page_title: 2016 in the United States
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 2016 in the United States / Deaths / March
caption_attribution_description: Publicity photo of Patty Duke.
context_page_description: Events in the year 2016 in the United States.
context_section_description: March 1
  Martha Wright, actress and singer (born 1923)
  Gayle McCormick, singer (born 1948)
  Jim Kimsey, co-founder and CEO of AOL (born 1939)
  Adam Dziewonski, Polish-born geophysicist (born 1936)
  Coca Crystal, television personality (born 1947)
  Stuart Beck, lawyer and diplomat (born 1946)
  March 2
  R. Tom Zuidema, Dutch-born anthropologist (born 1927)
  James Barrett McNulty, 26th Mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania (born 1945)
  Aubrey McClendon, businessman and part-owner of the Oklahoma City Thunder (born 1959)
  Dick Hudson, football player (born 1940)
  Rosemary Hinkfuss, politician (born 1931)
  Robert Del Tufo, Attorney General of New Jersey (born 1933)
  March 3
  Retta Ward, health official and educator (born 1953)
  William O'Brien, police officer (born 1944)
  Laura Knaperek, politician (born 1955)
  Henry R. Horsey, judge (born 1924)
  Gavin Christopher, singer, songwriter, musician and producer (born 1949)
  Jack Buckalew, politician (born 1932)
  Rooney L. Bowen, politician (born 1933)
  Ralph Baruch, President of Viacom (born 1923)
  March 4
  William H. Plackett,  naval non-commissioned officer (born 1937)
  Thomas G. Morris, politician (born 1919)
  Joey Martin Feek, country singer (born 1975)
  Pat Conroy, author (born 1945)
  Bud Collins, journalist and sportscaster (born 1929)
  March 5
  Al Wistert, football player (born 1920)
  Ray Tomlinson, computer programmer (born 1941)
  Robert Redbird, artist (born 1939)
  Caesar Belser, football player (born 1944)
  March 6
  Gary Smalley, family counselor and author (born 1940)
  Harold H. Saunders, diplomat (born 1930)
  Nancy Reagan, First Lady of the United States (born 1921)
  Elizabeth Garrett, 13th President of Cornell University (born 1963)
  Jerry Bridges, evangelist and author (born 1929)
  Barbara Almond, psychiatrist (born 1938)
  March 7
  Quentin Young, physician and activist (born 1923)
  Paul Ryan, comic artist (born 1949)
  Steve Kraly, baseball player (born 1929)
  Bobby Johns, race car driver (born 1932)
  Joe Cabot, jazz trumpeter and bandleader (born 1921)
  Gary Braasch, photographer (born 1945)
  March 8
  Alfred E. Senn, historian and academic (born 1932)
  David S. Johnson, computer scientist (born 1945)
  Ron Jacobs, broadcaster (born 1937)
  Richard Davalos, actor (born 1930)
  March 9
  Coy Wayne Wesbrook, convicted mass murderer (born 1958)
  Bill Wade, football player (born 1930)
  Clyde Lovellette, basketball player (born 1929)
  Ralph S. Larsen, CEO of Johnson & Johnson (born 1938)
  John Gutfreund, investor and CEO of Salomon Brothers (born 1929)
  March 10
  Gogi Grant, pop singer (born 1924)
  William Dyke, Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin (born 1930)
  Ernestine Anderson, jazz singer (born 1928)
  March 11
  Ruth Terry, singer and actress (born 1920)
  Gerard Reedy, 30th President of the College of the Holy Cross (born 1939)
  Louis Meyers, festival organizer, co-founder of SXSW (born 1955)
  Shawn Elliott, actor and singer (born 1937)
  Ben Bagdikian, educator and journalist (born 1920)
  Joe Ascione, jazz drummer (born 1961)
  March 12
  Bill Whitby, baseball player (born 1943)
  Lloyd Shapley, mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1923)
  Morton Hunt, psychologist and science writer (born 1920)
  Verena Huber-Dyson, mathematician (born 1923)
  Donnie Duncan, football coach (born 1940)
  Tommy Brown, singer (born 1931)
  March 13
  Martin Olav Sabo, politician (born 1938)
  Hilary Putnam, philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist (born 1926)
  Sidney Mear, trumpeter (born 1918)
  Darryl Hunt, justice reform activist (born 1965)
  March 14
  Vic Schwenk, football player, coach and executive (born 1924)
  June Peppas, baseball player (born 1929)
  Lloyd R. Leavitt Jr., lieutenant general (born 1928)
  Geoffrey Hartman, German-born literary theorist (born 1929)
  Tamara Grigsby, politician and social worker (born 1974)
  Virgilio Elizondo, Roman Catholic priest, theologian and civil rights activist (born 1935)
  Patrick Cain, football player (born 1962)
  John W. Cahn, German-born metallurgist (born 1928)
  March 15
  Alice Pollitt, baseball player (born 1929)
  Earline W. Parmon, politician (born 1943)
  Ralph C. Johnson, politician and businessman (born 1953)
  Daryl Coley, gospel
caption: Patty Duke
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