page_title: Deaths in March 2015
section_title: March 2015
hierarchical_section_title: Deaths in March 2015 / March 2015
caption_attribution_description: English: Chinese army Gen. Xu Caihou, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, presents a document from the Chinese military archives relating to the crash of a U.S. military aircraft to Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates Oct. 27, 2009, at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va
context_page_description: The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2015.
  Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, cause of death, reference are added.
context_section_description: March 1 - Minnie Miñoso, 92, Cuban baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians), complications from COPD.
  March 1 - Joshua Fishman, 88, American linguist.
  March 1 - Carel Visser, 86, Dutch sculptor.
  March 2 - Dean Hess, 97, American minister and air force colonel.
  March 2 - Francisco González Ledesma, 87, Spanish novelist, comics writer and journalist, complications of a stroke.
  March 2 - Dave Mackay, 80, Scottish football player and coach.
  March 3 - M. Stanton Evans, 80, American journalist, author and educator, pancreatic cancer.
  March 3 - Lynn Borden, 77, American actress (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, Hazel).
  March 3 - Ernest Braun, 89, Austrian-born British academic and author.
  March 4 - Ninan Koshy, 81, Indian academic.
  March 5 - Vlada Divljan, 56, Serbian musician (Idoli).
  March 5 - Edward Egan, 82, American Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal, Bishop of Bridgeport (1988–2000), Archbishop of New York (2000–2009), cardiac arrest.
  March 5 - Jim McCann, 70, Irish musician (The Dubliners), throat cancer.
  March 6 - Fred Craddock, 86, American Christian minister, Parkinson's disease.
  March 6 - Ram Sundar Das, 94, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Bihar (1979–1980).
  March 6 - Vasilios Magginas, 66, Greek politician, Minister of Employment (2007).
  March 7 - Edmond Malinvaud, 91, French economist.
  March 7 - F. Ray Keyser, Jr., 87, American politician, Governor of Vermont (1961–1963).
  March 8 - Sam Simon, 59, American writer and producer (The Simpsons, The Drew Carey Show), colorectal cancer.
  March 8 - Gerardo Sofovich, 77, Argentine actor, director and television presenter, heart failure.
  March 8 - Lew Soloff, 71, American jazz trumpeter (Blood, Sweat & Tears), heart attack.
  March 8 - Inezita Barroso, 90, Brazilian folk singer.
  March 9 - Notable French people killed in the Villa Castelli helicopter crash:
  Florence Arthaud, 57, sailor.
  Camille Muffat, 25, swimmer, Olympic champion (2012).
  Alexis Vastine, 28, boxer, Olympic bronze medalist (2008).
  March 9 - James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead, 94, Northern Irish politician, UK MP for South Antrim (1970–1983) and Lagan Valley (1983–1997), member of the House of Lords (since 1997), leader of Ulster Unionist Party (1979–1995).
  March 9 - David B. Frohnmayer, 74, American attorney, Oregon Attorney General (1981–1991), President of the University of Oregon (1994–2009), prostate cancer.
  March 9 - Juanita Morrow Nelson, 91, American civil rights activist.
  March 9 - Windell Middlebrooks, 36, American actor (Body of Proof, The Bernie Mac Show, The Suite Life on Deck), pulmonary embolism.
  March 9 - Frei Otto, 89, German architect and structural engineer.
  March 9 - Jack Harte, 94, Irish politician, Senator (1973–1992).
  March 10 - Stuart Wagstaff, 90, British-Australian entertainer, complications from pulmonary fibrosis.
  March 10 - Claude Sitton, 89, American Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper reporter, congestive heart failure.
  March 11 - Martin H:son Holmdahl, 91, Swedish academic.
  March 11 - Jimmy Greenspoon, 67, American keyboard player and composer (Three Dog Night), skin cancer.
  March 11 - Walter Burkert, 84, German academic and author (Homo Necans).
  March 12 - Ada Jafri, 90, Pakistani Urdu poet.
  March 12 - Sir Terry Pratchett, 66, British author (Discworld series), chest infection.
  March 12 - Erol Büyükburç, 79, Turkish composer and singer.
  March 12 - Michael Graves, 80, American architect.
  March 12 - Magda Guzmán, 83, Mexican actress (Amor Bravío), heart attack.
  March 13 - Daevid Allen, 77, Australian musician (Soft Machine, Gong), neck cancer.
  March 13 - Irwin Hasen, 96, American cartoonist (Dondi).
  March 13 - Al Rosen, 91, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians).
  March 14 - Ana María Giunta, 72, Argentine actress, respiratory failure.
  March 14 - Valentin Rasputin, 77, Russian writer.
  March 15 - Narayan Desai, 90, Indian Gandhian and writer.
  March 15 - Sally Forrest, 86, American singer and actress (Rawhide), cancer.
  March 15 - Mike Porcaro, 59, American bass guitarist (Toto), complications from ALS.
  March 15 - Xu Caihou, 71, Chinese ge
caption: Xu Caihou 1943-2015
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