick Galifianakis, 94, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1967–1973) and the North Carolina House of Representatives (1961–1967).
- Ronald A. Sarasin, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1973–1979) and the Connecticut House of Representatives (1969–1973).

### 28

- Virginia Nair, 73, Indian actor.
- Paul O'Grady, 67, English comedian and television presenter (_The Paul O'Grady Show_).
- Ryuichi Sakamoto, 71, Japanese musician (Yellow Magic Orchestra), composer (_The Last Emperor_), and actor (_Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence_), Oscar winner (1988), rectal cancer.

### 29

- John Kerin, 85, Australia politician, twice.
- Keith Reid, 76, English lyricist and songwriter (Procul Harum, "A Whiter Shade of Pale", "You're the Voice"). (death announced on this date)

### 30

- Johan Leysen, 73, Belgian actor (_The Abyss_, _Brotherhood of the Wolf_, _The American_).
- Elemér Ragályi, 83, Hungarian cinematographer (_The Phantom of the Opera_, _Mesmer_, _An American Rhapsody_), film director and actor.

### 31

- Asja Lamtiugina, 82, Polish actress.

## Other websites

- _The Guardian_, UK obituaries
- _The Telegraph_ obituaries
- Obituaries, _Chicago Tribune_
- Obituaries, _Los Angeles Times_
- _The New York Times_, US obituaries
- _The Washington Post_ obituaries
- _The Sydney Morning Herald_, Australian obituaries